A trash-talking poker player, who often threatens to bankrupt opponents, lost $759,000 at the table in one session

• One of poker's biggest villains received some comeuppance in a recent session.
• Nik Airball calls opponents' names and threatens to bankrupt them.

High-stakes poker player Nikhil Arcot, better known by his in-game persona Nik Airball, burned through $759,200 during a recent high-stakes poker session in Southern California.

The self-proclaimed "King of LA" has emerged as a new supervillain, while playing in some of the biggest cash games in America, because of his trash-talking and his ability to be the pre-flop bully.

Up until a month ago, Airball had $1.1 million in profits while playing on Hustler Casino Live's popular stream (HCL).

His aggressive style was paying dividends while he called opponents "bitch," and routinely threatened to bankrupt them.

But, in a twist of fate, he was left looking bewildered Friday during a live stream session at HCL.

Around half of Airball's losses that night came from just two hands — both of which were failed bluffs — and helped compound how tilted he appeared.

In poker, being on tilt is a state of mind that leads that player to make costly mistakes.

This can happen when the player, likely frustrated, enters hands that logic dictates they shouldn't and runs bluffs that make little to no sense, often leaving them vulnerable to opponents playing with a sound mind.

How he set $200,000 on fire in seconds

In one infamous Texas Hold 'Em hand during Airball's downturn, he bet $6,200 while holding the seven and three of diamonds, having already lost almost half of his $950,000 stack by that point.

The action folded around to Stanley Choi, who called Airball's bet as he had a decent opening hand of Ace-Jack off-suit.

When the flop (the opening three community cards) came jack of hearts, king of diamonds, and two of spades, Airball had nothing while Choi had a pair of jacks.

Regardless, Airball continued to bet another $6,000, which Choi was comfortable calling.

The turn (fourth community card) was then the 10 of clubs and, though Airball still had nothing, he continued to try to tell a story that he had a big hand by betting $30,000.

Choi's hand was effectively unchanged, as he still had middle pair, but he was perhaps wary that Airball could have made a higher pair, three of a kind, or even a straight as the board was so connected.

Regardless, he called and the pot had now grown to $85,200.

With the river (fifth and final community card) pairing the board with the two of diamonds, Airball thought there was only one thing left to do, and so he bet a whopping $160,000 — almost two times the pot — to really put Choi to the test.

Choi took two minutes to think through the hand and it wasn't until Airball started talking: "I've bluffed all night. I have to have it one time," as if pleading with Choi to fold, that made Choi flick a chip in to call and, ultimately, win a $405,200 pot.

Watch it right here:

The play left Bill Klein, who was to Choi's right and not in the hand, open-mouthed.

But it wasn't the only hand in which Airball torched a lot of money

Airball also ran another awkward bluff in a hand against YouTube creator and rising poker star Ethan Yau, better known as Rampage.

On that hand, Yau woke up with Ace-King off-suit, one of the best opening hands a player could wish for, against Airball's Ace-Three off-suit.

Airball bumped up the pre-flop betting to $10,000 which Rampage called, before the flop ran out Queen, Two, Queen.

As the commentator noted, "it's hard to fold anything to Airball," because he was playing so wildly.

Airball continued to bet his hand with chips valuing $6,000, which Rampage matched. The turn produced yet another queen, meaning there were three queens on the board.

With Airball betting $30,000, he was trying to tell a story that he was either holding a queen himself, for four-of-a-kind or a pocket pair to make a full house. Unconvinced, Rampage called Airball's bet to grow the pot to $92,900.

With an eight of diamonds river card, little had changed yet Airball tried to bully Rampage off of his hand with a bet of $110,000.

Even though Rampage hadn't made a hand, he didn't need a moment to think and simply flicked in a calling chip with his Ace high, thinking Airball was on tilt and simply betting with worse than what he himself was holding.

It was a heroic call, and one that scooped him the $312,900 pot.

Airball threw his hands up in disbelief and, when he saw what Rampage had called him with, could be heard saying: "Oh my God … how do you snap-call with Ace high?"

Watch it here:

After Airball had time to digest the losses, which totaled $759,200 in a single session, he appeared in good spirits.

"Sometimes you're the artist, sometimes you're the punter," he said on Twitter.