Wednesday’s Hustler Casino Live stream proved to be a lively one with a lineup that included Martin Kabrhel and Nick Palma, two polarizing poker players who got into it with one another during the high-stakes cash game.
Palma, who recently won his first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet, traded not just chips but verbal jabs with others the table, including HCL regulars Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot and Turbo.
“I Would’ve Walked Here to Play With You”
The $100/$200 cash game started off friendly enough before a change in atmosphere as Turbo began needling Palma about being too tight of a player after a missed straddle, a criticism shared by Arcot. Palma didn’t take kindly to the ribbing and made his annoyance known.
“Be careful what you’re talking,” Palma told Turbo. “Just watch what you’re saying out of your mouth … I would’ve walked here to play with you. Anywhere you play, I’ll play.”
Palma then made a point to rub a well-timed bluff in his opponent’s faces as a $10,000 bet forced Peter to fold his top pair on the 2♥2♣9♦8♣ board, sending the pot to “Nicky P” with just king-high.
“If you guys are talking all this sh**, I’m going to f***ing destroy you,” he said after tabling the bluff. “I told you, I would’ve walked here to play with you, Turbo. I wake up and I think about people like you. I dream about guys like you.”
Palma at one point turned his attention to Kabrhel, whose table antics and excessive tanking made him the anti-hero of the 2025 WSOP. “You invited this clown?” Kabrhel asked Arcot as he pointed to Palma.
Palma replied: “You’re right in my face. You’re not calling me a clown right in my grill. So shut up. Straight up … Don’t worry, Martin, you’re going to learn with the rest of the table today, don’t worry. And it’s like that.”
“Buddy, you talk a lot for a guy that plays no hands,” Arcot said at one point.
Palma is a polarizing figure in his own right. The longtime poker pro with $3.3 million in Hendon Mob earnings clashed with Hustler regular Mariano Grandoli earlier this month over alleged tanking in a big pot.
The Wednesday stream featured several six-figure pots, most notably when Big Mike’s aces were cracked in a three-way all-in that saw Henry spiking a set of sixes.
As of publishing, Turbo was the big winner in the game with $100,800 in winnings, followed by his nemesis Palma with $71,900. Kabrel was among the biggest losers in the game with a loss of $52,100, matched only by Pipi’s loss of $56,600.
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