Alan Keating Bluffs Away $1.3 Million Pot on High Stakes Poker

Alan Keating made an excellent name to win a monster pot towards Doug Polk on Day 1 of the Excessive Stakes Poker livestream on PokerGO. However he gave all of it away after which some on Sunday in one of many costliest bluffs ever televised.

The Hustler On line casino Dwell fan favourite confirmed up big-stacked for the $200/$400 no-limit maintain’em money sport, and despatched lots of these chips to Sam Kiki, who thanked the excessive curler for his “new funding property” in a tweet.

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Sarcastically, Keating bluffed away one of many largest palms ever on Excessive Stakes Poker with practically the identical hand he scooped a $657,000 pot with on Saturday towards Polk.

Sunday’s epic hand had a $6,400 straddle on and started with Kiki, aka “Senor Tilt,” elevating to $3,000 with A♦5♦ from the massive blind. Santhosh Suvarna, one of many straddles, referred to as with 8♠7♥, as did Keating, holding the monster 4♦3♠ within the massive straddle, in the future after taking part in 4♠2♠ to perfection.

The flop got here out Q♠5♣5♥, solely hitting Kiki in any significant method. Senor Tilt had no real interest in slowplaying journeys, so he fired out a wager of $30,000. Suvarna, who had nothing, folded. Keating, who additionally had nothing, referred to as from in-position, clearly seeking to make a play later within the hand.

Neither participant improved on the 9♥ flip, and Kiki locked up the hand, assuming his opponent would not discover a strategy to bluff him off the hand. Kiki determined to verify this time and set the lure, to which Keating obliged, as he tossed in a wager price $45,000 American {dollars}.

Kiki check-raised to $125,000, however that did not scare away his buyer. Keating, in no temper to give up a pot that had already reached $323,000, made the decision drawing stone useless.

“Oh, pricey heavens,” Excessive Stakes Poker commentator Nick Schulman stated after Keating referred to as the elevate.

The two♠ on the river did not change something. Kiki determined to verify and set one final lure. Keating, sitting on four-high and aspirations of pulling off probably the most epic bluffs in Excessive Stakes Poker historical past, put his opponent all in for $446,300. Kiki practically beat him into the pot and made the decision to win a $1,295,000 hand, the second-largest within the iconic poker present’s historical past. Kiki tweeted out a bit of trash discuss to Keating following the hand.

Coincidentally, Keating was the recipient of the biggest pot ever on Excessive Stakes Poker when he took down a hand price $1,412,500 earlier this yr throughout Episode 10 of Season 14.

PokerGO has aired two days of a Excessive Stakes Poker livestream with a star-studded desk that included Kiki, Keating, Polk, Suvarna, Jennifer Tilly, Justin Gavri, and Andrew Robl.