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The Poker Grapevine – Dwan Busy in Macau
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Fri, 2012-05-11 03:55
This year’s SCOOP has thus far drawn tens if not hundreds of high profile poker professionals to PokerStars’ tables, but there have been a few noteworthy absences, among which Tom Dwan’s stands out by a head and a shoulder. Dwan – the very definition of a high stakes junkie – isn’t likely to stay away from some hot online tables for no reason, and it appears this time he does indeed have his reasons to do so: he’s apparently found greener pastures.
For the last few weeks, he’s been in Macau, busy relieving a bunch of wealthy Chinese businessmen of their monies and apparently he’s been quite successful at it. The Poker King Club has been the scene of some of the stiffest live poker action of the last few years. The pots there are measured by the millions of dollars and the blinds go as high as HKD $30k/60k.
According to an Asian poker portal, Thursday has been Dwan’s day indeed: the New Jersey wonder-kid scored a pot worth about HKD $30 million (which amounts to about $3.8 million). The hand which landed Dwan the whooper was a simple A,10, which hit a top two pair on a board of A,10,2. Dwan was lucky too in the sense that the opponent he managed to get to go along had an A,2 for the perfect hand. The piles of dough were pushed into the middle on the flop, and it was Dwan who ended up raking it all in when all was said and done.
In other news:
PokerStars will return to Macau this year, to the Grand Waldo Entertainment Complex. The largest online poker operation in the world has been missing from Asia’s gambling/poker hotspot due to the expiration of the contract it had inked with the Casino Grand Lisboa.
The first PokerStars related action will kick off on June 9: the Macau Poker Cup will feature a Main Event with a HKD $11k buy-in.
