The big-money motion continued on PokerGO’s High Stakes Poker with a serious cooler for a pot of greater than $500,000 because the ninth season continues taking part in out.
With blinds at $500-$1,000 and a $1,000 massive blind, Sameh Elamawy raised to $3,000 with Ok
Q
and acquired a name from Humboldt Mike with A Ok
. Jennifer Tilly additionally referred to as with 9
8, as did Nikhil ‘Airball’ Arcott holding A Q and Brandon Steven with 5 2, bringing the pot to $17,500.
The flop introduced some actual fireworks, coming down Ok Q Q. Elamawy had flopped a full home, Mike hit high pair, high kicker, and Arcott had three queens.
Elamawy checked the motion, as did Mike and Tilly earlier than Arcott guess $5,000. Steven and Tilly each folded and Elamawy and Mike each referred to as. At this level, Elamawy had about $349,000 behind, Mike had $417,000, and Airball had $482,000.
When wanting on the Card Player Poker Odds Calculator, Elamawy was an 89% favourite to win the hand with Airball at 9%, needing one of many three remaining aces to hit the board. Mike had only a 3% shot on the pot needing the case king.
The 6 got here on the flip and Elamawy checked. Mike additionally checked and Arcott fired $21,000. Elamawy checked his playing cards for a couple of seconds as he thought of his choices, finally deciding to only name. Mike did the identical, bringing the pot to $95,500.
A clean 4 got here on the river and Elamawy guess $25,000, seeking to induce a increase. Mike made a pleasant fold and Arcott took a while earlier than making it $100,000 to go. Elamawy chuckled on the increase earlier than lastly saying all in for his final $328,000 – bringing the pot to $523,000.
“That sounds like kings full,” Arcott mentioned as he regarded a bit disgusted on the large increase and the way issues performed out.
Arcott continued counting his chips and was maybe leaning in the direction of a name, however Elamawy opted to point out him the king in his hand.
“The story makes sense, I just don’t know if I can fold,” Arcott mentioned.
After extra thought and a few dialogue, he finally folded – saving himself fairly a pile of money within the course of.
Elamawy, the CEO of Scratch Loan Services, has now appeared on the present a number of instances and has an general revenue of about $94,000 in streamed money video games, based on HighRollpoker.com.
Arcott has change into a frequent participant on High Stakes Poker in addition to video games like Hustler Casino Live, Poker on the Lodge, No Gamble No Future, and others. After a tricky run in these high-stakes money video games over the past 12 months, issues have picked up in 2024 and he’s now up greater than $500,000.
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