The Celebrity Poker Tour returned to the PokerGO Studio final week and noticed fairly an attention-grabbing hand involving YouTuber Tana Mongeau, Bookit Sports CEO Trent Attyah, Carolina Panthers vast receiver Laviska Shenault, and actress Princess Love.
The hand in query noticed two gamers discover units and the opposite two seize open-end straight attracts. The hand started with Love holding 6
5 and Mongeau with 9 6
. Shenault seemed down at 7
7 whereas Attyah entered the motion with a monster, Ok Ok.
The flop of Ok 8 7
introduced loads of fireworks. Shenault scored a set of sevens solely to be topped by Attyah with a set of kings. The different two gamers additionally picked up open-end straight attracts. With 1.6 million chips already within the pot, Love instantly fired out 500,000.
Mongeau made the decision, however Attyah moved all in for his remaining 2.75 million. Shenault appeared to have an amazing learn on his opponent.
“He’s got to have kings,” he stated. “There’s no way he don’t have kings.”
However, Shenault finally selected to name regardless of his spot-on instincts. Love then folded, however Mongeau determined to come back alongside and was all in herself. Shenault would wish the remaining seven within the deck and Mongeau would wish any 5 or ten to finish a straight and scoop the pot.
The flip card then introduced the Q – no assist for Attyah’s two opponents. However, the ten fell on the river giving Mongeau a straight and securing the pot. Attyah might solely stare in surprised silence at his misfortune.
Check out the motion under:
The Celebrity Poker Tour Invitational II featured celebrities, skilled athletes, enterprise leaders, and content material creators all vying for a prime prize of $20,000, with all of the motion streamed on PokerGO.
With the Super Bowl in Las Vegas on Sunday, the 73-entry subject included a number of NFL gamers together with Calais Campbell, Dalton Kincaid, Austin Ekeler, Keenan Allen, Marqise Lee, Brandon Marshall, Will Levis, Laviska Shenault, Eric Ebron, and Aaron Jones.
Others included poker gamers Brad Owen, Ethan “Rampage” Yau, and Alexander “Wolfgang Poker” Seibt, in addition to MLB legend Jose Canseco, boxer Bryce Hall, gossip columnist Perez Hilton, and chess participant and defending champion Qiyu “Nemo” Zhou.
Love proved to have some actual poker chops and finally locked up the title and a pleasant rating. The actress has embraced the sport in recent times and now has over $270,000 in reside event winnings. The biggest chunk of that got here in December when she completed fortieth within the WPT World Championship for $132,500.
Atlanta Falcons fullback Kevin Smith completed runner-up for $10,000 and Mongeau went on to take third for $5,000. Here’s a take a look at all the highest finishers.
1. Princess Love – $20,000
2. Keith Smith – $10,000
3. Tana Mongeau – $5,000
4. Laviska Shenault – $3,500
5. Trent Attyah – $3,000
6. Will Levis – $2,500
7. Aljamain Sterling – $2,000
8. Gordie Gronkowski – $1,334
9. Eric Hansen – $1,333
10. Eric Ebron – $1,333
