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Alan Keating has quickly become a fan favorite of the Hustler Casino Live stream due to his positive attitude and willingness to give action to anyone. This generally means Keating is involved in some of the largest pots during the HCL live stream and it was written in the stars that he would be involved in one of the largest ever pots in American televised history!
Jonathan discusses that in deep stacked cash games the value of starting hands that can make strong flushes/straights go up in multiway pots as the likelihood of getting paid if you do hit your hand is much higher than if you were heads up. He also discusses the things you should consider when deciding to raise on the flop with a draw or just call.
This poker hand took place during a cash game from the Hustler Casino Live stream. They are playing 6 handed with 4 blinds with a crazy $3,200 straddle. The poker hand starts with Handz raising on the button with As7h. Ben defends from the small blind with 85cc, Eric Persson peels with AdJh and Alan Keating closes the action by calling with K2ss.
The flop comes Ts 6s 5d, and Eric and Keating check. Although having very little equity Handz decides to continue his story and bets $25,000, Ben & Eric fold but Keating decides to call with his second nut flush draw which creates a pot of $87,200 heading into the turn heads up.
The turn brings the 4d, and Keating checks again. Handz bets $70,000, and Keating makes the call once more bringing the pot up to $227,000.
The river is the perfect card for Alan Keating; the seven of spades. With his flush Keating now decides to lead out with a bet of $155,000. Handz decides to put Keating to the test with his ace of spades blocker and raises all-in for $465,000. Keating tanks for a bit but decides to call off his remaining chips. The final pot ends up at a massive $1,200,000 which at the time was the largest televised poker pot in American history!
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All this money on the table makes me wonder where they go to buy their chips, and how they pay for them. I suppose it's all on no limit American Express. But it sure is fascinating to watch. Thanks for covering the highest stakes action!
I think the flop bet by Handz is a little big, probably would go a little smaller even though we're super deep.
Turn bet by Handz makes a lot sense and the sizing is better, Keating should have worse flush draws that want to bet, probably wants to just call Ksxs because sometimes you bink the K and it goes check-check on the river and you win, plus sometimes a 3 is good as well.
River I think check or donk lead small are both things here. Small leads sometimes can get someone to blast off with a bluff, which we're obviously going to call. We also get called by stuff that maybe gets there on the river that contains a 7, like 76 or 75, although those hands may not double barrel. Another nice thing is that Handz should probably jam worse flushes for value a decent amount, like Q-high and J-high flushes, which makes this an especially nice lead as Handz might not jam those if we check.
I probably would just lead small here because I have some bluffs that I want to mix into that range but it may be check is better on aggregate, if for no other reason than it allows us to have check-raise bluffs that can fold out better value hands. We also don't block our opponent having worse flushes, which are always going to bet and should often call off. Like, I would probably want to bet AsQs or AsKs more than this hand because we're blocking the nuts and it's less likely our opponent has a really strong hand, so it's important to try to get value.
If I had second nutz flush draw in an unpaired board I am calling all the way if is not a stupid 1,2 to 1 or so. So thirdnuts here is good. Unfortunaly we dont want look stupid, something I dont mind at all
Imagine running this balls of steel bluff for a zillion dollars and being unable to afford a shirt.
with the action, i think you lead polarizing hands like the nuts and the 1card straight to induce bluffs (with nuts) or to get value out of sets and overpairs (with straights)… you do so with the intention of folding to jams unless you have the larger flushes..
if I have an in between hand like a baby flush or 2 card straight, maybe check call here…
small bet Call
Bet 2/3 pot and calling no matter what
Bet fold
I've tried that flush blocker thing like five times and it never worked at 1/3 or 2/5. So I stopped. I got called by all sorts of horsebad. On the turn it's good to continue betting with but not on the river. There was another huge stream hand a few months ago where someone tried it and it didn't work again.
The problem was that Keating was almost pot commited, he only had to be right 1 out of 3….it did not work because keating had the K high flush, any other flush and it migh have worked.