Andrew Robl often is the winningest participant in televised money recreation historical past, in keeping with HighRollPoker.com, however even he isn’t immune from the occasional downswing.
The thirteenth season of High Stakes Poker produced an enormous pot this week with Robl getting the worst of it in a conflict with Sameh Elamawy.
The motion featured blinds of $200-$400 with a $400 large blind ante and the hand noticed Robl elevate to $2,000 from the button with Okay
Okay
and about $550,000 in entrance of him. Brandon Steven referred to as with J
10, however Elamawy three-bet his A Okay to $10,400 with $489,000 behind. Robl then shortly four-bet to $35,000.
“They might be getting it in pre(flop),” commentator Nick Schulman famous. “They’ve had a lot of history all season, they’ve been scrapping.”
Steven folded and Elamawy then five-bet to $150,000. Robl thought a bit earlier than saying all in. Elamawy virtually nonchalantly referred to as, swelling the pot to $981,300.
Robl had greater than a 69% probability to win the pot, in keeping with the Card Player Poker Odds Calculator, along with his opponent at virtually 30%. However, Robl nonetheless appeared a bit involved about his luck as the 2 gamers agreed to run it twice.
“Please poker gods,” he stated ominously earlier than the flop was dealt, his arms clasped collectively as if in prayer.
Unfortunately for Robl, the primary board got here down A Q
9 7 8, giving Elamawy the winner. His luck didn’t get a lot better on the second runout, which fell A 7 6 3 4.
Watch the entire hand under.
Robl has been a perennial winner in live-streamed poker video games by means of the years with $5.6 million in internet winnings in keeping with HighRollPoker.com.
That’s down from a excessive of $6.5 million, nevertheless, having taken some hits just lately together with dropping a pot of greater than $600,000 to Jennifer Tilly.
Elamawy is an Egyptian enterprise proprietor from San Francisco who’s the CEO of Scratch Services, a mortgage administration firm. With this large pot, it’s uncertain he’ll want a private mortgage of his personal any time quickly.
*Photos by PokerGO – Antonio Abrego
