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The Super High Roller Cash game that aired nearly live on Twitch early this month (thanks to Poker Central) featured some of the biggest and most interesting hands the poker world has seen this year.
The game, which had a minimum $250,000 buy-in and no maximum, featured some of the game’s top poker pros, including Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Doyle Brunson, Doug Polk, Andrew Robl, Scott Seiver, Dan Colman and Antonio Esfandiari, and wealthy poker-playing businessmen like Bill Perkins, John Morgan and Brandon Steven. Academy Award nominee and WSOP bracelet winner Jennifer Tilly also played.
The $400-$800 (with a straddle) no-limit hold’em sessions ran on three separate days, with each having a new lineup of players. Here we are going to show you five of the craziest hands that happened during the tens of hours of this high-stakes poker game.
Andrew Robl Bluffs Australian High-Stakes Player Matt Kirk
Matt Kirk had five-bet to $100,000 preflop, which was nearly a third of his stack, and Robl called in position with the Q
5. The flop fell 7
2 2
, and Kirk fired a small bet of $35,000. Robl floated and the turn brought the A
. Kirk bet $50,000 with only $90,000 behind. Robl tanked before nonchalantly going all in, and Kirk quickly folded. Robl was raking in the $327,000 pot and eventually turned over his complete air. It was one of the craziest bluffs ever caught on camera.
Hand begins below at 7:50.
Rick Salomon Claims He Laid Down Kings Preflop To John Morgan, Who Tabled Aces
Businessman John Morgan, the man who got an opponent to fold quads in the 2012 World Series of Poker $1 million event, apparently got celebrity Rick Salomon to lay down pocket kings preflop, which Salomon said he had never done before in his life. Even though we couldn’t see Salomon’s hole cards, kings for him here is very believable because he did four-bet preflop. Morgan, who eventually tabled aces, went all in for $581,000 into a pot of just $70,000. Realizing the bet was so large, Salomon didn’t take too long before mucking his cards. He commented on Morgan’s tight play before he folded, saying to his opponent, “Got aces like usual?”
Hands begins below at 14:10.
Bill Perkins Picks Of $127,000 River Bluff By Jean-Robert Bellande
“Don’t bluff the rich guy,” Jean-Robert Bellande said at one point during his session. The experienced cash game pro obviously knows this well, but he didn’t stick to this rule in a hand versus Bill Perkins. On a board reading A 9 2 4 10, Bellande fired $127,000 into a pot worth about $148,000, which was just enough to put Perkins all in. Perkins ended up calling with A 5, which could only beat a complete bluff. After Perkins called Bellande said “you win,” which is one of the sweetest things a cash game player can hear their opponent say.
Hand begins below at 10:35.
Antonio Esfandiari Flops Top Two Pair With J-5 Against Bellande’s Aces
Esfandiari decided to four-bet Jean-Robert Bellande preflop with J-5 offsuit. Bellande, sitting with aces out of position, just called. The flop fell J 5 3, and Bellande checked. Esfandiari bet a little more than half pot, and Bellande shoved for just under $250,000. Esfandiari insta-called with his two pair, causing Bellande to become furious. He was so tilted that he wasn’t really interested in figuring out if he wanted to run it once or twice, but after the 8 on the turn Bellande had regained his composure and wanted to run the river twice. The first river card was the 8, which would have gave Bellande the entire pot with a better two pair. “Unreal,” Bellande said after he was guaranteed the first half. Esfandiari’s hand ended up holding on the second river.
Hand begins below at 22:46.
Flop Comes Two Of The Same Card And No One Notices Until Polk Is Stacking The Chips
Doug Polk, widely regarded as the best heads-up no-limit hold’em player in the world, is obviously very hard to beat even in a full-ring game, so sometimes you need a little help from the deck to not lose money to him. In this hand, the deck helped out Dan Colman in a very unexpected way. As Polk was raking in a four-figure pot players at the table finally noticed that the flop was a bit odd. It came A Q Q. Perhaps it was exhaustion or seeing so many flops that had the players at the table unable to notice the faulty deck right away. Apparently the result of the hand was the money being returned to the players. Faulty decks can happen in poker, but they are rare. The rest of the Super High Roller Cash Game ran without any hiccups.
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