The chips have been flying within the thirteenth season of Excessive Stakes Poker and PokerGO lately provided up a video exhibiting off the highest 10 largest pots of the season. The motion included some huge personalities, six-figure pots, large coolers, and way more.
One of many largest palms noticed Sameh Elamawy, the CEO of Scratch Mortgage Companies who was concerned in loads of large pots this season, get all of the chips in with A
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in opposition to Andrew Robl’s pocket kings. After seeing a five-bet from Elamawy, Robl shoved and acquired a name.
“Please poker gods,” Robl prayed as he waited to see the board. He was a 70% favourite, however an ace got here proper on the flop. Robl has been one of many largest winners in live-streamed money video games, however this pot of just about $1 million went to his opponent.
In one other spotlight, Nikhil ‘Airball’ Arcot combined it up with Stanley Tang. Arcot noticed his Q J catch a flush on a flop of Ok 4 3 in opposition to Tang’s pocket aces. Arcot slow-played his hand effectively and ultimately raked a pot of greater than $431,000.
One other Arcot hand noticed him make an ideal fold on the river with journeys in opposition to Elamawy’s full home. He dodged a bullet, however Elamawy was in a position to drag a pot of greater than $500,000.
Tang noticed his pocket aces cracked once more in one other spotlight in a hand in opposition to Justin Gavri, who caught a set of sixes in a multiway pot. This time Tang made a pleasant fold on the flop, avoiding a giant loss. Humboldt Mike wasn’t so fortunate and couldn’t get away from his pocket 10s, shedding his total stack in a pot of just below $500,000.
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Excessive Stakes Poker debuted in 2006 and has featured among the largest names within the recreation together with Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Sammy Farha, Phil Laak, Jennifer Harman, Barry Greenstein, Mike Matusow, and quite a few others.
In the course of the poker increase of the 2000s, viewers turned fascinated with the motion that featured bricks of money on the desk and commentary from the likes of Gabe Kaplan and A.J. Benza. Even comic Norm Macdonald hosted the present for one season. Hundreds of thousands of {dollars} have been exchanged on the desk since, and the collection needs to be again for one more season in 2025 with high-stakes professional Nick Schulman persevering with his position within the commentary sales space.
The unique collection aired on the Recreation Present Community by 2011 from the Golden Nugget, Palms, and South Level casinos. PokerGO revived the present in 2020 from the community’s studio at Aria in Las Vegas.
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