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Tom Dwan won the largest poker pot ever seen in a televised or livestreamed game this week. The 36-year-old, who worked for McDonald\u2019s prior to becoming a professional poker player, raked in $3.1 million during Hustler Casino Live\u2019s Million Dollar Game early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

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Tom Dwan makes a call against Wesley Fei to win the biggest pot in broadcast poker history at Hustler Casino Live in LA. (Image: HCL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dwan scored the record pot with pocket queens against self-proclaimed cryptocurrency millionaire Wesley Fei, 31, who was bluffing.<\/p>\n

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The hand occurred in a No-Limit Texas Hold ’em cash game with a $1 million minimum buy-in, so the pot size wasn\u2019t a shocker. But the record-breaking hand generated lots of head-scratching at the table.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Fei was sitting with $2.8 million when the hand began compared to Dwan\u2019s $1.5 million. They were playing with $500 and $1,000 blinds plus an escalating big-blind ante that had grown to $3,000. Dwan also contributed a voluntary $2,000 third blind called a straddle. So $6,500 was in the pot before any of the eight players saw their hands.<\/p>\n

I See You<\/h2>\n

Doug Polk, seated to Wei\u2019s left, complicated matters. The three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner declared that he saw Fei\u2019s cards. Fei was the last player to act preflop. A newcomer named LSG Hank raised ahead of Fei to $7,000, but when Fei looked down to see Ace-King offsuit, one of the strongest preflop hands in poker, he three-bet to $30K, despite Polk supposedly knowing his cards.<\/p>\n

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At this point, Polk folded. Dwan, whose pair of queens weren’t picked up by the card reader, re-raised to $100K, causing LSG Hank to fold. Fei then raised again to $275K, and Dwan called. With $562K in the middle, the pair saw a flop — the 3 of diamonds, 8 of spades, and 8 of diamonds — that helped no one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Dwan checked, prompting Fei to bet $125K, escalating the pot to $812K and rendering the previously chatty table silent. Dwan called. The turn again helped neither player, and Dwan checked.<\/p>\n

River Deep, Mountain of Chips High<\/h2>\n

\u201cWesley\u2019s hands are shaking,\u201d announcer David Tuchman said. \u201cHe is loading up for another bet.\u201d<\/p>\n

That bet was for $350K and Dwan, without much hesitation, called it. The river didn\u2019t help either player and Dwan checked again, leading Fei to move all in.<\/p>\n

This time, Dwan hesitated. He stood up, grabbed a bottle of water, and began going over the hand out loud as he faced a bet for his entire stack of $786K.<\/p>\n

So Doug saw his hand,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is a weird f***ing hand. Doug saw his hand, tried to talk him out of three-betting, he three-bet anyway,\u201d Dwan said while staring at Polk. \u201cI mean, I guessed he flopped an eight, but it seems very hard to fold.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After nearly four minutes, Dwan threw a stack of chips in the pot to make the call that won him the biggest pot in broadcast poker history.<\/p>\n

\u201cOhh,\u201d Fei said as more than $1.5 million of his chips changed ownership. \u201cCan\u2019t bluff Tom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Game Not<\/em> Over<\/h2>\n

The record-shattering hand was only one of several big pots in the game that started at 3 p.m. PT Tuesday and went until nearly 4 a.m. Wednesday. Eventually, Fei won a big chunk of his money back on what turned out to be the second<\/em>-largest hand in broadcast poker history, good for $2.25 million, which he won by turning three-of-a-kind to beat LSG Hank\u2019s pair of queens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Dwan won the largest poker pot ever seen in a televised or livestreamed game this week. The 36-year-old, who worked for McDonald\u2019s prior to becoming a professional poker player, raked in $3.1 million during Hustler Casino Live\u2019s Million Dollar Game early Wednesday morning. Dwan scored the record pot with pocket queens against self-proclaimed cryptocurrency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":275760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83771,14],"tags":[86518,83492,86517,81907,86519,86520],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTom Dwan Wins Biggest Pot in Broadcast Poker History - Casino.org<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tom Dwan won the largest poker pot ever seen in a televised or livestreamed game this week. 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