No Gamble, No Future returned to the PokerGO airwaves on Tuesday evening for the opening stanza of the show's 7th season — and provided viewers with a fresh face to mark the occasion: Garrett Adelstein.
Adelstein, whose appearances on livestream and televised poker games have been few and far between since his involvement in the jack-four scandal on Hustler Casino Live, made his No Gamble, No Future debut alongside Taylor 'Lightning' Wilson, Justin Gavri, and Darin Feinstein while Andrew Robl, Rips, Kirk Brown, and Shawn Madden returned for more after battling it out in previous seasons.
Garrett Adelstein doesn't play much poker these days, but his stare down remains intimidating. With the blinds at $100/$200, both Robl and Adelstein began the episode with $200,000 in front of them while the rest of the table hovered around the $100,000 mark. Within minutes, however, the cumulative dollar amount on the table increased significantly.
No Gamble, No Future Season 7, Episode 1 Starting Stacks
| Player | Stack |
|---|---|
| Andrew Robl | $200,000 |
| Garrett Adelstein | $200,000 |
| Darin Feinstein | $105,000 |
| Justin Gavri | $101,000 |
| Rips | $100,000 |
| Kirk Brown | $100,000 |
| Shawn Madden | $100,000 |
| Taylor 'Lightning' Wilson | $75,000 |
'Now I'm on tilt'
In the first hand of the episode, Rips kicked off the action with a raise to $1,200 holding 
and Feinstein quickly called with 
. Robl looked down at 
on the button and bumped it up to $5,000.
"It's my first time playing with Rips, but he looks like a gambler. He looks like a man who's here to play," Robl told the table.
Rips, as forecasted, threw the extra $3,800 across the betting line to gamble with his king-high. Feinstein followed suit to close the pre-flop action — happy to match Rips' willingness to mix it up and even happier as he watched the dealer spread the 
flop.
Darin Feinstein was rewarded for his speculative call. After two quick checks from his opponents, Robl nonchalantly flicked a single $5,000 chip into the middle. Rips returned his cards to the dealer — gamble unsuccessful — but Feinstein wasn't going anywhere with two pair. Rather than raise and potentially lose his customer, he played the hand slowly with just a call and his decision paid off as the 
materialized on the turn to improve him to a full house.
Robl, now drawing dead, kept his foot on the gas with a bet of $15,000 when checked to. With $95,000 still behind, Feinstein deemed it time to force a little more money into the middle and raised to the minimum — $30,000.
As Robl eyed up his opponent's chips, he asked, "You got a queen?"
Feinstein remained silent until Robl matched the raise.
"Wow, Robl!" he cried.
With $86,000 in the middle, Feinstein threw out a single $25,000 chip before the river 
was even dealt.
"I wish I didn't get a seat in this game," Robl bluffed before tossing in a calling chip and seeing the bad news. "Now I'm on tilt."
War declared, war returned
As the table laughed it up at his expense, Robl added $600,000 to his stack. Meanwhile, the dealer began pitching a fresh hand and Feinstein looked down at 
and raised to $2,200.
"Alright, I declare war on you, Darin," Robl said.
Then he peeled 
and shot it up to $10,000. Madden called from the big blind with 
before Feinstein immediately four-bet to $110,000.
With the action back on him, Robl was ready to roll and announced an all-in for the rest of it.
Shawn Madden got his chips in way ahead, but had to hold. "I don't think I can fold this," Madden told the table before making the call.
Feinstein called it off as well to bring the pot to an eye-watering $452,200 and the three players agreed to run two full boards. While the first runout kept it clean for Madden to win him half the pot, the river on the second runout sent the other half Robl's way.
No Gamble, No Future airs Tuesday evenings at 8pm ET, exclusively on PokerGO.
Images courtesy of Antonio Abrego/PokerGO.
