The second segment of The Big Game on Tour Season 2 started airing on the PokerStars YouTube channel on Sunday, featuring a new Loose Cannon. Luke Moy, a professional pub manager from the UK and an amateur poker player, took his seat to try and make his poker dream come true.
While each Loose Cannon is under pressure, this is twice as true for Luke as PokerStars decided to raise the stakes. He got to start with $100,000 in his stack instead of $50,000, playing $200/$400 against a formidable lineup.
The most successful in that lineup, at least as far as poker is concerned, is Jason Koon, a high-stakes crusher who’s seen it all. Lex Veldhuis is another top-tier pro who, despite being a nice guy, will be looking to crush the Loose Cannon’s dreams.
Alexander Wolfgang certainly has a lot of poker experience under his belt, but the popular vlogger isn’t used to these stakes.
Rounding out the opposition are Alan Keating and Morgan Jay. Keating bought in with $500,000, making his intentions very clear. Jay is a musician and comedian who enjoys poker, so he is a bit out of his depth in this lineup, but anything can happen over the course of one session.
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Luke Gets Off to a Good Start
For Loose Cannons, how they start on The Big Game can be crucial. Luke Moy is not used to high-stakes poker. He even admitted during the first few hands of the session that the biggest game he played featured a buy-in equal to one big blind on The Big Game.
So, it’s really important how the first couple of dozen hands play out. If things go the Loose Cannon’s way, it can give them much-needed confidence for the rest of the session. If they get off to a bad start, though, and lose half of their stack quickly, they might struggle to regroup.
Luckily for Luke, the poker gods were kind to him in the first bomb pot of the session, which was called out by Koon. It was a messy hand that saw pretty much everyone connect with the board in one way or another, but by the end of it, Moy made the second nut straight, enough to beat Wolfgang’s third nuts.
Luke didn’t find it in him to pull the trigger and go for a raise facing Wolfgang’s river bet, which could give him an even bigger stack, but, as it is, he finished the first session of 27 hands with a profit of almost $50,000. There is still a lot of action left, but he is off to a cracking start.
Keating Driving the Action Once More
A couple of hands into the session, Koon made a comment that this was a perfect lineup to make poker dreams come true, and he wasn’t wrong.
One player that you really want to have at your table in this kind of situation is Alan Keating. Not because Keating is a bad player, but because he is not shy to give action, and with only a limited number of hands available, action is what you need.
Alan was back to his old tricks from the very first hand, getting involved in every pot and battling it out. He bought in with $500,000, just to make sure he has everyone covered, and we just know that those chips aren’t there for decoration.
Keating is seated between Lex, who seems very eager to get his hands on some of those chips, and Wolfgang, who, despite the stakes being high, has already shown willingness to keep Alan honest.
With all this action, Luke Moy could end up in a dream spot, should the cards decide to cooperate. While we can’t predict the future, one thing is pretty much guaranteed: the next few weeks will be full of excitement on PokerStars The Big Game on Tour.
