Sunday was the discharge of the most recent version of The Alan Keating Present, in any other case often called the PokerStars Large Sport on Tour Season 2. However the star of the present had a tough efficiency.
Keating dominated the $200/$400 no-limit maintain’em money recreation final week in Episode 6 of the BGOT. He received the primary seven fingers and profited greater than $90,000. The excessive curler, in Episode 7, obtained roughed up a bit by his latest poker rival, longtime PokerStars ambassador and livestreamer Lex Veldhuis.
Veldhuis Will get the Better of Keating
The rivals performed two monster pots in opposition to one another, and the chips went to the identical participant each occasions. Earlier than the playing cards have been dealt, the cameras caught Keating and Veldhuis having a dialogue by which Keating admitted to the livestreamer he can be gunning for him on the desk, and he wasn’t kidding.
Motion within the first hand between the high-stakes grinders began with Veldhuis limping from the small blind with 7♠6♠. Keating, the large blind, made it $1,600 to go together with Q♠2♣, a elevate that obtained a name.
The flop got here out 2♠5♠A♠, and each gamers favored what they noticed. Veldhuis would examine after which name a $3,000 wager with a flush earlier than the uneventful 9♦ appeared on the flip. Keating, following a examine, wager $15,000, a wager that once more earned a name.
No spade would bail Keating out on the river, however he as a substitute hit two pair with the Q♦. Veldhuis continued to slowplay with one closing examine. Keating then fired out a wager of $45,000, better than the dimensions of the pot. His opponent got here excessive with an all-in wager for $137,100.
Keating, after tanking for a bit, could not discover a fold and misplaced a $313,800 pot. He did not lose each hand throughout the session, nonetheless. In reality, he received some sizable pots, together with one by which he rivered journeys to crack vlogger Alexander “Wolgang” Seibt’s pocket queens. He’d make a $50,000 wager on the river with queen-high to drive Luke Moy, the Unfastened Cannon, to fold two pair in a separate pot.
However he’d give much more to Veldhuis in one other hand on a board of Q♥3♠6♥7♣Ok♠. Keating had 8♣7♠ and tried to show third pair right into a bluff with a wager of $49,000 right into a pot of $44,600. That wager did not persuade Veldhuis to fold A♠Q♦, and he scooped a pot value $142,600.
Veldhuis completed the episode with $146,400 in income via 57 fingers performed and is at the moment the most important winner within the recreation. Keating, who cruised via final week’s present, is now down $10,300. Moy, after getting bluffed by Keating, is just up $18,300. He should flip a revenue over 150 fingers to go dwelling with cash. Wolfgang busted late within the episode and give up the sport. PokerStars ambassador Jason Koon, up $11,000, is the one different participant within the black.
Episode 8 of the PokerStars Large Sport on Tour will air subsequent Sunday.
