Farzad Bonyadi raised from the button, and Jean-Marc Thomas called with less from the big blind.
Jean-Marc Thomas: 8♣5♥
Farzad Bonyadi: A♣10♥
Thomas had a little more hope after flopping a straight draw, but couldn't beat Bonyadi's ace in the full runout 6♥9♠9♦3♦J♠.
Level: 30
Blinds: 100,000/150,000
Ante: 150,000
Play was already underway with action on Homan Mohammadi after Ricardo Padilla in late position shoved all in for 1,600,000 into a pot of 1,300,000 beside a board of A♣K♦3♠3♦. Mohammadi finally made the call taking them to showdown,
Ricardo Padilla:K♣J♦
Homan Mohammadi: A♥6♥
Padilla had a two-pair with the board but Mohammadi had the higher two pair. Padilla got on his feet ready to leave when the dealer peeled the 7♥ river.
Padilla continued to leave the table as the pot was pushed towards Mohammadi's direction.
After losing most of his stack on a failed bluff, Ablahad Salim is still battling.
In this hand, He moved all in from the hijack. Eric Vogler, on the button, called with a smaller stack of 1,400,000.
Eric Vogler: A♦Q♠
Ablahad Salim: A♣J♣
Vogler's dominant position went by the wayside on the flop J♠8♦7♥ and got worse after the 4♥J♥ finished off the board.
Manfred Wolf raised from under the gun to 240,000, Matthew Yorra called from the hijack, and Scott Ruegsegger three-bet squeezed from the small blind to 750,000. Yorra was the lone caller.
The flop arrived with A♠6♦2♠ and Ruegsegger bet 575,000. Yorra raised to 1,300,000, and Ruegsegger four-bet all in for 3,955,000. Yorra took a bit to decide and then reluctantly folded.
On a pot of 1,500,000 with a completed board of J♠4♥J♣3♥Q♥, action was picked up with David Stearns in the big blind mulling over what to do next against his heads-up opponent Adam Agaev.
He finally made a pot sized bet sending Agaev to the tank. Agaev leaned back letting out a groan of frustration. After a few seconds, he let out a sigh of resignation and reluctantly surrendered his hand and the massive pot to Stearns.
The hand is picked up on the flop with small blind Buck Bucceri calling Ablahad Salim raise to 700,000 chips.
The board read 7♣8♣3♠. The 3♦ on the turn paired the board.
Salim announced an all-in bet out of turn. A discussion ensued over just how to handle it.
After much discussion, and a four-minute tank, Bucceri bet 120,000. Salim just called instead of moving all in.
The board paired again when the 7♥ hit on the river.
Bucceri checked and Salim immediately moved all in with nearly 3,000,000 chips.
This sent Bucceri into the tank again.
When Bucceri asked Salim if he would show his hand if he folded, it started an argument between him and others at the table.
The loud exchange led to the floor coming over to lower tensions.
Meanwhile, Bucceri still had not said whether he was calling the all-in.
At some point during the shouting, he apparently tossed in a chip to call.
Salim showed J♠10♠ for a pure bluff. Bucceri had A♦Q♦ giving him the win with an ace to go with the two pair on the board.
He then got up and squeezed the shoulder of Farzad Bonyadi, saying he was not mad at him for calling him out on the table talk.
"Don't touch me," Bonyadi said.
Bucceri started walking away, then glanced back at Bonyadi and said "Pussy."
"Fuck you," Bonyadi responded.
The floor penalized both players a rotation.
Level: 29
Blinds: 60,000/120,000
Ante: 120,000
Alan Keating won a record $1.4 million pot last year on High Stakes Poker. But that hand, despite being worth more than most Americans make in a dozen years, pales in comparison to a three-way pot during Season 16.
The first eight of 11 episodes of the new season are available right now exclusively on PokerGO. There are many High Stakes Poker veterans such as Jennifer Tilly, Andrew Robl, and Justin Gavri mixed among recreational players like comedian Kevin Hart. And there's even a recent World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner in the mix — Santhosh Suvarna.
Santhosh took down the $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em for $1,992,870 on June 11, and then lost back $1.1 million of it the next day in Hustler Casino Live's Million Dollar Game at the WSOP. But he was in a strong position to win a pot worth far more than his MDG losses during Episode 6 of HSP.
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