Because noone wants to watch nits and HCL in particular ranks VPIP as a badge of honour.

You know theirs are happy medium between being a nit and being and being a donk. or playing like a donk Unless you think nit=anyone that doesnt literally play over half their hands. I actually dont think Mar is a great poker player but he's decent and should have a pretty big edge over the the players on HCL.

Maybe he feels guilty that, as a very average poker player, he gets to print money multiple times a week against dentists and tik tok stars are barely know the rules

https://www.youtube.com/live/lg9cBQVhADk?feature=share

4:17:25

Imagine playing in a game where people are calling 13K on rivers unaware that they have 2 pair.
AQ vs T7
3QT37

Calling 13K, seeing the T7… getting the chips to pay, “Oh man, 2 pair?! You win” and then the sympathy show to the table
“Two pair Queens and 3s” - Dealer

I mean you literally can’t find a group of player worse than these streams. I’ll take an $1/2 NL table from any casino vs them and lay odds. I understand why people think it’s a conspiracy where it’s actually play chips

And this Dark Knight guy was so smashed he was saying all in and then just pushing his cards forward and saying fold after. Literally giving away 60K before Nick V finally racked him up

To be allowed to play against Magnus, Botez, etc, I imagine that Ryan instructed Mariano to VPIP 90%, give action post-flop, make the game fun and ideally, donate, all of which he did successfully. I was critical of him being invited but thankfully he followed the script and I give him credit for that.

I agree with your sentiment. How do people play for 10s of thousands and not know how to read a board? It’s baffling.

Its called being so rich a few thousand bucks is like change you find in the sofa to most of us.

Yep, which is why if you have the bankroll and canines and are a competent player, taking shots at higher stakes on occasion with the right opponents can be profitable.

This same player, Big John, unknowingly mucked the nuts on what I believe was a 7777x board where Big John had Ax. I did a quick search and couldn't find the hand (dude has played on a lot of HCL Tuesday shows) but it definitely happened. He might be the worst regular on the show, and that's saying a lot.

Could kick off tonight.

Andy Stacks: $1million
Nik Airball: $800k
Wesley: $2.7million

When does Nik Airball go broke, and disappear?

I found last nights stream very entertaining...

how many languages does Nik speak anyway?

When his rich wife cuts off his allowance

Word has it Nik Airball is a million dollars closer to going broke after losing a million to Matt Berkey.

Just had a look at the tracking site, Mariano is only 9k shy of becoming just the 3rd player to profit $1MM on HCL!

Well when he isnt punting he has a decent edge of the field

He's done an amazing job of parlaying his vlog and whatever social media presences he has into playing solely vs fish on a stream.

Oh wait, the commentators always tell me that Dentist Dave, MikeX and Israeli Ron are actually solid...

Yea its funny when some donk is playing over half their hands and calling raises and flatting 3bets with crap and DGAF is constantly yammering about how good they are.

I feel like after the Keating incident the boys got an order from general Feldman to load big stacks to table.

Propably they agreed that the game would play alot smaller (5-10x) but that would send a message that HCL doesn’t need Keating.

Or just a really funny coincidence..

I also expect Dentist Dave to make the news for some kind of felonious billing practices.
I think he's sniffed to much nitrous oxide along the way too.

not sure why but he just reminds me so much of Bildo

Did anybody catch the Asian guy Brad that filled in late last night ?
Sickest performance i've ever seen on HCL or anywhere for that matter.

Gutted that they cut the stream. Never seen poker quite like that at those stakes.

Brad's definitely my new favourite player. They need to get him in the million dollar game (all 5 days)
65s > J4o

Haven't seen him yet but if its actually good and not just another donktard he probably be invited back. Ryan seems to hate good or even decent players