After making one of the most exciting calls ever seen in televised poker against Peter, Keating continues to impress and draws more eyeballs on every poker session he plays with another record! Playing on High Stakes Poker show, Keating and Peter found themselves in another monster pot, let’s see what happened.
The Biggest Pot Won on High Stakes Poker
Keating called the straddle from the BTN for $4,000 with K♦K♣, Peter raised from BB to $14,000 with A♠3♠, Airball, and Salomon folded, Keating re-raised to $69,000, and Peter called. The pot was $145,500.
The flop came K♥J♠2♠; it was action time. Keating bet $70,000, Peter raised $200,000, and Keating called. The pot was $545,000.
The turn was A♦, giving Peter the top pair on top of his nut flush draw, and he snapped the turn just to get snapped by Keating, who was ahead with a set of kings and 82 percent of equity. The pot was $1,412,500, and they decided to run it twice.
The first river was A♣, giving Keating the first half of the pot, and the second river was J♣, giving Keating the second part of the pot. Keating won $1,412,500 in total, which ended up being the biggest pot in the history of High Stakes Poker.
Questions Need to Be Asked
We have seen all kinds of different players come on live streams and TV shows to play poker, from influencers to actors to poker pros to businessmen. But then, here and there, we see a player like Peter who plays this wild style, making crazy all-ins and hero-calling left and right. The logical question comes to mind: How is he not bankrupt already?
Well, not that he is not bankrupt, but Peter is up $2,730,745 playing on live streams and TV shows. It’s even weirder if we see his VPIP (voluntarily put $ into the pot) is 57 percent, and his PFR (preflop raise) is 27 percent, which indicates that he is not a good player, and he is playing too many hands while being too passive. Of course, this could be due to variance, and it will be interesting to follow his results in the future.
If we compare Peter to players like Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, and Phil Hellmuth, Peter beats them all since he won 13.52 bb/hour or $11,26/hour in 243 hours of live poker he played, while the three professional players previously mentioned are all down hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Another question that comes up is why Peter would be doing that. Well, he could love gambling and have plenty of money to do it, but is it for promotion? Could he be getting paid by the organizers of the games to bring the action and make streams more interesting?
When I see all these people who are not good poker players playing high-stakes poker for millions of dollars, it instantly reminds me of influencers who are playing slot machines on stream for millions of dollars without worrying they will lose money since, of course, they are gambling with play money that was given to them by the online casino.
In the photo above, Peter is smiling and relaxed after losing the biggest pot in the history of High Stakes Poker. However, if we go back a few years and look at a similar situation in which Phil Ivey lost a 1.1 million-dollar pot to Tom Dwan, we can see that Ivey is in complete shock and quits the game one minute later.
We can already see that most online poker operators are trying to make poker more of a gambling thing, and it wouldn’t be crazy to think that poker promotions, marketing, and shows could believe this is the best way to benefit their businesses.
We can also find more examples of Peter not being that excited about losing significantly smaller pots in a different environment where they are potentially playing for real money.
But then, when he gets bluff-catched by Keating in one of the sickest hands on PokerGo, he is smiling again.
Whether Peter’s approach is part of a larger promotional strategy, the thrill of gambling, or just a wildly entertaining playing style backed by deep pockets, one thing is clear — he has become one of the most talked-about players in televised poker.
But what do you think? Is Peter the wild action hero poker needs, or is there more going on behind the scenes?
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