Poker Player Gets Rewarded for Punting $300k Pot with 8-2 Offsuit

A free cannon in Friday’s Hustler On line casino Dwell recreation did all the things he might to punt off a $301,000 pot. However the poker gods had different plans.

The insane hand wasn’t the primary time we have seen a participant on HCL get carried away with eight-rag … this week. “Jellyfish,” who had simply misplaced a $220,000 pot on a missed flush draw in opposition to Ryan Feldman’s flopped set on Wednesday, performed 8-3 offsuit all the best way to the river in opposition to pocket aces and would ultimately name all of it off with simply backside pair to lose a $207,000 pot.

Extra of the identical occurred two days in a while the identical livestream poker present. This time round, nevertheless, the end result was completely different.

Wild Poker Hand

The $100/$200 no-limit maintain’em money recreation performed larger than the blinds, with loads of straddles and a Stand-Up recreation in play. Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot headlined the sport, and rapidly fell right into a $270,000 gap earlier than digging his approach again to solely being down simply over $100,000 on the time of publishing.

Airball, who was within the recreation for $1 million, bumped into an early deficit due to shedding a $180,000 pot to his longtime nemesis, Peter Wang, when kings held up in opposition to ace-king. However the hand of the evening did not contain both of these Hustler On line casino Dwell legends.

The hand we’re referring to began with VC Sam limping from the hijack with Ok♠Ok♣, clearly setting the entice for a limp-raise. Jellyfish, again in motion, additionally known as on the button with Q♠8♥. Huge Mike, the massive blind, adopted swimsuit with J♣10♥, as did Peter, the primary straddle, holding Q♥9♣.

Turbo, the second straddler, might have seen the flop without spending a dime with 8♠2♣, however he took a shot at punishing the limpers by elevating it to $8,000. That wager, in fact, did not get by as a result of VC Sam had the second-best preflop hand in Texas maintain’em. He had been ready to limp-raise, and that is precisely what he did, three-betting to $25,000.

The re-raise, given the palms VC Sam was going through, would usually put an finish to the hand. Huge Mike, Peter, and Jellyfish all despatched their playing cards into the muck. However Turbo determined to make a transfer and jammed all in for $149,500.

VC Sam, carrying a Caleb Williams jersey, beat him into the pot with a snap-call. Each gamers agreed to run the board simply as soon as, and Turbo had solely 12% fairness.

The flop got here out J♦8♦9♦, giving Turbo some hope with backside pair. And the 4♦ on the flip gave him some flush chop outs. Turbo would spike a fortunate 8♣ on the river to scoop the $301,000 pot.

“F**ok round and discover out,” Turbo shouted as he stood up from his seat to rejoice successful a monster pot he tried to punt.

VC Sam left the sport down $100,000, whereas Turbo was up round $170,000 on the time of publishing.