A recent episode of PokerGO’s High Stakes Poker saw three players get it all in for a massive pot as well as a massive cooler.
With blinds of $200-$400 with a $400 big blind ante, businessman Sameh Elamawy raised to $2,000 with Q
8 and $181,000 in front of him. Jennifer Tilly looked down at A
A
and three-bet to $6,000 with $93,000 behind, only to see Jeffrey Housenbold pick up K
K, and four-bet to $20,000.
Housenbold held reserves of $125,000, but the raising wasn’t over yet. Chamath Palihapitiya also held pocket kings, K K, and announced he was all in for his remaining $97,000 in chips.
Tilly instantly called for the last of her chips and Housenbold also called. According to the Card Player Poker Odds Calculator, Tilly was a 96% favorite to win the hand with both pocket kings only at 2%. Obviously hitting a set was out of the picture with all of the kings already accounted for.
The table was pretty shocked when the hands were revealed, given it was only the second hand of the session.
“I need hearts,” Housenbold said as he saw his long odds. “This is the craziest thing ever,” added Tilly.
With the pot now at $297,600, the flop brought the J 6 3 and that gave Tilly a 100% chance as any run of diamonds would give her the nut flush.
“That’s a television hand,” Tilly said as all the chips were being counted. “If this was a home game, I would say, ‘Hmm, let me check that deck.’ But I wouldn’t say it if I had the aces.”
Watch the complete hand below.
The hand was reminiscent of a hand played last year on Hustler Casino Live, where YouTuber Mariano Grandoli scooped a pot worth $800,000 with aces against two separate pairs of kings.
The award-winning actress has become a regular in live cash games. Her father was a gambler and she grew up playing poker, which only accelerated when she began dating poker pro Phil Laak. Her life at the tables included winning the World Series of Poker Ladies Championship in 2005 for $158,625.
She also won a massive pot of more than $600,000 earlier this season on High Stakes Poker.
Palihapitiya is a venture capitalist and the founder and CEO of Social Capital. The billionaire also worked as an early executive at Facebook. He’s become a friend of Phil Hellmuth and seen occasionally in the Poker Brat’s Twitter feed. Housenbold is also a venture capitalist and the former CEO of Shutterfly.
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*Photos by PokerGO – Antonio Abrego