$80,000 In The Middle and I Only Have JACKS! One of The Biggest Pots of My Life! | Poker Vlog  

My favorite hand was your AK fold. I can tell you’re studying your game and making micro improvements along the way. Congrats on the massive week. Well deserved.

I've been watching for a while now and this is by far the best you've played. You are on some kind of heater Ethan congrats to all your hard earned success you deserve all of it!!

Man I couldn't imagine the swings of the games you play I get mad when I lose $50 lmao

Way to hang in there with the JJs against Mariano’s max pressure! It’s not easy to have a session where you can make both accurate yet tough hero calls and hero folds!

It’s amazing how a winning session can change the perception of how someone can be portrayed lol. Good video Ethan 🎉

Your play and thought process is visibly improving … feel like a proud uncle, keep learning keep improving

Your friendship with Mariano must be super solid to weather wins and losses of this magnitude.

I think this was one of the most action packed games in months, love the content keep on rampaging

Playing with Mariano always give you tough action. 😊

Congrats Rampage, Cash Games treating you well 😆

I've watched so much Mariano and every time he ever jams on the river he goes "well a bet looks like value a small bet looks like value, the only bluffs i have go all in" I thought for sure he had it. What a call

Your commentary ads so much to the vlog. Makes the hands feel alive and like being there. Great job

Sun running!!! Enjoy the upswing!! Love seeing a hometown guy crush it!!

Ethan Yau, not the hero that poker deserves, but the hero that it needed!

This was a fun/interesting night. It was great playing with you. Good luck in the future and hope to play with you again soon!

I love that you and Mariano don't soft play each other.

Congratulations 🎉I like Mariano too but this is poker . I busted my husband at a tournament this weekend 😂

12:58 is that $100 rake for one hand?! That’s crazy af

I love the custom chips made by the last manufacturer of clay chips for the home market. I've never seen those cards before.

Long time watcher, first time commenting. Great win tonight, really impressed with the AK diamonds fold and super sick call with the JJ last hand.

YES!!!! The call omg well played, on both sides holy crap what a game this was thanks for sharing it WOW!

Your LA trip vlogs were fun to watch!! Great call with JJ against Mariano ~ what a hand!! Keep up the good work!

Ethan, you have come a long way in a short time. Following you since i met you at encore. Time to start taking notes and stuff to write a book on your journey. It has been amazing,

Nice job love to see someone come from the ground and run it to the stars nobody has ever done it like this kid think about it not even Ivey did it like Ethan your a real superstar!

So Incredible. Esp considering that you were put in some Seriously Tough Spots continuously. Great Job.

Love these home game vlogs! I remember this game and hand from Mariano's vlog -- nice to finally see on your end! Keep it up.

Ice Cube's saying Today was a Good Day comes to mind. Sick call against Mariano with the Jack's Ethan.

I wouldn't call it a sun run. Its critical poker thinking that's getting you paid against a known opponent. Thanks for the video. 10/10 like always

What a huge home game! I have to live my poker dream out by watching your vlogs. My run good sucks. I played at the Aria this weekend and 2 times flopped K- high flush and lost both. Good work!

I don't know how I missed this one. WOW!! Kick ass, dude! Well done.

Jesus Christ! That last hand was LEGENDARY!!!! Definitely a big fan of yours! The way you play is very inspiring!! Can't wait to watch more!!

Crushing it this week, you’ve been playing well keep going.

Nice win! Not the only one to hero call with the J of clubs in your hand 😉

What a amazing call on the last hand .... love your videos... sad that there isn't many poker games in South Africa for me to play... but I love watching your videos

The right way to play it is to know your opponents range. And bet patterns for big pairs or A K or suited connectors and act accordingly. But you are at a high level so they balance everything propperly. his hand was disquised as high pair the whole time so its hard to know if JJ are good. But other then knowing the range and just being ready to be all in. Otherwise. Just play it smooth and cool pot control as much as possible.

Good disciplined lay down with the J-high flush.

My goodness! I hope you guys have some kind of security at these home games. That's a ton of cash. Congrats dude!!!

Oh that was balls out wild calling all-in with a pair of jacks and you guessed his hand too. /applause

Great stuff Ethan. I swear I don't know about the last hand. As in I have no idea. 18 combos of QQ+. *Maybe* one TT? 9 combos. How many worse hands are blasting off like that? Here's the one thing that might lean me toward a call: you can have TT. If you have JJ you play TT identically, correct? Do you ever raise there if you flopped top set? I don't think so. Even when the club draw turns, you want to let him blast with his big pairs. But Mariano, he's one of the best. He knows you can have TT there. So why would he blast with KK? He gets snapped by TT and almost anything else folds. Even KK has to worry that you have AA and are letting him just blast at you. It just doesn't feel like anything except maybe AA and the odd TT. You're getting almost exactly 2:1 (he sized his bets for a PSB shove beautifully). I literally 🤷‍♀️ meaning Mariano played the hand great. Nice call sir.

Excellent Game Ethan!!! Played like a Boss. Won like a king! Count your blessings my Dude!

Winning at the Poker Table can be a crazy High and Crazy exhausting! I played last night and couldn't sleep at all because I was so Amped Up.

You had me talkin(more like yelling)to my F/N phone again!(on that last hand, me: "take the win and forget the last hand!!!" 🤑 Needless to say I was rooting for you... PS, yes... you are a luck box 📦 😉 PPS, you poker game is pretty solid. 👍

Dude you’re the most exciting poker vlogger ever. No one can come close to your madness. Rock on bro. You are my role model! Lol

What a fold on the pocket jacks hand. Nice play.

You should get Bart to analyze that JJ vs AQo hand, that was nutty. Nice read on Mariano.

Love how you had jacks a few times! I was like dang he’s showing the title within the first 5 min

Now that's the come ups I love to watch

This is the only poker channel I still watch

Pretty solid play. Some pretty tough decisions you were put in. The QQ hand just completely boggles my mind that someone would get it all in with A3…Like wtf? Is he playing the same game as the rest of the table? Then to hit runner runner would’ve made me very frustrated but at least he didn’t also catch an Ace on the second run. That’s one thing that I’ve had moments of frustration with hold ‘em is playing flawless and outplaying your opponent and he sucks out a miracle. I actually took some time off from poker because I was on a terrible run. I was getting sucked out on ridiculously a lot and it made me despise hold ‘em for a long time. It didn’t help I was playing with everything I had financially and losing stung that much more but I got back into it after a year and decided to keep a positive mindset and luckily it’s been a lot better run for me. But anyways the fact that ole dude got it all in with A3 is evidence of how much more difficult these kind of games are because a table with all pros at it, is not gonna ever call the all in with A3. Not in a million years

What a incredible call with your JJ hand. Love you and Mariano battling it out.

Man, the correct fold the first time and the correct call the second time. Looks like you can read Mariano pretty damn good.

The last hand of JJ with Mariano is another tough one.. .. The giveaway for me that he may have AK, AQ, AJ, A10 or a lower pair is Mariano's bet of $1200 into a pot of $4185 on the flop.. .. And when you just called, he read you for weak.. .. I might have raised on that spot to see where I'm at.. But ur call is ok too given the aggressive player that he is.. .. You ended up though making a tough crying call in the end. Lucky for you he did not have AA, KK or QQ.. Good job rampage.. 💪

Knowing your opponent style is your advantage. Great job Ethan! Keep it up!

awesome vlog, AK lay down was your best play IMO. Gotta fold when you know you are beat. JJ call on the end, tough spot, but I was thinking a missed flush draw

What a call on Mariano's bet!!! Without the pressure of potentially losing $40k, my gut instinct was that Mariano was bluffing. If, however, I was actually in your position, I would have folded despite myself. Great courage shown!

The poker chips and cards look really nice

I called AQ at his last hand. It was so similar to his first AQ against your JJ earlier. With his range capped with the 4 bet, the overbet on the turn and with that board texture, it felt like a bluff. I thought he may have had AQs clubs the way he went all in on river. Great call.

Finally jacks held up for you congrats 👍👍👍👍👍

Not only does that hand mean Mariano will get paid off more by the general public, it means he'll also get paid off more by you, if you if you don't tighten up. My only technical comment is that usually seeing a 10-high flop with jacks is not the great news you'd think it is. Suddenly the highest pocket pair you beat is 99. But in this case, maybe you could eliminate TT from his preflop 4-bet range? Or maybe not? You only put in 1/20th of your chips preflop, so it's definitely profitable to play it very simply as set mining, folding any board without a jack, to any significant bet on any street. Glad the game didn't get raided or robbed. Be careful out there. I've turned down every private game invitation from poker friends, and keep it to small stakes with old school/work friends. There's enough action and money in very secure casino environments. You're also putting any private game at risk, if someone decides to subpoena your phone/location, or put a tracker on your car as part of a sting operation. It wouldn't be great to be the reason a game gets raided, even if you're not there at the time. Google, Apple, and the government know where all of us are and where we go. And where we went in the past.

That’s a brilliant call with the jacks well done.

That last jacks call was beautiful!!! I’d be so stoked

Loved that you made that lay down with top top on the C/R!

Ethan, you are a fearless ANIMAL! Or, maybe I ought to give you true credit and acknowledge that, of course you feel fear in high leverage, high price spots. I just see you continue to override that fear and make the play you believe is right. So cool

You have a set of stones my friend. Great calls

The best was watching both vlogs at the same time........

I think it was crazy that you got out from the hand with 2 jacks (with one of dimonds) dimonds flush hand Congrate on the win! Did you see that Robbi vs garrette hand J4 vs 78?

Thats rake is insane! The dealer hit that pot for $50 in that pocket 99 hand.

People will look to bet big against you when you've shown a ton of premium holdings. Their playing the odds that you don't have a monster again. When your getting hit with the deck and people are raising you....play big. You're more than likely ahead. Nice win dude!

Lol on the AJ hand, one of your jams on the river with the nuts actually worked.

That last hand!! Epic hero call!! Glad it work out for you

That last hand I think Mariano should have bet three quarters pot or something different when representing aces or kings. It looked like missed draw or straight up bluff. Max pressure over bets can be a tell or a reverse tell though so what the heck do I know 😂. Well played 👏👌👍

Crazy call in the end. I wouldve never done that! Balls of steel rampage🎉

Yup! How good am I at poker. All I have to do is bet and get there on the turn . That’s a classic 😂

you are the goat of poker RU-vidrs just based on the amount of videos you put out there. Brad and Mariano are really lagging behind you. thank you for the entertainment

Damn, Dude - my heart couldn't take the stress of making that last call! WELL played, sir! (as it turned out, of course) Keep it up, Luckbox!🍀👍💰

Poor Mariano, he should ask for his $$$ back just like Garrett. :))

Massive respect bro you owned them all. Keep it up

Love the commentary your thought process as you play out your hand keep up the good work

That home game rake though!!!!

Holy fuck. that last hand had me on the edge of my seat.

That's really hard to call JJ with mariano capable of bluffing and also he might really have the hand AQ PUNT 😂

Rampunt for the win 🏆

Are you and Mariano still friends after that huge pot lol. Congrats on winning 🥇

When playing in home games should deff use lower value chips easy to counter fit just be aware great content

Hey brother, I'm new to your fanclub and I'm totally reeled in by your content. In fact, it's inspiring me to take the leap and take my game pro. I would love to buy you lunch sometime in Vegas and pick your brain.

Called you with A3 of spades….dude most have really wanted to be on the vlog!!

He came at you bro. Not the other way around. Big stakes for sure against your buddy. Nice effing call!!!! Don’t feel bad.

Wow. Rampage has come a long way from playing 1+3 and 2/5 from Boston area 3/4 years ago.

It's amazing how people hop on and off the band wagon... just a while back you were RamPUNTS and when you got your Tournament Wins "you were just going to give it all back in the cash games". Now you're "SO GREAT" and "WONDERFUL". Don't get me wrong, you are a Great and Wonderful person/Poker personality. It just goes to show why you shouldn't let the comment section bring you down. The same ones who kick you while you're down on the one's who praise you while you're up. Way to feed off that and use it to your advantage. Congrats on a HUGE COMEBACK from that $130K+ loss a while back. I felt for you because you could feel the vibe through the screen and you let that loss become a lesson. Now you're riding this CRAZY WAVE which you well deserve. I hope you keep crushing. Way to earn your name... #rampage

Imagine just getting stacked by a turned broadway gutter and the guy starts filming his newly acquired chips… lmao

AK fold against the two pair is an amazing fold with that little action

You would be difficult to play against. Keep grinding up in stakes

That was an extremely tough call

I read someone else said you were playing $1-$3 just 3 years ago. Impressive bro

Nice one. Glad you put that bully in his place.

Amazing call with the Jack's. My thoughts were he either had AK, A10, or Quad 3s. So 2 out of 3 for the call, lol

how does the money work in these home games, ur just walking out of there with 100k cash?

Thaat was fun, It's always fun to pick up a little cash for the trip home, at least it payed for the T-shirts. Cool😎🙏

Way to go Ethan, good to see you get a huge WIN!!! 👍

WoW the suspense 👊