The recent Hustler Casino Live event featured a star-studded lineup including soccer legend Neymar Jr., social media influencer Dan Bilzerian, Twitch streamer Ninja, NBA star Jimmy Butler, and professional boxer Ryan Garcia. This high-stakes cash game took place on June 22, 2024, and garnered one of the highest live concurrent viewership events of the year rivaling the Million Dollar Cash Game II that took place this past May.
While the game started as a modest $50/100 (by high stakes livestream standards at least) with a $10,000 minimum buy-in, the game quickly ballooned as expected with players sitting multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars deep.
Results From The Game
The below graphic details a variety of statistics from the June 22, 2024 broadcast.
About an hour into the game, players at the table decided to add an ante of $100 to the big blind along with a minimum $200 straddle. Effectively, this quadrupled the size of the game from the base $50/100 in the opening part of the show and lasted throughout most of the broadcast.
Neymar Jr. ended up the big winner in his first ever appearance on livestreamed cash games bagging just over $300,000 while also showcasing one of the highest VPIP % at 75% just behind Dan Bilzerian and Ryan Garcia.
Alan Keating stayed on brand this game with a staggering 90% VPIP, meaning he played damn near every single hand that was dealt to him. Things didn't quite go his way, however, losing just under half a million dollars.
Viewership and Social Media Analytics
It goes without saying that this was one of the biggest cash game events of the year with concurrent viewership sitting at around 28,000 throughout the day. This was the second highest concurrent viewership cash game behind only the Million Dollar Game last May that garnered peak viewership of 37,000.
In under 48 hours, the recorded broadcast on YouTube reached 550,000 viewers averaging just just over a quarter million views per day. This is on pace to be one of the highest grossing viewership cash game shows in Hustler Casino Live history.
Ninja is currently streaming playing poker with Neymar, Jimmy Butler, Ryan Garcia, Dan Bilzerian & you can tell Jimmy Butler is NOT having it with Ryan Garcia 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/hIZhDDLw3Q
— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) June 23, 2024
The YouTube viewership alone does not include the other social media posts that grabbed the attention of millions of new people to the game. This tweet from X user "FearBuck" covering the Neymar Jr. game alone racked up 14 million views in the past two days.
Best Moments From The Game
About eight hours into the night, we witnessed one of the greatest degen moments in the history of livestreamed cash games between Neymar Jr. and Dan Bilzerian.
The two found themselves all-in on the turn in a $200,000 pot and had decided to run it twice. After Keating lost the first two runouts, he insisted on running 1:1 side bets with Neymar (as the 30/70 underdog) for another river card. In total, they ran the river out 8 times where Keating lost every single one.
Undoubtedly, this went on to become the highlight of the night.
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