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Poker pro Tom Dwan has won A LOT of money both in tournament poker and in cash games. And he’s just set the record for winning the largest hand in televised poker history.
On Tuesday night’s Hustler Casino Live stream, the buy-in was a minimum of $1 million. Tom Dwan, or ‘Durrrr’ as he’s known online, took down high roller ‘Wesley’ in a cash pot hand worth $3.1 million, the largest cash pot ever on a poker live stream or TV broadcast.
After winning this hand, Tom Dwan was up over $2 million (in cash) on the night:
$3.1 MILLION POT!! THE BIGGEST POT IN THE HISTORY OF TELEVISED POKER!!@TomDwan vs @CryptoApprenti1
Tom Dwan is now winning more than $2 MILLION tonight pic.twitter.com/Fiv7ldVykt
— Hustler Casino Live (@HCLPokerShow) May 31, 2023
What really blows my mind, in addition to this being a $3.1 million hand, is it’s not even the largest hand Tom Dwan has ever won.
On a recent episode of High Stakes Poker, Andrew Robl told a story that was corroborated by fellow pro Jean-Robert Bellande. The story is that Tom Dwan won a pot worth $9 MILLION playing at The Aria, the largest pot these pros had ever seen in person.
In last night’s game, the Hustler Casino Live table action was hotter than I’ve ever seen. Doug Polk was bluffed out of pocket aces in a hand worth $937,000.
One of the sickest hands in poker TV history!!@DougPolkVids has pocket aces… @lsg_hank BLUFFS ALL IN for $937,000
If Doug calls, the pot is $2.15 MILLION, which would be the biggest pot in US poker TV/streaming history pic.twitter.com/gqzDc3qwGA
— Hustler Casino Live (@HCLPokerShow) May 31, 2023
And any other night this would’ve been the largest pot in televised poker history. The SECOND biggest poker pot ever played on a live stream or TV went down, a $2.25M pot:
We just had the 2nd-biggest pot in US televised poker history!!
$2.25 MILLION POT!!@CryptoApprenti1 vs @lsg_hank
We are STILL LIVE!! Tune in NOW: https://t.co/UxxugRbx7T pic.twitter.com/lokxqUZuTu
— Hustler Casino Live (@HCLPokerShow) May 31, 2023
Doug Polk operates one of the largest poker YouTube channels around. To see him bluffed off this hand was wild. Polk finished the night losing over $1.2 million (in cash).
After the game, Tom Dwan spoke about winning a record-setting $3.1 million cash poker pot and $1.6 million in profit on the night:
Post-game interview with @TomDwan
Tom won $1.6 million, his biggest win ever in a televised/streaming game
Tom won a $3.1 million pot, the biggest pot in televised/streaming poker history pic.twitter.com/mx974YccVX
— Hustler Casino Live (@HCLPokerShow) May 31, 2023
According to his HendonMob results, Tom Dwan has won $6.45 million in live poker tournaments. Between winning a $9 million pot and the $3.1 million last night, it’s evident he is INCREDIBLE in cash games.