WATCH: Rick Salomon Wins Nearly $1 Million Pot on Poker After Dark
It was billed as the "biggest buy-in cash game in Poker After Dark history." No surprise, then, that last night's game would produce some huge hands, including one resulting in a nearly $1 million pot.
Airing yesterday on PokerGO under the title "Perks of the Trade" �� named for participant Bill Perkins �� the $300,000 buy-in, $300/$600 no-limit hold��em cash game also featured Phil Galfond, Brian Rast, Rick Salomon, Haralobos Voulgaris and Aaron Zang.
The huge pot began with Perkins putting in a blind raise from under the gun, then Zang reraised from the button with 8?8?. Playing from the big blind, Salomon called with 9?5?, and Perkins called as well.
The flop came 3?6?8?, giving Zang top set, and when it checked around to him he continued for $15,000. Only Salomon called.
The turn brought the 7?, filling a straight for Salomon who checked. Zang bet $50,000, then Salomon check-raised to $175,000. That��s where the action gets picked up in the video below via Poker Central:
As shown, Zang took about a minute-and-a-half before announcing he was reraising all in with the $432,000 total he had behind, and Salamon called right away to create a total pot of $926,200.
The pair agreed to run it twice, and both rivers �� first the 10?, then the 9? �� went Salomon��s way to give him the pot.
The pot exceeded a $702,400 one played earlier in the night between Galfond and Voulgaris, a hand won by Voulgaris when his A?A? held through two boards versus Galfond��s A?K?. It also was bigger than the $697,100 pot Tom Dwan won off of Antonio Esfandiari on an earlier PAD episode back in August in an aces-versus-kings showdown.
There��s more "Perks of the Trade" coming tonight as the $300,000 buy-in, $300/$600 NL cash game continues with Matt Berkey and Daniel Cates both scheduled to join Perkins, Salomon, Voulgaris, and Zang. Play starts at 3:00 p.m. PT/6:00 p.m. ET.
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