Daniel Cates confirms: Tom "durrrr" Dwan lost a $20,000,000 pot in Asia

Daniel “Jungleman12” Cates was doing ana AMA type of thread earlier this week (AMA stands for Ask Me Anything) and he has been answering poker fans questions that would normally probably never see a daylight. The most interesting one was regarding not his own poker career, but one of his nose-bleed competitors - Tom "durrrr" Dwan.

The rumors regarding Tom "durrrr" Dwan whereabouts, plans and results has been going on for around a year or so now, without any specific informations. It was only known that Dwan was staying in Asia (Macau or Manila) to play in their nose-bleed games. In the AMA, Cates however confirmed that Dwan lost a staggering US$20,000,000 pot in a set-over-set situation.

We don't know who the other player was but Cates said that this is probably one of the biggest poker pots ever witnessed.

Cates also gave an update on the Durrrr Challenge: "Tom's dad is sick and he is in New Jersey with him, later we will discuss how to proceed...
I think it will eventually finish in some way, tom acknowledges it has been too long as well as the penalties and we will discuss again once he is out of his latest crises....", Cates said.

but how much did he lose

He looked rather stressed out lately

that is honestly just bonkers huge

50,000-100,000 blinds?

I cant fathom this being one hand. I believe it happened, just doesn't seem possible. 20,000,000 dollar pot? Do you just cut a 10 million dollar check? How does security work in a game like that? Doesn't seem like something that would happen in a casino.

A guy owes me 175 dollars and I haven't spoken to him in 2 years.

set over set. Just a cooler.

*dwan eye roll up at ceiling

On April 26 2016 21:32 NeverFelted wrote: 50,000-100,000 blinds? I cant fathom this being one hand. I believe it happened, just doesn't seem possible. 20,000,000 dollar pot? Do you just cut a 10 million dollar check? How does security work in a game like that? Doesn't seem like something that would happen in a casino.

The triad was there to make the game and transactions safe

Dwan looks stressed in that pic

the whole family's sick

you know you're at a big game when one pot is the lifetime losses of gus hansen

In the same ama he (cates) also speculated what tom dwan's net worth might be and it might be pretty sizeable albeit with liquidity issues.

On April 26 2016 23:11 shootair wrote: *dwan eye roll up at ceiling

looool.

On April 26 2016 21:32 NeverFelted wrote: 50,000-100,000 blinds? I cant fathom this being one hand. I believe it happened, just doesn't seem possible. 20,000,000 dollar pot? Do you just cut a 10 million dollar check? How does security work in a game like that? Doesn't seem like something that would happen in a casino. A guy owes me 175 dollars and I haven't spoken to him in 2 years.

Probably just playing 10,000BB deep. Just....

links to the thread?

On April 26 2016 20:24 Santafairy wrote: but how much did he lose

tree fiddy

is he busto? can pros even go busto with infinte staking ala matusow, gus, etc.

most likely still playing the highest games in the world nice to hear

On April 28 2016 04:25 Ryan Neilly wrote: most likely still playing the highest games in the world nice to hear

rofl this is so out of context with the story, the dude lost a humongous pot

Perhaps it was 3 way and he only put in 6.6 millions.