This was good indication that the newly acquired Full Tilt are willing to do whatever it takes to rebuild the brand. Luckily, former rivals, PokerStars, which just so happens to be 1 of, if not “The” most trusted name in the poker industry right now, stepped in and purchased the site.Īs a result, all players with outstanding withdrawal requests and suspended accounts were eventually paid back. The legendary durrrr is still at the top of his game coming up to 18-20 years in the game, this despite Phil Hellmuth famously claiming that Dwan would only be around for a couple of years due to his crazy style.This resulted in over $82 million in unpaid poker balances to Full Tilt players. He competes in games where seven-figure pots are commonplace. More recently, you can find Dwan playing for unbelievable sums of money with the mega-rich businesspeople of Macau. Dwan went on to recoup his losses and prove that the losses to Blom were nothing but a fluke. Did online poker have a new king? No, is the basic answer. Isildur1, who we now know is Sweden’s Viktor Blom, and Dwan battled it out at the 'nosebleed' tables on Full Tilt, with Blom taking Dwan for more than $3 million over a couple of days in November 2009 he went on to lose a total of $5 million to Blom over the next few weeks. Phil Hellmuth Outplays, Defeats Tom Dwan in Round 3 of High Stakes Duel III High Stakes Cash Gamesĭwan never backed down from a poker game so it was unsurprising to see him take on the then mysterious figure 'Isildur1,' another hyper-aggressive poker player who appeared seemingly from nowhere and was sweeping everyone aside who dare take him on. Look the hand up on YouTube and be prepared to be amazed. Dwan made a famous bluff with queen-ten in a hand involving Greenstein and former WSOP Main Event champion Peter Eastgate where he not only got them to pocket aces and trip deuces respectively, but called out their hands as he raked in the pot. The young Dwan locked horns with such luminaries as Doyle Brunson, Patrik Antonius, Daniel Negreanu, Gus Hansen, and Barry Greenstein over the years and never looked out of place.

You could say Dwan’s loose-aggressive playing style was custom made for television, s it was no surprise to see him appear on High Stakes Poker and Poker After Dark alongside some of the biggest names in the business. Tom Dwan Stacked in High Stakes Poker Season 9 Debut Ivey & Brunson in Action

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