The battle between Alan Keating and Peter Wang continued on PokerGO’s High Stakes Poker this week with a record-breaking pot.
Keating had gotten the better of Wang during the 14th season of the popular cash game show. Highlights have included a triple barrel bluff that earned him a pot of $287,000, and a ridiculous hero call with third pair for $911,000.
Their latest clash was even bigger, resulting in a pot worth $1,412,500.
With the blinds at $500-$1,000, Nikhil ‘Airball’ Arcott straddled to $2,000 and Rick Salomon re-straddled to $4,000. Keating looked down at K
K
on the button and called, leaving himself with just shy of $700,000 behind.
Justin Gavri folded his small blind and then Wang raised to $14,000 from the big blind with A
3 on a nearly identical stack.
Arcott and Salomon got out of the way and action fell back to Keating, who went for a quick and sizable limp re-raise to $69,000.
Wang eyed his opponent up and down before tossing in the calling chips. The flop came down K
J 2, giving Keating top set and Wang the nut flush draw.
“Where’d we find this flop?” asked PokerGO commentator Nick Schulman.
Wang checked, and Keating bet $70,000. Wang then check-raised to $200,000.
Keating thought it over before opting to just call, and the turn was the A.
Wang immediately moved all in, and Keating snap called. Keating asked to run it twice, and Wang agreed, needing a spade to come from behind.
According to the Card Player Poker Odds Calculator, Keating was a nearly 82% favorite to win each run out.
The boards completed with the A and the J, giving the full pot to Keating.
Watch the hand below.
Keating, who dragged a pot worth $2.2 million on the Hustler Casino Live stream, has appeared on other poker shows like No Gamble No Future, and Poker After Dark. The 38-year-old investor and poker player also recently launched his own YouTube channel where he shares his thought process behind his play along with some behind-the-scenes footage of his games.
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