Antonio Esfandiari Wins One of the Sickest Coolers Ever on High Stakes Poker for $824k

Antonio Esfandiari made his triumphant return to Excessive Stakes Poker, and he’d go on to win one of many largest pots of his life in one of many sickest coolers ever on the present.

“The Magician,” a poker increase period fan favourite, hasn’t performed a ton of poker in recent times. He is spent most of his time together with his household, residing the retired life. However he is been popping up right here and there on livestreams and TV exhibits, akin to Hustler On line casino Reside, and he is proven he hasn’t misplaced a step.

Poker Legend Beats Aces-Full

Esfandiari, a three-time World Collection of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner, joined the Excessive Stakes Poker sport for Episode 6 of Season 15, which dropped final week on PokerGO. We cannot spoil an excessive amount of of the season on this article, however there was a hand throughout Episode 7 that was legendary.

That hand, in a $500/$1,000 no-limit maintain’em sport, began with Scratch CEO Sameh Elamaway, one of many Season 13 stars, elevating to $5,000 with A♠A♥. Esfandiari, in late place, referred to as with 8♠8♣, as did Justin Gavri, who seemed down at J♣7♣ within the large blind. The flop got here out 6♠8♦8♥, giving Esfandiari quads.

“Oh my god,” a shocked Nick Schulman, one of many commentators, introduced.

Motion checked round to the A♦ flip, the grossest card within the deck. Gavri checked, however Elamaway, who hit aces-full, wager $10,000, in search of worth from his monster hand. Esfandiari, licking his chops with the most important stack within the hand (almost $600,000), raised to $37,000. Gavri did not have something, so he folded. However Elamaway, who could not have probably recognized he was drawing to a one-outer, three-bet to $85,000.

Esfandiari referred to as to see the meaningless 3♦ on the river. Elamaway wager out $225,000, leaving about $93,000 behind. A snap-raise and snap-call then adopted, making a pot of $824,500, which went Esfandiari’s means in one of many largest coolers ever on Excessive Stakes Poker.

The hand was a bit harking back to a Excessive Stakes Poker pot performed between Gus Hansen and Daniel Negreanu almost 20 years in the past throughout the Gane Present Community days. Each gamers flopped a set, however Hansen sucked out on the flip wtih a one-outer for quads, and he took down a $575,500 pot.

Poker followers can watch all 17 episodes of Excessive Stakes Poker completely on PokerGO.

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