There are instances in a poker recreation the place you simply must go along with your intestine. That was the case on a current episode of Hustler Casino Live, which featured a battle between high-stakes YouTuber Mariano Grandoli and Wenzhi ‘Wesley’ Fei.
It began with Wesley getting the most effective of it, dragging a pot of almost $140,000 when Mariano obtained a bit wild preflop with 10 9
. Wesley’s Okay
10
flopped prime pair, however Mariano clearly regretted shutting down his bluff try on the river.
With that in thoughts, he added on an extra $200,000, bringing his stack to over $300,000.
Wesley nonetheless had him coated barely when the 2 tangled once more. With blinds of $25-$50 with a $100 straddle, Wesley raised to $4,000 from early place with A J
. Mariano three-bet to $15,000 with 10
4
on the button. That introduced a name from Wesley, who was a 69% favourite to win, in line with the Card Player Poker Odds Calculator.
The flop got here down Okay 10
9
with Mariano catching center pair and Wesley with an overcard and Broadway straight draw. Wesley checked and Mariano fired $20,000, now with a 55% likelihood to win the pot.
Wesley check-raised to $40,000, which prompted Mariano to ask him if he was attempting to lift. Wesley confirmed that sure, he was attempting to lift, however afterward Instagram would make clear that he meant to lift larger to $60,000.
Mariano referred to as and the pot swelled to greater than $110,000. The flip introduced the 7 and gave Wesley extra outs for a straight with a double gutter. He wager $80,000 and Mariano went into the tank together with his second pair, weak kicker.
“I just feel like I have the best hand,” he mentioned.
After some extra consideration, he introduced all in, placing Wesley to the take a look at. He requested for a depend of Mariano’s stack and noticed that making the decision would value him one other $162,875.
“How did we get here?” Mariano mentioned with fun as he realized the pot measurement. “That’s a lot.”
“Do not adjust your screen,” mentioned commentator David Tuchman. “What you are seeing is correct.”
After going via the maths, and ignoring some desk speak from Henry Guttman, Wesley folded and Mariano dragged the pot of $440,875. He then advised the desk, “I don’t know what I’m doing,” as he turned over his hand, beautiful his opponent.
Mariano Grandoli is a poker professional and YouTuber with 175,000 subscribers who has appeared quite a few instances on Hustler Casino Live and different live-streamed money video games. The Los Angeles resident has $1.9 million in earnings in his stream appearances, in line with HighRollPoker.com. In November, nevertheless, he misplaced a $142,000 pot after taking part in a hand with out his playing cards.
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