Ethan “Rampage” Yau bought in for $450,000 at a private cash game on Jeju Island, South Korea, and walked out with nothing, according to a video he posted on 27 October 2026.
It went wrong early and stayed wrong: stacked on the second hand, a $188,000 pot lost on a four-bet bluff, a $520,000 pot chopped when it should have been the rescue, and finally bluffed off the winner before a flip finished him.
Rampage describes it on camera as the biggest loss of his life.
He has said something like it before, and the Hustler Casino Live session he lost in 2024 cost him more by his own numbers, although that was one session’s result rather than every chip he had brought on a trip.
How the Jeju Game Took $450,000 Off Rampage
Stacked on the Second Hand
The game, as he found it:
- Blinds of 200/400 with no ante, five-handed to start.
- A $50,000 buy-in, with rebuys and add-ons at the player’s discretion.
- Blue chips worth $5,000, reds $1,000 and blacks $100, which he says took some getting used to.
Jeju is better known for tournaments, as the island Triton uses for its biggest series, but this was a private game behind an unmarked door. He says he got sign-off from every player before filming.
The first hand set the tone without costing much: top pair with queen-jack, checked down after three hearts arrived, beaten by king-queen. The second hand did the damage.
With jack-eight of diamonds in the big blind he turned trips on a jack-nine-three board and called $2,000 and $5,000. The river brought a $45,000 shove, roughly three times the pot.
He snap-called and ran into pocket threes for a full house. $50,000 gone in two deals, and he rebought for $100,000.
The $188,000 Four-Bet Bluff
Pocket kings won him $17,000 on an eight-three-three board when his river overbet was called, and a seven-four check-raise followed by a $15,000 river overbet with seven high took another pot down unopposed. Then jack-eight came back, this time suited in spades.
He opened to $1,000, took a three-bet to $3,500 from the button, and four-bet to $11,000. On ten-nine-four with two spades he bet $15,000 with an open-ender and got called, and when the turn bricked he jammed $68,000 to represent the overpairs a four-bet puts in his range.
His opponent snap-called with pocket tens for top set. The river was a deuce, the $188,000 pot went left, and he was down to $25,000 before adding on another $100,000.
| Hand | Blinds | Pot | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| J8 turned trips vs pocket threes | 200/400 | About $100,000 | Lost, stacked for $50,000 |
| J8 four-bet, open-ender vs pocket tens | 200/400 | $188,000 | Lost |
| A2 hero call vs pocket eights | 500/1K | About $200,000 | Lost |
| AJ full house vs QJ full house | 500/1K | $520,000 | Chopped |
| AQ jam vs pocket sixes | 1K/2K with $4K straddle | $200,000 | Lost, felted |
From a $520,000 Chop to Felted by Sixes
Jacks Full Against Jacks Full
At 1am three new players sat down and the game moved to 500/1K. He won $30,000 with a river bluff holding five-seven on an ace-high board, then got paid $25,000 by worse trips with ten-seven, and for a moment the session looked recoverable.
The recovery ended with ace-deuce of hearts against a player he had just watched bluff off a $250,000 pot. He called a $12,500 three-bet, then $8,000, $22,000 and $60,000 on each street with a pair of deuces, convinced he was not being value-bet. He was shown pocket eights.
The add-on that followed took him to $450,000 in, a number no version of the bankroll rules most grinders play by would sign off on. Then came the hand that should have fixed everything.
With ace-jack he flopped top pair on jack-four-five, turned trips and rivered a full house when a second four landed. He bet $82,000, got shoved on for $165,000 more and called, and the $520,000 pot was chopped with queen-jack.
Bluffed Off the Winner With Ace High
Ace-ten offsuit was next. He called an $18,000 three-bet, led $18,000 on an eight-seven-six two-club flop and $45,000 on a king turn, then checked the river with $100,000 behind and folded to a shove.
The opponent told him afterwards she had missed clubs. Ace high was the winning hand, and it had been all along.
The game moved to 1K/2K with a $4,000 straddle, leaving him 25 big blinds. He raised ace-queen to $10,000, the same player three-bet to $35,000, and the last $100,000 went in and lost to pocket sixes.
He signs off with “the end of my high stakes Chinese adventure”, which is a strange thing to say in South Korea.
Rampage’s Biggest Filmed Pots Since the Hustler Session
He has now filmed three sessions on this scale in under three years.
January 2024 Was Bigger
The three sessions side by side, with the Hustler night still the costliest:
| Date | Game | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2024 | Hustler Casino Live, $100/$200/$400 | In for $800,000, out for $253,000 | VIP-Grinders report |
| Dec 2025 | New York club game, up to $500/$1,000 | $622,000 pot lost on the final hand, session still a winner | His channel |
| Oct 2026 | Jeju Island private game, 200/400 to 1K/2K | In for $450,000, out for zero | His channel |
His January 2024 Hustler Casino Live session ended in for $800,000 and out for $253,000, a $547,000 loss he called more than his house was worth. By that measure Jeju is not the biggest, even if it is the first time he has filmed losing every chip.
A Losing 2025 Before Korea
He went to Korea off the back of a losing year. His side of the gap between Mariano and Rampage last year was $357,213 down across 114 sessions, while Mariano Grandoli made $1.26 million from fewer of them.
December brought a New York club session where a $622,000 pot on the last hand would have sent him home $700,000 up. It went to a set against his trip aces, but he still left a winner, which is more than Jeju allowed.
Where Rampage Goes From Here
The video is cut as a push to 400,000 subscribers, and whatever the session cost, the channel is still the business.
A $450,000 loss on camera is also content most of the poker vloggers and streamers profiled here would never show.
There is no session total beyond the video, and his account on X is where any follow-up will land first. Expect the next upload to be a smaller game.
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