The Merit Resort in Cyprus recently opened a VIP area for high stakes poker players, which it has dubbed the Onyx Club. And it's in this very space that the cash game series is currently underway under the banner of Hustler Casino Live.
Hustler Casino Live (HCL) has decided to move from Los Angeles to Cyprus for a few days and is now offering us daily high stakes cash games with names like Rob Yong, YoH ViRaL and HCL founder Ryan Feldman. Blinds are at $100/$200/$200 BBA.
In the very first few days, HCL has grabbed all the attention of the poker world and it's all thanks to the incredible hand that Rob Yong and Ryan Feldman have put together. Rob Yong found Q-J under the gun and Ryan Feldman found A-9. Sinan was also in the hand at first with K-K, but he eventually folded after laying down a board of Q-9-4-A. Feldman opted to go all in for $53,500 after the turn, which Rob Yong gladly called. Nothing interesting up to this point, a standard hand.
An unusual turn of events
And now it has come! Ryan Feldman flipped over his cards, hitting two pair. Rob Yong sadly threw his cards into the muck, thinking his hand was already dead. Only, Rob still had a chance to win if it came on the river queen, and since it was a live stream, he had to show his cards after the all-in call.
Rob did turn his cards over, but he insisted that no matter what happened, he had mucked and thus his hand was dead. Ryan Feldman countered by saying that his hand was still alive. To the surprise of everyone involved, the dealer on the river conjured up just the Queen Rob needed, and thus Rob Yong won the hand.
Rob could have taken a pot worth $191,800, but he refused. Despite protests from Ryan Feldman, who insisted that Rob take the pot, Rob refused. "It doesn't matter if it's a stream or not. I mucked and then I showed my cards because I thought I was drawing dead," Yong said. A stunned Feldman remarked: "You really don't have to do that. It's a live stream - I don't mind." Yong's decision, however, was final, and at the conclusion of the hand he simply added, " It's poker. Those are the rules, right?"
The entire hand was shared on social network X by Rob Yong himself, who added - "New Year's resolution: don't play poker when you haven't slept in two nights. I enjoyed this game, very friendly table."
What do you think of this hand? Should Rob Yong have taken the pot, or was he right to say that he threw his cards in the muck? Let us know in the comments on our social media.
Source - HCL, YouTube, Pokernews, Instagram, X
