WATCH: Brutal River Turns Six-Figure Profit Into Loss

The new season of PokerGO’s No Gamble No Future continued this week with an interesting hand involving Ryan Feldman, Nikhil ‘Airball’ Arcot, and Alan Keating. Although, perhaps it wasn’t so interesting to Feldman.

The game featured blinds of $200-$400 with a $400 big blind ante and a minimum buy-in of $30,000. Feldman, who runs the Hustler Casino Live stream, was on the button facing an $800 straddle from Airball, a $1,600 restraddle from Keating, and another $3,200 restraddle from Matt Hanks before looking down at A K.

With about $215,000 in front of him, he raised to $8,000 only to see Arcot move all in for his last $58,000 with 4 4. Keating then called immediately with K Q, having started the hand with over $1 million.

Feldman thought it over for a bit before jamming his remaining $223,000 in with A K. Keating didn’t like it, but eventually called to build two pots totaling $507,000. Arcot could claim $178,000 of that if his pocket fours held up.

“Let’s go, I’m the best in the world,” Arcot said upon seeing his opponents’ cards, happy to see he was a slight favorite against the overcards.

According to the Card Player Poker Odds Calculator, Arcot was in the driver’s seat with more than a 42% chance to win his share of the pot. Feldman held a 36% chance to take down the whole pot with Keating at almost 21%.

However, Feldman was a massive favorite to win the bigger side pot of $329,000, holding a 74% to 25% advantage over Keating.

Making the math even more complicated, the players agreed to run it twice. The first board ran out 9 5 5 2 6, meaning that Arcot locked up half of his side pot with his pair of fours, while Feldman’s ace high was good for half of the bigger side pot.

The second runout proved to be much more dramatic. A flop of K 8 2 moved Feldman solidly ahead with top pair, top kicker, giving him a 70% chance to scoop.

But the 4 then spiked on the turn, giving Arcot a set and even more reason to continue celebrating. Feldman could still make a decent profit on the hand by holding for the side pot, but the Q hit the river, giving Keating a miracle two pair.

Instead of winning six figures, Feldman ended up losing money on the hand, with he and Keating having to pay Arcot for his triple up.

“How do I go against those two hands and lose money?” he said after counting out his stack.

The game also featured Jean-Robert Bellande, Humboldt Mike, and Phil Hellmuth before he decided to quit in the middle of the session.

You can catch the full episode as well as a massive archive of on-demand poker programming on PokerGO. Get $20 off an annual subscription with the promo code ‘CARDPLAYER’ today.

*Photo by PokerGO – Antonio Abrego

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