WATCH: Andrew Robl Gets Kings Cracked Twice For $1 Million

Andrew Robl will be the winningest participant in televised money sport historical past, in keeping with HighRollPoker.com, however even he isn’t immune from the occasional downswing.

The thirteenth season of Excessive Stakes Poker produced an enormous pot this week with Robl getting the worst of it in a conflict with Sameh Elamawy.

The motion featured blinds of $200-$400 with a $400 large blind ante and the hand noticed Robl increase to $2,000 from the button with Ok Ok and about $550,000 in entrance of him. Brandon Steven known as with J 10, however Elamawy three-bet his A Ok to $10,400 with $489,000 behind. Robl then shortly four-bet to $35,000.

“They may be getting it in pre(flop),” commentator Nick Schulman famous. “They’ve had a number of historical past all season, they’ve been scrapping.”

Steven folded and Elamawy then five-bet to $150,000. Robl thought a bit earlier than saying all in. Elamawy nearly nonchalantly known as, swelling the pot to $981,300.

Robl had greater than a 69% likelihood to win the pot, in keeping with the Card Participant Poker Odds Calculator, along with his opponent at nearly 30%. Nevertheless, Robl nonetheless appeared a bit involved about his luck as the 2 gamers agreed to run it twice.

“Please poker gods,” he mentioned ominously earlier than the flop was dealt, his fingers clasped collectively as if in prayer.

Sadly for Robl, the primary board got here down A Q 9 7 8, giving Elamawy the winner. His luck didn’t get significantly better on the second runout, which fell A 7 6 3 4.

Watch the whole hand beneath.

Robl has been a perennial winner in live-streamed poker video games by means of the years with $5.6 million in internet winnings in keeping with HighRollPoker.com.

That’s down from a excessive of $6.5 million, nevertheless, having taken some hits just lately together with dropping a pot of greater than $600,000 to Jennifer Tilly.

Elamawy is an Egyptian enterprise proprietor from San Francisco who’s the CEO of Scratch Providers, a mortgage administration firm. With this large pot, it’s uncertain he’ll want a private mortgage of his personal any time quickly.

*Images by PokerGO – Antonio Abrego