A trash-talking poker player who threatens to bankrupt his opponents lost $929,250 in the last week

• Poker villain Nik Airball lost two big hands during a Hustler Casino Live session Wednesday.
• It adds more torment for one of the game's most divisive players, who already had lost $750,000 in the past week.
• Watch two hands in which Airball saw a combined $270,000 pushed his opponent's way.

Nikhil Arcot, better known by his poker name Nik Airball, ran bad Wednesday to further his losses during the popular livestream show Hustler Casino Live (HCL).

The 28-year-old calls himself the "King of LA" and has at times threatened to bankrupt players.

But last Friday, he burned through $759,200 in a matter of hours as his attempts to bully other people at the table backfired in spectacular fashion.

Then, returning Wednesday to HCL, Airball compounded his losses to seven figures — before eventually pulling himself ever so slightly out of the hole. In total, Airball lost $929,250 in the past week during HCL.

Airball lost a $130,000 pot to crypto millionaire 'Wes Side' Wesley

In a battle with a fellow regular on the HCL show, Wesley Fei — who founded crypto firm Infinite Decentralization Capital — Airball played a reasonable pre-flop hand eight of hearts and nine of diamonds.

Fei, who goes by the name "Wes Side" Wesley, woke up with pocket kings, which is the second-best hand to play pre-flop.

In a show of strength that forced other players out of the hand, Wesley bet $5,000 with his kings. Airball, wanting to dance, called the bet after asking for a count on the total amount of chips his opponent had at the table.

When the flop came nine of hearts, nine of spades, and king of diamonds, it guaranteed action as the community cards meant Airball made trips (he now had three nines), while Wesley made a full house (with three kings and two nines).

Wesley bet $3,500, which Airball did not hesitate to call.

The turn card (fourth community card) put the five of diamonds on the board. That didn't change the complexion of each player's hand, and so Wesley bet $11,000 into the $17,550 pot, which Airball called.

The river card — the five of spades — paired the board again, ensuring Airball made a full house. But he somehow still had the inferior hand as Wesley still had three kings and two nines.

Wesley didn't have the best hand possible as, in theory, he would lose to four nines or four fives (if Airball had a pocket pair of those denominations).

Regardless, when it was his choice, he announced all-in to commit his remaining stack of $45,150.

Airball called, and quickly saw the bad news as the $130,000 pot was pushed in his opponent's direction.

Watch the hand right here:

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But it wasn't the only notable hand Airball lost.

He also lost a $139,000 pot to Pepe

Later, Airball entered a hand against a player named Pepe, who had already lost $252,160 during 11 appearances on the HCL livestream shows.

Against Airball this week, he won a lot of that back.

With eight and seven of clubs, Airball began the hand with a suited connector against Pepe's pocket aces — the best opening hand one could wish for.

As two clubs arrived on the flop, Airball was one more club away from making a flush, which would have cracked Pepe's aces, and so he announced all-in to commit his opponent's stack.

The fifth club never arrived, though, and as Airball failed to crack Pepe's aces, he had to see another six-figure pot — nearly $140,000 — pushed in his opponent's direction.

Watch the hand here:

—Hustler Casino Live (@HCLPokerShow) March 23, 2023

Despite losing two big hands, Airball clawed some of his losses back to finish the livestream session down $170,050.

Combined with his big defeat last week, it meant Airball's losses in his last two Hustler Casino Live appearances exceeded $920,000.

Prior to that defeat last week, Airball had won approximately $1.1 million on-stream at HCL. After his last two sessions on the show, those winnings have been trimmed to $419,325.