Is This the Most Anticlimactic Poker Hand You've Ever Seen?
A $900,000 pot was brewing during Tuesday's Super High Roller Cash Game, until it wasn't.
The pot in question was between Sam "Senor Tilt" Kiki and Darin Feinstein, the same duo that battled for an infamous High Stakes Poker Season 15 hand that made headlines last week. There wasn't any controversy over a potential angle shoot this time around. But fans watching the stream on PokerGO may have felt a bit disappointed with how it ended.
Checking it Back?
Kiki, as he acknowledged following the alleged angle shoot controversy, is friendly with Feinstein and there was no hard feelings or any sort of animosity following the High Stakes Poker hand. The two high rollers, both wealthy investors, played another crazy hand on PokerGO, and they each had monster stacks.
The $500/$1,000 no-limit hold'em cash game, in its second of three days, played loose and aggressive, and straddles reached as high as $16,000 in some hands. Not to mention the random $25,000 pot-limit Omaha flips.
One wild hand saw five players limping preflop for $2,000, including Senor Tilt with 9♥7♥ and Feinstein with 5♥4♥. "Ace," Antonio Esfandiari, and Sameh Elamawy also had junk hands, but those were irrelevant.
The flop came out 10♥K♥2♥, Kiki and Esfandiari checked to Feinstein, who bet $25,000 with a flush, a bet that only Kiki called. The turn was the 4♠, a bad card for Feinstein, who didn't know it but desperately needed another heart to appear so as to scare him away.
Kiki, with $427,000 behind, checked again, presumably waiting to set the trap. He'd face a bet of $75,000, but again opted to just call, potentially waiting to pounce on the river and get a full double-up against his bigger-stacked opponent. But after the 6♣ appeared on the river, another dry card, both players surprisingly checked their flushes, and the $212,000 pot went to Feinstein.
Neither player went for any sort of value on a non-paired board with a flush.
"Oh my god, he checks behind," a shocked and confused Brent Hanks, commentating the game with Ali Nejad, announced.
"And this is why the check-raise on the turn is so important, Brent," Nejad said, suggesting Kiki had planned for Feinstein to bet the river.
Kiki razzed Feinstein a bit for the check, uttering, "he's locking it up, he's locking it up," implying that Feinstein, who had a high VPIP in the game, went full-on nit.
"I should have f*****g bet. I knew I should bet," Kiki told his opponent. "But why didn't you bet?"
"No comment," Feinstein responded.
The high-stakes cash game is available to watch on PokerGO and PokerGO's YouTube channel. Alan Keating, at the time of publishing, had just entered the game and bought in for $2 million. He's trying to avenge his $667,000 loss on Day 1.
*Feature image courtesy of PokerGO.
