{"id":354,"date":"2025-04-01T21:36:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T21:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2025-04-16T13:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T13:09:19","slug":"alan-keating-breaks-high-stakes-poker-record-with-1-4m-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/alan-keating-breaks-high-stakes-poker-record-with-1-4m-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Keating Breaks \u2018High Stakes Poker\u2019 Record With $1.4m Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\/2025\/04\/01\/alan-keating-breaks-high-stakes-poker-record-with-1-4m-pot\/\">Alan Keating Breaks \u2018High Stakes Poker\u2019 Record With $1.4m Pot<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\">Vegas Slots Online News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\"><\/div>\n<p>This is not an April Fool\u2019s joke. I repeat: this is not an April Fool\u2019s Joke (for starters, it would have to be funny). On Monday\u2019s episode of <em>High Stakes Poker<\/em>, Alan Keating, known for the massive cash game pots in which he gets involved, scooped a $1,412,500 pot, setting a new record for the popular poker show.<\/p>\n<p>Keating\u2019s unfortunate victim was Peter Wang, though anyone who can afford to be on <em>High Stakes Poker<\/em> can\u2019t be that unfortunate, am I right? It was a double-straddled pot pre-flop and Keating played it slowly, calling $4,000 with K<font color=\"red\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\u2666\" class=\"wp-smiley lazyload\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.0.3\/72x72\/2666.png\"><\/font>-K<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\u2663\" class=\"wp-smiley lazyload\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.0.3\/72x72\/2663.png\"> on the button. Wang took it up to $14,000 from the big blind with A<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\u2660\" class=\"wp-smiley lazyload\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.0.3\/72x72\/2660.png\">-3<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\u2660\" class=\"wp-smiley lazyload\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.0.3\/72x72\/2660.png\">, Keating three-bet it to $69,000, and Wang finally called to bring on the flop.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Biggest Pot in High Stakes Poker History!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vjYlftJRb54?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>That flop was a doozy: 2<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\u2660\" class=\"wp-smiley lazyload\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.0.3\/72x72\/2660.png\">-J<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\u2660\" class=\"wp-smiley lazyload\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.0.3\/72x72\/2660.png\">-K<font color=\"red\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\u2665\" class=\"wp-smiley lazyload\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.0.3\/72x72\/2665.png\"><\/font>, putting Keating firmly in the lead with top set, but Wang still had an Ace plus the nut flush draw. A bunch more money went into the middle, as Keating led with a $70,000 bet, Wang check-raised to $200,000, and Keating called.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Keating couldn\u2019t call fast enough<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The A<font color=\"red\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\u2666\" class=\"wp-smiley lazyload\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.0.3\/72x72\/2666.png\"><\/font> turn might have been Wang\u2019s undoing, as it now gave him an actual made hand in addition to his flush draw. He couldn\u2019t move all-in for $434,000 fast enough and Keating couldn\u2019t call fast enough. Before he revealed his Kings, Keating asked Wang if he wanted to run it twice and Wang agreed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"boxout\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\/2023\/05\/31\/tom-dwan-reclaims-record-for-biggest-televised-poker-pot-in-history\/\">largest pot ever won<\/a> on a televised or live-streamed poker show is $3,081,000, achieved by Tom Dwan on <em>Hustler Casino Live<\/em> in May 2023.<\/div>\n<p>Wang couldn\u2019t believe it when he saw the damage, though he smiled and chuckled, knowing this was poker and he just stepped in it. Neither river card was any help to Wang \u2013 they actually both gave his opponent a better hand \u2013 and the $1.4m pot was Keating\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The old <em>High Stakes Poker<\/em> record was owned by Santhosh Suvarna, who won $992,000 in a single hand last year.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\/2025\/04\/01\/alan-keating-breaks-high-stakes-poker-record-with-1-4m-pot\/\">Alan Keating Breaks \u2018High Stakes Poker\u2019 Record With $1.4m Pot<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\">Vegas Slots Online News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The post Alan Keating Breaks \u2018High Stakes Poker\u2019 Record With $1.4m Pot appeared first on Vegas Slots Online News. This is not an April Fool\u2019s joke. I repeat: this is not an April Fool\u2019s Joke (for starters, it would have to be funny). On Monday\u2019s episode of High Stakes Poker, Alan Keating, known for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}