The playing cards had been again within the air Monday evening on PokerGO for Episode 2 of the most recent Excessive Stakes Poker season. Jennifer Tilly spent a lot of the session in some powerful spots dealing with troublesome selections.
When the episode started, selecting up the place the present left off final week, nosebleed money recreation legend Andrew Robl had added on $150,000 in chips to match his preliminary beginning stack. The beforehand talked about gamers had been joined within the recreation by Sameh Elamawy, Sean Dempsey, Justin Gavri, Bo Brownstein, and Japanese poker vlogger Masato Yokosawa.
The Physician Picks Up Aces
The second episode of Season 13 started with a enjoyable little flop. Tilly, the shortest stack on the desk, raised from an early place to $2,500 with Q♦8♦.
Dempsey, a medical skilled, picked up A♠A♥ on the button and three-bet his hand to $8,000. Solely the Hollywood actress referred to as to see a flop of 9♥7♠10♦. And she or he opted to guide into the preflop re-raiser with a $7,000 guess chasing an open-ended straight draw. However a elevate to $32,000 from the pocket aces would take down the primary hand of the present.
Tilly, right down to below $80,000 in chips, then added on one other $100,000 to her stack. Shortly after the primary hand, Elamawy made his presence recognized to Excessive Stakes Poker viewers. The CEO of Scratch made some good performs final week, however on this hand he’d guess $12,000 with a small pair into Brownstein’s high set on the flip, earlier than folding to a elevate.
Issues Aren’t Going Elamawy’s Approach
Moments after making a poorly timed guess, Elamawy confronted a tricky choice in opposition to Tilly, a extra skilled poker participant. Each gamers held 9x2x on a board of 9x2xJxQx with $69,700 within the pot.
The hand was both going to return right down to which participant may persuade the opposite their hand may beat backside two pair, or for it to finish in a chop. On this case, Tilly made a $50,000 wager that satisfied her opponent to fold.
Elamawy once more hit two pair on a 9♦8♣7♦J♠board with 9♥8♠. Tilly, holding Q♥J♣, guess out $4,000 earlier than Dempsey made it $12,000 on a flush draw with Okay♦2♦. That elevate scared Elamawy off the pot with one of the best hand.
Tilly, nevertheless, accurately made the decision, however then incorrectly folded to a $34,000 guess on the three♥ clean river. The great physician took down the pot with king excessive.
Tilly would once more get bullied off a pot with 6♣4♣ on a 5♠9♥6♠flop. Gavri, who had Okay♠10♠for a flush draw, guess out $16,900. His opponent raised to $45,000 earlier than Gavri then three-bet to $190,000, sufficient to efficiently pull off the semi-bluff.
Robl Continues to Get Bullied by Monetary CEO
Robl had points making an attempt to determine what Elamawy was doing final week on Excessive Stakes Poker. The monetary business CEO type of bullied the poker professional round a bit. And he did it once more this week.
Elamawy acquired off to a gradual begin in Episode 2, however he discovered a possibility to make a play with some junk playing cards. The straddled pot started with Robl elevating to $10,000 with the monster 5♥3♦. His new rival then went for a three-bet to $32,000 with the equally huge 4♥3♣ hand.
Robl’d had sufficient getting pushed round by an newbie, so he fired out a four-bet to $85,000. That didn’t scare off the mortgage firm govt as he made the decision to see a flop of J♦4♠Okay♥. Robl would check-fold five-high to a guess of $60,000.
Unsurprisingly, Elamawy went for an additional bluff with six-high, however Gavri appeared him up with center pair and took down a $52,000 pot. That, nevertheless, was a small blip on Elamawy’s radar as he would enact revenge in opposition to this opponent moments later.
The pot had $221,700 within the center on a board of 5♠Okay♦9♠5♦A♥ and Gavri went for a $69,000 guess with 8♦6♦, a missed flush and straight draw. Sadly, for him, his opponent wasn’t about to fold A♦J♦, and took down the $359,700 pot, the biggest to that time in Season 13.
Episode 2 would, fittingly, finish with Elamawy making an $80,000 guess on the river with 10-high and a missed flush draw, and being referred to as by Tilly’s two pair.
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