The Day Tom Dwan Changed Poker Forever and Stunned Pros

Tom Dwan is one of the greatest poker players ever. In this video we look at the day when Tom Dwan stunned the poker world and brought poker pros like Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow, Huck Seed and many others to a standstill in this incredible World Series of Poker story.
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0:00 Tom Dwan vs The World
2:18 The Day Poker Stood Still
5:54 The Hunt continues
6:37 The Biggest Game in Poker History
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[@ixeroi]

Epitome is pronounced E-Pit-o-me not Ep-i-tome

[@HappyTofu2424]

I remember Doyle making a joke later on about how funny it was watching poker's elite sweat this out LOL

[@smokesumza._5913]

Doyle me la pela

[@Johnny2Feathers]

I played with Dwan in summer 2004 at a vfw in Verona NJ. Was only one time I played there. We first played a tourney which he got knocked out of and I came in 2nd out of like 60 people. It then turned into cash games and he and I were at the same table. Dwan got pretty crazy and ended up winning most from what I remember. After seeing him on tv just a year or so later there’s no doubt in my mind he bluffed me and prob others out of some nice sized pots. I felt I was pretty good then but couldn’t figure him out for the life of me. Don’t remember catching him on any bluffs but do remember calling him down with a flopped set of 7s when he flopped a straight. Was definitely cool seeing him succeed on high stakes just a short time after.

[@spikenomoon]

I know your problem with poker. Your honest

[@SaD_kNiFeYT]

Great video, please do more Poker History videos like this! Tom Dwan was always one of my top favorite players.

[@PokerBounty]

More to come!

[@guanaco103]

Great video !

[@ChonkySlotDonkey]

This was truly epic and I remember it like it was yesterday!!

[@SickmanOfVietnam]

Great video; Dawn didn’t consider blind count therefore bad timing on short stack all in.

[@jamiemiller6156]

The biggest game in poker history will always be Andy Beale vs the collection of the top players at the time.

[@darkcircle899]

I agree didn’t they end up taking Beal for like 100mil in the end because of Phil Ivy?

[@paulcox9366]

​@@darkcircle899 didn't hear that in any of the documentaries I have seen. But keen to hear about that

[@darkcircle899]

​@@paulcox9366 From what I can remember they had played Beal back and forth but he kept pushing the stakes higher and higher. The pros lost a lot of money in one session and wanted to get Beal back in Vegas so they could try to win it back. They had to recruit more players so they could get more bankroll for the game. Phill Ivy was added to the team of players playing against Beal and he ended up putting them back in the green against Beal and then taking quite a bit off of him. After that session, he refused to play against Phill anymore. I think it was either him or Erick Sidel who won the most money for the group in the end. This is all just from memory so I could be wrong but that's what I remember.

[@peelben]

@@darkcircle899 The way I heard it, there were numerous games over a long period. At times he was well, up but ended up about 20m down according to Brunson

[@Fribble49]

There is a great book about this, the professor, the banker and the suicide King.

[@VengerSatanis]

No, the Tom Dwan hand that shook the poker world was on High Stakes Poker vs Howard Lederer when Dwan had something like 8, 6 suited.

[@mattdawson5007]

You're thinking of the Airball bluff Vs Ivey for about 265k. Ivey tank folded with bottom pair.

[@VengerSatanis]

@mattdawson5007 I remember that, too, but I described it accurately... let me try to find the hand I'm talking about on the KZbin. If you've never seen it, you need to.

[@969kurt]

Lederer had something like AK and he thought they were gonna chop the pot based on how dwan played the hand. He was blown away when he saw Tom’s hand

[@snex000]

Another donkey play that magically worked out for Dwan.

[@bkkraw]

Tom Dwan is an amazing poker player, maybe the best player ever! great video!

[@Ret_Lineman]

That title would belong to Stu Unger

[@bkkraw]

@@Ret_Lineman Stu is a legend!

[@parkerbohnn]

@@Ret_Lineman Agreed the best whoever played the game.

[@Ret_Lineman]

@@parkerbohnn they estimate that he won over $20 million in side games in the 80s. That’s like half a billion now and his gin game was world class at 15

[@parkerbohnn]

@@Ret_Lineman Being a genius with a photographic memory sure helps.

[@eeekmeek2136]

Dwan inspired me to play poker and get better at it, far more than Ivey or Negreanu has had

[@jason_daniel]

I started learning and playing poker because of Tom Dwan

[@TacoGrande007]

Tom Dwan is best Romulan Poker player.

[@BigD751]

That's a big game

[@laravelisbullschitt3281]

So how much did he lose?

[@ZeeZeeFaa]

Haha simon watt plays at my local casino nice fulla

[@santaclause3487]

He should have offered dude 2 million to throw match

[@ox_MF_box]

Insane

[@JT-gi8rx]

Weren’t a few main event prizes over $10 mill?

[@gappuma7883]

So did he have to pay the other players or what?

[@Jimmyballsthe3rd]

Tom dwan aka young ocelot

[@Uduplr]

Dean is Awesome but, your interpretation and speculation of what effects Poker… you have a lot to learn.

[@kendob9642]

Dwan ahould have colluded with Simon by offering him double the first prize money

[@JT-gi8rx]

Or have the guy kidnapped during a break…

[@laravelisbullschitt3281]

The triads would have seen to this for him had it been more recent

[@NoName-ge6wc]

Tom is the best cash player in the world. Tournaments are impossible to live on.

[@Dilley_G45]

Unless you hit it big once...ifnI would win 5 million I'd retire

[@imemine8605]

No their not thats ridiculous to say and theres plenty of players that prove otherwise. The lower the amount of entries the easier they are to live off i play nl200 to nl400 for a living but i used to play tournies for a living and i made alot more yearly than i fo now they are judt too stressful for me because your month tends to come down to 1 run where you get to a big final table in cash games i may have 1 losing day a week in tournaments i may have 1 winning day a week but the amount of the win would outweigh the losses but as i say very very stressful. Tournaments are atually maths wise easier to make money at long term becsuse you don't pay rake per hand so you can push spots you cant push in cash making cash a much tighter game for your vslue range. Obviously due to the amount of bbs also.

[@stevehammond2016]

True gamblers .

[@forfuxakes6814]

That’s why I don’t like analytics. Numbers can be manipulated and pulled turned and twisted to just about anything you desire..

[@pod054321]

Why didn’t dwan offer watt 3million to let him take 1st place?

[@paulg6274]

Illegal

[@sirdigzalot2976]

Eli was the big winner!

[@jonpomerance-trifts6113]

No poker player sees the dollar value in their chips. That's foolish. That results in scared money. And you know what happens to scared money....

[@larry7079]

Scared money, don’t make money

[@parkerbohnn]

Tom Dwan is Pinocchio.

[@DUHPAWZ2579]

He owes jungleman a million dollars

[@Hassole]

True - that's a major blemish on his legacy. He waved the white flag and runs away from paying out his end of the deal.

[@hejstaima]

They settled it long time ago

[@dingaonhockey]

​@@hejstaimaim pretty sure jungle was just commenting on this fairly recently in a streamed cash game. It didn't sound like it was settled. I could be wrong though

[@bastymanguy]

Hehe little Tommy never got a bracelet, just a cash game player. Not like Doyle, not like ivey, negreanu, hellmuth and stu unger.....plus many more. Hehehe oh little Tommy boy

[@pokerboy72]

Pre flop play every hand like u have pocket aces Post flop like you have hit a set If board pairs .. you have a full house

[@tls1531]

Good luck with that

[@BigD751]

Lol you're gunna do great

[@stevenhall5373]

So Tom lost $35mill by not winning a bracelet?

[@DvdStennis]

You’re not really good at math, are you?

[@stevenhall5373]

@@DvdStennis Estimated 9-12 mill of action at 3-3.5/1

[@DvdStennis]

@@stevenhall5373the ‘action’ is the amount he is then wagering and therefore would stand to lose. The multiple is what he would stand to gain if he won…

[@Godwinsname]

Yeah that's what seems silly to me.. why all the math to show Tom played for about 10 million.. he didn't.. He played not to lose 30-odd million. (depending on the precise odds).

[@DvdStennis]

@@Godwinsname no…he played not to lose 10 odd million and to win 30 odd million.

[@blaineturner4056]

Course Full Tilt was luvrative? They stole millions from players accounts

[@scratchnoff7609]

Casinos rob them like phil iv

[@bsegovia23]

Phil cheated

[@stanislavgalev9458]

@@bsegovia23Phil did not cheat.He explored some backdoor possibilities and won.

[@scratchnoff7609]

@bsegovia23 no he didn't an so does the casinos

[@RogerMentol]

nonsaying video

[@MMAthdh]

Lol, durrrrr is a perfect name for him.

[@parkerbohnn]

Pinocchio is a better name because he looks exactly like Pinocchio.

[@masterboytothemax1599]

He is a luckbox. There are always outliers. He was rarely coolered in crucial spots.

[@aix23723]

Yet here you are still playing 1-3

[@masterboytothemax1599]

@@aix23723 Why play high stakes when you keep putting it in good and losing to luckboxes like Dwan.

[@krisdiaz2277]

Dwan might be the best in the world. Wtf u talking about it lol

[@ludiomore5654]

Indeed. And that luck in online poker, we all know well how those games are rigged to just push a few players towards a spot in a real tournament. Have seen them playing as teams in game/internet centers where they go in-out tables until they are with 6 at the same table. They all can see each other's cards (sitting in circles) and decide which one to let win. That goes on until that one has a free spot in a real tournament. Then the team goes to the real tournament with their player and the rest as supporters, and shares the winnings. Sometimes one get lucky in those real tournaments and gets to the semi-finals table or the final table. If get in top three a so called new great poker player is born.

[@masterboytothemax1599]

@@krisdiaz2277 best at getting lucky

[@DrBamWam]

I was one of the first to do overbet that seem like a bluff but not

[@bararobberbaron859]

Sure, not like the game was already being played in the wild west or anything, way over a 100 years ago. Surely you were the first. (Or one of the first, either way, the claim is insane)

[@aaron1474]

Lmao

[@MrAgmoore]

As a kid, I thought that I'd invented a new, never-seen-before strategy for black! I ended up reading a book on chess, and saw that the moves were a couple of hundred years old. Wiki says that it dates back to the 16th century and was some of the oldest moves...