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Tom Dwan’s high risk, high variance year
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2009-11-02 09:05
All high stakes cash game players will tell you: theirs is a streaky business. The swings that they see would drive any normal person bonkers, yet one such player manages to top even his peers by regularly experiencing swings uncommon even in nosebleed stakes circles. Tom Dwan is definitely not your average online player. This guy will shove all-in on any pocket hand he picks up if he feels like it, regardless of the size of his stack. His high risk antics often earn him fabulous wins, but they often end up costing him quite a lot too. Being loose and aggressive translates into high variance and they don’t come any looser and more aggressive than Tom Dwan.
Having built up an over $1 million lead on his durrrr challenge rival, Patrik Antonius at one point, Dwan fell over to the other side of the fence and dropped more than $1 million at the PL Omaha tables at
Full Tilt Poker a couple of days ago.
The high stakes tables were all abuzz with action. The dreaded 7-game tables, the PLO ones as well as the NL Holdem ones saw huge stacks of chips change hands. Dwan’s ridiculously large ($1.1 million) loss occurred at Full Tilt’s PLO tables where he took on Phil Ivey and Ilari Sahamies. At the end of the session, the November Nine member had registered a profit of over $800k. Sahamies managed to eke out an $85k profit himself, so it’s safe to say it was Dwan who’d donated all that money to his opponents. The PLO slaughter lasted for 627 hands. Dwan did try to make up for the losses over at the NL Holdem tables, but he failed as he only managed to claw together about $100k over there, a flimsy cushion for his PLO losses.
Coming off his huge PLO win, Ivey did give
Holdem a shot too, but all he achieved was to drop almost half of his PLO winnings there. Meanwhile, the battle raged over at the 7-game tables too, where David Benyamine finally managed to stitch together a winning session. The French pro booked about $400k, as Patrik Antonius walked away with some money too.
