Alan Keating is not shy when comes to putting gigantic sums of money on the line at the poker table, so last week’s Million Dollar Game on Hustler Casino Live (HCL) was right up his alley. And though he was down over a million bucks Friday night, he came through with a $2.4 million score… Read more »
When he was a 22-year-old internet poker sensation, Tom Dwan won the largest pot in televised poker history. In Season 5 of High Stakes Poker (filmed in late 2008, aired in 2009), he turned trip Queens to beat Barry Greenstein’s pocket Aces and win a $919,600 pot. Last night, Queens were his friend again as… Read more »
Ethan “Rampage” Yau knows that if you have air on the river, you’re only going to win the pot if you force your opponent to fold. Most of us get nervous trying to pull off a $20 bluff, but over the weekend, Rampage took little time to risk $628,000 with nothing but Ace high on… Read more »
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?… Read more »
In reality, it was never a battle. In way less time than the parameters of the match dictated, poker professional Matt Berkey was able to crush Nik ‘Airball’ Arcot in a heads-up cash game battle. The final verdict? Berkey walked away from the “fight” with more than a million dollars and Arcot left with more… Read more »
The world of “high roller” poker was eventually going to reach this point. $250,000 buy-ins for a tournament are not enough – how about a million (The Big One for One Drop at the WSOP)? Now the cash games are going that route, with twelve players with either deep pockets or deep skills stepping into… Read more »
If Robbi Jade Lew wants to get her money back from Garrett Adelstein, she is going to be waiting a long, long time. In an interview on Doug Polk’s podcast on Monday, Adelstein said it simply isn’t happening. Adelstein has been relatively quiet in the six months since the now infamous Jack-Four hand on Hustler… Read more »
Never say never It looks like poker pro Garrett Adelstein will not appear on Hustler Casino Live any time in the near future, or maybe ever. Adelstein, who famously lost a $269,000 to Robbi Jade Lew on the show six months ago and subsequently accused her of cheating because she made an insane call, has… Read more »
On Friday night, the best and brightest from the world of poker took center stage at the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas for the 2023 Global Poker Awards. For the past four years (before that, the awards were handed out in Europe and the States), the crème of the poker world has gathered to salute… Read more »
There have been plenty of times when cheating in poker has occurred. The Russ Hamilton-led Ultimate Bet Superuser scandal is one particular moment that comes to mind, and the Mike Postle Stones Live situation has never been fully explained. Add into that the history of cheating in the game of poker – the usage of… Read more »
There once was a day when you pretty much couldn’t go to a cable channel that didn’t have some sort of poker programming on it. ESPN, of course, was the benchmark for years with their coverage of the World Series of Poker, but cable channels like the Game Show Network (now known as GSN), the… Read more »
Offering the blueprint for what to do when you see an anomaly, Hustler Casino has taken quick and decisive action in a potentially explosive cheating scandal. Unlike other incidences in the past, Hustler Casino took immediate action against a player on its “Hustler Casino Live” streaming poker platform after it was discovered the player was… Read more »
There have always been poker fans that want to watch the intricacies of a good cash game. Long considered the true test of a poker player, cash games have had differing courses of success over the years. Now, the team behind one of the most popular cash game programs ever have decided to take their… Read more »
