The Big Game S1 ♠️ W4, E3 ♠️ Esfandiari vs Viffer ♠️ PokerStars

so far on the big game while a man named Biff er has been running extremely hot nobody can beat the difference I am a very lucky man others have not been as fortunate I tell you how to win the pot around here the loose cannon is closing in on dangerous territory can't win if he'll play man as his stack is starting to sink it's not even good enough see if Troy can catch himself a big fish to now play nice fish against these big guns on the big game now the game's on [Music] Oh big gay welcome to Las Vegas Nevada home of the big game alongside Joe Stapleton I'm Chris rose and tonight some of the best in the world continue to tangle in our state-of-the-art poker room right now there's nearly 1 million dollars in cold hard cash on the table David Pete better known as vivir the high-stakes cash game player from Vegas continues to run well he's up 134,000 also headed in the right direction his three-time bracelet winner barry greenstein who's up almost 45k the magician antonio esfandiari might be down 25 5 but he's playing well one of the good guys in the game Xiao Jiang has been struggling he is down almost 60,000 wealthy businessman Rick Rahim never saw a hand he didn't like winning small pots and losing big ones he stuck 61 K and the loose cannon is Troy Howard from Niagara Falls New York the 29 year old music engineer and father of five is currently down 35 grand right now he's with Amanda Leatherman all right Troy it looks like you have a lot of work to do to get back to positive but a little bit doesn't help at all no I just haven't caught any cards you know I've been trying to play my position I've been raising when I can but you know he also got a hit a flop you know so we'll see what happens I just got to catch a card or I got to push and get lucky we'll see what happens well what you need to do is give your kids one good luck shout out before you get back to the table I love you girls keep hope alive you're watching daddy I'm be home soon all right Joey get out there and get them and here are the loose cannon rules each cannons take 200 grand to play and keeps all winnings above the initial hundred thousand at season's end the loose cannon who's won the most money earns that North American Poker Tour passport worth 50,000 nadya Magnus is the leading loose cannon for that passport at over 63,000 dollars in winnings since he's down 35,000 catching her probably not the first thing on Troy's mind although maybe the first thing on his mind is the fact that vivir straddling his big blind that's happened a lot at this table a lot of straddles very aggressive play-action folds around the chow he's out Rick Rahim folds as well troy king six suited calls ace Queen suited for vivir who raises the 2800 the choice yeah he's got nine seven so good yeah yeah that is true if it first suited but it's a little better than seven nine standard call from Troy put up against one other opponent probably not so bad if he had raised the suited King in the first place just saying ten four eight two diamonds on the flop total air ball for Troy goes check bet by vivir and fold by Howard he said don't pick on the guy don't raise him then boom there you well you could you would have raised him with that hand that was his nose his riot his road right there ten eight I said he got nine seven but you anybody at the table to raise do it that in vivir continues where he left off while the loose cannon leaks more money right now here are the rules of the big game each table lasts exactly a hundred fifty hands DX preflop is pot limit then No Limit after the flop blinds are two and four hundred with $100 Annie all of which is paid by the player on the button every player begins with at least 100 K and can reload for up to five hundred thousand dollars the loose cannon Troy Howard on the button this hand so action begins with the magician who folds Chows out Rick Rahim let's say his play Joe has been erratic well if you're just joining us on the big game Rick Raheem's range only consists of cards with letters and/or numbers on them Rick limps in Troy Howard on the button also calls dippers in Barry checks his option Troy makes a semi loose call but he's in position I predict that one of us is gonna win this hand I'll bet you somebody on this side of the table Jack deuce ace two spades check check check on over to the cannon dippers flop the best pair Howard fires 1100 playing his position dipper calls Barry folds race look out Rick's making a move which so far has meant juicing the pot for his opponents 47 to 4700 it's a small ray everyone everyone can call Troy polls I know you're calling I'm gonna pot with you yes straight trough did you give her folds all right maybe next time I'm surprised you didn't beat me on that hand too probably I might pull with the best hand you might have I doubt it Raheem did get him to pull the best hand for once he's our most active player at the table and check raising nearly 20% of the time it worked there but the table seems to know what's up he's winning the small ones and losing the big ones all right who's gonna go with me up oh you looked you look probably I'm the most likely candidate I'm in the worst player here I'm the worst player here but you can afford to double him up so and you can't double him up well hold on I got pockets I got pockets now I just been trying to see if I could double up myself real quick good action uncho as ladies Queen Queen for ciaochao raised to 1600 h3 for Rick all right I got some gamble in me amen he called I'm not thinking I'm just trying to do my maverick thing where I change that you know change the cards it won't work I need a hand you don't know I don't know I got got we got magicians at the table that's not no that was a that probably was perfect probably differ calls with suited connectors Barry calls with tens Antonio's out even with a hand as big as Queens with free opponents Chau still a dog to the field for to the flop which is 9/10 Trey Greenstein checks his set Chow is a much bigger dog now this could get very ugly for him he leads out betting four grand by checking Barry allows Chow to continuation bet since it's a continuation bet there's a bigger chance it's a bluff and it's more likely to get called Rick calls with bottom pair vivir folds by checking Barry gets to build himself a pot without even having act strong he raises the 13,000 ouch ow has to be a little worried about the strength of this check-raise Rick's call may have juiced the pot for Barry but Rick's presence hurts him a bit here since his check raises wouldn't look as strong in a heads-up pot as it does against two opponents Chao doesn't get away from it called the Dead Money Chow is dead to a queen or running straight cards the turn card 8 of diamonds no immediate help to Chow but it does give him a straight draw Barry fires 20 grand Barry's made a bet but an 8 is the last card he wants to see since queen jack is the most obvious draw out there even still Barry's taking an advantage of the fact of this hand is gonna be good here most of the time Joe does call fairies acting very strong Chau may have gotten away from this had he not picked up two extra four outs to the gut shot and of course when barry greenstein is involved an ace on the river this is a great card for Barry to like his hand but not a great one for getting value since it's a scare card for chow Barry bets 42,000 Barry's made a value bet for a little more than half the pot at this point Chow can't beat most of the hands in Barry's range for the way the action went oh just about 40% of his stack to make this call twenty nine three chairs pocket queens is nothing but a bluff catcher at this point ciao calls and Barry wins the pot heat and I'd give it to him all right putting feet end suit call him now let's open it up a little bit the places folk now feeling barry greenstein wins a pot of more than a hundred and sixty one thousand dollars wait at three nine three ten yeah barry greenstein takes down the biggest pot of the week and now has turned a profit of a hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars the big game is just getting going much more from Las Vegas coming your way after this [Music] welcome back to Las Vegas thanks to that last hand barry greenstein is up over 127 grand after flopping a set against Chows Queens Barry explained his decision-making process when he allowed us to go behind the poker face no child's not normally as title players at look but he got behind right away you know when he raised preflop it made sense that he didn't have an over pair and now the flop came 10 9 3 and I had two tens and I flop you know the nuts at this point I flopped top set he that Rick called and some people just slow play and call right there but the problem is Shao probably had a pretty decent hand event to bet into three people and Rick probably had some sort of draw so I thought it was better to raise right there we've got 4,000 on the flop I raised to 13,000 I thought there was a decent chance I get called in both spots and Chow called and Rick folded at this point in my mind I was putting Chow on a hand like aces or kings and so now I was building a good pot where I you know the nuts now an eight came on the turn which is a dangerous card because Queen Jack would not make a straight I would have probably about 25,000 if a straight card didn't come off but I've got 20,000 because I didn't want to scare him out he called the 20,000 seemed to call pretty comfortably at this point you know when he called I said nah he's probably got jacks or Queens because he doesn't seem that afraid of the straight which means maybe he's at least drawing back at it I'm the river I just said don't put up a jack or queen and an ace came well the ACE wasn't that great of card because there was an outside chance to make some three aces of course which would be really terrible for me but the other thing is if he has what I think he has he may not pay off that bigger bet on the river because even if he puts me on some hand that he had beat like at his town I've now drawn out on him but once the a scam I about 42,000 the problem vetting only 42,000 was it looked like I wanted to get called but I actually think I'd have probably gotten paid off for a 50,000 bet easier than 40 to his 50 look it was big enough that it might look like it could have been a bluff to him really kill I think he called knowing he was probably beep but he wanted to see what happened to him [Music] well there you have it flop a huge hand don't get out drawn and get paid off takes years of experience to play like that how much experience does it take to get stuck over 135 grand anyone can get out flop even beginners looks like we won't have a straddle this hand so the action begins with Greenstein well we need the prop or something Barry folds pocket sixes for Antonio you could anybody that ever wants to put money in the pot with me and they're more than welcome another pocket pair for Chow makes the call alright play my favourite hand here oh come on Rick Rick only called with 7 deuce he's clearly tightening up his button range Troy Howard calls Vickers out so for to the flop this ought to be fun for Chow house a dog even the seven deuce right now Queen King nine two spades Howard checks it's finally re checks Chow checks and Rick checks King on the turn with the checking around Troy might feel like it's safe to bet its Queen now fires 2002 Neos out Chows out Rick can only win this hand with a bluff let's see if he uses this opportunity to do it he calls nope he decides the float to turn instead I'll expect to see a big bluff here in the river the river card is the four of diamonds Troy first to act that's 4000 let's see if Rick tries to take it away race he's gonna try 14001 a raise to $18,000 Troy's made an attempt at a value bet Rick's come over the tops problem is you were talking when you're playing him and you obviously got a hand check hit you miss your flush draw you don't I know you I know you well enough to know you wouldn't check that king on the flop that's an easy call well kind of cuz you might you look like you're on a busted flush draw to me I call you one good call Troy wins his biggest pot of the week he got it can I see those cards sir okay I was talking to him not the dealers it was a hundred percent good call these loose cannons are a little too tough guys I'm going to my pocket so Rick Raheem adds 50 grand to his stack he's in for a hundred fifty thousand in the meantime the loose cannon Troy Howard is inching closer back to profit Ville Troy's inching closer courtesy of Rick Raheem he just want his first showdown in three tries picking off a river bluff from Rick Rahim who himself has yet to win a showdown every time he's been looked up he's had the worst of it and yet still hasn't changed his style one bit I wouldn't expect anything less from Rick Rahim explains why he just went into his pocket for another 50k hey you can straddle for eight now come on you're on the upward swing gotta be on the plus plus word string you're free rolling anyway what's the not free rolling straddle I got a mortgage to pay the same free roll good point exactly the loose cannon looking at Jack four and folding biffer suited connectors raised to 1,200 Barry folds King Jack offsuit for the magician calls Chau folds and Rick King seven of course she's in my two favorite players oh thank you dear tender moaning - this is getting sweet seven queen ace two clubs on the flop despite being dominated Raheem flops the best hand and checks over to vivir who has a flush draw and that's 3,000 even though he's behind Vickers the slight favorite with his paranoia as fond er he calls with a gut shot Raheem folds Rick finally folds a flop and he's got the best hand the turn the nine of diamonds dipper checks that's fine BRE checks check check for pot control five of clubs on the river giving Viper a flush that fur has Mina's flush but he'll probably be tougher and to get any value from it he bets 8,000 maybe a little hollywooding here from Antonio he knows he can't call and he folds so vivir picks up another nice little pot and overall Joe he's the man at this table that's right he's at his peak right now he's up over a hundred and forty five thousand he's also the big winner for the table he'd been playing aggressive and even though he lifted this pot from Antonio he's really had Rick Raheem's number the entire night and dipper is also the straggler this hand so action begins on barry greenstein ace Jack suited and a race to 2,500 Antonio folds another pocket pair for chow Oh Oh little Tim raised from chow brick got a little jumpy there tried to steamroll Chow I don't realize that of course you keep covering your cards up you just saved me Rick folds after all that Troy Howard out as well dipper folds and now the action back I'm Barry it's Plus Evie for child rear aids with a hand like nines but he did eliminate two of the weaker players oh yeah about fifty some Chows image has been pretty tight this session Barry's not really getting great implied odds and so we fought win upon all right then lose yes yeah cha we'll take anything he can get ain't no fun when the revit has the gun honcho Chow got a little lastly and chased away a potential customer boy the big game when we come back welcome back to Las Vegas Nevada home of the big game quick reminder if you can't get enough of the big game you can see all the stats for every hand of this table as well as bonus hands and footage deemed too hot for TV on the website you lose a pot to me it's a tax write-off guys bluffing is not a legitimate business expense Queen nine for the loose cannon who folds vivir raised to 1,200 with six I prefers been raising a lot of suited connectors connect them with the board and they tend to make deceptively strong hands and tonio on the button re-raises to 4,000 Chow folds all right I'm gonna play with the magician this time Rick calls also with suited connectors the original RAZR is sticking around makes the call three to the flop Chuck in the dark Rick checked in the dark tray 5/8 two diamonds vivir checks this is an action flop for a two most aggressive players at the table Vickers got an open-ended straight draw and Raheem's got a flush draw and Antonio leads out he's continuing his preflop aggression but probably doesn't realize how strong these drawers are hmm this could be a big hand well I got three options I just eliminated folding shocker down to two Rick's drawing to the second note flush but at the moment even Antonio's Qinghai hasn't beat mullein how's that for an option all lid falling now rivers got the option of drawing to his straight for 64,000 he does not have the right odds not gonna let you draw on me if that's what you got so Vickers out shows the magician another check raise from Raheem this time a very good play he came to play boys nice and that was a sexy flop you liked it - I was scared of the diamond draw otherwise I just smooth corner Rick also appears to be a compulsive liar so he fits right in Rick has been a complete wild card at this table but what you see on the felt isn't always what you get from the real Rocky my name is Rick Raheem I don't have a nickname but they have a lot of names for me but my style is very simple I try to make half the people to table my friend and half of them my enemies if I happen to get under somebody's skin and they deserve it I will really dig in and really frustrate them I love picking on guys that are just you know uptight everyone sits around and they're all stiff and they're all just kind of you know focused on the game it's just not fun I mean I played poker to have a good time I have a pretty common fun demeanor and for me I don't jump up I don't scream I don't put my finger in people's faces I do the opposite I kind of jokingly raped them and get them to rise to the occasion and kind of make fools themselves to everybody else they're very lucky in my life and I try to give back so I'm very involved with charity you know I volunteered I'm a helicopter pilot - I have a helicopter so I fly a lot of kids I have a program where I fly any kid from any social or economic background and fly them and introduce them to you know the wonders of flight you know try to make sure the kids out there being exposed to the possibility of them being able to do anything in the world that they want to do if they just work hard and set their goals so it looks like Rick might be putting on a bit of an act at the poker table poker and generosity go hand-in-hand every other pro at this table is active in various charitable organizations Rick's being charitable at the table as well give it away his chips to everyone and more than one way yes quite the charitable fellow the action will begin on barry greenstein since vivir is on the straddle King nine folds Antonio's out suited connectors for Chow Chow well on the button wanted to raises to 2,200 I've been calling anything I'm playing the rush doesn't matter you know calling anything if I can win two in a row you guys are gonna be in trouble cuz then I'm gonna get chirpy you know what chirpy means I'll show you in a minute I think you might be showing us now vivir pocket pair on the straddle just calls I have a feeling things are about to get chirpy Kris would that be chirpy or chippy you got me Trey six Queen two hearts check check by Raheem bit for checks Chow checks Chow ops to not continue eight of hearts on the turn three hearts on board Vickers the only player holding a heart both Rick and chow picked up gut shots Rick bets 5,000 let's do it I'm going for my two in a row give it to me now or give it to me on the river I don't care dipper folds uh-oh you got it oh yeah it's those chow Rick Bluffs another pot I forgot your last hands here I'm going for three in a row now come on loose gun loose cannon let's go your turn which one do what I do most gamble at the table friendly game of poker isn't called a hand in an hour I'm just playing a friendly game you have to loosen up a little bit though okay I'm sorry if Rick Rahim loosened up anymore he'd probably fall apart the helicopter pilot is loosey-goosey and beginning to take flight more the big game when we come back [Music] we are halfway home and so far vivir and Barry are the big winners while Chow is gone in the other direction the loose cannon has gotten some back he's down about 14,000 remember of Troy is positive after 150 hands he keeps anything over a hundred thousand once again alongside Joe Stapleton I'm Chris Rose Joe we've reached a halfway point of the session and Troy Howard our loose cannon is off to a very rocky start so far Troy's being far too passive and allowing the aggressive players to push him around preflop he's raising a table low seven percent of the time and is not free bet or check raised even once in 75 hands Troy wants to turn a profit against these sharks he's gonna have to knock off the floundering okay Joe now tell me what's going on with the two maniacs at the table vivir and Rick Raheem well Chris they bring an interesting dynamic to the table since they're both playing extremely loose if we look at the vpip you can see that vivir is playing over half the hands and Rahim has played a ridiculous 50 of the 75 hands he's been dealt they're ranked wanting to at the table in total pots one with each taking down a third of the hands played so it would seem as if playing a lot of hands is working out for them so if they're both winning all these pots why is vivir up a hundred thirty six grand and Raheem is down almost 60 gur it's a good question while it may look like they're playing similar styles they're actually not it's all a matter of quality over quantity and when the pots are being won although Rick's winning almost a third of the pots more than half of them have come preflop and most of those wins have been fairly small after the flop he is by far the highest check raised percentage at the table now the check raises a strong move but when Rick has good hands he's losing customers on Later streets by forcing medium strength hands to pull on the flop also regardless of his hand strength Raheem keeps betting big the repercussions of that when he's strong he's not getting paid off by where his hands and conversely he's only getting called by hands that have him beat so that pretty much explains why Rick hasn't won a single showdown the entire session and is losing most of the big pots he actually gets involved in exactly vivir on the other hand is profiting by making excellent value bets against his opponents and letting his marginal hands go he's won more than 90% of his showdowns and raked in over 300 K when the hole cards get flipped over which is why he's up so while where he needs to quiet things down a bit Troy Howard the music engineer needs to check the level instead of the flop and find a way to turn up the volume as action continues Troy's fiance Megan van wermer has joined Amanda in the lounge to see if she can bring her man some good luck hey Troy yeah do you think you're a better rapper than Jeff Madsen or pearl odd Friedman those guys they're not even in my on my level I mean seriously who was the first guy you said Jeff Madsen I never heard him I never heard him rap uh-huh she said he's the white kid date that study Rebs memory yes you did the other day oh well it was definitely better than the Pratt live Friedman rap you get part live down here for a rap off let's get him down here my money's on Troy I'm not money's on Troy to my money yeah their money's on me I don't have any money so I just want 20 percent stake in it I guarantee you there's not a person you can bring down here I guarantee you I put my house on it all right very guaranteed you wants to put his house on I what do you think about that he can bet the house on his ribs yeah really yes that's a good woman you got that see that's love that's how I got the house that's love Troy bets his wrap more aggressively than his poker hands now Ray's just feel like I'm a little too old to be a rapper but I'm just I'm just so good let's stick to poker then yeah Tory wants to try at the table as long as he's got money they won't let me stop keep keep pulling me back in Troy folds Vickers out and Barry folds so Chows Ray's gets it done Chah wins another tiny pot at one of 4,200 bucks most of which was his raise you got you got all aggressive that's cuz you started talking about what a great rapper you write want me to be aggressive you got all aggressive they want this million-dollar smile hollow what's up would it I think Troy got it in a sugar water at halftime I'm trying to get that young patch right here man they sell them for $3 gonna have one well I have I have something I just I sold them they don't you know it's not quite the same holds over to Rick mines in the mines in marker he calls Jack eight for the loose cannon on the button lips in well the sugar water hasn't made its play anymore aggressive dipper calls let's take a plot and Barry checks his option this may be the cheapest flop we've seen smallest pot we've played yet Troy's on the button difference they're both out of position nine ten four on the flop Bipper checks Greenstein check I'll take a shot for teams got a flush draw that's 1,500 Troy's got an open ended straight draw don't believe me call not that I just got a really good handle Ripper and very bold can't be that good you couldn't raise me with it well I got to see if you hit your diamond on the turn I don't need a diamond I don't want you to hit it I'm no diamond five of clubs do I look like a man with a flush draw well looking at all the red behind you yes Rick that's 4000 the Reds trying to get me to uh yeah they're trying to pump you up in bring out the aggressive Troy call you definitely have the flush draw you have a horrible read for the record King of Diamonds on the river Oh or a great one I might have a straight flush now flush for rec you don't have a straight flush a straight or a flush you know straight flush but I'll take the risk to find out Rick bets 10 grand that's too big of a carnival Troy folds you didn't tell Troy he's not used to lying now Raheem he's a pro I'm considering I had the Jack of Diamonds in my hand with the ACE there's no way you had a straight flush not only did Raheem hit the diamond on the river but he seems to also be hitting Troy's last nerve the loose cannon getting into a verbal battle with Rick Raheem will that affect Troy Howard's play there's only one way to find out don't go anywhere here on the big game back with more after this [Music] welcome back to Las Vegas where the big games fourth loose cannon Troy Howard has recently bled some chips Nadia Magnus and Ernest Wiggins have already won some life-changing money but will Davis's dream came up short one double up and Troy's back in contention to overtake Nadia for that na PT passport maybe he'll win enough to buy a house for his fiancee and then he can just gamble the other one on his rapping I'm the eye candy then we're all in trouble if you're the eye candy we're all in trouble I thought shows that I can Rick double straddled so the actions on Howard somebody's got to be in his shadow just remember Barry I'm on tilt I'm gonna call you and now flop you even though you may have the best hand Barry with a good hand raises to 5500 Antonio folds Chow Jack ten suited Barry's raised but with the dead money in the pot that means his range a little wider Jack ten suited is a pretty strong hand in itself but he could already be ahead of Barry I love a double shuffle that takes Talent Chow calls I like that Antonio the how does it go this is sexy this is why they call him the magician that that is that it's too much time on your hands on the stage yeah up there next to Jose we'll be fine sorry action on the double straggler Raheem Rick never folds so I can only imagine he's contemplating a re-raise possibly no just calls so three to the flop the last one is the hardest for 10 ace action starts on Barry while Antonio continues to entertain the table Barry bets 9,000 with top pair somebody check his chips they got magnets in them or something Chow middle pair now it's all worth it because I got to see that raises to 20,000 and Rick bolts bad time for Chow to make a move on Sri Lanka well 4550 just about 50 something it's unlikely a worse hand would call this bet and also unlikely a better hand would fold very rear Aizaz to 50,000 Oh every time somebody re-raises and he mumbles in a different language for Chow to make this call he has to put berry on an insane Bluff this really amazing 30,000 more to call Chow basically has to move in or fold and it's option be bold it's the berry show ladies and gentlemen and here's your host it's the rivers very selecting good spots to make raises and it's working out for him to the tune of almost 150,000 he's tops of the table in both agro factor at 2.7 and continuation bet at a hundred percent through 83 hands now for a mathematically possible berrywood continuation bet more than 100 percent of the time it's a new math thing rahim straddling so the loose cannon first act and folds dippers out berry ace-jack raises to 2500 action folds over chow anybody want to bet Barry continuation bet the flop Chow call team steam call so what kind of call is that I think Rick's actually decided he doesn't want have to carry all those chips home with him they can't get a bit heavy in your fanny pack having a fanny packs a bigger problem than having chips the flop a seven queen check by chow top hair Rick's also got a pair and checks and Barry does see bet continuation betting with the best hand top pair best kicker Chow calls since child called preflop with an AC probably wouldn't get away from it for just one bet it's got serious kicker problems over to he hate money who calls he hate money got by far the worst of it the turn the King of Diamonds check by Chow rick has picked up flush and gutter ball draws at this point what a diamond would not be good for him Rick fires 17,000 Perry still got the best hand and he's picked up more outs to the flush as well as a gut shot we will sign the book let you take all my chips right Barry calls that's Barry's way of saying yes Rick I will sign your book cha folds so now down to two on the river the eight of clubs neither players hand improves Rick's still stuck with a pair of sevens chef Rick checks Barry checks and wins that's good Barry doesn't see the need for a value bet so Barry picks up a pot worth more than 57,000 he is profited nearly 60 grand in the last two hands good running good life is good is that all the goods anymore check the river at the best and I'm gonna be playing take one look at your chip stack Barry that should give you some indication we're back with more after this [Music] welcome back to the big game and 87 out of 150 barry greenstein straddles so action on antonio with pocket aces always nice to wake up with two pieces of ACE raised to 2400 Chow folds nine high for Rick Rahim on the button folds I'm amazed it's not my kind of hands just my kind of game eight seven off suit the loose cannons out Queen Queen Oh FIFRA car getting some real trouble here just calls and Barry folds does anyone else feel it getting cold in here the flop Queen deuce nine vivir flops a set this was gonna be a cold deck either way but this is just ice cold any slow place it checks over to Esfandiari and tony was in a very tough spot impossible to know he's beat right now that's 3400 different a great spot got the nuts right now comes over the top the ten grand very difficult to get away from this hand there just aren't a lot of ways to be beaten and there are a lot of drawers out there that there could be betting since Antonio has the ace of hearts he knows biffer isn't on the nut flush draw that may help him a little but even still it's tough to get away from my hand like this especially against aggressive player like vivir Antonio rear aces to $28,000 it's pretty understandable to not be able to fold there but by raising you're only giving your opponent two options fold or shove on you if you're ahead you don't want to fold and if you're behind you don't want him to shove biffer shoves antonio probably has a pretty good idea he's beat now it's been over 90,000 put it on this flop when there was only 7k to begin with pretty tough to imagine now that one pair would be good but antonio may feel as if he's pav committed this would be for the rest of Antonio's stack probably on me you know I'm pretty tilted and seems Antonia calls I write twice whatever you want I'll run it twice have three cleans looks like The Magicians about to get the rabbit pulled out of his hat so they've agreed to run it two times we will see the turn and the river twice each time playing for half the pot Antonio's apparently agreed with himself and not show his aces to the table Jack on the turn Chao folded an A so you can see Antonio's got one out singular the first river card three of clubs differe wins half the pots not your day right ChaCha yeah my daddy it's time for me to go me and you simple that's it's that I'm thinking give out I definitely have us run number to ten of hearts very good card for me Antonio can hit hearts now look around sex ante to that yep very good time the river and Tony always save oh my god I don't want you oh my god I'm staying somehow the magician manages to saw that pot in half you had me steamed kid I snuck in with aces eighty thousand you know you can add escape artist to the magician's resume now but he still stuck close to 60 grand Barry and viscera are up huge while Chow continues to struggle and the loose cannon is down almost 23 grand he's not in danger territory yet but Troy still going to have to step it up if he wants to walk away a winner I really mean it this time so Antonio survives to live another day after catching that lucky river meanwhile our loose cannon has made up some ground but he still has a ways to go will they get there join us tomorrow to find out I'm a man Erman saying goodbye for now and remember if you've got the cash and the guts there's always a seat open at the big game see you next time for Joe Stapleton I'm Chris Rose we'll see you tomorrow night I'm doing great I was about to quit were great also I actually had a chance to embarrass Antonio again yeah I was worried for you there what was that what about me [Music]

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Length: 43min 35sec (2615 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 16 2018