On Sunday night, the High Stakes Poker livestream game on PokerGO brought together a star-studded lineup for a session of nosebleed stakes that started as $200/$400, but eventually climbed to $500/$1,000.
Andrew Robl, Doug Polk, Alan Keating, Sam 'Senor Tilt' Kiki, Santhosh Suvarna, Cary Katz, Jennifer Tilly, and Justin Gavri all took their seats with six-figure stacks in play – although it wouldn't take long for additional chips to materialize and form seven-figure stacks. With so much cash on the table and a lineup chock full of players ready to battle, it's no surprise that the game provided PokerOrg's Hand of the Week.
$1.1M in the middle, three hands, four runouts
While it wasn't the largest pot of the night, a three-way clash between Polk, Suvarna, and Tilly generated one of the wildest runouts in poker history.
With four straddles in play – $2,000 in front of Katz, $4,000 in front of Tilly, $8,000 in front of Polk, and $16,000 in front of Suvarna – the action folded around to Tilly who opted to call the $16,000 with . Polk looked down at
and raised to $70,000. Suvarna made the call with
and, after some consideration, Tilly came along as well.
With $214,500 in the middle already, the dealer spread the flop to provide Polk and Tilly with open-ended straight draws while Suvarna connected with a draw to the nut flush. Rather than check in flow, Tilly decided to lead into her two opponents, firing $150,000 across the betting line. Polk, with his open-ender and queen-high flush draw, covered both opponents and wanted to play for it all, moving all-in over the top.
Suvarna wasted no time in committing his remaining $326,000, but Tilly took her time to think. After clearing it with Suvarna, Polk offered Tilly some words of advice. "For this price, there is not many hands you can fold because there's already like a million out there," Polk told her. "If you have a really bad hand, you should fold, but otherwise you should put it in."
Eventually, Tilly made the call to bring the pot to an eye-watering $1,126,500. While the players at first agreed to two runouts, Polk's suggestion of four was accepted by all parties involved – though the dealer was likely less than thrilled about the situation. Incredibly, Suvarna was a massive favorite to win each runout as he held the lead with ace-high and any club would leave his opponents drawing all but dead.
On the first runout, the turn and
river changed nothing for any player and secured Suvarna one quarter of the pot.
On the second runout, Tilly and Polk both improved to a chop-worthy straight on the turn and celebrated together when the
river failed to improve Suvarna.
On the third runout, the turn provided a glimmer of hope for Tilly and Polk, but the
river delivered for Suvarna.
On the fourth runout, the turn improved Suvarna immediately and left Tilly drawing stone dead. Polk, however, had one out to scoop the final board, but the
river wasn't it. With that, Suvarna claimed victory in three of the four runouts.