Prominent MAGA Podcaster Tim Pool Loses Big in Texas Poker Game

Tim Pool, a polarizing right-wing political figurehead with a large viewers, confirmed some coronary heart in his first livestreamed poker sport on Wednesday. However he exited the sport on Poker on the Lodge with a large loss.

The distinguished MAGA podcaster and host of Timcast IRL (and different exhibits) competed in a $5/$10 no-limit maintain’em money sport at The Lodge Card Membership in Texas. The sport, hosted by ClubWPT Gold, was dubbed “Coronary heart Assault Poker,” and the gamers’ coronary heart charges had been monitored all through the four-hour session.

Pool, a West Virginian who we’re advised hosts a weekly poker sport along with his employees and sometimes performs in an area card room, competed in opposition to an skilled desk that included heads-up poker legend Doug Polk, Las Vegas poker grinder Hayley Hanna, Barstool Sports activities persona Ben Mintz, and in style content material creators Nikki Limo and Caitlin Comeskey, a PokerStars ambassador.

From Politics to the Poker Desk

Pool held his personal in a sport in opposition to extra skilled gamers competing in livestreamed video games, however ran poorly. He posted the second-highest VPIP on the desk, 48%, that means he did not draw back from taking part in fingers. Solely Polk, who had a 49% VPIP, voluntarily entered extra pots. Mintzy, alternatively, wasn’t very energetic and had only a 17% VPIP.

Pool, who has 2.5 million followers on X, misplaced a large pot early when he ran pocket queens into the pocket aces held by Romulo Dorea, a ClubWPT Gold ambassador. The political podcaster six-bet jammed all in preflop for $3,185 and acquired a name from his bigger-stacked opponent, who had him dominated.

Each gamers agreed to run the board twice for a $7,715 pot. Each runouts had been favorable to Dorea, so he collected all the pot, forcing Pool to move to the cashier for a rebuy after dropping his preliminary $5,000 buy-in lower than one hour into the sport.

It will solely take a half hour earlier than Pool discovered himself dealing with one other all-in wager, this time with A♠10♦ on a flop of 5♠A♣9♣. Mintzy had moved all in for $1,645, and Pool then stood up from his seat to do leaping jacks in an effort to lift his coronary heart charge to the very best on the desk.

He efficiently achieved the specified coronary heart charge earlier than calling the wager means behind Mintzy’s prime two pair hand. The gamers agreed to run it twice once more, and for a second straight time, Pool was unable to get fortunate and misplaced an enormous pot.

Pool later had a misstep with 7♥2♥, shifting all in for $1,685 in opposition to Polk, who had A♦Q♠ and referred to as. No assist would come on the board for the conservative influencer, and he was stacked for the third time.

Pool ended the session down $7,100 in 4 hours. Roger Nahum was the one participant within the sport to have misplaced extra ($12,600). Polk, who co-owns The Lodge Card Membership, completed $5,000 within the crimson. Hanna, a current fourth-place finisher within the Arizona State Poker Championship, was the largest winner, up $18,670 thanks partly to the next loopy hand.

Hanna scooped the $27,500 pot and picked up a trophy for being the highest winner. The Lodge Card Membership, on Thursday, kicked off a $1,100 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) Prime Championship occasion, a $1,000,000 assured event that simply so occurs to be the primary WPT occasion ever hosted in Texas.