SharePaying tribute to the most talked-about hand of the year cost Eric Persson more than $400k as the Maverick CEO gaming boss ran jack-four offsuit into a set of 10s to lose the biggest pot in Live at the Bike history!
The hand, J♣ 4♥, was made famous, or infamous perhaps, when Robbi Jade Lew called a bluff by Garret Adelstein on a livestreamed Hustler Casino Live cash game, scooping a pot worth $269k.
Adelstein couldn’t believe her jack-high call was kosher and stormed off the set, accusing Lew of cheating and sparking a controversy that still hasn’t settled down.
Wednesday night’s LATB show from the Bicycle Casino in LA, featured Eric Persson, who famously out-Poker Brat-ed Phil Hellmuth in their PGT heads-up showdown earlier this year...
Playing $100/$200 with a $200 big blind ante and a $400 straddle, Persson – holding J♣ 4♥, a hand now known as “The Robbi” in honour of Lew and her incredible call – decided to get involved at the wrong time.
With an open to $2k and 3 calls, Persson decided to bump it up to $18,000, with everyone calling except the original raiser, “Aussie AI”.
Persson: J♣ 4♥
Tan: Aâ™ Jâ™
Tsai: 10♣ 10â™
Berkey: 7♣ 7â™
Flop: 9♦ 10♥ 2♦
Andy "Stacks" Tsai had flopped top set but didn’t have to do much to get some money in the pot, Persson betting $54k into $74k. Tsai’s raise to $145k got rid of Berkey and Tan, but Persson decided that his opponent was making a move.
Shoving for $394k effective, Persson was met with an instacall and immediately rued his decision to bloat the pot with complete air, “The Robbi” now a massive underdog at just 5%.
Turn: A♣
River: 8♣
“I just punted $300,000 ... so stupid,” Persson said over his shoulder, perhaps to his wife who was in the studio. He had just lost the biggest pot ever seen on the Live at the Bike show.
As the hand went viral, Robbi Jade Lew herself took to Twitter to “apologise” for her part in the painfully expensive evening...
Though a relative drop in the ocean for Persson, who owns 27 casinos under the Maverick banner, it confirms his spot as one of the biggest whales in the current crop of livestreamed highstakes games.
In October it was revealed that he was the 4th most losing player on Hustler Casino Live, with a $674,000 black hole over just 3 sessions.
The biggest winner, meanwhile, was Garrett Adelstein, who boasted a $1.5million winning graph across 53 sessions before “The Robbi” derailed his gravy train.
