It's Sunday, and you know what that means: we've got another episode of PokerStars' The Big Game On Tour to unpack.
In last week's episode, Loose Cannon Andy Taylor got off to a solid start across the first 27 hands – adding $21,500 in profit to the $50,000 staked stack he started with. Sean O'Malley, a UFC bantamweight champion and poker enthusiast, occupied the other side of the profit and loss leaderboard. After taking an early hit from Taylor, O'Malley continued to bleed off chips and ended the first episode with a loss of nearly $30,000.
Episode 2, however, saw the players sandwiched between Taylor and O'Malley on the leaderboard dominate the action.
Matt Berkey, in particular, made the most of the episode – stacking both Shaun Deeb and Randy '3Coin' Sadler.
Berkey's big pots
Berkey's first big windfall came courtesy of a relative cooler: his 
against Deeb's 
in a preflop all-in confrontation.
With the $400 straddle on, Taylor kicked off the action with a limp from the cutoff with 
. Deeb peeled an ace-high holding of his own and bumped it up to $2,100. Sadler called the $2,100 with 
before Berkey looked down at a monster in the straddle and made a pot-sized three-bet to $9,200. When the action folded back around to Deeb, he opted to four-bet to $30,100 and Berkey moved all-in over the top for Deeb's entire $51,900.
With most of his chips already in the middle, Deeb had no choice but to call it off.
With $106,700 in the middle, the two players agreed to run one board for the lot, and the 
improved only Berkey – leaving Deeb to reach for rebuy chips.
Berkey's second pickup came at the close of the episode in a hand against Sadler. With the straddle in play once again, Berkey raised to $1,000 with 
. Taylor called the raise with 
in the small blind before Sadler peeled 
in the straddle and fired out a small three-bet to $2,400. Berkey responded with a four-bet to $8,600 squeezing Taylor out of the pot.
Sadler wasn't done yet, however, and five-bet to the pot limit.
"Alright, whatever, 3Coin, we gamble," Berkey said. "All in."
Sadler called it off to bring the pot to $92,400 and promptly requested three runouts. Berkey agreed – and then scooped all three boards.
Runout 1: 
Runout 2: 
Runout 3: 
With that, Berkey now stands as the game's biggest winner through 51 of the allotted 150 hands – up $107,700.
Watch the new episode of The Big Game On Tour on the PokerStars YouTube channel now.
