﻿{"id":4274,"date":"2026-04-03T18:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunter.poker\/?p=4274"},"modified":"2026-04-03T18:48:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:48:32","slug":"eric-wasserson-high-stakes-poker-quads-700k-cooler-folded-aces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunter.poker\/en\/eric-wasserson-high-stakes-poker-quads-700k-cooler-folded-aces\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Wasserson won a huge pot in High Stakes Poker with four of a kind (1TP, 4T, 700K), but was bluffed and lost when he had pocket aces."},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4274\" class=\"elementor elementor-4274\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-756844a1 e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"756844a1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b4569f3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b4569f3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4282\" src=\"https:\/\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f35adb9caf-300x179.webp\" alt=\"Eric Wasserson High Stakes Poker quads cooler hand on PokerGO\" width=\"450\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f35adb9caf-300x179.webp 300w, https:\/\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f35adb9caf-1024x610.webp 1024w, https:\/\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f35adb9caf-768x458.webp 768w, https:\/\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f35adb9caf-18x12.webp 18w, https:\/\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f35adb9caf.webp 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/> <em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Eric Wasserson won a $703,500 jackpot with four of a kind in a High Stakes Poker live stream.<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Eric Wasserson<\/strong>\u00a0In this Thursday&#039;s High Stakes Poker PokerGO live cash game, he won a prize worth [amount missing] with four of a kind.\u00a0<strong>$703,500<\/strong>\u00a0The super-large pot. However, fate played a trick on him. In the same live broadcast, he was successfully bluffed with pocket aces and lost some of the chips he had won earlier.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Wasserson, nicknamed &quot;Wass,&quot; has become a regular at top-tier televised cash games over the past year. If he had called in that pocket pair of Aces, he would have won another large pot of similar size that same night\u2014two large pots combined would have made this night a highlight of his career.<\/span><\/p><h3>First move: Four harvests of $703, 500 in the big pot.<\/h3><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The blinds for this tournament are set at $500\/$1,000, with a mandatory raise of $4,000. The hand is played by...\u00a0<strong>Shawn Madden<\/strong>\u00a0\u6301\u00a0<span class=\"suit-red\">A\u2666<\/span><span class=\"suit-black\">Q\u2660<\/span>\u00a0Betting begins.<strong>Darin Feinstein<\/strong>\u00a0\u4ee5\u00a0<span class=\"suit-black\">A\u2660<\/span><span class=\"suit-red\">4\u2665<\/span>\u00a0follow up,<strong>Alan Keating<\/strong>\u00a0\u6301\u00a0<span class=\"suit-black\">J\u2660<\/span><span class=\"suit-red\">10\u2665<\/span>\u00a0Also in the game. Wasserson, sitting in the big blind, holds...\u00a0<span class=\"suit-black\">2\u2660<\/span><span class=\"suit-red\">2\u2665<\/span>Choose to call. Forced raise position.\u00a0<strong>Andrew Robl<\/strong>\u00a0\u6301\u00a0<span class=\"suit-black\">K\u2663<\/span><span class=\"suit-black\">J\u2663<\/span>\u00a0They also joined the battle, and all five of them saw the cards being flipped.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The flop\u00a0<span class=\"suit-black\">2\u2663<\/span><span class=\"suit-red\">2\u2666<\/span><span class=\"suit-black\">4\u2663<\/span>Wasserson put together an agreement on the spot.<strong>Four items 2<\/strong>He opted for a slow check, Robl bet $6,000 with a flush draw, Madden folded with top pair of Aces, and Feinstein called with top pair. Keating, now almost empty-handed, decided to bluff and raise to $35,000. Wasserson calmly called, and Feinstein followed suit.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Turn the card down\u00a0<span class=\"suit-red\">4\u2666<\/span>The situation had quietly evolved into a &quot;big pot trap&quot;\u2014Feinstein had a strong hand with a full house, but Wasserson&#039;s four of a kind was still the strongest. All three players checked. The river card fell.\u00a0<span class=\"suit-red\">6\u2665<\/span>Wasserson checked again, and Feinstein, holding a full house, boldly bet 1TP 4T 110,000. Keating folded. Wasserson immediately went all in, with an effective stack of 1TP 4T 286,000. Feinstein had almost no reason to fold and immediately called, only to later realize he had lost his full house to four of a kind, handing over the game.\u00a0<strong>$703,500<\/strong>\u00a0The large colored pool.<\/span><\/p><div class=\"hand-card\"><div class=\"hand-card-header\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Hand Overview | Pot 1 TP 4 T703,500<\/span><\/div><div class=\"hand-card-body\"><table><tbody><tr><td><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Wasserson<\/span><\/td><td><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span class=\"suit-black\">2\u2660<\/span><span class=\"suit-red\">2\u2665<\/span>(4 out of 2) \u2705 Win<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Feinstein<\/span><\/td><td><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span class=\"suit-black\">A\u2660<\/span><span class=\"suit-red\">4\u2665<\/span>(Gourd) \u274c Defeat<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Flip the card<\/span><\/td><td><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span class=\"suit-black\">2\u2663<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"suit-red\">2\u2666<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"suit-black\">4\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Turn Card<\/span><\/td><td><span class=\"suit-red\" style=\"color: #333333;\">4\u2666<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><span style=\"color: #333333;\">River Card<\/span><\/td><td><span class=\"suit-red\" style=\"color: #333333;\">6\u2665<\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/div><h3><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4284\" src=\"https:\/\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f35c546ed0-300x200.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f35c546ed0-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f35c546ed0-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f35c546ed0-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f35c546ed0-18x12.webp 18w, https:\/\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f35c546ed0.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/h3><h3>Second move: Pocket Aces - Blurred, missed nearly 1TP 4T 700,000<\/h3><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The joy didn&#039;t last long. Wasserson then received...\u00a0<span class=\"suit-red\">A\u2665<\/span><span class=\"suit-black\">A\u2663<\/span>Add to $3,000.<strong>Justin Gavri<\/strong>\u00a0\u6301\u00a0<span class=\"suit-black\">J\u2660<\/span><span class=\"suit-red\">10\u2665<\/span>\u00a0Call, Keating in the small blind holds\u00a0<span class=\"suit-black\">10\u2663<\/span><span class=\"suit-black\">4\u2663<\/span>\u00a0They also joined the fray, and the three of them saw the cards being flipped.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The flop\u00a0<span class=\"suit-black\">Q\u2660<\/span><span class=\"suit-black\">4\u2660<\/span><span class=\"suit-black\">K\u2663<\/span>Keating checked with bottom pair, and Wasserson bet 1TP 4T 5,000 with overpair. Both players called. The turn card landed.\u00a0<span class=\"suit-red\">8\u2665<\/span>This is of no help to anyone. Keating checks, Wasserson bets $20,000, Gavri continues to call with an open straight draw, and Keating unexpectedly checks and raises to $100,000. Both players call, and the three enter the river.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">River card\u00a0<span class=\"suit-black\">7\u2663<\/span>This also offered no real help to anyone. Keating and Wasserson checked in turn, and Gavri seized the opportunity to bluff by betting $175,000 in a pot of $326,000. After a moment&#039;s thought, Keating folded with a small pair, and the battle turned to Wasserson.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Wasserson, holding a pocket of Aces, fell into deep thought, according to the High Stakes Poker commentator.\u00a0<strong>Nick Schulman<\/strong>\u00a0It was also pointed out that Gavri was not a player prone to losing control. Minutes later, Wasserson folded\u2014and folded the strongest hand of the game. Had he called, he would have won nearly [amount missing].\u00a0<strong>$700,000<\/strong>\u00a0The large lottery pool. This decision cost him approximately [amount missing].\u00a0<strong>$500,000<\/strong>\u00a0The pot contains more than a third of his own chips.<\/span><\/p><div class=\"hand-card\"><div class=\"hand-card-header\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Hand Overview | Pot Approximately 1 TP 4 T 500,000<\/span><\/div><div class=\"hand-card-body\"><table><tbody><tr><td><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Wasserson<\/span><\/td><td><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span class=\"suit-red\">A\u2665<\/span><span class=\"suit-black\">A\u2663<\/span>(Extremely correct) \u274c Fire a gun<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Gavri<\/span><\/td><td><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span class=\"suit-black\">J\u2660<\/span><span class=\"suit-red\">10\u2665<\/span>(Bluster) \u2705 Win<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Keating<\/span><\/td><td><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span class=\"suit-black\">10\u2663<\/span><span class=\"suit-black\">4\u2663<\/span>(Fold)<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Flip the card<\/span><\/td><td><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span class=\"suit-black\">Q\u2660<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"suit-black\">4\u2660<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"suit-black\">K\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Turn Card<\/span><\/td><td><span class=\"suit-red\" style=\"color: #333333;\">8\u2665<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><span style=\"color: #333333;\">River Card<\/span><\/td><td><span class=\"suit-black\" style=\"color: #333333;\">7\u2663<\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/div><h3>Karmic Cycle? A Look Back at Wasserson&#039;s Slow Rolling History<\/h3><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">This outcome, where the bullet hits A in the pocket, might evoke a karmic story. Last December, Wasserson...\u00a0<strong>World Series of Poker Paradise (WSOPP) $25,000 Super Main Event<\/strong>Go deep into the circle,\u00a0<strong>Benny Glaser<\/strong>\u00a0A controversial act of slowly rolling A took place. 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