A latest episode of PokerGO’s Excessive Stakes Poker noticed three gamers get all of it in for an enormous pot in addition to an enormous cooler.
With blinds of $200-$400 with a $400 large blind ante, businessman Sameh Elamawy raised to $2,000 with Q 8 and $181,000 in entrance of him. Jennifer Tilly appeared down at A A and three-bet to $6,000 with $93,000 behind, solely to see Jeffrey Housenbold choose up Okay Okay, and four-bet to $20,000.
Housenbold held reserves of $125,000, however the elevating wasn’t over but. Chamath Palihapitiya additionally held pocket kings, Okay Okay, and introduced he was all in for his remaining $97,000 in chips.
Tilly immediately referred to as for the final of her chips and Housenbold additionally referred to as. In accordance with the Card Participant Poker Odds Calculator, Tilly was a 96% favourite to win the hand with each pocket kings solely at 2%. Clearly hitting a set was out of the image with the entire kings already accounted for.
The desk was fairly shocked when the fingers had been revealed, given it was solely the second hand of the session.
“I would like hearts,” Housenbold mentioned as he noticed his lengthy odds. “That is the craziest factor ever,” added Tilly.
With the pot now at $297,600, the flop introduced the J 6 3 and that gave Tilly a 100% probability as any run of diamonds would give her the nut flush.
“That’s a tv hand,” Tilly mentioned as all of the chips had been being counted. “If this was a house recreation, I’d say, ‘Hmm, let me examine that deck.’ However I wouldn’t say it if I had the aces.”
Watch the entire hand under.
The hand was harking back to a hand performed final yr on Hustler On line casino Dwell, the place YouTuber Mariano Grandoli scooped a pot value $800,000 with aces in opposition to two separate pairs of kings.
The award-winning actress has develop into an everyday in stay money video games. Her father was a gambler and she or he grew up taking part in poker, which solely accelerated when she started courting poker professional Phil Laak. Her life on the tables included successful the World Sequence of Poker Girls Championship in 2005 for $158,625.
She additionally gained an enormous pot of greater than $600,000 earlier this season on Excessive Stakes Poker.
Palihapitiya is a enterprise capitalist and the founder and CEO of Social Capital. The billionaire additionally labored as an early government at Fb. He’s develop into a buddy of Phil Hellmuth and seen sometimes within the Poker Brat’s Twitter feed. Housenbold can also be a enterprise capitalist and the previous CEO of Shutterfly.
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