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Season 2 of Hellmuth’s Home Game, presented by Poker Night in America and sponsored by BetRivers, continues airing on CBS Sports on Monday nights. Filmed at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada, the cash game show features no commentary, relying instead on table banter from Phil Hellmuth and a rotating cast of poker pros.
Episode 3 featured a $25/$50 blind structure with a $50 big blind ante, and several massive pots tested the nerves of the players involved, including Charlie Hook, Dan “Jungleman” Cates, Kelly Lucas, and Stanley Tang.
One of the night’s biggest cooler hands saw Tang jam queens preflop into Kelly Lucas’s ace-king, creating a $21,575 pot that was run twice. Lucas ultimately chopped the pot after rivering a king on the second board, salvaging a tough spot.
Xuan Liu attempted a bold triple-barrel bluff against Lucas’s flopped trips, but Lucas called off her stack on the river to scoop a $24,475 pot.
Ethan “Rampage” Yau endured the roughest night at the table. In one hand, his flush draw failed to come in against Hellmuth’s flopped top pair and eventual flush on a re-run board. In a separate, larger confrontation, Yau’s jacks fell to Tang’s kings after the flop paired Tang’s hand, costing Yau nearly $85,000 in a single-run coinflip gone wrong.
Later, Yau rebounded somewhat by rivering trips with jacks against Xuan Liu’s trip nines, forcing a river shove that doubled Liu’s stack instead. The swings left the table’s chip counts dramatically reshuffled by episode’s end.
