Alan Keating Bluffs Away $1.3 Million Pot on High Stakes Poker
Alan Keating made a brilliant call to win a monster pot against Doug Polk on Day 1 of the High Stakes Poker livestream on PokerGO. But he gave it all away and then some on Sunday in one of the costliest bluffs ever televised.
The Hustler Casino Live fan favorite showed up big-stacked for the $200/$400 no-limit hold’em cash game, and sent many of those chips to Sam Kiki, who thanked the high roller for his “new investment property” in a tweet.
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Ironically, Keating bluffed away one of the largest hands ever on High Stakes Poker with nearly the same hand he scooped a $657,000 pot with on Saturday against Polk.
Sunday's epic hand had a $6,400 straddle on and began with Kiki, aka "Senor Tilt," raising to $30,000 with A♦5♦ from the big blind. Santhosh Suvarna, one of the straddles, called with 8♠7♥, as did Keating, holding the monster 4♦3♠ in the big straddle, one day after playing 4♠2♠ to perfection.
The flop came out Q♠5♣5♥, only hitting Kiki in any meaningful way. Senor Tilt had no interest in slowplaying trips, so he fired out a wager of $30,000. Suvarna, who had nothing, folded. Keating, who also had nothing, called from in-position, clearly looking to make a play later in the hand.
Neither player improved on the 9♥ turn, and Kiki locked up the hand, assuming his opponent wouldn't find a way to bluff him off the hand. Kiki decided to check this time and set the trap, to which Keating obliged, as he tossed in a bet worth $45,000 American dollars.
Kiki check-raised to $125,000, but that didn't scare away his customer. Keating, in no mood to surrender a pot that had already reached $323,000, made the call drawing stone dead.
"Oh, dear heavens," High Stakes Poker commentator Nick Schulman said after Keating called the raise.
The 2♠ on the river didn't change anything. Kiki decided to check and set one last trap. Keating, sitting on four-high and aspirations of pulling off one of the most epic bluffs in High Stakes Poker history, put his opponent all in for $446,300. Kiki nearly beat him into the pot and made the call to win a $1,295,000 hand, the second-largest in the iconic poker show's history. Kiki tweeted out a little trash talk to Keating following the hand.
Coincidentally, Keating was the recipient of the largest pot ever on High Stakes Poker when he took down a hand worth $1,412,500 earlier this year during Episode 10 of Season 14.
PokerGO has aired two days of a High Stakes Poker livestream with a star-studded table that included Kiki, Keating, Polk, Suvarna, Jennifer Tilly, Justin Gavri, and Andrew Robl.
