Poker YouTuber Kevin Martin Completes Royal Flush ChallengeCanadian Pro Finished The Stunt On 99th Day, Giving Away $11,959 In The Process |
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The elusive royal flush is the rarest and most powerful hand in all of poker. The chances of getting one are so astronomical that there are players who can go years, or even their whole career without ever seeing one, let alone get one themselves.
The odds of achieving a royal flush are 1 in 30,940. In other words, it’s incredibly rare. Most players will only see a handful in their life.
Insert Kevin Martin. The Canadian poker pro, YouTuber and streamer who decided to take those odds head on. Martin began an ambitious quest and giveaway on his YouTube channel to find the poker equivalent of the Lochness Monster in early December.
Every day, Martin would pick a suited Broadway hand and run out boards trying to make a royal flush. On day 1, Martin would run one board. On day 2, he would run two boards. Martin would deal three boards on the third day, and so on and so on.
Additionally, Martin generated a prize pool to give away. When he started the challenge, he had 117,000 subscribers on YouTube. For each day the challenge lasted, he would add $117 into the pot. He increased the amount donated to the pot for every 1,000 subscribers he added.
It took him more than three months, but on the 99th day, the GGPoker ambassador completed the challenge. He took A
K and found a flop that included the J10. The turn was a brick, but the Q came on the river, giving him a royal flush and ending the challenge.
Soon, he’ll pick 20 subscribers to play poker or another luck-based game for $11,959. You can watch the whole video below:
It took Martin 4,908 hands to reach the holy grail of poker hands. Considering the aforementioned 1 in 39,940 odds of making a royal flush, Martin was incredibly lucky to finish the challenge on day 99 (even if he did help his odds by starting with suited Broadway cards every time.)
If he had taken the full 30,940 hands, it would’ve been 249 days before the royal came in. Stated differently, it would’ve been more than eight months worth of content for his YouTube channel, and it would have cost him $29,133.
Martin is no stranger to streaming poker stunts. Last year, the online poker pro turned his life into a “real life Truman show,” streaming his life 24/7 while he tried to run an empty online poker account to $10,000.
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