Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot will grace the Hustler On line casino Stay stage on March 28 for the primary time in a 12 months following a ban from the poker site.
The polarizing determine had beforehand been a daily headliner on the favored poker livestream the earlier two years. However a ban from Hustler On line casino in Los Angeles for undisclosed causes prevented the Southern California excessive curler from competing on the present.
Polarizing Poker Participant is Again

Hustler On line casino Stay, now partially owned by GGPoker’s mum or dad firm, introduced the return of the participant dubbed “The King of LA” on X with a hype video narrated by Lon McEachern.
Airball, now 27, made his preliminary look on Hustler On line casino Stay in 2022, and it took him little time to change into a love-him-or-hate-him participant to the followers. He is at all times probably the most talkative gamers within the sport and performs an unorthodox model of poker, though his VPIP has declined over time.
He is been on successful and shedding ends of quite a few six-figure pots on the present, and he is created some controversy corresponding to when he berated poker vlogger Mariano Grandoli, a daily on HCL, for tanking in a February 2024 high-stakes sport.
Nik Airball has performed sparingly on livestreams since his Hustler On line casino ban. He is appeared on exhibits corresponding to Excessive Stakes Poker on PokerGO, and he’ll be competing on Sunday in a $50/$100 money sport on Poker on the Lodge in Texas alongside together with his pal Eshaan Bhalla and Doug Polk, co-owner of The Lodge Card Membership.
However regardless of his occasional appearances on numerous poker exhibits, Nik Airball will at all times be extra related to Hustler On line casino Stay. His return will seemingly herald some further viewers to the livestream, even a few of his haters.