Because I enjoy torturing myself, I often think about what it would be like to have so much money that I don’t care about losing large chunks of it. Buy a car and can’t find it in the parking lot? No matter, just leave it. Purchase an rare NFT and then get my wallet hacked? Shrug. Get that burrito with guac? Yes, please and thank you.
It is how I image this guy named Brad in Friday’s Huster Casino Live stream must feel. Sit down at the poker table with a six-figure stack and just get it all-in without whatever two hole cards you feel like.
He brought $100,000 to the game (initially) and right away, four-bet pre-flop with 3-4 suited. Andy “Stacks” looked him up with K-Q suited, but Brad made a pair on the turn to take the pot. Shortly thereafter, he bluffed on a 10-high board with A-3, only to be called by show regular “Charles,” who had made a set of deuces. A few minutes later, Brad was all-in pre-flop for $62,000 with 2-3 suited and lost all of his chips.
Brad had rebought and quickly won some of his money back before the following jaw-dropper of a hand happened.
Mariano Grandoli had already a $600,000 pot with a straight flush over the nut flush and looked down to find two red Aces. He raised to $2,000 pre-flop and after some folds, Brad decided to three-bet to $8,000 with 5-6 of spades. After another fold, “Bobo,” another HCL regular, four-bet to $25,000 with A-K offsuit.
Obviously, Mariano was loving life at this point. He thought about things very briefly and then put in a five-bet to $60,000. It seems liked both he and Bobo might have been trying to get each other out of the pot and isolate newcomer and any-two-cards-love Brad.
Brad called and then Bobo, again with just A-K against two other raisers, moved all-in for another $217,100. Mariano instantly said all-in; thanks to his earlier straight flush he had more than enough to cover both of his opponents. Brad decided he was in it to win it, calling all-in for an additional $75,300.
A three-way all-in pre-flop, Aces versus A-K versus 5-6.
The trio opted to run it twice. The first flop was J-3-4, giving Brad an open-ended straight draw. He hit it with the deuce on the turn, locking up the first of the two deals.
Before the second set of community cards was dealt, Brad casually said, “Now 2 sixes on the flop.”
And guess what? That is exactly what happened. Bobo was all but drawing dead at that point and Mariano needed an Ace. Neither the turn nor river helped either man and mad man Brad hit the improbable huge pot. He essentially tripled up, winning $271,100 from the main pot.
Mariano beat Bobo for the side pot, so it wasn’t completely terrible for him, as he got the rest of the $620,200 that was in the middle.
