As most of you know, Hustler Casino Live is one of the best poker cash game live streams in the world, where we can see some high-profile players, and also some interesting characters who bring the heavy action.
Nothing was different last Thursday when Chris “Luda Chris” Chen lost hundreds of thousands of dollars with quads. This is one of the situations that is very rare to happen, but even more rare to happen on the most viewed live stream in the world.
The Big Hand
The game was $25/$50 with antes 7-max No Limit Hold’em.
The hand started when Chris opened from UTG with 8h8c to $400, Francisco called with JdTd, and Jasper 3-bet to $2,600 with 6d2s, and both players called the 3-bet. The pot was $7,950.
The flop came 8dQd6c, giving a set to Chris, and a gutshot to a straight flush for Francisco, while Jasper connected with a bottom pair. Chris and Francisco checked, Jasper c-bet $4,000, then Chris raised to $12,000, Francisco called, and Jasper also called. The pot was $43,950.
The turn came 9d, which gave Francisco the absolute nuts with a straight flush; all three players checked the turn.
The river was the worst card in the deck for Chris, and it was an 8s, giving him quads while Francisco had a straight flush. It became obvious that Chris is going to lose his remaining stack of $80,000, and this is going to be in the news as the bad beat of the year.
Chris bets $18,800, and Francisco doesn’t waste a millisecond before going all in, just to get snap called by Chris, who is going to go from thrilled to devastated in a second.
This ended up being such a devastating bad beat for Chris, which earned Francisco a pot of $193,700. Not much more Chris could have done there that would have changed the outcome, as Francisco said, “Poker is sometimes good and sometimes cruel, you never know.”
You can watch the whole stream in the video below; The big hands happens at 3:24:45
If you are interested in reading about deep hand breakdowns, you can read our article about Martin Kabrhel getting full value with a bluff.
