ROYAL FLUSH For Rampage Poker!!!!!!

Have you ever hit a royal flush? Not everyone has, but in a recent cash game in Las Vegas, Rampage hit the best hand in poker during a bomb pot. The popular poker vlogger even caught the huge pot on camera!
When you are in a position where your opponents are unlikely to have a super strong hand, it might be a good time to use a small bet size. This allows you to sneak out a little extra value from weak poker hands that would fold to a big bet. Simultaneously, you give some stronger hands and bluffs a chance to raise and re-open the action.
Ethan Yau, a.k.a Rampage, is a popular KZbinr and poker player. He has over 267,000 subscribers on KZbin and has won over $2,100,000 in tournament earnings, including a $900,000 win in a December 2022 World Poker Tour (WPT) High Roller at the Wynn.
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🔍 Pre-flop:
In this $10 bomb pot all 8 poker players go to the flop with Rampage holding AQ suited.
💸 Flop - Jd 5d 5c
With 8 players in this poker hand. The big blind decides to check prompting under the gun +2 to fire out a bet of $45 from early position. Action folds to Rampage who decides to make the call with his nut flush draw & two overcards. The big blind also wants to continue and makes the call.
💣 Turn - Kd
The turn completes the flush. The big blind checks once more but this doesn’t slow down UTG+2 who continues for a much healthier bet of $125. Rampage now has the nut flush with a draw to the ultimate royal flush! The big blind also makes the call.
🌊 River - Td
What a river card for Rampage who has now hit the best hand in poker - the royal flush! Both players check over to Rampage who, with a royal flush decides to use a small bet size of $120 to try and induce a raise from his opponents. What happens next will blow your mind, watch this poker video to find out what happens!
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[@PokerCoaching]

What hand do you think the big blind had for them to call twice and then snap-fold the river? 🤔

[@brianpotter2812]

A single 5. Straights and flushes get there and he knows he's beat

[@jacobgoldman5780]

A lone 5, KJ, AA no diamond

[@TheTomTracey]

2-3 of diamonds

[@qazzaqstan]

7 high flush or worse (with 2 diamonds) between the paired board and getting counterfeit snap folding is still a bit surprising but I don't think any people are calling that with someone behind them.

[@jeffshackleford3152]

I am not sure I agree with the x/r all in, especially if they have a full house and you think your opponent has a flush. You won't necessarily induce them into going all in, but if my opponent is pretty aggressive, I probably wouldn't go all in. My reasoning being I want the opponent to think I am possibly bluffing and an aggressive good player like Rampage will likely shove. Now I know that Rampage is quite smart so if he didn't have a straight flush he would fold, but I have certainly seen some people shove all in to a river x/r multiple times. It might even be an exploit against maniacal opponents online. Possibly the funniest thing I have ever seen in poker was. I had A9hh Flop is 10h Jc Qh bet call Turn Kh. Bet call River Ac So I was OOP, so I wanted my opponent to think I was trying to buy the pot to push him off a chop. So I bet like 20BB, thinking he would call and I would get paid a little bit. Nope, he raised to ~100 BB. So I checked to make sure he didn't have the straight flush, he didn't, I block it. I min raise him back, thinking 95% fold 5% call. He decided to do one better than call, he went all in. So I checked again to make sure I had not miscalculated, he indeed still did not have a straight flush. I called. I was ~400 BB effective at that time, got the full double up and laughed for about 5 minutes straight. That was possibly the dumbest thing I have ever seen someone do in my entire time playing poker. This was online, not live, btw. Also, I did start screen recording at this time, in case, somehow he had the AJhh or some crazy thing like that.

[@theNfl_Esq]

Too bad that didn’t happen on HCL when he was playing 500k deep…

[@georgewitt6842]

PLO Double Board Bomb Pot!

[@dmitrit81]

I never had the Royal Flush in Texas Hold’em

[@fialee8]

I was thinking she may have had quads vs pocket kings/full-house. But either way, it would've been a loss.

[@kdub9918]

Pocket Kings 👎

[@isaacgreer65]

She did not have pocket kings...

[@JC-is1nl]

that was my first thought too... there's no way she's leading out flop with KK then there's no way she's not leading out river with it. She had to have j5, k5, or 105

[@yoniker83]

I agree with JC, also she would most likely show the KK at showdown and not muck it.

[@robw9963]

No way she had KK especially when she didn't look happy about putting in the call. She'd have shown. I don't know why players lie about their hands after to save face. Last night I had the loosest idiot at the table who punts it off nightly try to tell me he folded pocket 10's on a 9 high board to my flop bet. His reason? Because the player next to him told him he had a 10. Let's forget about the fact that kind of collusion should never happen and concentrate on the bullshit for second since I had pocket 10's myself.

[@jameswill9527]

On a bomb pot, please

[@denisfolcik1373]

99.9% of people would show Kings there even when losing. So yah, I say BS on Kings also

[@RhysDavies2000]

72 game always gets the most action going at our homes. Myself and a friend can’t help but completely over bluff just to try and pick up the bounty and the ego boost when you show the 72

[@chrishillman3327]

Haha, same at our home game. I have what I call a mandatory stack off with 7,2 at least once a night at the game.

[@kennethchia4194]

Have an extreme dislike for bomb pots. Seems purely random.

[@wuppad]

My favorite poker variant is No Limit Omaha Hi-Lo... so much fun!

[@yoniker83]

1:28 Rampage still punts hard, Jonathan, watch his last HCL nightmare show if you're not sure.

[@jasonbourneistreadstone]

Probably the one hand he couldn't lose if he tried..

[@idahoidaho7656]

If she had KK she’d show. She had trips I bet and was embarrassed so she mucked

[@juliangeorge2026]

pockets kings is brutal here. don't think that's ever possible to fold.

[@unish25]

If you have Pocket Kings, then you just take the gut punch and move on...that would be sick though!! Pocket Jacks would've been worse!!

[@charlesfriebis7954]

agreed. Ks full is a hand where you call and take your cooler like a man. It would be sick, but there are only 2 possible combos of cards that beat KK.

[@newstandardaccount]

@@charlesfriebis7954 3 - q9d, AQd, and pocket 55s

[@nosteinnogate7305]

@@charlesfriebis7954 No, there are 3: AQs, Q9s, 55

[@EarlZMoade]

Lmfao no way she tanked with Kings. Why do people lie so much

[@26bisket50]

Lol rampage isn’t playing jacks full like this

[@EarlZMoade]

@@26bisket50 doesn't matter lol, a live fish isn't tanking with kings full

[@depalma13]

My favorite game is Yahtzee. You get a Yahtzee card that has: bluff, pair, two pair, trips, straight, flush and full house. Every time you win with one of the seven types of hands you get to check it. The first person to fill their card wins the prize pool. If you win with quads, it’s wild and you can mark whatever hand you want. A straight flush gets both the straight and the flush checked off. The game creates so much action when people are close to filling the card and start chasing everything.

[@conorm2524]

Good idea for home game

[@depalma13]

@@conorm2524 My local card room used to do it for a $200 bonus.

[@bcf0331]

Even funnier considering the fact that he just punted himself back to the 1/3 streets (probably overdue to begin with)

[@joffreymanborg7024]

Deffo fix

[@nate296]

The bluff here would be the queen of diamonds with a five I guess. Block both quads and the straight flush and no other hand gets here.

[@ariera9873]

The girl with pocket KK is Nicolas Cage from Honeymoon in Vegas! ('92 but worth watching with gf) I mean...What can ya do? 😒😖😞😪😫😭🤮

[@jppagetoo]

Pocket K's were only 4th nuts. Could I fold it? No, I think you have to call because many people will overvalue the A of diamonds there. And it is Rampunt playing so who knows what he would shove with. Being loose will get you called in places a nit would get folds.

[@davezajacjr.5494]

So this video just further highlights how horrendous the games I play in are. There is simply no denying Johnathan Little's poker prowess. He is just flat out right almost all the time. I say this to be clear that I am in no way saying Johnathan is wrong about this spot. I am saying that in my player pool the 7 through 9 of diamonds is never ever calling. Betting a sizing to get a call from a weak diamond does not exist, and deserves zero consideration. Also, no version of a boat is ever folding to any size. Johnathan is seeing this spot as a catch all sizing to get calls from diamonds and 5's and I'm seeing it as a polar spot to punish boats to the max. Weak diamonds and 5's give 0.000 action in this spot at Coconut Creek casino in Florida. Also, no boat ever would find a fold. And the most lol part is weak boats would call for all the tea in China, yet never consider a raise to a small bet.

[@VOID_FLIX]

Someone said that you can’t win in live poker? Have they ever left their basement? Had a front row seat to a guy dusting off about $8k in a $2/$5 game over the course of three hours two weeks ago.

[@lynnbrinkley4520]

I've been playing this game long enough to know when people have bad beats 99% of the time they flip their cards over in disbelief. She didn't have Kings there

[@marksimpson2321]

72 game. Only played it once and i won £20 first time i got it. Then another player lost nearly £150 trying to win with 72 😅

[@robmckrill3134]

If I had quads ..I'm in..if I had a book ...I'm in and if I got a bad beat then so 🐝 it .never want to be bluffed with a great hand as they don't come along that often. Wrong or right, that's what I would have done

[@buckmars13]

lol 1 out ? Why waste the run good at 2/5 when you could be playing with air ball and win 239,000

[@jayare1119]

“3rd or 4th nuts” like pocket tens my god why would anyone listen to this dude tens is not the 3rd or 4th nuts….neither is jacks smfh

[@eduardocruzo8607]

Would Rampage have called on the turn if the guy shoved ALL IN?

[@zombieherobrian5384]

I hate variants because I always get trashed lmao. Let me play my regular holdem plz ur gonna win anyways

[@jeremylutzel9140]

You don't shrug call KK.. She was lying. 😂 She had A5 off, lol

[@theNfl_Esq]

Not folding a boat. Period. And I’m a nit

[@26bisket50]

You’re the worst kind of a nit then…. Overfold except for spots where you should overfold 😂😂. Few of those in my game

[@theNfl_Esq]

@@26bisket50 lol you don’t have to tell me that I’m an ez player to exploit. That’s why I stick to tournaments and the games I play in Houston w bomb pots are pretty juicy bc it’s a double board and lots of guys who have a 2 pair or a busted draw will bluff and get picked off. Some of my biggest pots are like that n actually never done worse than a split…so I stay with what works for me. Online has so many better players than these local clubs

[@Technoanima]

TBF, anyone would follow the all-in jam with a pocket kings and full house.

[@leviwhatever6192]

I'm thinking 10-5, or j-5, maybe... maybe even k-5.

[@bigmo931]

At the home games I play at, SOHE is a fan favorite. It stands for simultaneous omaha and holdem. 6 cards in your hand and you have to split them into a holdem hand and omaha hand. then it is 1 board and at showdown, you see who wins the holdem hand and the omaha hand.

[@brownseed777]

These poker variants are pretty damn cool tbh. Anything to spice the game up I'm down.

[@nickjunes]

Straignt flush beats pocket kings as well so it's not that crazy.

[@alicoops99]

Usually love your analysis but here you go from saying they have a full house a lot of the time to saying bet small on the river as they probably have a 5 or a small flush.

[@bigj200016]

There’s two things going through my head about this hand. First, I’ve never been a fan of the blocker-ish bet sizing when you should be going for value on the river. Personally, I see three reasonable plays with value hands. Bet half pot, full pot or over bet shove. Given the way this played out, I’d probably go with half pot myself. With the run out, just a 5 can’t call. So Rampage is going to be targeting full houses, which will pretty much call any size bet here. Maybe the weakest can consider a big lay down on the over bet, but unlikely. The second thing is what hands other than exactly KJ would the BB play this way? As for what side games I like, I think the occasional bomb pot is fine. But personally I thing the 72 game adds way more action.

[@phenomta4236]

I was also trying to understand why you wouldn't want to overbet in this spot esp since it's a bomb pot... four to the flush on board so anyone with a diamond would at least think about calling a decent bet, or a full house like you had said would be calling any bet size. My only guess would be in targeting the full house you bet smaller assuming if they have it, they're re-raising

[@chaselewis9474]

@@phenomta4236 you are not getting called by small diamonds on this board 8 ways. You are targeting all fh of course but if you bet too large you are not getting raised by worse.

[@raymondpatrick2918]

Congrats on your tournament win Johnathan little

[@madjaffa]

Played crazy pineapple the other day. That was fun and weird

[@_RPM_Fitness_]

She would of showed kings for sure , I don’t think that’s what she had .

[@cmc0605]

I want to jam river here, the idea of being called a bit more frequently targeting a weak five (that should fold anyway) or bad flush is not nearly as attractive as maximizing our gains when they do overvalue a flush or have a boat. Especially with rampage's image. Anyway I like bomb pots because people make too many multiway mistakes.

[@stringoverbet2790]

I guess except: small bet might induce a raise from boat or bluff. Oh.... he just ckraised as Im typing. Ya... ie you prob getting action from boats with a small bet too

[@erronblack1]

How old was this clip? Did Rampage only recently hit his first ever Royal Flush? Really?! That seems insane to me.

[@charlesfriebis7954]

I have been playing cards for over 20 years and have never hit a royal, live or online. granted, it is not my job, but I regularly play 2-4 times a week. That includes online tournaments 2+ times a week.

[@JohnSmith-nx7zj]

@@charlesfriebis7954you’ve probably been fairly unlucky to never hit one if you’ve been playing online a few times a week for 20 years. It’s about 31,000:1 to make a royal from a 7 card hand. 31,000 hands isn’t that long online. Obviously we have to factor in the times that you (or your opponents) folded before the river. But even then I’d say you’ve run pretty bad.

[@dmitrit81]

Amazing hand ✋🏻 😮

[@bencoleman8171]

00:47 can be behind some full houses. Wtf.

[@RaymondSibbald-e8g]

PLEASE..... STOP TALKING / SHUT UP !!!!!!!!!!

[@frankboy619]

She didn’t have kings she would have showed

[@synergy8252]

broooo... that nick airball joke.. 10/10

[@briankim9781]

3rd player could have kj also?

[@rockwithyou2006]

She did not have pocket kings.

[@Chris-dj1wz]

i doubt she had pocket kings if she wasnt looking happy about the all in. if i had kings full on that board i would be ecstatic

[@randosando44]

That's exactly what I thought. Total lie. KK would insta call 100% of the time.

[@paulwillhite8615]

My 1st royal was at Mandalay Bay,

[@josephhall1049]

BB: pocket 6 to 9, maybe?

[@marcoslugo2384]

That's what She Said😉

[@finalflameKorisky]

Bb had 65o no diamond

[@wesleykorisky8600]

BB had KJo maybe?

[@jasonray3937]

BB could have several hands they would play this way. AJ, any 5, maybe even KQ, KJ, etc. On the flop, they check call as they would do with any J, 5 and maybe just overcards (because people like to splash around). On the turn, the front door flush gets there, but if they hit the K they may stick around, and if they have 2 pair or trips there is enough money in the pot they may call hoping to boat up. On the river they can't beat anything, so a snap fold also makes sense.

[@runningrock124]

6:12 lolololol

[@NefariousBDX]

Qd - 9d does not exist

[@Icekuma23Chen]

3 ways. If he bets big nobody is calling that board. A boat probably shoves against you. 555 isn't finding a fold for that price.

[@mosier76161981]

they had nothing

[@eliezerzagorin8127]

I hit a royal once. Playing 1/2. Hit it on the turn and everybody folded to a 40% pot bet. Made $45...

[@newstandardaccount]

BRUTAL spot for pocket Kings - the 4th nuts I think where there is only one combo of each of the first 3.

[@JohnSmith-nx7zj]

KK is the 3rd nuts. AdQd and Qd9d are both the nuts, because if you have Qd9d no one can have AdQd.

[@Punkwisdamn]

@@JohnSmith-nx7zj pocket 5s?

[@JohnSmith-nx7zj]

@@Punkwisdamn yes. AdQd and Qd9d are the nuts and 55 is the second nuts, making KK the third nuts. You don’t normally count individual combos when talking about the nuts. Eg on a flop of Jd6d2d we would say that KdQd is the second nuts. Even though it loses to multiple Axdd combos.

[@brentthomas2389]

2-100 Spread Limit because limit variants are all we have here in Minnesota :(

[@Bum_Hip]

It’s your lucky day Jonathan, there was a 2:30 ghostbusters preview I had to watch before this video.

[@Streusalz420]

Me and a friend always playing a red or black game, but each 7 on the flop doubles the bet and each 2 on turn or river doubles and reverse the bet :D

[@newsmart8834]

How long ago was this game? Rampage hasn't played such small stakes for ages.

[@lostsagapl4072]

Nerd

[@frankpaws]

13th

[@racermike1946]

pocket kings would be probably the only hand that would call the all-in

[@sklem3765]

gotta be some random 5. 10 on river also brings in straight. Trips are junk at this point

[@racermike1946]

i think that player who folded to a small bet on the river may have had a-j off

[@akfox19D]

I folded pocket 5s on the river. Hope that helps.

[@nelsondigital4664]

I played my first few bom pots last week and I’m in love

[@instagramsnapchat]

The only time I've ever made a royal was online, I had KQ of spades, flop comes 3 spades with JT. Ace of spades hits on the turn giving me the royal, but the river brings a 9 of spades putting a flush on the board. I shoved all-in because I was stupid and excited (mind you I play very little poker and this was like 10NL anyway, I was just happy to have hit a royal flush), and my opponent calls and flips over KQ of diamonds, LOL.

[@giacalonebuilding4443]

I like the nit game. Brings a lot of action.

[@buffetline2605]

Stand up game is the worst variant.

[@Keil253]

I'd love to see you on Hustler sometime, Jonathan!!!

[@thoughtgrenades]

Progressive bounty

[@misha83]

Double board plo bomb pots are the best!

[@Spooshball]

The 7 2 game is always fun to play

[@TristanSune]

Trips or weak flush

[@sonicboomers122]

The fact that she thought about folding the 3rd Nuts Ramages Line does show some talent.

[@nnkauaiajs6970]

You did airball dirty 😂

[@TheMarceloSilva]

That was a Great hand analyses.

[@pkawar]

he raised with 55

[@chrisko6439]

I love these, thank you

[@jefflake1581]

I like Texas hold'em. Your "variant" question is ridiculous because they're not variants, they're side bets.

[@briant6669]

Never had a royal in over 200000 hands. I got beat by one once.