The battle between Alan Keating and Peter Wang continued on PokerGO’s High Stakes Poker this week with a record-breaking pot.
Keating had gotten the higher of Wang throughout the 14th season of the favored money sport present. Highlights have included a triple barrel bluff that earned him a pot of $287,000, and a ridiculous hero name with third pair for $911,000.
Their newest conflict was even larger, leading to a pot price $1,412,500.
With the blinds at $500-$1,000, Nikhil ‘Airball’ Arcott straddled to $2,000 and Rick Salomon re-straddled to $4,000. Keating appeared down at Ok
Ok
on the button and referred to as, leaving himself with simply shy of $700,000 behind.
Justin Gavri folded his small blind after which Wang raised to $14,000 from the massive blind with A
3 on a virtually equivalent stack.
Arcott and Salomon bought out of the way in which and motion fell again to Keating, who went for a fast and sizable limp re-raise to $69,000.
Wang eyed his opponent up and down earlier than tossing within the calling chips. The flop got here down Ok
J 2, giving Keating high set and Wang the nut flush draw.
“Where’d we find this flop?” requested PokerGO commentator Nick Schulman.
Wang checked, and Keating guess $70,000. Wang then check-raised to $200,000.
Keating thought it over earlier than opting to only name, and the flip was the A.
Wang instantly moved all in, and Keating snap referred to as. Keating requested to run it twice, and Wang agreed, needing a spade to return from behind.
According to the Card Player Poker Odds Calculator, Keating was a virtually 82% favourite to win every run out.
The boards accomplished with the A and the J, giving the complete pot to Keating.
Watch the hand beneath.
Keating, who dragged a pot price $2.2 million on the Hustler Casino Live stream, has appeared on different poker reveals like No Gamble No Future, and Poker After Dark. The 38-year-old investor and poker participant additionally not too long ago launched his own YouTube channel the place he shares his thought course of behind his play together with some behind-the-scenes footage of his video games.
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