Garrett Adelstein Storms Off Hustler Casino Live After Controversial Hand

Garrett Adelstein, a regular on the Hustler Casino Live show and said to be the biggest winner with over $1.8 million in winnings, stormed off the set after a controversial hand against Robbi Jade Lew.

The game was intense, with Adelstein raising to $3,000 from the third blind with 8c7c and Lew calling in the straddle holding Jc4h. The flop came down Th Tc 9c, and Adelstein bet $2,500, which Lew called. The turn was the 3h, and Adelstein fired out $10,000. Lew, after deep thought, min-raised to $20,000. Adelstein then 3-bet jamming, putting Lew all in for almost $109,000 to call. Lew spent at least 15 seconds checking her cards before deciding to call it off, saying out loud she has a bluff catcher. The players agreed to run it twice, and Adelstein lost both runs.

Doug Polk immediately tweeted that Hustler should end the stream and begin an investigation, and many of his followers agreed, thinking that something dodgy was going on. Joey Ingram was quick to fire up an emergency live broadcast to dig through what had just happened. Reviewing the Hustler Casino Live footage, we see that Garrett Adelstein, still looking stunned, gets up and leaves the playing area and is followed by Robbi Lew and later by another player at the table known as Rip, thought to be a business partner of Lew. Some arguing can be clearly heard in the background before Rip returns to the table furious, claiming that Adelstein had asked for his money back (almost $135,000). We later learn that Lew voluntarily handed the money back to Adelstein after asking what would make him happy and return to the game. He took the chips but quickly bagged up his own stack and left without saying a word.