Some time ago HCL announced that they will be streaming a cash game with minium buy-in of million dollars.

Who would you like to see playing in it?

My list:

1. Rick Salomon

Absolutely fearless, plays fast and loose and puts people in tough spots all the time. Has good feel for the live game.

2. Andrew Robl

Nice to have some super pro also in the mix. Robl is entertaining and fearless.

3. Alan Keating

Well, Keating is Keating. Guaranteed action.

4. Hanz

That huge bluff against Keating earned Hanz a spot in my line up.

5. Eric Persson

I don’t like his antics that much but Eric creates a very unpredictable dynamic to the table. He can throw players off their game or just punt his stack in one hand.

6. Nik Airball

It’s good to have few villains in the table also. Loose and aggressive, can win or lose big. I don’t know how much he would play his villain image in this group though.

7. Tony G drunk

I just remember one Triton cash game from Montenegro when Tony G was hammered and he was just super funny and loosy goosy. If he is sober, he just is fasting and nitting it up drinking his bone broth.

8. Rui Cao

Action, action, action. Funny guy and brings good energy to the game.

9. JRB drunk

JRB is not a good player and his poker is not that interesting but he is funny and can keep the atmosphere in the table. Player like this is also needed.

(10.) Garret Addelstein

I have mixed feelings about Garret. He is a legend but I feel too much focus would go on the Robbi drama so I would leave him out from this one.

Elton Tsang

Shanghai Wong

I think prince charles has been great. He seems like a total “feel” player but he is super entertaining and not bad at poker as far as I can tell.

His spidy senses seem to always be tingling..

100% Tony G. I’ll get him on the line.
As much as I dislike Airball as a person, he would have to be in the line up


I think the funniest line up

1. Linus love
2. Tony g (on drunk)
3. Nik Airball
4. Eric person
5. Tom Dwan
6. Phil Ivey
7. Keating
8. Mikki mase
9. Myself

I put Linus in there just to see the faces of the other 8 players when they get wrecked.

The only poker player on this list good at 6 max is probs myself maybe Linus.

I think it is a 2 day event, so I would like to see the following players in the rotation:

Nik Airball
Tony G
Phil Hellmuth
Kristen Foxen
Shaun Deeb
Doyle Brunson
Eric Persson
Maria Ho
Alan Keating
Fedor Holz
Julie from Palmdale
Daniel Negreanu
Will Kassouf
Gus Hansen
Wiktor Malinowski

The people need to see huge pots, punts and action. Do not deny the needs of the people, folks.

Solomon
Keating
Robl
Tony G
Persson
Esfandari
Airball
Adelstein

Commentary by Mikki and Brian Rast.
Random stories thrown in by JRB and Baldwin.

Dwan, Ivey, Hellmuth. Boring and nitty.

Sashimi, Bunny, Mike Postle.

Patrik Antonius

Nikhil Arcot

Hank Czarnecki

Shawn Daniels

Alan Keating

Tim McDermott

Douglas Polk

Michael Rosenbach

Aaron Zang

I think a million is steep for a bunch of the frequent recs

What confirmed billionares do we have?
Stan Tang
Stan Choi
Bill Klein..

100mm+ is probably most of the players who are regulars in the friday games.. I'd fit Airball and JR into that slot, they may show up (more likely than the billionares, although I expect to see Choi in the game). Blank check Ben probably same.

I think Persson may be feeling the pain, don't think he's in the mood to cough up another milly to play this

The game as it's being billed is misleading because the blinds are 500/1000 so unless it's straddled, and even it is, players are sitting 500 or a 1000 BBs deep so can if they want
play in such a way as to very rarely if ever have their whole stack at risk. Obviously some players won't play like that, but some may.

Haralabob
Seiver
Persson
Tony G
Airball
Garrett
Bill Klein
Patrik
Keating
Saloman
Phil "appearance fee" Ivey

No solver clowns.

Robl
Airball
Keating
JRB
Tony G
Rui
Persson
Salomon
Ivey or Seiver

Yeah man, no solver clowns, solver clowns play such boring poker

Phil Laak

dnegs, hellmuth, airball, dwan, berkey...... and i'd be rooting for airball to clean house and get in a fight with hellmuth

No to H-Bob. Dude was **** at the dealer and floor last time. No to Seiver because his mouth is always hanging open.

Low testosterone estrogen drinkers do hate bob but I appreciate his world class banter. He also never berated a dealer. Seiver is up there too, maybe you don't want to watch poker on TV and should watch some online poker instead?

never change NVG

Never going to side with someone who thinks that a player being too big of a meanie head is bad for TV. Haralabob is the GOAT.

Ben Lee / blankcheckben confirmed his participation in chat tonight.

Bob was hilarious and the dealers were well taken care by Bob and all the players in the game,I saw him tip the female dealer $500.
I guarantee they rather him play,then Garrett who tips about $50 total to each of them before the stream,which is ridiculous considering the size of that game

No chance robl will be in the lineup. He already said he doesn't think he wouldn't play on hcl. On top of that Ryan said when speaking about the "ban" of gman he no longer wants good players on the show. To answer the question.
Wesley
Keating
Person

In short since I'm sure it'll be a donkeys only stream at least put donkeys with personality. Not sure if Wesley is still bad though haven't seen much of him recently so maybe he's been in the lab

Ryan said he no longer wants good players on the show?
I'm not sure about that but what ever he's doing is working because the games are better and amount of people watching has gone way up without Garrett

Are you just pulling numbers out of your ass? Garrett usually played on Friday shows with 5-10k concurrent viewers being the norm.