Nik “Airball” Arcot is another much in the news recently, the HCL reg currently knee-deep in a highstakes Grudge Match with Matt Berkey and hoping he’ll win, or at least still have enough left for the $1million buy-in in May. Yau was named this week as a brand and online poker ambassador for WPT Global, but his live record is also impressive, with huge wins in both tournament and cash games. No legend-status pros have yet been named for HCL’s ‘Million Dollar Game’, but the pick of the bunch so far has to be Ethan Yau, better known as “Rampage”.
One of those who’ll be hoping he’s on the right side of a monster pot is Eric Persson, the CEO of Maverick Gaming apparently not put off by losing a $1,978,000 pot to Patrik Antonius in PokerGO’s ‘No Gamble, No Future’ version of the $1million buy-in in February. The 3-day nosebleed extravaganza will see stakes of $500/$1000 with a $1000 BB ante, and with plenty of action players and almost certainly straddles to come, it could produce some of the biggest pots ever seen on a livestream.
