Mariano Grandoli has been the biggest winner on Hustler Casino Live for years. On Thursday’s $25/$50 ante game he reminded everyone why, cracking pocket aces with 6-3 offsuit in a four-way all-in pot worth $137,150. The hand was as ugly as it was beautiful, depending on which side of the table you were sitting on.

The Hand Itself

The pot started innocently enough. A few limps, nothing crazy. Mariano raised to $2,000 from the hijack with 63. Not a hand most people raise, but that’s part of what makes him entertaining. Nikos called with K7, Dr. P shoved for $14,675 holding QJ, and Rich Asian Bro just called with AA, slow-playing the best hand preflop. Mariano came along. Nikos put in his last $8,200. Four players all-in before the flop, $54,325 in the middle.

The flop landed 854. Not what Rich Asian Bro was hoping for. Mariano picked up an open-ended straight draw and called an $8,000 bet into the side pot. Then the 2 fell on the turn and that was basically it. Straight made, money locked up. He shoved, Rich Asian Bro called off his last $18,500 drawing dead. The 2 on the river changed nothing. Mariano scooped the whole $137,150. Rich Asian Bro smiled. What else do you do.

Does anyone run better than this guy?!

Mariano finds a way to crack Aces with 63!! pic.twitter.com/5HSjY3LMOY

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How the Session Played Out

Despite winning the biggest pot at the table, Mariano ended the session up just $2,875. The chips came back out over the course of the night, as they often do. The hand will get the views, but the result was about as unremarkable as a $137K pot winner can be.

The real winner on the night was Ethan “Rampage” Yau, who booked $50,650 in profit. It was his fifth consecutive winning session, a streak going back to October 2025. Across those five appearances he’s now up $448,200, which includes a $253,400 session in the $100/$200 game just last week.

Yau came into 2026 saying he wanted to take the game more seriously. Hard to argue he hasn’t delivered on that so far.

Who Is Mariano?

Mariano Grandoli started out as a low-stakes grinder posting YouTube videos about the journey. He built a following by being honest about the ups and downs, and somewhere along the way he also became one of the most consistent winners in high-stakes streamed poker.

His 2025 results came in at $1.25 million profit across 92 sessions, nearly triple his 2024 earnings of $486,000. Over the entire history of the show he sits as the all-time biggest winner with $2,860,065 in net profit across 1,077 hours. That works out to around $2,660 per hour. For context, most people would be happy making that in a month.

The 6-3 hand is a good clip. But anyone who’s been following him knows this is just one hand in a very long, very profitable story.

Who Is Rampage?

Ethan “Rampage” Yau built his name the same way Mariano did: through YouTube, starting from small games and working up. The difference is Yau leaned harder into tournaments along the way, picking up a WSOP Online bracelet for $164,494 and a WPT $25,000 High Roller title for $894,240. His total live tournament earnings sit above $3.18 million.

On the cash game side he’s had some famous moments too, including a $600,000 bluff in the Million Dollar Game that still gets brought up regularly. He’s a high-variance player by nature, which makes five straight profitable sessions all the more surprising. It’s not the Rampage people expected coming into this year.

Why Hustler Casino Live Keeps Delivering

Part of what makes these sessions compelling is the mix. Mariano and Rampage both came up through content creation. They talk on stream, they explain their thinking, they react like normal people when a two-card straight draw gets there on the turn. Put them at the same table as recreational players who buy in for six figures and you’ve got a genuinely interesting dynamic.

Thursday had everything. A four-way all-in with the worst hand winning. A flopped straight against slow-played aces. A five-session heater from a player who used to make vlogs about $1/$2. And the guy who scooped the biggest pot walked away with less than $3,000 profit. That’s cash game poker. It doesn’t always make sense, and that’s exactly why people keep watching.