Matt Kirk Poker 2019

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It was a case of best friends at the poker table again for Kings Casino boss Leon Tsoukernik and Aussie poker pro Matt Kirk as they battled each other over 3 days in Montreal, with some other big names in the frame too on partypoker ’s Big Game PLO. Australian High stakes legend Matt “Aussie Matt” Kirk joins the NL$1000/$2,000 game and creates a lot of action right from the start with a very gutsy check-raise river bluff vs. High stakes legend and action player Matt Kirk joins the action.

Matt Kirk has been in the news for a few weeks now over his high-profile court case against King’s Casino owner Leon Tsoukernik. In the meantime, the Australian poker pro has made the headlines this week for all together more amiable reasons, namely his being appointed to online poker site CoinPoker as an ambassador.
CoinPoker is a brand new cryptocurrency poker room that uses blockchain technology to help create a “safe, transparent, and trustworthy” playing environment for its customers, according to CoinPoker representative, Isabelle Mercier. Another advantage of the site is that the use of digital currency helps reduce transaction times on the site from days to mere seconds from anywhere in the world.
In fact, the cryptocurrency of choice on the site is called Chips (CHP), and on November 16th the company sold 100 million of the tokens in a pre-Initial Coin Offering (ICO) that will come to a close on December 2nd. That said, 80% of them have already been snapped up over the last four days alone, and commenting upon its initial popularity, Isabelle Mercier stated:
“We’re very excited that CoinPoker is such a huge success. We have been working very hard on this project for a long time, and it’s very thrilling to see that the players believe in us. We also received huge support from the crypto-community as well, so we are more motivated than ever before and we expect that the rest of our ICO will go just as smoothly.”
In the meantime, Matt Kirk has expressed his delight at having being recruited as a site ambassador, and has already invested some of his own money in the company. He has also said that he was now looking forward to taking part in some of the tournaments that the site will be hosting, including one that features an impressive prize pool of €200,000.
Known in the poker community as “Aussie Matt”, Kirk is a high-stakes poker pro who has won millions of dollars playing nose bleed cash games over the years. According to the recent lawsuit between Kirk and Tsourkernik, for instance, it was revealed that Kirk had loaned $3 million of his money to Tsoukernik during a heads-up cash game they played at the Las Vegas Aria in May of this year. Apparently, Tsoukernik still owes him $2 million of that amount, and hence all the current controversy surrounding the case .

It was a case of best friends at the poker table again for Kings Casino boss Leon Tsoukernik and Aussie poker pro Matt Kirk as they battled each other over 3 days in Montreal, with some other big names in the frame too on partypoker’s Big Game PLO.

Millionaire businessman and high-stakes rec Tsoukernik has been embroiled in a series of court battles with Kirk this past year or so, but the legal dramas were swapped for incredible poker dramas this week, with Tsoukernik emerging some $3.5million ahead.

English highstakes crusher Sam Trickett, Dusk Til Dawn owner Rob Yong, US highstakes amateur Lauren Roberts and Jean Claude 'The Wolf' Bitoun joined the duelling duo, and there were no signs of any leftover resentment at the $3million argument which PokerTube has reported on over the past year, instead series of massive pots and incredible plays taking centre stage…

Playing everything from $100/200/400 to $500/$1000/$2000/$4000 PLO, with some $2000/$4000/$8000 HU PLO thrown into the mix when players had been bloodied and bruised by the huge swings of Omaha, Tsoukernik suffered a massive cooler in a hand against Yong.

Flopping a straight and watching as your opponent happily bets into you is the stuff of dreams in No Limit Hold’em of course, but PLO is a different beast altogether as Leon found out to his cost on day 2 of the big game.

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Tsoukernik: A♣ 8♣ 8♥ 7♣

Yong: Q♠ J♥ 10♣ 4♥

Board: 10♥ 6♥ 9♦

…and despite Leon flopping the nut straight, with $80k in the middle and Yong betting into him, he found himself a 46% dog in the hand – “odds worse than roulette!”

Describing it later as “a dream hand to flop”, it would all become a nightmare for the Czech cardroom owner as Yong finally shoved all-in, Tsoukernik snap-calling… and $941,000 sitting in the middle.

The turn bricked making Leon the 68:32 favourite to scoop the lot…

5♣

…but the river appeared…

9♥

…to give Yong the flush and the biggest pot of the weekend.

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Although the court case involving Kirk and Tsoukernik may well remain a mystery - both men perhaps fed up with rising legal costs estimated at a combined $800,000 or just preferring to settle their differences on the felt as poker players - the final tally from the Playground Poker Club’s huge PLO action was in Leon’s favour at least…

Matt Kirk Poker Net Worth

…although for poor Matt Kirk the cards simply wouldn’t play ball…

Matt Kirk Poker Player

...although he’ll bounce back soon enough and hopefully we’ll have seen the last of the lawyers!