On February 21, 2024, Hustler Casino Live took to Twitter (now X) to announce the return of their Million Dollar Cash Game event which is set to take place between May 28th to May 31st, 2024.
This announcement came with a reveal of a partial list of players to be expected in their lineups for this event. These names include Doug Polk, Alan Keating, and Santhosh Suvarna among others. While most of the currently announced lineup are returning players from last year's event, we do see some new faces entering the arena such high stakes cash game player Peter, who we have seen play on both Live At The Bike as well as on Hustler Casino Live.
One player we can definitely expect to not make an appearance is Martin Kabrhel, who replied to the Twitter announcement asking if a seat was open to only get replied to within minutes by Nik Airball that he was not allowed in the game.
A lot of Europeans in the mix!
— Martin Kabrhel (@martinkabrhell) February 22, 2024
Still seat open?😎
Sorry no seat
— Nik Airball (@nikairball) February 22, 2024
2023 HCL Million Dollar Game Recap
The first appearance of this event took place live on Hustler Casino Live's main YouTube channel between May 26th to May 30th, 2023. The event was a huge success, showing strong concurrent livestream viewership as well as featuring the biggest pot ever recorded in televised cash game poker history of over $3.1 million between Tom Dwan and Wesley Fei.
Here's a recap of what happened at last year's event:
60,000 concurrent viewers on their YouTube livestream
Event spanned four days between May 26, 2023 - May 30th, 2023
Biggest Pot: $3,100,000 Tom Dwan vs. Wesley Fei
19 unique players made an appearance
Stakes Played: $500/1,000 ($2,000) ($4,000)
Game Played: No Limit Holdem
2023 HCL Million Dollar Game Results
Player Name | Profit | VPIP | PFR | Hours Played |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hasan Onay | $1,751,000 | 39% | 20% | 20 |
Tom Dwan | $1,600,000 | 52% | 22% | 12 |
Rob Yong | $702,500 | 37% | 22% | 34 |
Ethan Yau | $588,000 | 31% | 24% | 10 |
Tony Guoga | $405,000 | 31% | 13% | 28 |
Jean-Robert Bellande | $404,000 | 45% | 27% | 22 |
Brandon Steven | $263,000 | 46% | N/A | 12 |
LSG Hank | -$82,000 | 23% | 14% | 12 |
Majik Handz | -$143,000 | 27% | 20% | 22 |
Haralabos Voulgaris | -$160,000 | 34% | 21% | 12 |
Ben Lee | -$274,000 | 37% | 22% | 32 |
Pav | -$289,000 | 52% | 34% | 10 |
Charles Yu | -$430,000 | 43% | 22% | 22 |
Matt Kirk | -$500,000 | 56% | 26% | 10 |
Nikhil Arcot | -$566,000 | 30% | 17% | 32 |
Alan Keating | -$679,000 | 49% | 23% | 12 |
Wesley Fei | -$753,000 | 31% | 22% | 22 |
Stanley Tang | -$889,000 | 34% | 22% | 22 |
Doug Polk | -$928,000 | 40% | 25% | 12 |
To rewatch the 2023 Million Dollar Game episodes, the four episode links below detail where you can watch as well as results data from the broadcasts: