{"id":30830,"date":"2023-03-28T00:35:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T00:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cardschat.com\/news\/poker-heel-gets-stomach-pumped-on-hustler-casino-live-116194\/"},"modified":"2023-09-28T12:19:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T12:19:32","slug":"poker-heel-gets-stomach-pumped-on-hustler-casino-live-116194","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/poker-heel-gets-stomach-pumped-on-hustler-casino-live-116194\/","title":{"rendered":"Poker Heel gets ‘Stomach Pumped’ on Hustler Casino Live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nik Airball is an unpleasant guy at the poker table. With a mouth that comes directly off a toxic-spewing teenaged-edgelord out of a Call of Duty lobby combined with a bankroll that is seemingly bottomless, he has grabbed the live poker spotlight and placed it directly over his big shaved head.<\/p>\n

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Nikhil “Airball” Arcot is the latest rich bully to get poker-smacked this month. (Image: Hustler Casino Live)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He’s the current “flavor of the month,” and the flavor is salty.<\/p>\n

Airball, whose real name is Nikhil Arcot, floated to the top of big buy-in poker streams as a brash, obnoxious, and obscene opponent who seems to play not for stacking opponents, but for the opportunities to needle and bully on camera.<\/p>\n

He’s joined casino owner and fellow verbal bludgeoner E<\/a>ric Persson as a rich, annoying showoff<\/a> who poker fans love to watch \u201chaving their stomach\u2019s pumped,\u201d as one redditor put it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arcot’s victims include poker champions like Dan Cates, who was labelled a “bitch” on The Lodge’s livestream after folding a winner, which prompted the two-time $50,000 World Series of Poker’s trophy-winner\u00a0to wobble out of orbit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His antics \u2014 and his staggering losses on Hustler Casino Live this month \u2014 have gone mainstream, with publications like Business Insider<\/a> picking up the fact that Airball lost nearly $1 million in March on that stream.<\/p>\n

The gargantuan amount of money, of course, is what makes it all so compelling. But Arcot’s bad sportsmanship, smart-ass mouth, and arrogance acts like a dopamine multiplier and many poker fans want to inject it directly into their veins, no matter how dirty it feels.<\/p>\n

The viewings of Arcot chirping, getting coolered, called-down, and stacked are into the six-figures<\/a>.\u00a0Let’s face it, there’s a catharsis involved watching a cocky man (Arcot calls himself the “King of LA”) getting cratered by his own manufactured ego.<\/p>\n

Soul-read by Rampage\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Even though he is still up more than $400K on the HCL stream this year, his downward swing has been a very expensive way to market himself as a rich man not to be trifled with.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t a lesson that Ethan “Rampage” Yau heeded as he played a huge pot against Arcot on St. Patrick’s Day where he sniffed out a $110,000 river bluff in less than five seconds and called the braggart with ace-high.<\/p>\n

Yau, who just scooped two Global Poker Index Awards earlier this month<\/a>, seems to have picked up a tell on Arcot and almost sheepishly scooped a pot worth more than $300,000 with his better ace.<\/p>\n

It’s what you get when a brilliant player meets man pretending to be a bulldozer.<\/p>\n

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HOLY S%$T!!!@nikairball<\/a> puts @rampagepoker<\/a> to the test in a $300K+ pot and Rampage snap calls $110K without a pair!!@rampagepoker<\/a> is now up over $450,000 tonight!!<\/p>\n

Tune in NOW for SUPER HIGH STAKES $100\/200\/400: https:\/\/t.co\/CA9kpcLrvR<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/K0DQiTeVyT<\/a><\/p>\n

— Hustler Casino Live (@HCLPokerShow) March 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n