A night of high-stakes poker with the biggest names in Twitch streaming and YouTube, as well as poker stars Phil Hellmuth and Tom Dwan, ended with the streamers winning big while the pros picked up the scraps. Alexandra Botez and MrBeast both carried home $450,000, and the nine-hour stream was full of memorable moments.
The game of Texas Hold'em gathered internet stars MrBeast, Ludwig, xQc, Ninja, Alexandra Botez and Slime by the same table as poker pros Alan Keating, Tom Dwan and the 16-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth was the biggest livestream event this weekend, with the fateful nine fighting for a pot of over $1 million.
the biggest creator poker event of all time
u know where to find it pic.twitter.com/GS45NcjJqw— ludwig (@LudwigAhgren) May 2, 2022
The game started with a casual all-in for Ninja and Keating, with Ninja taking the lead right away. As Keating kept buying in to lose $1.1 million by the end of the night, the lead quickly shifted to chess and variety streamer Alexandra Botez, who opposed Mr. Beast, Phil Hellmuth and Keating, to win both one of the biggest ($339,000) and memorable pots with her pocket ace and a nine.
BOTEZZZ 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/WnxEmHgS8v
— Joey Ingram 🇺🇸 (@Joeingram1) May 2, 2022
Stacking Dwan and Hellmuth
The hero we need pic.twitter.com/wycUwLgsrZ— Kevin Martin (@KevinRobMartin) May 2, 2022
While Botez ultimately ended the night as the top dog, there were many other memorable moments. At one point, Ninja went all in with his pair of sevens against Phil Helmuths' pocket jacks, and it looked like all was lost for the Fortnite star. Except, right after Ninja promised "to suck a dick for a ten," the poker gods intervented to save the player.
“I’ll suck a dick for a ten?” –
Ninja</a> <br><br>lol look at how disgusted <a href="https://twitter.com/phil_hellmuth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">
phil_hellmuth is! 🤣 pic.twitter.com/MqQvworl4e— Kevin Martin (@KevinRobMartin) May 2, 2022
This will go down as one of the greatest streams ever!!!
Ninja</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/phil_hellmuth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">
phil_hellmuth @HCLPokerShow pic.twitter.com/LjUj3h4Pq5— Sean McCormack (@ThePokerBoss) May 2, 2022
Many were disappointed with Phil Hellmuth for purportedly being a terrible sport who was not only unable to show world-level poker play but also behaved extremely salty at times. Moreover, many questioned Phil Hellmuth taking back what appeared to be a clear fold against Slime and ultimately winning the pot.
This definitely looked like a fold
phil_hellmuth</a> 🤮<br><br>Would love to hear some other thoughts? <a href="https://twitter.com/GmanPoker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">
GmanPokerRealKidPoker</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DougPolkVids?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">
DougPolkVids pic.twitter.com/xpQb5pibOW— Josh Duce (@JoshDuce) May 2, 2022
Man, @phil_hellmuth
As a fan of poker, I was so excited to watch you help grow the game to a new audience.
Instead, I watched a grown man baby blame everyone but himself for getting rolled by streamers who were having fun.
Alex smoked you in poker AND she’d smoke you in chess. pic.twitter.com/B7IbtRjCyn— Jack “CouRage” Dunlop (@CouRageJD) May 2, 2022
The game ended in style with Alex Keating casually doing yet another all-in, this time blind, against Mr. Beast and losing yet another $200,000 of his money.
Who were the biggest winners and biggest losers? Will xQc ever recover? You can check the final table here.
Keating loses a $400k flip with
MrBeast</a> to end the night down more than $1 mil 😲 <a href="https://twitter.com/HCLPokerShow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">
HCLPokerShow pic.twitter.com/eqS8eUPztC— Alex Duvall (@alexduvallin) May 2, 2022
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