Garrett Adelstein's debut appearance on No Gamble, No Future has not gone as planned.
With four episodes already in the books, Adelstein has sent a large number of chips into the middle – active as always in a game like this – but too few have been returned to him in the form of profit. In the latest episode, it was more of the same.
'I'm a half million down'
Stanley Tang, billionaire co-founder of DoorDash, started the action on two fronts as he raised to $2,000 with 
while seamlessly launching into a story about a locked credit card and the availability of Chase Bank services in North Korea.
"I have another North Korea, South Korea story – which I can tell," he said as he tossed raising chips into the middle.
Adelstein peeled 
and promptly three-bet to $10,000. Andrew Robl sent his junky hand into the muck, but Justin Gavri shipped the entirely of his $60,200 stack into the middle with 
. With the action back on him, Tang opted to finish his story ("Why would I be calling you from North Korea?") before returning his cards to the dealer, leaving Adelstein to make a quick call. With the cards on their backs, Gavri requested two boards.
"Whatever you want," Adelstein said with a shrug.
Gavri wanted to run it twice. "Wait, you don't have any chips, huh?" Adelstein observed. "Alright."
"We can go once if you want. I don't give a s**t," Gavri shot back. "Go once, rip it once. Put an ace out there."
"If you had a little more I really would have no problem," Adelstein explained. "I'm a half million down, you know. So, chopping a $40K pot sounds like a nightmare."
With $124,200 in the middle – a bit more than Adelstein calculated – the dealer spread the 
flop to vault Gavri into the lead. Neither the 
turn nor 
river improved Adelstein and his rough start showed no signs of a turn around in the early goings.
From bad to worse
With the $1,600 straddle in play and $181,000 in front of him, Tang raised to $4,000 with . In a familiar pattern, Adelstein three-bet to $20,000 with 
and a covering stack. When the action folded back around to him, Tang quickly cut out a four-bet to $60,000.
Adelstein opted for a five-bet all-in and grimaced as Tang snap-called to bring the pot to $366,200.
"Good hand," Adelstein said to his opponent as the cards hit their backs.
"How many times do you want to do it?" Tang inquired.
Adelstein didn't care and Tang declared two boards. Unfortunately for Adelstein, neither runout came to his aid and an uncharacteristically cold run grew even worse for the cash game superstar.
No Gamble, No Future airs Tuesday evenings at 8:00pm ET, exclusively on PokerGO.
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