High Stakes Poker LIVE Sets Show Record With More Than $9 Million on the Table
Texas Mike Moncek’s $1.5175 million pot over Andrew Robl was one of five seven-figure hands in PokerGO’s biggest game yet.
PokerGO’s Friday High Stakes Poker LIVE session turned into the biggest game in the show’s history, with more than $9 million on the table by the time the dust settled. The night also produced five seven-figure pots, and the lineup included Andrew Robl, Eric Wasserson, Rick Salomon, Michael “Texas Mike” Moncek, Sameh Elamawy, Stanley Tang and Kirk Brown.
As covered earlier in the week, the seven-day High Stakes Poker LIVE run has been unfolding at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. Friday was the fourth night of the stretch, and the table had already been sitting with more than $3 million in play before Salomon arrived.
The scale kept climbing as chips moved around. By the end, there was upwards of $9 million on the table after Salomon left with a profit, and Robl’s starting stack was set at $1.05 million, including an extra $50,000 so he could cover Wasserson’s $1 million buy-in if needed.
Moncek delivered the session’s signature hand, taking $1,517,500 off Robl in a pot that one recap said came after Moncek flopped the nuts and another described as a nut-flush hand. Both accounts agree that Robl paid it off, and the result was huge enough to rank as the second-largest non-chopped pot ever seen on the show. Only Santhosh Suvarna’s $2,421,500 win in Season 16 has been larger among outright winners.
The other headline score belonged to Tang, who won a $1,695,000 pot against Brown after Brown put in $726,500 on the turn and then ran the river once. Tang finished the session up $1,522,500, while Elamawy ended up $1,445,500 after another seven-figure result, putting the two of them almost $3 million ahead for the night.
Brown’s loss was about $500,000, and Wasserson finished down $1,110,500, the biggest reported loser. Robl also ended in the red, down $711,500 despite coming in with more than $1 million in front of him, while Moncek finished the session down $1,061,000.