High Roller Wins Record-Setting $5 Million Pot During Streamed Cash Game

Transfer over, Tom Dwan. There’s a new report holder for the most important pot ever received in live-stream poker historical past.

A excessive curler named ST on the King Poker Cup in Jeju, South Korea, received a staggering $5 million pot off Chinese language poker professional and Triton champion Aaron Zang in a hand that can probably be remembered for a while.

Document Pot in $1 Million Purchase-In Money Sport

The record-setting hand passed off throughout the $1 million buy-in King Poker Cup Million Greenback Money Sport, which had blinds of $1,000/$2,000.

In a clip shared on X, motion picked up on the river with the board studying 10♦7♣Q♠Ok♠8♦. Zang, holding a straight with J♦9♣, wager $800,000 from the hijack into the pot of $1,687,000 as motion moved to ST in early place with a thriller hand.

He then raised all in to $1,871,000 as Zang agonized over a call with the second nuts. He ultimately known as, main ST to flip over A♥J♥ for the upper straight to tug a pot valued at $5,029,000.

The pot shortly amassed tens of 1000’s of views on social media, with one Japanese viewer calling the hand “unbelievable.”

The million-dollar money recreation’s lineup additionally embody on-line legend Wiktor “Limitless” Malinowski and Chinese language high-stakes professional Xuan Tan.

Different Massive Pots

The $5 million pot eclipses the earlier largest pot in live-stream poker historical past, which occurred within the 2023 Hustler On line casino Reside Million Greenback Sport, which this yr might be happening on the WSOP in Las Vegas.

The beneficiary of that $3,081,000 pot was high-stakes veteran Tom Dwan, whereas the participant on the shedding finish was crypto entrepreneur Wesley Fei, who a couple of months later spent a weekend in a $400,000-per-night villa in Las Vegas.

Moreover, a few of the greatest live-streamed poker video games of all time passed off final yr and have been centered round Ossi “Monarch” Ketola, who performed the likes of Alex Foxen and Dan “Jungleman” Cates.

Zang, who has $21.9 million in stay match earnings, is not any stranger to very large swings in seven-figure buy-in occasions. In 2019, he took down the £1 million Triton Million for Charity in London for $16.7 million.

Although he misplaced the $5 million pot, the Triton champion could have one other shot at a title, and an opportunity to win a few of that cash again, on the upcoming Triton Tremendous Excessive Curler Sequence in Montenegro, which can happen Could 13-28 at Maestral Resort & On line casino.

Connor Richards is a Senior Editor U.S. for PokerNews and host of the Life Exterior Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for 3 International Poker Awards for his writing.