High Stakes Poker, one of the preeminent cash game poker shows out there, had the largest pot in the show’s 14-season history in a dramatic final hand on Monday night on PokerGO.
With previous massive hands coming close to $1 million, HSP finally had a hand that eclipsed the seven-figure mark and did so by quite some distance.
It should be no surprise to any poker fan that the hand involved the one and only Alan Keating. Keating has become known as a player unafraid to put his money in the middle, as he has already been engaged in several notable pots this year.
Monday night’s episode 10 was full of action. Keating was involved in many big pots as the drama built for the fateful final hand.
The player who would end up facing off against Keating in the largest pot in the show’s history would be a Hustler Casino Live nemesis in the form of Peter Wang.
The Hand
Playing at $500/$1,000 NLH, Keating started the hand rather slyly as he just called $4,000 on the button with KdKc. Wang had a suited ace, A♠3♠ in the big blind and felt that was enough to raise the stakes to $14,000. Keating shoved it back at him for a $69,000 three-bet and Wang called to build a sizeable pot already.
The flop came 2♠J♠K♥ to create all the fireworks as Keating made top set and Wang found the nut flush draw. With these two aggressive high rollers, it was already apparent that the chips were about to fly. Keating bet 70,000, Wang check-raised to 200,000 which Keating called.
The turn was the A♦ to make things even better for Wang with top pair to go along with the flush draw. That was good enough for him to go all in for $434,000, which Keating snap-called to create a gargantuan pot of $1,412,500 to make a pot almost $500,000 larger than the previous largest HSP pot of $992,000.
The $1.4 million mark is comparable to a massive bad beat jackpot that was hit in late 2024.
They decided to run it twice with such massive amounts of money at stake. The first river was the A♣, and the second river was the J♣ to miss Wang both times and give the entire pot to Keating, who now holds the distinction for winning the largest HSP pot in history. No doubt, an appropriate player to hold that distinction.