Antonio Esfandiari is not again full-time taking part in poker, however he proved he can nonetheless play playing cards with a dominant efficiency Wednesday night time on Hustler On line casino Reside.
“The Magician” crushed a high-stakes desk blended with professionals and leisure gamers at Hustler On line casino in Los Angeles. Esfandiari gave up poker professionally just a few years in the past for the household life. However he nonetheless often pops up on livestreams or on the World Collection of Poker (WSOP), though he was non-existent this summer season.
The second such look on Hustler On line casino Reside in current weeks ended with a six-figure revenue, thanks partly to a troublesome name he made in opposition to an unpredictable opponent.
Esfandiari is Again
Esfandiari, a well-liked professional on TV through the poker increase period, would end the six-hour livestream with a $348,100 revenue within the $100/$200 no-limit maintain’em money sport that performed larger. He was the largest winner on the desk, by a large margin, though Brandon Steven booked a $189,100 win.
Sam Kiki (“Senor Tilt”), founding father of the Monkey Tilt on-line on line casino, was the largest loser, down $258,300. A lot of these losses went to Esfandiari, together with one hand the place he overbet bluffed the river after lacking his draw.
Kiki limped the straddled pot on the button with 8♣6♣. Han, within the small blind with Q♥2♣, referred to as. Esfandiari, holding A♣4♣ within the blig blind, raised to $3,000, solely receiving a name from Kiki.
The flop got here out 7♦5♠Q♠, attractive solely to Kiki, who picked up an open-ended straight draw. Esfandiari checked earlier than calling a $4,000 guess with ace-high.
The flip was the A♦, which made it tough for Senor Tilt to proceed bluffing, because it gave his opponent high pair. Esfandiari determined to steer out for $10,000 this time. That guess earned a name, and neither participant improved on the 8♠ river card.
Esfandiari, involved with the potential flush draw coming by, checked. Kiki, caught on eight-high, guess $70,000, about twice the dimensions of the pot. That put his opponent, who solely had high pair, in a tough place, realizing the guess measurement was polarized, that means he was doubtless up in opposition to nothing or a flush.
The Magician, following a prolonged tank, put the $70k within the center and took down a $175,000 pot. He was already up almost $200,000 at that time within the stream. That hand was simply icing on the cake for one among his finest livestreamed performances in years.
Esfandiari has $27.8 million in reside event cashes, based on The Hendon Mob. His most distinguished win got here within the 2012 Huge One for One Drop, a $1 million buy-in WSOP occasion he conquered for $18.3 million.
Esfandiari gained a fair larger pot later with pocket kings in opposition to Doc Hollywood’s pocket nines. Each gamers agreed to run the board twice for the $237,000 pot, and kings held up each instances.
Kiki, nonetheless, continued working poorly. He misplaced a $100,900 pot to Steve, the participant who benefited from the notorious Tom Goldstein blunder through the 2024 Hustler On line casino Reside Million Greenback Recreation. Steve turned a straight to crack Kiki’s flopped two pair.
Hustler On line casino Reside is again with extra high-stakes poker motion Thursday night time at 5 p.m. PT. Nik Airball and Kiki are amongst these scheduled to compete.
