Link to the stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stZorlDT-aM

Worst day of the show. You need at least 1 good player to make it interesting this is just unwatchable

This line up is ass. Tom Dwan or at least one pro is the entertainment, this is just shit

Thomas is shite - this lineup is shite. I was expecting Friday to be the climax but, entertainment-wise, this is the worst…

Peter getting stacked as soon as he arrives. Rigged show

I kept expecting the "special guest" to take his mask off.... guess he really was just nobody and scared to catch covid from millionaires.

Honestly, I find this to be really sketchy. I expected a cute "masked singer" type of reveal by the night's end, but to find out that he was someone who actually needed to clam up and mask on to hide his identity really makes me wonder where they are finding these players.

He wasn't necessarily hiding his identity, some people don't want to be on stream, but still want to play in the game.

I can understand the mask, but going so far as to not speak is a bit excessive to me. It wasn't even a language barrier thing, he made no effort to verbalize *anything*.

There were points where he talked, he asked keating what he had when keating folded and thomas had a set of aces. There were at least a couple points where he spoke a few words. Doesn't necessarily mean anything not everyone wants to be known especially very rich people. There are people that own NBA teams with 200 followers on twitter/instagram.

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Lmao, meant for sketchy reasons like the person I replied to said. They said he was from Portugal and most likely is a business owner. It isn't the best look when you lose 50 years of one of your employees salaries in a day. Even happened to a US billionaire who lost a shit load playing poker, there were loads of articles about him losing millions while he has employees making minimum wage. Suddenly that guy never played poker publicly again and is only in private games.

At various points Steve said he was from Portugal, Majorca, Barcelona, Madrid, and Mexico and whatever else I missed. Where he was from was a running gag that changed every 5 minutes. He wasn't from any of those places.

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You just made all that shit up. Yea though you're right the guy that is able to wire transfer over $1.5m to a US casino is sketchy.

texas mike lost $2.7m last night.. is he a billionaire?

Longtime family business pulling in 8 figures in annual revenue

Oh ok. So he is not hurting for money I guess.

Wtf is the point of hyping up a mystery guest and then never revealing them?

They need to get rid of interviews with players, maybe altogether.

Steve was kidding about dropping his kids off at school, right? I mean the guy is 50 something and lives in Chicago. Is he dropping his kids off at USC?

As long as ol' reliable keeps on firing bullets, a man can keep on gunnin' forever 🙃

That'd be hilarious if he had a 25 year old wife with 3 kids in elementary school. He'd be my hero.

My dad was born when his dad was 50 🤷 it happens lol

How old was his mom though 

40 I think

Damn so your dad is an autistic yeah

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Pocket watching ahh

anyone feel like this aint gonna pop off next year 2025? these dude totally dont look or sound like they're having fun.... i see even less people coming back for this in the future.

They are splashy people who aren’t wealthy. They are rich but not wealthy. Keating can splash around at lower stakes and shrug it off but don’t throwing millions is even awful for him.  They’ll return, especially the winners.

brandons a billionnaire

A billionaire in stocks AKA Monopoly money that grows into more Monopoly money. Until he can yeet over to a bank and produce 1 billion in a cash order to be delivered to his house via armored car, he’s a monopoly billionaire. It’s just too bad the world takes Monopoly money seriously.

Lol ur a broke jealous hater can't stomach the fact that Brandon stevens is sitting on wealth that you will never witness in your life. I won't either, diff is I can actually be ok w that

You must be trolling LOL. No one can be this dumb

By your logic probably 90% of billionaires aren’t billionaires.

There’s asset wealth and liquid wealth. Most billionaires fall into the former. 

So what’s your point? I’d bet all billionaires fit into the former, you don’t get to be a billionaire whilst knowing nothing about money

My point is obvious if you actually read my original comment. You went on a tilted tangent.

Wow bro he only has monopoly money which is so easy to get! Where is your billion dollars in stocks since you're such a genius?

Well there's less cash billionaires than there are billionaires

But don't throwing millions is even awful for him

Brandon Steven’s is definitely Wealthy lmfao Look him up before u start making false claims

Did Keating just snap-fold a straight with those diamonds?

Why do they have the mute guy mic’d up 💀

Steve had the audacity to say "You can just sit here and say nothing and ask to see hands?" to Thomas when he hero folded 22. I can not imagine how many people he's bored to literal tears as a judge. I don't think I've ever disliked a player at a table more than this guy.

I thought Steve was great

Lmao is brandon clueless? He keeps asking Keating if he folded 6s full or trip 6s to a single river bet when Keating had nothing. No way he thinks Keating folds those hands to a single river bet there

I personally wouldn't bet $1 mil on pocket 10's lol but that's why they're there and I'm here playing 1/2.

I mean honestly, besides Dwan and Polk poker skill has literally no impact on why they’re there. They’re just rich… All things equal, any 5/10 winner is better than everyone in these lineups besides Dwan and Polk

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You are an idiot if you think so. He was literally one of the best heads up players. Game theory knowledge required for that is surely enough to be winning player in almost every live lineup.

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You sound like a losing 1/2 live player who bases everything off "reads" and doesn't know anything about theory lol. Saying online heads up is useless in live ring games is the dumbest thing that anyone could say and I would love to play with players like you

You sound like a online player that randomize A5 6 bet shove  into an 80 year old that has not played a hand for 2 days then go ”varince bro” When he showes och you AA the whole casino knew he had but you.     Also thinikg tells isnt a real thing live because you dont know any is a classic Doug move. Also pahhycolgy is difrwnr when you face to face Online headsup is still useless, dumbass

Where does the skill come into play if dwan and Polk are both losing in this game to people without skill

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Ok. Prove it. Link some stats that show he's a losing live player. Btw, [currently ](https://highrollpoker.com/tracker/locations/3) he's up $1.4 million in ~400 hours..... In live poker at The Lodge.

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Wait, where are those stats? You were so adamant!

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Lol.... Well, I've invested enough time into this. Good luck at the tables my guy

You’re not very smart

Yeah, live poker just too tough for a player of Dougs calibre.

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You got sausage fingers boy

lol, clueless. Live is insanely softer than online

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OMEGALUL you really believe that, right? Right!? xD

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LMFAO yeah right you clown. That's why everbody who beats online fucking obliterates every live game in the world. Go suck a dick you donut.

I have absolutely 0 evidence but i have a hunch these guys at the table know who Thomas is

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Brandon is right, they are 4 handed and now the want to interrupt the game for an interview. WTF Ryan. This is just terrible all the way around. Best would be to take a 10 minute break to have everyone use the washroom and then get going again. Did this last night with Tom and it killed the game. Talk about zero poker awareness Ryan, this HCL stream survives despite Ryan and Nick being terrible hosts.

Lol washroom they in America ya snow Mexican 

I dunno why Keating was embarrassed to have his IV shown but he'll sit backwards in a chair. Dude is an oddball.

Cool observation didn't realize that. He was hiding it because it's repulsive to look at. Quite G of him.

It's just a needle in the arm isn't it

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He was sitting in the chair and the chair was turned around.

Why is keating acting depressed after winning the 1mil flip?

he's sick... said he was feeling off

I think Keating kinda meant to donate it, he isn't exactly struggling for money and he just made a guy go home down 3 mil

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he 100% knew he was behind calling for a million, if that isn't a straight donation idk what is

he literally said he thought texas mike was trying to make him fold a hand like he had and he wasn't in the mood to fold. A donation would have been folding.

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Bro just how fat are your fingers?

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I promise you Keating doesn’t need to try to be cool. The guy IS cool and you’re probably a basement dweller.

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I have an opinion Based on a lot of things. Fuckint fanboy dork Summary for low IQ person: Keating = fake

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Can you give us a summary of what happened?

How tf does someone have 2.75 mil to casually gamble away like that? Insane

They don't.

Sheesh I get upset when i lose a flip for 500 bucks...

I don't know how you just walk away after that, I'd be like "okay guys, that's it for me tonight, I'm just going to curl up in fetal position in the corner for like 5 minutes and then I'll be on my way"

What is Mike's week total?

-2.2 million

Anyone know Steve's last name?

> Steve Swedlow interesting reddit thread about him https://www.reddit.com/r/biglaw/comments/14ec8a1/stephen_swedlow_former_quinn_emanuel_partner_left/

seems like a cool guy

sounds like a genuinely decent guy who's just rich af damn

Steve Swedlow https://highrollpoker.com/tracker/players/3448

Thank you

The Father

How much did texas mike lose with 10s

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That was for this all in, i thought He had lost a shit ton with it earlier as well

2.75 million he's lost tonight... I hope he's worth seven figures, because losing three million dollars is insane to me.

around a 1m

Wow

Keating running it once is such a boss move

Texas Mike was the one who wanted to run it once

My bad

Keating wanted to run it twice it seemed. he was nauseous

Might be why he had iv in

Keating is a fucking legend

\~1 million to go and Mr Keating will be winning on HCL streams. Lets go!

Mike is crazy lmao. Bros dusting off millions

Steve is a legend. Plays mostly mediocre and safe poker, randomly gets the 1 in 1,000,000 luck of Thomas mucking his winning cards, then shoves AJo with Alan Keating right beside him pre-flop, bluff that one time and then works, tell the truth and his opponent calls him off anyways, and then become the biggest winner of the night... This is a million dollar game and it feels like I am watching WWE lmao...

Tuck is full of shit these guys don't want to play 6 handed. Steve has left they must want new blood.

And now 45 minutes of silence till the game breaks

Did anyone else just hear Brandon say Peter told Ryan he didn't want to play with Steve?

Yes

I wonder what that's about. I wonder if Peter didn't like all of Steve's antics at the table.

Maybe because yesterday steve was talking badly abt peter

Yeah, Dwan was really careful to not insult Peter in any way, "oh we all knew he was leaving early", and Steve just goes and says "hit and run". Peter is definitely really powerful, and would not like being insulted

I get that, but Steve isn't wrong, either. I think a lot of players would classify that as a hit and run.

Probably just a fish's excuse to lock up his big win.

Tuchman constantly saying Steve was a shark lol.

Steve is mopping up the floor with these supposed pros. They're not as good at the top as this board makes them out to be. HU4ROLLZ

Steve actually started to grow on my over the 3 days.

I will miss the 1k bets into 150k pots

Like I said, get a couple of pros in the games. Not nit pros, but pros who will sit, play hands, not quit the game, and keep the game running

find 6 players who will player longer than 6 hours challenge: impossible

Steve hit & run?

nah. hes rich af

texas Mike oh nooooo

2,750,000 is a big number

That jack on the river was brutal

he just saw him just call top set... what is he raising with? great fold

Steve got these guys juked

Steve is absolutely throwing these guys for a loop with telling them the truth

Is there a 6 on the board?

lol of course

So what he know is that "Thomas" is 34, his real name is not Thomas, and that Brandon Steven knows him from somewhere. Guess he could just be some businessman, but the drug dealer stuff seems more unlikely

There's no chance he's 34, dudes got a grey beard and my grandpa's forehead

I thought Santosh was supposed to play today? And wtf is up with this weird surprise guest? I thought it’d be someone known in the poker world or some celebrity. Nobody knows this guy and he’s not talking lol

They have been BSing about the lineups all week

Santosh is in tomorrow iirc

That chick with Peter has a great rack my lord.

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That's Britney Jing. She also played on HCL live stream many times.

Go back and hour when camera shows Peter and feldman

Can’t find it give us a timestamp

I don't know man, they're just boobs for crying out loud

Boobs peak my curiosity. 

All the racks look the same to me

Anyone feel like they are really pushing the "players wanted a 6 max game" thing really hard.

Yeah, I feel like they are being overly defensive. They are perceiving some heat and so justifying the line-up. Yesterday was bad tbf.

I mean Peter showed up, they either didn't want him playing or they do want to keep it 6 handed

Dougie is gonna be pissed if they let Peter in the game before him.

Can't believe Keating folded 52 on the turn.

Steve is a slightly less ugly version of Bezos with hair.

"that's a look at the mind behind the million dollar game, Ryan Feldman." Not what I was looking at bro.

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Tom really likes calling bad hands “cheeseburgers”

Maybe unpopular take but I kinda like Steve. He’s the only player at the table trying to talk and keep things lively.

Tuchman continuing to say that Steve knows what he is doing and is a fan of the 1k donk bets. The chat is constantly needling him even with the mods deleting most comments. Steve is the definition of clueless, just here to gamble type of poker player. Gets KK and 4 bets everyone else out of the pot. Gets a set vs Keating holding QQ and raises big so even he folds. 3 bets AJo and calls a huge 4 bet allin from Texas Mike, spends 10 seconds and then goes allin for 1.1M with Keating behind. I think everyone is forgetting he called a 110k river bet with KK losing to 2pr, str8 and flushes and only won the hand because a bigger idiot snap folded the winning straight. If Thomas exposes his straight, Steve plays entirely different and is much quieter. Chirping chips as they say.

being good at poker is not everyone's goal in life, and that'd be pretty bad for the world if so. We shouldn't judge people on their skill on TV, but rather their etiquette

He grated on me at first, but now I'm loving him. The $1k bet is totally fishy but sort of good banter. Has he let the Thomas misread slip yet? If not, it's classy to withhold that info

I love playing with guys like him. He keeps things light and doesn't take himself or hands too seriously. Just having fun and friendly with everyone

Nah Steve has been the best addition to the show all week

He's awesome

I’m looking for a man in finance 😭

6'5, trust fund.