The massive-money motion continued on PokerGO’s Excessive Stakes Poker with a serious cooler for a pot of greater than $500,000 because the ninth season continues enjoying out.
With blinds at $500-$1,000 and a $1,000 huge blind, Sameh Elamawy raised to $3,000 with Okay
Q
and acquired a name from Humboldt Mike with A Okay
. Jennifer Tilly additionally referred to as with 9
8, as did Nikhil ‘Airball’ Arcott holding A Q and Brandon Steven with 5 2, bringing the pot to $17,500.
The flop introduced some actual fireworks, coming down Okay Q Q. Elamawy had flopped a full home, Mike hit high pair, high kicker, and Arcott had three queens.
Elamawy checked the motion, as did Mike and Tilly earlier than Arcott guess $5,000. Steven and Tilly each folded and Elamawy and Mike each referred to as. At this level, Elamawy had about $349,000 behind, Mike had $417,000, and Airball had $482,000.
When wanting on the Card Participant Poker Odds Calculator, Elamawy was an 89% favourite to win the hand with Airball at 9%, needing one of many three remaining aces to hit the board. Mike had only a 3% shot on the pot needing the case king.
The 6 got here on the flip and Elamawy checked. Mike additionally checked and Arcott fired $21,000. Elamawy checked his playing cards for just a few seconds as he thought of his choices, ultimately deciding to simply name. Mike did the identical, bringing the pot to $95,500.
A clean 4 got here on the river and Elamawy guess $25,000, seeking to induce a elevate. Mike made a pleasant fold and Arcott took a while earlier than making it $100,000 to go. Elamawy chuckled on the elevate earlier than lastly saying all in for his final $328,000 – bringing the pot to $523,000.
“That appears like kings full,” Arcott stated as he seemed a bit disgusted on the huge elevate and the way issues performed out.
Arcott continued counting his chips and was maybe leaning in direction of a name, however Elamawy opted to indicate him the king in his hand.
“The story is sensible, I simply don’t know if I can fold,” Arcott stated.
After extra thought and a few dialogue, he in the end folded – saving himself fairly a pile of money within the course of.
Elamawy, the CEO of Scratch Mortgage Companies, has now appeared on the present a number of occasions and has an total revenue of about $94,000 in streamed money video games, in line with HighRollpoker.com.
Arcott has turn out to be a frequent participant on Excessive Stakes Poker in addition to video games like Hustler On line casino Stay, Poker on the Lodge, No Gamble No Future, and others. After a troublesome run in these high-stakes money video games over the past yr, issues have picked up in 2024 and he’s now up greater than $500,000.
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