Warning: Undefined array key "post_type_share_twitter_account" in /var/www/vhosts/casinonewsblogger.com/public_html/wp-content/themes/cryptocurrency/vslmd/share/share.php on line 24
Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot had $100,000 early in Friday’s Hustler Casino Live Mega Cash Mania game, but left with nearly a $1 million profit a few hours later.
The polarizing, and perhaps underrated, high roller won nearly enough to enter the Million Dollar Game, which takes place June 12 in Las Vegas during the 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP). He was going to play either way, but now he’s freerolling at least one buy-in.
Alan Keating, on the other hand, erased a chunk of the $818,000 he won on Thursday. He left Hustler Casino on the second night of the $500/$1,000 no-limit hold’em cash game with a $524,000 deficit.
Nik Airball Dominates Hustler Casino Live Game Again
Airball entered Day 2 of the Mega Cash Mania streams having booked a $240,500 profit the night before. The Hustler Casino Live regular had been slumping a bit on the show the past couple of months. But it all turned around for him the past two nights.
He lost his initial buy-in Friday night to Keating with middle pair against two pair. That was one of the few hands that didn’t go Airball’s way during the session. The biggest pot for Airball came against Phong “Turbo” Nguyen, who ended up losing over $600,000 in the game.
Airball raised from under the gun with A♦7♦ to $3,000, and received calls from Keating in the small blind with Q♥10♥ and Turbo in the big blind with K♠3♠. The flop came out 4♠7♠A♥, hitting two of the three players. Keating, the only player who didn’t flop anything, led for $15,000. Turbo called with a flush draw, while Nik Airball, sitting on two pair, raised to $60,000.
Looking to gamble, Turbo then moved all in for $369,000. Airball snap-called, and both players opted to run the turn and river just one time for a $764,000 pot. The turn and river were both bricks, sending the pot to the high-stakes grinder who likes to refer to himself as the “King of LA.”
Nik Airball would go on to win $995,000 in nearly eight hours, for a two-day profit of $1,235,500, enough to buy a mansion in Alabama, or a small fixer-upper condo in Los Angeles.
The heater the past two days raises Airball’s lifetime Hustler Casino Live profits to $2,523,085. He narrowly leapfrogged Keating for second place, trailing only poker vlogger Mariano Grandoli, who has won $3,737,380 on the show, according to HighRollPoker.com.
The Hustler Casino Live leader board will almost certainly change drastically next month after the Million Dollar Game. Many of the top performers in the show’s history are expected to compete in the game, which will take place at one of the feature tables inside Paris Las Vegas.