Alan Keating Wins Record $1.4 Million Pot on High Stakes Poker

Alan Keating made another slice of poker history on Monday night by winning a monster pot of $1,412,500 on High Stakes Poker. This is a new record after 14 seasons.

Keating was renewing his rivalry with Nik Airball only days after the pair clashed on Hustler Casino Live, and he was in determined form.

The stakes were an eye-watering $500/$1,000, and if you thought this might cool down the action, then you’d have been incredibly wrong.

Chips were flying left and right from the very first hand, and by the time that the cameras were turned on, there was approaching $4 million on the table with Rick Salomon holding $1.3 million of it in front of him.

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Salomon was a key character in this game, also renewing a rivalry with Alan Keating which has entertained over many episodes. Both are LAG-style players who display their craft without any hint of fear.

The hand in question, though, was Keating against Peter, another regular opponent on Hustler Casino Live.

The pot was double straddled and it folded around to the button. Keating calls for $4,000 with K♦ K♣ and Peter decides to raise it in the big blind to $14,000 with A♠ 3♠.

Keating, true to recent style, comes straight back over the top without any hesitation to make it $69,000 to go. Peter has seen this movie before so he wasn’t going anywhere just yet.

The flop ran out 2♠ J♠ K♥ to set up the hand perfectly for the viewers. Peter checked his nut flush draw and Keating led out for $70,000 with top set.

Peter then played Keating at his own game by raising to $200,000. Keating, surprisingly to some, didn’t jam and slowplayed the current nuts even with plenty of draws available for Peter.

The turn rolled off the A♦ and Peter wasted no time in getting the money in with his draw and newly found top pair. Keating quickly called the $434,000 bet, with no obvious reason to even consider folding here for a second. The pot was now a record $1,412,500!

The runouts saw the A♣ and the J♣ come down to give Alan Keating a record pot on one of the most popular TV poker shows in history.

Coincidently, Keating and Peter had played the previous biggest pot of this season, coming in at a respectable $911,000 .

The previous record in 14 seasons of High Stakes Poker  was $992,000, held by Santhosh Suvarna since Season 12.