Eric Wasserson gained a $700,000 cooler throughout Thursday’s Excessive Stakes Poker livestream, earlier than giving a piece of it again with pocket aces.
It may have been a banner day for “Wass,” who has change into an everyday within the largest televised money video games the previous yr. Had he made the decision with these aces, he would have gained a second pot for almost the identical worth because the cooler he shipped earlier within the present.
Story of Two Palms
The primary monster pot, with the blinds at $500/$1,000 and a $4,000 straddle on, started with Shawn Madden calling with A♦Q♠, adopted by Darin Feinstein doing the identical with A♠4♥. Alan Keating then known as with J♠10♥, and Wasserson, within the huge blind, adopted together with 2♠2♥.
Andrew Robl, with Okay♣J♣ within the straddle, known as to see a five-way flop of two♣2♦4♣. Wasserson, who flopped quads, checked, earlier than Robl guess $6,000 with a flush draw. Madden folded ace-high, however Feinstein known as with high pair. Keating, with nothing in anyway, determined to make a play and lift to $35,000. Wasserson, no purpose to scare anybody away, simply known as, as did Feinstein.
The flip was the 4♦, creating fairly the cooler, however motion checked round to the 6♥ river. Wasserson determined to verify quads one final time, and Feinstein, who turned a full home, fired out a guess of $110,000. Keating shortly folded, and Wasserson then snap-jammed all in for $286,000 efficient. There was no means for Feinstein to fold, so he known as immediately solely to seek out out the dangerous information that he’d misplaced a $703,500 pot.
The excellent news for Wasserson was that he’d gained the largest hand to that time through the third of 4 Excessive Stakes Poker livestream periods on PokerGO. The dangerous information for him was he would give a bunch of it again later within the stream.
Wass picked up A♥A♣ and raised to $3,000. Justin Gavri, who does not historically run nicely on Excessive Stakes Poker, known as with J♠10♥. Keating, the small blind, additionally entered the pot with 10♣4♣.
The flop got here out Q♠4♠Okay♣, and Keating checked backside pair. Wasserson, with the over pair, guess $5,000 and acquired calls from each gamers. Motion picked up following the 8♥ flip that did not enhance any hand.
Keating checked, which was adopted by Wass wagering $20,000. Gavri continued with an open-ended straight draw. However Keating, out of place, went for a check-raise to $100,000. Each gamers known as earlier than the 7♣ landed on the river, once more no assist to anybody.
Two gamers checked to Gavri, who ripped out a guess of $175,000 right into a pot of $326,000. Keating considered it for a second earlier than folding his small pair. That put Wasserson in a tricky spot with pocket aces, going through a large wager towards a participant Excessive Stakes Poker commentator Nick Schulman stated is not liable to getting out of line.
Wasserson tanked for a couple of minutes earlier than folding the most effective hand. Had he made the decision, he would have gained a pot near $700,000 for the second time on the evening. As an alternative, he misplaced a $500,000 pot, one-third of which got here from his stack.
Wasserson dropping with pocket aces might be some karma for his slowroll with aces towards Benny Glaser deep within the $25,000 World Sequence of Poker Paradise (WSOPP) Tremendous Principal Occasion in December.
Excessive Stakes Poker will air one ultimate livestream on Friday night. Actor and comic Kevin Hart will be part of the sport.
