More of Keating's Usual Side Bets
Alan Keating played another bizarre hand on stream, an ongoing trend we expect to see many times in the future. This one instantly reminds of his very unsuccessful side bet with Neymar Jr at the Hustlers Casino.
On the No Gamble No Future show, Keating got it all in with a flush draw against Jean-Robert Bellande's top pair. There were chop outs, as both players had gutshot straight draws.
"Twice good?" asked JRB
"Whatever you prefer," Keating conceded.
"Let's go three times. Monster pot, f**k it."
"What?!" Keating hadn't expected it. "You asked a different question!"
"But your response was, anything I want, so now I want to go three times."
"Yet, you offered one or two times."
"Okay. Alright," JRB nodded, "We go twice."
Bellande took 3/4 of the pot, and Alan was not satisfied with that.
The second river had barely been dealt, when Alan said to JRB, "Alright, three times if you want. Seriously. If you want to do it."
Belande was satisfied with 3/4 of the pot, but Keating insisted.
"I'll make you a deal. I'll do another $100k for another turn and river. Even money"
Jean-Robert was a decent favorite and quickly agreed. Of course, Alan hit a flush on the turn. JRB was drawing dead.
On Twitter last week, Keating asked people to guess his pick for next Poker Hall of Fame spot. After some guesses, one Twitterer correctly chose JRB.
Beriuzy Talks About Solving a Downswing
Beriuzy said that last year he experienced the biggest downswing of his career:
"In 2023, I was on a 700k downswing from Poker which led me to quitting GG & content to focus on myself On a flight to Lithuania now for wedding & can't sleep so let's have fun with an AMA. Updates: Won the 700k back , finished renovations on properties, 500 MMR in dota
I will answer the obvious.
How, why, what are you doing in Lithuania?
Honestly, my wife & i are wondering the same lmao.We're lucky to have a lot of awesome friends from there though so we're quite excited to discover a country we didn't expect to visit!"
– How did you feel during the downswing? How many months was it?
– It lasted 14 months with decent volume.
My support system was really solid so generally, it didn't affect me too much (can read about it in pinned tweet).
Lost a lot of huge EV spots but also was playing really poorly due to tilt but also pressure of streaming/content.
– What was the game plan to grind it all back? Play lower with a ton of volume, shot take, or something outside poker?
– The gameplan was no gameplan.
During that huge downswing, I still bought a huge property that needed a ton of renovations. I had other goals & wanted to focus on those before anything else.
Since I was busy with other things, the love for poker came back slowly.
I told myself to play whenever I feel like it & only go to poker stops where i can be outside & play tennis.
Eventually, by not caring too much, I just kept getting score after score & now I've realized that approach is the best for me. I want to become the hobby player.
– What do you think yearly EV $ is for best online tourney guys?
$500k with good volume & game selection for best online guys.
$300k for most HS regs with good selection.
$100-$150k for HS with bad game selection. Just so much trash out there nowadays but it's so easy to click register.
– How did you win the 700k back?
– 600k live score right when I quit GG/content.
Then I was playing twice a month on average & had multiple 6-figure scores along with many 50-70k.
Buyins were huge though since I fired the 5ks on CoinPoker so it wasn't always profit.
I just game-selected more than before.
– When you say quit GG do you mean content creator for them or the site altogether?
– I quit as a content creator. I still play there occasionally.
I really enjoyed making unique content when I had the freedom to do so. Towards the end, my heart wasn't in it anymore for various reasons & I didn't want to continue just streaming.
Paris Casino Chips Almost Cost a Player $1.6 Million
Jesse Lonis has revealed how a series of accidents nearly deprived him of his biggest success of the summer:
– ?Sick/Funny spot this summer. I win a bet off Jared Bleznick from the main event. He pays me out in Paris casino chips.
The next day I go to reg the $50k and it's 11:48 I'm in line trying to buy in with them and they deny me because I can't verify chips. Mind you,there's a hard cutoff if you're not in line by 12:00, which is usually a 7 min walk! So now it's 11:50 most people just give up at this point. I full-speed sprint to my truck in sandals looking like a mad man, Grab 50k, sprint back to the line. The lady starts running my money through the machine well they're printing the ticket (she saved me) I get my ticket printed out at 11:58. I sprint again from the Paris reg line all the way over to the max late line in Horseshoe.
I make it over in the line with 2 seconds on the clock! I'm sweating bullets and my feet are blistered from sprinting in sandals. Chino Rheem is max late-regging, says "Jesse wanna swap a %5 ball with your boy!" I hit him with the hard no! Sorry Chino. I end up chopping the tourney for $1,600,000. Moral of the story: if I was a quitter I would have been in my truck on the way home looking at updates. Instead, I just put a little more effort and got in the fucking tourney!"🦍
– "What happened with the Paris chips?" a Twitter user asked.
– "Threw them away."
Kevin Martin: More Than a Content Creator
KMart assured fans that he was more than just a "silly content creator."
– A lot of people think I suck at poker and label me as a silly content creator.
I'm ok with it but the OG's know I've low key printed while making content.
But there is a lot of work to do...I want to be the best no limit player + creator combo that's ever been. 🚀
Graphs were attached, but some users weren't satisfied. Plenty thought that $50,000 per year isn't exactly "low key printing" money, but it's unclear how much Kevin generates from other income sources like GGPoker sponsorships.
Will We Finally See Rounders 2?
In a recent podcast, Matt Damon admitted that he really wants to star in the second part of the film "Rounders", and this is quite possible.
When asked about what Rounders 2 would look like, Damon gave a vague but positive answer.
"We talked about it, I want to say 10 or 15 years ago, when Brian [Koppelman] and David [Levin] wrote Rounders and went on to do Billions, you know, very successful guys. They had a whole movie ready to go then, but now there's been a whole change in the poker world since then, so I haven't talked to them about what it would be.
What they had 10 years ago was fantastic, and I'm sure they could augment it, and kind of roll with the times and update it to where we are today, and make something great."
Daniel Negreanu was excited about the prospect of the long-awaited sequel.
One response to his tweet foreshadowed a possible plot line:
New Poker Film Arrives in September
Movie lovers will not be left without poker films as they wait for Rounders 2 to materialize. In September, the film Dead Money will be released worldwide.
IMDb gives a short summary of Dead Money's plot:
Professional poker player Andy and his girlfriend Chloe are involved in a crazy 24 hours after a home poker game is robbed. Andy winds up playing the largest poker game of his life as both of their lives are in danger.
Robberies of poker players are not a new phenomenon. Darren Elias, Daniel Cates, and numerous others have had run-ins with criminals after their winnings.
Hitting a Miracle Card but Losing a $118k Jackpot
Doug Polk tells a tragic story about how one out on the river at his poker club, The Lodge, cost players a bad beat jackpot:
– Nightmare river card disqualifies 118k Bad Beat
LodgePokerClub members hit straight flushes on the flop in PLO.
But with the Ace on the river, the winning hand became a rivered Royal Flush, disqualifying the "flop only" bad beat.
Might be the worst 1 outer in poker history
Since the flop combinations must hold for the bad beat jackpot, receiving a stronger river combination was the worst thing that could have happened.
HCL Regular is a Former Online Crusher?
Jason Mo is surprised that Handz, who created an image of a successful crypto investor – while being one of the strongest regulars on PokerStars – got into the closed games.
“This is cool1992, the former biggest bumhunter on planet Earth,” Jason says indignantly.
On 2+2 they posted the results of the best regulars of the “Baron era”, in which the supposed Handz occupies 11th place.
Makeboifin commented that there were many legends on the list, becoming nostalgic.
Live, at venues like The Lodge, HCL, and Triton, things are really not going well for Handz.
