Hustler Casino Live claims the largest pot in live poker history! (video included)

[Shells]

Tom Dwan and Wesley Fei faced off during what might be the biggest pot seen in live poker - a whopping $3.1 Million!

Details of the hand are written here >>> Poker Hand of the Year: Tom Dwan Wins $3.1 Million Pot on HCL

What are your takeaways from this hand?

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[julio gonzalez]

Hello if I saw it live on you tube. on that table to enter you had to have a million dollars ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

 

[Andyreas]

Gimme 1% of that pot and I'm happy. 🤣

 

[valeski 28]

What an amazing pot!Dwan still loves playing those risky hands.

 

[Gritz18]

Not even close to the jar I got yesterday, mine must have like 100 cookies in it, or that's not a cookie jar you're talking about, hmmmm..........

 

[EmptyHouse]

Great call Dwan.

 

[DS3]

Well, that was something else.

Wesley is interesting as someone who sprang onto the Hustler Live Stream as a newbie (I never quite bought into that story completely), a well-heeled newbie at that, who plays in a brash manner. Like Nick Airball, you could always imagine them running into a buzzsaw.

So, what I found interesting about Tom Dwan's call was not so much the call, but how he looked. Dwan looks better that I have seen him in a while.
Most times I have seen him in the last few years (Triton etc.) Dwan has looked gaunt - haggard and bags under the eyes. Though his recent play is far more measured than years ago, he often looks like he has been burning the candle both ends. But what struck me in this clip is he looked really fresh and well rested...was that even some color in his face?...which in Dwan's case might simply mean having a few good night's sleeps in a row!

That said, I think a great but almost expected call under the circumstances, beginning with the fact that Wesley had sloppily exposed his hand to Doug Polk. Doug instantly let the table know he has seen Wesley's cards, which were AK. Doug then the checked his hand before folding (he had not checked his cards before) and there was open banter at the table that Polk was going to fold automatically. The only real reason for Polk (logically) to check his hand at that point would be to see if he held AA or KK which he didn't and then auto-muck.

And though Dwan posed for some minutes that Wesley could have flopped trips, that did not make sense after the Wesley/Polk interaction which kicked off the hand. What could Wesley have been holding A8?

So, great call and great pot for Tom Dwan...and let's give some credit to Wesley who took it like a champ.

 

[rhoudini]

That's insane!!! What a nice hand, actually, when you think about it. What takes more courage, bluffing this spot or calling? I don't know.
In other hand, Doug Polk folded aces to an ace-high bluff which also involved a big pot... Definitely not an easy game.

 

[DS3]

And here is another hand, this time between Tom Dwan and Doug Polk for over a million dollar pot.

Same dynamic, Doug and Wesley (for some bizarre reason) sharing Doug's hand before he gets into a pot with Tom Dwan...and it all goes wrong from there. Doug has issued his own clip explaining himself but it's not too convinicing.

Some epic tanking from Dwan (I think generally with cause), Doug calls the clock, Nick Airball can't shut up, and then Rob Yong (who personally, I like less and less) then tries to stir things up as if it was all a slow roll from Dwan, when Doug himself is taking it quite well (probably due to the fact he goofed the hand)

 

[DrBadBeat]

Of course the biggest pot ever had to have Dwan raking in a huge pot.

 

[DrBadBeat]

And here is another hand, this time between Tom Dwan and Doug Polk for over a million dollar pot.

Same dynamic, Doug and Wesley (for some bizarre reason) sharing Doug's hand before he gets into a pot with Tom Dwan...and it all goes wrong from there. Doug has issued his own clip explaining himself but it's not too convinicing.

Some epic tanking from Dwan (I think generally with cause), Doug calls the clock, Nick Airball can't shut up, and then Rob Yong (who personally, I like less and less) then tries to stir things up as if it was all a slow roll from Dwan, when Doug himself is taking it quite well (probably due to the fact he goofed the hand)

The clock call on the turn in a $1m cash game super deep was super bizzare in what was already shaping to be a monster pot.