The new season of PokerGO’s No Gamble No Future continued this week with an fascinating hand involving Ryan Feldman, Nikhil ‘Airball’ Arcot, and Alan Keating. Although, maybe it wasn’t so fascinating to Feldman.
The recreation featured blinds of $200-$400 with a $400 large blind ante and a minimal buy-in of $30,000. Feldman, who runs the Hustler Casino Live stream, was on the button going through an $800 straddle from Airball, a $1,600 restraddle from Keating, and one other $3,200 restraddle from Matt Hanks earlier than trying down at A
Ok.
With about $215,000 in entrance of him, he raised to $8,000 solely to see Arcot transfer all in for his final $58,000 with 4 4
. Keating then known as instantly with Ok
Q, having began the hand with over $1 million.
Feldman thought it over for a bit earlier than jamming his remaining $223,000 in with A Ok. Keating didn’t prefer it, however ultimately known as to construct two pots totaling $507,000. Arcot might declare $178,000 of that if his pocket fours held up.
“Let’s go, I’m the best in the world,” Arcot mentioned upon seeing his opponents’ playing cards, joyful to see he was a slight favourite towards the overcards.
According to the Card Player Poker Odds Calculator, Arcot was within the driver’s seat with greater than a 42% probability to win his share of the pot. Feldman held a 36% probability to take down the entire pot with Keating at virtually 21%.
However, Feldman was an enormous favourite to win the larger aspect pot of $329,000, holding a 74% to 25% benefit over Keating.
Making the maths much more sophisticated, the gamers agreed to run it twice. The first board ran out 9
5 5 2 6, which means that Arcot locked up half of his aspect pot together with his pair of fours, whereas Feldman’s ace excessive was good for half of the larger aspect pot.
The second runout proved to be rather more dramatic. A flop of Ok 8 2 moved Feldman solidly forward with high pair, high kicker, giving him a 70% probability to scoop.
But the 4 then spiked on the flip, giving Arcot a set and much more cause to proceed celebrating. Feldman might nonetheless make a good revenue on the hand by holding for the aspect pot, however the Q hit the river, giving Keating a miracle two pair.
Instead of successful six figures, Feldman ended up shedding cash on the hand, with he and Keating having to pay Arcot for his triple up.
“How do I go against those two hands and lose money?” he mentioned after counting out his stack.
The recreation additionally featured Jean-Robert Bellande, Humboldt Mike, and Phil Hellmuth earlier than he determined to give up in the course of the session.
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*Photo by PokerGO – Antonio Abrego
