How I Stole $100,000 from MrBeast - Summary

Summary

The speaker recounts a high-stakes poker game they hosted, where they "stole" $100,000 from MrBeast. The game featured various content creators and poker professionals, including Phil Hellmuth. The speaker rigged the game by seating MrBeast to their right, ensuring they would face off against each other. The game was filled with drama, including a miscommunication between Phil Hellmuth and another player, and Hellmuth becoming increasingly agitated as he lost. The speaker went all-in multiple times, winning against MrBeast and eventually accumulating a significant amount of money. The final results showed the "casual gamers" (content creators) dominating the professionals, with the top earners being a streamer, MrBeast, and the speaker. The two professional players, Tom Dwan and Phil Hellmuth, finished lower, with Hellmuth losing a significant amount of money.

Facts

Here are the key facts extracted from the text:

1. The narrator claims to have stolen $100,000 from MrBeast.
2. The narrator had previously lost $10,000 to MrBeast in a game of poker.
3. The narrator set up a high-stakes poker game with a minimum buy-in of $100,000.
4. The game included content creators and professional poker players, including Phil Hellmuth.
5. The narrator rigged the game to ensure they would play against MrBeast.
6. Alan Keating, a businessman, was also invited to the game.
7. Phil Hellmuth got into a dispute with Slime, another player, over a miscommunication about a hand.
8. The dispute was resolved when Phil Hellmuth gave back half of the money he had won from Slime.
9. Alexandra Botez, a streamer, made it to the final four in the game.
10. The narrator went all-in against MrBeast with pocket kings, but didn't realize it because they had walked away from the table.
11. MrBeast had two pairs, queens and sixes, and would have won the hand if the narrator had stayed in.
12. The narrator credited their luck to a conversation with Cutie, who distracted them from the game.
13. The narrator went all-in again against MrBeast and won on the river.
14. Ludwig, another player, doubled up and won a large pot.
15. Phil Hellmuth lost his temper and got angry at the players for "punking off the stack."
16. The final results of the game showed that the content creators, including the narrator and MrBeast, had made more money than the professional poker players.
17. Alan Keating spent $1.13 million in the poker event.