Full April 25 Hustler Stream:
Jungleman entered a $20,000 buy-in $50/$100 game at Hustler Casino, which is traditionally streamed live on YouTube.
Instead of going in with $20,000, he came in with $50,000, and the players on either side of him (Nik Airball and Henry) followed suit. Big Mike bought in for $30,000, and the other three entered with the minimum.
Daniel Cates began the game in a menacing outfit, which made one of the commentators state, "I feel like Jungleman is going to shoot me with a gun full of confetti."
Jungleman was dressed up as a new character, "Crypt Keeper", an online player and rumored scammer known to himself and Nik Airball.
During this time, Cates was also knee-deep in CoinPoker's Heads Up Cash Game World Championship, battling players like PR0DIGY and SeaLlama (the eventual winner). Even though Jungleman only came third out of the 12-player group, he scooped over $240,000 from in-game winnings and $30,000 for his finishing place.
The winner, well-known nosebleed pro SeaLlama, took the $100,000 first place purse, plus a hefty $291,000 from his opponents.
From the very beginning, Jungle said (in-character), "F*** you Nik, I'm going to bust you." The camera constantly pans to Airball, who seems a bit uncomfortable. Jungle's mouth is covered by a balaclava, giving his voice a muffled, slightly ominous tone.
During one hand involving two amateurs, Jungle said, "I should fight you, Nik."
Nik replied, "There's not a lot of people I can beat in a fight, but after watching your last performance, I think I could kick your ass.”
"You're talking about Jungleman?" Jungle clarifies, reminding everyone that he's in character. "He's a little b****, I'd f*** him up too."
He enters the game for the first time defending pocket threes in the big blind:
On the flop of , Jack C wins the pot with a continuation bet, holding Aces. Jungle continues to taunt the other players: "My kids could beat you up," he said to Henry. Everything was still humorous at this point.
Without Jungle's participation, a crazy hand is played with a double check-raise from 72o.
Preflop with 72o, Big Mike limp-called against a straddleHenry calls the turn and immediately calls all-in on the river, which is a . It’s clear that these people are not playing at the same table for the first time!
He tries to build on his success later with a creative 3-bet with , as winning multiple hands in a row at the table awards prizes (the rules, however, are too confusing for an outsider to easily understand. Payouts start with three wins in a row), but his opponents are on the alert – he gets a cold 4-bet from KTs.
You just have to fold.
"How much can you bench?" Jungleman asks him.
"I set a personal best last week – 265!" Henry says proudly.
– That's all??!
– How much can Jungleman bench press?
– Jungleman can’t bench press anything, but I can do 300!
"How many push-ups can you do?" Henry asks.
– One hundred and fifty.
– I don’t believe it!
The discussion fades as Henry enters the hand defending his straddle and takes down the pot with an overbet on the river with the nut low.
Jungleman enters the game again, calling a raise with a small suited connector. He sees a call and squeeze behind him:
Everyone calls, and the flop comes down with two diamonds. Everyone checks to the raiser, and Henry checks back.
The turn makes Jungleman the favorite in the hand.
Mike X bets $3,800. Jungleman calls. Big Mike calls with open-ended hands, and Henry folds. The pot is now $22,050.
On the river, Mike X goes all-in! Jungle, after a moment's thought, folds, and Big Mike, of course, folds as well.
In the next hand, Jungle decides to attack with – raising to $300 from first position. His flush draw again has no real chance of success – Henry calls in position with and poker YouTuber Jack C squeezes to $1,300 on the button with . Mike X is in the big blind looking at and comes to the conclusion that with such a hand, it is possible to call.
Two other players put their bets into the pot. Four players see the flop.
Flop ($5,350):
Everyone bangs on the table, and a rather interesting turn comes out.
Everyone checks again.
The river is a , a boring card. Two players make the nuts. Jungleman is the first to act, betting more than half the pot with three players – a pretty clear line! Jack C reraises almost flat – to $7,000. Jungleman calls.
"Can you really call with the nuts?" the table asks in surprise.
Jungle leaves the glass cage for a while and is absent for a few hands. When he returns, he joins the game from the big blind.
Airball's raise and two calls are greeted by Jungle with a squeeze holding . Airball (for the second hand in a row) four-bets, also holding ! His bet size of $6,200 keeps the players in the pot.
Flop ($13,100):
It's a freeroll for Nik. He bets $5,000, Jungle calls. The turn is , completely evening the odds. Both check. A boring river – an . Jungle, with $33,000 behind him, bets $23,500—an overbet of only $400. Airball calls, and Jungleman flips over his cards and jumps out of his chair:
"That's right, you little b****! That's right, you little b****!" he yells, jumping up and down like a gorilla. Nik coldly flips over his straight, and everyone at the table starts laughing.
After laughing, the Chinese YouTuber sadly asks why people at this table are allowed to call with the nuts.
"It's a penalty this time. It's a penalty," says Jungleman.
But of course, they don't give any penalties.
"There's no world where we weren't chopping when he bets 22,000 or whatever it was," Nik explains. "He's too scared to bluff."
In the next hand, he comes in with after a 4-bet by a Chinese YouTuber. Jack C just 5-bet (with kings), now he has aces.
The flop is , and the SPR is slightly over one. Jack C bets $5,000 and calls the all-in, with 65% equity. The first card is a club, and Airball wins the pot for $66,950.
The commentators add a little clarity by stating that if Nik wins the next hand, everyone at the table will have to pay him $1,000.
To protect himself from this danger, Jack C straddles, and Mike X limps in first available position with . All the players follow, but Jack C doesn't let them get away cheaply, making a big squeeze with . Three players decide to see the flop with him: Jungleman, Airball, and Henry, all holding unpaired, offsuit hands.
Flop ($8,500):
Jack makes a continuation bet of $4,000. Jungleman, despite having two players behind him, makes a courageous call. It's just the two of them left.
Turn ($16,500):
Jack, with only $14,000 left in his stack, goes all-in. Jungle clarifies his bet size and begins to think.
"I think 24... 24 combinations..." he mutters, but no one is listening. "Looks like we're missing..." And finally, he throws out his tens with 12% equity.
Jack wins the next hand too. So Mike X limps deuces from under the gun and tells Jungleman:
– "It's a two-button group defense."
Jungleman doesn't bother answering and raises to $600. Everyone calls all the way to the big blind, and Ohio David gets a tricky hand in the big blind and goes into deep thought...
He doesn't think for long and makes a $6,000 squeeze! Mike X folds. Ohio David's stack is only $17,450, so it seems Jungle has no reason to mess around. However, he visibly sighs, counts his chips with a rueful expression, and four-bets $12,000.
David goes all-in and gets called. They decide to run it twice.
After a while, Airball limps from the BB against Big Mike's straddle. Big Mike raises to $1,200 with , to which Airball responds with a massive three-bet to $8,000. His opponent calls.
The runout turns out to be quite interesting. Airball beats his opponent's combo on the flop – – and bets $4,000. Big Mike is unyielding – he calls.
A cruel card falls on the turn – . Airball bets another $8,000, Mike calls.
And the dramatic river:
Even though his two pair are dead, Airball immediately moves all-in. Big Mike calls just as quickly. Airball, still confident of victory, announces a jack and turns over his cards. Big Mike shows a jack and real kicker, and Airball sadly throws up his hands. It's a shame to lose a $93,050 pot when you limp-raise with and hit the flop and turn of your dreams.
Jungleman mutters something skeptically unintelligible, and Airball tells him to shut up. Jungle, however, reminds the entire table once again that the move was well-earned, as there was a three-bet preflop with J2o. Then he continues chirping at Nik:
"You should go home. You're going to lose it all. You should just give it to me."
"I really should be leaving soon. If you weren't so annoying, maybe I would stay." Airball was clearly in a bad mood.
"You're playing so badly, honestly! What the hell were you even thinking? You needed to check-fold river. There aren't enough draws there," Jungle continues his lecture.
"Usually for free coaching... other people do that, but you shouldn't do it," Mike X tells him kindly.
A slightly agitated Airball finds himself nearly having to fold a small flush when he faces a bet and a raise on a paired board.
However, he calls, but Henry quickly folds his flush to a jack.
– "You called a flush there? You're so bad!" Jungle was shocked. "You're worse than I thought. I can't even watch."
"Jungle, can you leave me alone?" Nik asks him wearily. "I'm not in the mood. I'm sure you can tell."
– "Oh, that's so bad, little b****. You're not in the mood?"
– "Okay. Give me racks. I'm out. I'm serious. I'm done. Good game, guys."
– "That's right, run you little b****."
"He's just annoying the shit out of me. I asked him to stop. He's not stopping. I'm done!" Airball explains loudly to someone off-camera—presumably the show's producer.
"Do you want me to stop Ryan?" Jungleman turns and asks Ryan Feldman.
"No, I'm already done. He's going to learn a lesson. I'm done." Airball leaves the table.
"He couldn't take it," Jungleman explains to the other players. "I would lose $450,000, and he would text me out of nowhere and try to needle me. He thought it was funny, FYI. But I didn't think it would hurt the game that much."
"I asked him to come back," says Mike X. "He's going to take a little break and come back."
"I'll stop. But I'll only stop for you guys, not for him! He's a f***ing idiot," Jungle says angrily, throwing out T3o and starting to tell some story about their financial relationship.
"That's a conversation not for here, please," says Mike X.
– "He's a hypocritic bitch. It's pathetic."
In another hand where the table is fighting against a player who has won two hands in a row, Jungleman gets in the BB and squeezes to $2,400.
Ohio David flops a straight and after three checks from opponents, he bets $4,200. Jungleman continues to tell the story:
This guy went out of his way after I lost $450K, and I lost money for other people for like 10x whatever the f*** is going on right now. He lost like 8K or something. Well, it's worse to lose other people's money. You know what I really lost? I lost almost $2 million, actually, and this idiot texts me out of nowhere with like Crypt Keeper scamming me and stuff. Like the character that I am, scamming me, and this guy's trying to make fun of me and then keeping my escrow.
I said, "You need to pay the escrow." He doesn't pay it. I said, "I'm not joking," like him not joking, and then that's when I post. I'm like, "Okay, you're going to learn a lesson," same thing.
But he can't take it 10% the other way.
Mike X thinks for a long time and raises to $11,600. Jungle and Jack fold, Ohio David moves all-in with 77% equity, Mike calls – and wins 3/4 of the pot:
“Tired of this f***ing show,” David sighs.
Airball returns to the table.
Now he and Jungleman are sitting on opposite sides of the dealer. Jungle takes off his balaclava and jacket and returns to his normal persona.
Someone straddles for $800, and after a couple of calls, Jungle raises to $5,000 with a pair of kings. Henry is in the big blind with a pair of sixes and decides to gamble, three-betting $22,800. Jungle goes all-in for about $45,000, and Henry calls. Out of nowhere, a $92,950 pot emerges.
They run it twice and the fight ends in a draw.
In the next hand, Jungle gets 4-bet by Jack C.
Calls.
Flop ($20,300):
C-bet $5,000 – call.
Turn ($30,300):
Jack bets a second barrel – $11,000. Jungle easily throws out tens and says:
"If it weren't for the king on the turn, I would have gone to showdown. But the king..."
From the lowjack, Jungle raises to $400 holding . Airball on the hijack moves it up to $1,200 with , However, Big Mike doesn't let them settle the score and 4-bet $4,800 with . Both irreconcilable opponents surrender.
A funny pot ensues, in which two players with AKs, after some clever play, 5-bet and 6-bet all-in, forcing Jungleman with his AKs to make a 200bb stack decision (including a straddle). After some initial hesitation, Jungle folds and begins grumbling, seeing his opponents' hands. Mike X and Henry briefly discuss splitting Jungle's money right away, but then decide to tweak it for the stream. They split both times.
Jungle raises deuces from the button. The small blind, Airball, three-bets, and the big blind four-bets. The deuces are folded, and the flop brings two more. By the river, the blinds have made a flush and top pair with top kicker, respectively—four of a kind could have gotten a nice payout.
Soon Jungle pays Airball his dues in a small pot:
Nik can't hide his joyful smile, but one of the players finds a way to tease him:
– "You do realize that on the river you would have gotten paid even for an overbet? You're short!"
The game progresses calmly for a while. Then Jack C. wins two hands in a row, and the table is in jeopardy. Jack straddle-raises from UTG, and the entire table calls. Jack raises with J9o, a hefty $3,000. The button folds to Jungleman, who holds K3o, but he calls. Both blinds also fold.
Jack makes a continuation bet of $4,000. He has little equity. Jungle calls.
Turn – both check.
River:
Jack C thinks for a long time and bets $14,000.
"How much?" Jungleman asks, and upon hearing the answer, he instantly calls. Seeing his opponent's cards, he angrily slams his stack of chips on the table and forcefully throws the cards away.
"Sorry, sorry!" he says immediately, tossing a thousand-dollar chip to the injured dealer, who had been dealt one of the cards. The incident seems to be over. The table congratulates Jack C, who won the bounty for three consecutive winning hands.
Jungle later manages to win a pot preflop with a three-bet with jacks, and only then is he suddenly shown the door.
"You're going to have to leave, buddy," a bald man in a white shirt tells him. "Why? You hit him..."
That's the whole scandalous story.
It remains to be added that in this session, Jungleman lost $33,400, but he'd find himself walking away from CoinPoker's Cash Game World Championship up about $270,000.
