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Sunday was the release of the latest edition of The Alan Keating Show, otherwise known as the PokerStars Big Game on Tour Season 2. But the star of the show had a rough performance.
Keating dominated the $200/$400 no-limit hold’em cash game last week in Episode 6 of the BGOT. He won the first seven hands and profited more than $90,000. The high roller, in Episode 7, got roughed up a bit by his newest poker rival, longtime PokerStars ambassador and livestreamer Lex Veldhuis.
Veldhuis Gets the Best of Keating
The rivals played two monster pots against each other, and the chips went to the same player both times. Before the cards were dealt, the cameras caught Keating and Veldhuis having a discussion in which Keating admitted to the livestreamer he would be gunning for him at the table, and he wasn’t kidding.
Action in the first hand between the high-stakes grinders started with Veldhuis limping from the small blind with 7♠6♠. Keating, the big blind, made it $1,600 to go with Q♠2♣, a raise that received a call.
The flop came out 2♠5♠A♠, and both players liked what they saw. Veldhuis would check and then call a $3,000 bet with a flush before the uneventful 9♦ appeared on the turn. Keating, following a check, bet $15,000, a wager that again earned a call.
No spade would bail Keating out on the river, but he instead hit two pair with the Q♦. Veldhuis continued to slowplay with one final check. Keating then fired out a bet of $45,000, greater than the size of the pot. His opponent came over the top with an all-in bet for $137,100.
Keating, after tanking for a bit, couldn’t find a fold and lost a $313,800 pot. He didn’t lose every hand during the session, however. In fact, he won some sizable pots, including one in which he rivered trips to crack vlogger Alexander “Wolgang” Seibt’s pocket queens. He’d make a $50,000 bet on the river with queen-high to force Luke Moy, the Loose Cannon, to fold two pair in a separate pot.
But he’d give even more to Veldhuis in another hand on a board of Q♥3♠6♥7♣K♠. Keating had 8♣7♠ and attempted to turn third pair into a bluff with a bet of $49,000 into a pot of $44,600. That bet didn’t convince Veldhuis to fold A♠Q♦, and he scooped a pot worth $142,600.
Veldhuis finished the episode with $146,400 in profits through 57 hands played and is currently the biggest winner in the game. Keating, who cruised through last week’s show, is now down $10,300. Moy, after getting bluffed by Keating, is only up $18,300. He must turn a profit over 150 hands to go home with money. Wolfgang busted late in the episode and quit the game. PokerStars ambassador Jason Koon, up $11,000, is the only other player in the black.
Episode 8 of the PokerStars Big Game on Tour will air next Sunday.
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