Hustler Casino Live to Host Historic $1 Million Minimum Buy-In Poker Game

[Daly]

Original announcement


https://www.pokernews.com/news/2023/...game-43015.htm

In May, Hustler Casino Live (HCL) will host what producer Ryan Feldman anticipates to be the "biggest event in live-streamed poker history," — a $1 million minimum buy-in cash game.

Actually, there might be two games, if Feldman puts together multiple nosebleed games, which he told PokerNews he'll attempt to pull off. The exact date of the stream isn't yet determined. The show's co-founder said they won't set a date until the lineup is in place.

What we do know at this point is that the no-limit hold'em blinds will start at $500/$1,000, but you can expect frequent straddles, the blinds to increase as the session progresses, and potentially upwards of $15 million or more on the table before it's all said and done. Feldman appeared on the HCL pre-game show on Tuesday afternoon with host Billy "DGAF" to share the announcement.

[Daly]

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[Daly]

Seems like this started as a one day maybe two game and has now ballooned into damn near a week long.

This much money on the table for this long….. this many hands…. Someone is going to get stacked 2-3 times and set a loss record.

Im not sure why because I'm not a poker stream guy but this one has me interested.

[sonatine]

yeah this is gonna be grief porn, ill check it, thanks for the heads up.

[simpdog]

Should be entertaining at times.......

Hopefully Keating plays a day or two, would be must see TV when he goes allin for 800k with nothing.

[BartHanson]

Word is that we might have a Pfizer read sometime in the middle of the stream. I anxiously await to give my most heartfelt read. Last time I did about 18 hours straight of live commentary. Maybe I can get in a shout out in to all the "pure bloods" on PFA.

[ftpjesus]

Seems like this started as a one day maybe two game and has now ballooned into damn near a week long.

This much money on the table for this long….. this many hands…. Someone is going to get stacked 2-3 times and set a loss record.

Im not sure why because I'm not a poker stream guy but this one has me interested.

Odds on it being EP IamMavrerick -200 dude hasn’t figured out he can’t push money around the table and bully folks anymore.

[ftpjesus]

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Who the hell crossbooked with Mikki I don’t know how the hell he can afford this. It’s a whole month before his next check from Grampa assuming quarterly checks.

[JeffDime]

I’ve seen enough of Mikki to have a pretty good idea how this will work with him. I think he will probably show up…but with strict parameters. He will probably say he can only play a few hours and has a flight to catch or what not. Mikki is a ticking time bomb and he always goes bust if he stays the whole time (minus whatever he is able to squirrel out of his last all in). Him playing a million deep will be really tough for the guy because he feels pot committed once he has some coin in the pot.

He has one win and that was when the HCL stream first started. He called it off with A 10 high to Andy’s jacks and got lucky. He quickly racked up and said he had a flight back to Vegas. I believe every other single time he has lost everything (minus the squirreled chips). I think he will get the million together. He has gotten plenty of money together in the past. He is not going to look to mix it up. He just wants to be part of it. I think he’ll try to survive an abbreviated session before he takes off.

I’m really sick of people saying Mikki is a great guy because he is such a great dude to talk to off the felt. Have people never watched a single movie about conmen? They’re really good talkers and come off as real sweet trust worthy guys. I guess it’s the poker world and it’s the wallet that matters over character anyways (Or I guess in Mikki’s case what size the wallet is at the particular time). Nik Airball is a real “sweetheart” but 99 percent of these people wouldn’t have shit to say to him if he wasn’t facilitating these games.

Just an aside. Nick and Ryan really did a big favor for Doug. Just a day or two after his biggest fuck up with the Charlie Carrell stuff. Which was fucking awful. They go on his platform and give him a seat in the game. What a lucky fucker.

I’m really off watching these stream games lately. But I did watch the PokerGo stream and I will check out this game. How can you not? I think I said it before…but I find MPM more intriguing then then high stakes game right now. The 10/20/40 is of more consequence to those players than the 100/200 (at least feels) does to those players. I think it sometimes just feels like it’s a bunch of rich guys passing money around the table. I still know they feel it.

I think getting Mariano and Rampage in the mix is important. They are still not pure “pros” in the sense the make a good amount to their income through Youtube & Sponsorships. But they are as close to “pros” that we are going to get.

[SlowRoll]

I’ve seen enough of Mikki to have a pretty good idea how this will work with him. I think he will probably show up…but with strict parameters. He will probably say he can only play a few hours and has a flight to catch or what not. Mikki is a ticking time bomb and he always goes bust if he stays the whole time (minus whatever he is able to squirrel out of his last all in). Him playing a million deep will be really tough for the guy because he feels pot committed once he has some coin in the pot.

He has one win and that was when the HCL stream first started. He called it off with A 10 high to Andy’s jacks and got lucky. He quickly racked up and said he had a flight back to Vegas. I believe every other single time he has lost everything (minus the squirreled chips). I think he will get the million together. He has gotten plenty of money together in the past. He is not going to look to mix it up. He just wants to be part of it. I think he’ll try to survive an abbreviated session before he takes off.

I’m really sick of people saying Mikki is a great guy because he is such a great dude to talk to off the felt. Have people never watched a single movie about conmen? They’re really good talkers and come off as real sweet trust worthy guys. I guess it’s the poker world and it’s the wallet that matters over character anyways (Or I guess in Mikki’s case what size the wallet is at the particular time). Nik Airball is a real “sweetheart” but 99 percent of these people wouldn’t have shit to say to him if he wasn’t facilitating these games.

Just an aside. Nick and Ryan really did a big favor for Doug. Just a day or two after his biggest fuck up with the Charlie Carrell stuff. Which was fucking awful. They go on his platform and give him a seat in the game. What a lucky fucker.

I’m really off watching these stream games lately. But I did watch the PokerGo stream and I will check out this game. How can you not? I think I said it before…but I find MPM more intriguing then then high stakes game right now. The 10/20/40 is of more consequence to those players than the 100/200 (at least feels) does to those players. I think it sometimes just feels like it’s a bunch of rich guys passing money around the table. I still know they feel it.

I think getting Mariano and Rampage in the mix is important. They are still not pure “pros” in the sense the make a good amount to their income through Youtube & Sponsorships. But they are as close to “pros” that we are going to get.

I think that Hustler will promote the idea that Mikki is a baccarat savant quite a bit.
They have shown that they are willing to give him a platform to do so if he continues to show up for their big streams.
I think that this one they are going to go over the top with it.

Mikki is not going to be able to keep himself from 'mixing it up' after losing 1 pot. The only way he gets away with any $ left is if he wins early and then spends the next 8 hours getting high and doing cutaway interviews discussion his poker strategy and bacaratt excellence.

I expect to see some truly pathetic behavior in this stream from these characters. I don't even know who to root for.

[Dan Druff]

Looks like the $1m game came a bit early, albeit accidentally

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[Kyle Prescott]

Commentators kept saying & blaming Aussie Matt is the reason for every1 buying in for $500,000 lol they should just be happy he showed up with the money to play, this is a major big time fail and as annoying as Nik Airball can be at least he had the $1milly and was ready to gamble and lose it all lol

No Mikki, no Perrson & no Airball means nitty boring deepstack poker, even Keating was nitting it up folding 2 pairs lol

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[sonatine]

the batteries are dying on everyones mics, one at a time.

[Daly]

The guy in seat seven (i have no idea who he is) is trying to break the fourth wall talking about how buying in for 500k is better and all the fans watching are losers for wanting to see a 1m buy in and for there to be blood.


I absolutely tuned in to see blood. Its was the whole reason for the show.

Less than half of people tuned in tonight. Wonder if its because its not a 1M game and i have no idea who is in seat 7.

[Daly]

Commentators kept saying & blaming Aussie Matt is the reason for every1 buying in for $500,000 lol they should just be happy he showed up with the money to play, this is a major big time fail and as annoying as Nik Airball can be at least he had the $1milly and was ready to gamble and lose it all lol

No Mikki, no Perrson & no Airball means nitty boring deepstack poker, even Keating was nitting it up folding 2 pairs lol

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Which one of these is “aussie matt”

[simpdog]

Max pain Mondays streams are more entertaining than this garbage.

At least then they are drinking, chirping and dusting off $10k stacks like it’s nothing.

[lol wow]

admitting you know what that is is super sad

[lol wow]

also thats tappers best friend besides me

[Daly]

Sonthey changed the buy in to get this aussie nit in the game and he checks back the most well disguised rivered full house ever - and now hes telling everyone why he is brilliant and everyone else is stupid,….. in the meantime proving beyond an absolute doubt that changing the buyin for him did absolutely nothing.

[Daly]

Lol - watching JRzb lose this bet should be fun.0