The Large Sport On Tour Episode 4 aired on Fox Sports activities 1 on Saturday, giving us extra high-stakes poker motion. Jennifer Tilly and Alan Keating have been the celebrities of this episode, regularly clashing with one another in a rivalry that culminated within the largest pot of the collection thus far.
The Large Sport On Tour brings again the PokerStars Large Sport present, however this time with a twist. Six gamers compete in a $100/$200 ($200 massive blind ante) no-limit maintain’em recreation hosted by Resorts World Las Vegas. The sport lasts 150 fingers and one of many six gamers is the “unfastened cannon,” who has been staked for $50,000. If the unfastened cannon survives to the top of the 150 fingers they get to maintain maintain any revenue they’ve gained.
Episode 4 started with the unfastened cannon Nikki Limo, having simply given again all however $300 of her revenue. Nonetheless, after a pep discuss from her coach, Nadya Magnus, she was able to get again within the motion.
The Motion Begins…
After final week’s episode, the massive losers — Lex Veldhuis and Alan Keating — had simply dug themselves a $130,000 and $65,600 gap respectively. In the meantime, actor and poker fan Arden Cho was down by a comparatively small $7,400. The beneficiaries of all these losses have been the Chucky-franchise star Jennifer Tilly (up $145,500) and self-described GOAT Phil Hellmuth (up $62,800).
This episode began readily available 89 of 150 and set the stage for the remainder of the episode.
Veldhuis raised to $600 with Ok♥10♦ from below the gun however did not keep in for lengthy. Tilly known as with 7♥4♥ and Keating potted it with A♣10♣. Veldhuis folded and Tilly known as.
Keating wager $4,000 right into a pot of $6,600 on the flop of 4♦9♠J♣. Tilly known as once more and the seller added the 8♥ to the board. Keating, who is rarely shy of the bluff, wager out one other $11,000 together with his open-ended straight draw and Tilly known as a 3rd time.
The river was one other eight, enhancing neither participant’s hand. Keating backed off, giving up on the bluff and permitting Tilly to see the showdown without cost. She raked within the $36,600 together with her backside pair, including it to her now $315,000-high stack.
Keating Retains Betting
The subsequent few fingers noticed Keating hammering away preflop. On one among them, Keating raised blind from the button to $900 and received repotted by Limo with the Ok♣Q♣. Keating checked his playing cards and known as with an enormous stack of $100 chips and Q♦9♣ within the gap.
The flop of J♥3♥4♠did not do a lot for both participant and regardless of the massive preflop betting, the motion dried up.
“I like dancing with you,” Limo mentioned, earlier than checking. Keating checked again they usually each saved on checking until the river when Limo wager and Keating folded. Limo raked within the pot which put her $2,800 in revenue.
The subsequent hand, Cho raised Keating and received repotted. She known as Keating’s elevate with pocket queens. Each gamers checked the flop and switch of A♣Aâ™ 7♣J♦, however when the Q♣ got here on the river issues took off.
Cho wager $5,500 right into a pot of $6,300 together with her full-house and Keating made it $22,000 with Ok♣10♥ for a straight. Cho had the smaller stack, however nonetheless had $132,200 behind and hoped to get each penny within the center. After pondering her wager dimension for a second, Cho made it $65,200 whole and Keating went into the tank.
“One other bluff?” Keating requested, earlier than pushing his playing cards into the center, giving up on his third hand in a row and placing Cho again into revenue too.
Girls Interlude
A number of fingers later Keating took a break in his massive blind. Limo raised to $700 with Q♦J♠and Tilly and Cho known as.
“You guys, it is our first women’ pot,” Cho mentioned.
With $2,500 within the pot, the flop got here down 4♣9♠J♣ and Limo wager $1,500. Cho folded her Ok♠3♠whereas Tilly, who had his backside pair once more put within the name.
The flip was the 5♥. Along with her high pair nonetheless forward, Limo wager once more, this time $4,000. Tilly folded her pair.
Keating arrived again on the desk moments later and put within the $400 straddle to make up for his transient absence.
Cho v. Veldhuis
Even when Keating wasn’t in a pot, his autostraddle raised the stakes for everybody else. On one hand, Veldhuis raised Keating’s straddle with A♦Qâ™ and Cho, who had simply picked up pocket queens once more, reraised him to $4,900. Lex known as and the seller put out 7♥6♣6♦.
Cho did not know she had Veldhuis dominated, however nonetheless she wager $2,400 and Veldhuis known as. The flip was the 9♦, leaving Veldhuis with simply the three aces as outs. Cho check-called Veldhuis’s $3,300 wager they usually went to the river.
On the ultimate card of 5♥, Cho checked once more and Veldhuis checked behind. Regardless of the slowplay, the pot was nonetheless just below $22k, a drop within the ocean of Lex’s losses this collection.
Hellmuth Performs A Hand
Barely a hand glided by with out Keating mixing it up a bit. Hand after hand noticed him betting exhausting and operating up his losses. Hellmuth however, continued to play like a rock. A pair of aces received a bit of motion from him (although he folded earlier than the showdown).
Nonetheless, when Keating wager $900 from below the gun and Hellmuth picked up pocket fives on the button, Hellmuth did name. Tilly raised him from the small blind to $4,000 and each Keating and Hellmuth known as once more.
The flop got here down 9â™ 2♣2♦. Tilly wager out and Keating known as nearly instantly. Hellmuth mentioned, “If you happen to guys are gonna give me the cash, I am gonna settle for it,” however then, after all, he folded.
Now it was simply Tilly with A♥Ok♠and Keating with pocket tens. The Q♣ got here off on the flip and Keating wager $10,000, getting a name from Tilly. The 6♥ and two checks on the river sealed the deal for Keating who raked within the $44k pot although he remained down by simply over $100k.
The Largest Hand
Given his relentless involvement within the motion, it’s no shock that Keating was accountable for the largest hand of the night. Sitting in massive blind, Keating confronted a elevate from Tilly and a reraise to $3,200 from Cho. Keating known as with Ok♦10♦.
On a flop of 9♦J♥3♥, Cho and Keating checked. Tilly wager $6,000, Cho folded and Keating check-raised to $24,000 together with his inside straight draw. Tilly known as and the seller put out the 8♥. Keating continued his semi-bluff, with a $35,000 wager. Tilly known as making the pot $128,500.
The river was a scare card — the two♥ which put 4 flush playing cards out and Keating wager once more, one other $82,000.
Tilly went into the tank. She was sitting on the Q♥Jx for a excessive — however beatable — flush. Keating had nothing, however the hope Tilly would possibly fold. For a second it seemed like she would possibly. However ultimately, she talked herself into sliding her chips into the center and Keating watched her rake in a $292,500 pot — the largest of the sport thus far.
After Tilly’s monster win, the motion trundled alongside for a number of extra fingers as everybody processed the aftermath. Hellmuth gained a small pot, Cho gained an enormous one with aces, and Tilly and Keating had one other (a lot smaller) showdown earlier than the credit lastly rolled.
When the mud settled, with 29 fingers to go, the total standings have been as follows:
