Poker vlogger Ethan “Rampage” Yau’s downswing continued on Hustler On line casino Dwell Wednesday night time when he misplaced $150,000 because of a brutal dangerous beat towards his pal.
The WPT World ambassador entered the $25/$50 ($50 massive blind ante) no-limit maintain’em recreation towards some acquainted foes reminiscent of Eshaan “Brown Balla” Bhalla and fellow vlogger Mariano Grandoli.
Rampage and Mariano performed the most important pot of the night time, and it should not come as a shock to anybody who has adopted these two gamers the previous yr as to who gained the hand.
Poker Vloggers Go at it in a Monster Pot
Each vloggers started the five-hour stream with $30,000 in chips, and neither began off notably sturdy. Mariano was already down greater than $40,000 an hour into the sport and had added on chips. Issues weren’t going significantly better for Yau, whose 2024 downswing was closely publicized.
Rampage had a chance to show his night time round a number of hours into the sport towards Mariano, who was caught over $100,000 on the time. However he’d as an alternative run right into a hand that sums up his luck over the previous yr.
The hand started with Mariano blind-calling for $400 in a straddled pot with Okayâ™ J♦. Dylan Flashner, holding “The Robbie” (aka Jx4x) on the button, referred to as, as did Music within the first straddle with 5♣3♦. Rampage then checked his possibility within the massive straddle with 10♥7â™ .
The flop got here out Okayâ™ 10♣7♦. Music checked, an motion that was adopted by a $3,000 wager from Rampage, who flopped backside two pair. Mariano, with prime pair, min-raised to $6,000, which compelled Music and Flashner to fold. However the very best hand wasn’t going anyplace. In reality, he went for a small-sized three-bet to $15,000.
That did not sound the alarm bells inside Mariano’s head as he got here again excessive with an all-in guess for $94,775, the scale of Rampage’s stack. Yau went into the tank for a couple of minutes making an attempt to determine if the blind hand was sturdy sufficient to beat his two pair. He advised his opponent “we’re nonetheless buddies even should you beat me” and tossed his chips into the pot.
Each gamers agreed to run the flip and river twice, and the primary one, which got here out 4♠J♠, went to Mariano. The second run-out of Okay♦Q♠additionally went his method for a double dangerous beat.
Mariano scooped all the $191,175 pot, however was nonetheless down massive on the session. Rampage selected to stop the sport as an alternative of rebuying, and left Hustler On line casino in Los Angeles with a $150,000 loss.
The poker vlogging buddies ended up as the 2 largest losers within the recreation. Mariano, who reported practically $500,000 in earnings on the poker desk final yr, completed the sport down over $80,000.
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