Dwan wins biggest pot of all time

Tom Dwan might have been a little quiet since Black Friday put pay to his Full Tilt sponsorship, but the cash game legend was making waves in Macau this week, hauling in a rumoured $3.8m pot in one hand – the biggest of all time!

Dwan won the pot, which amounted to HKD $30 million, against a Chinese businessman while playing $1,300/$2,600 NLHE, according to Poker Portal Asia. And while the ins-and-outs of the hand are hard to come by, reports suggest that Dwan won the record pot with A-10 on an A-10-2 flop against the whale’s A-2.

The pot dwarfs those won by Sam Trickett and Gus Hansen in Macau over recent months, rumoured to have also nudged the $2m mark, and if true, Dwan now holds the honour of both the biggest pot in poker history and the biggest pot in TV history – the $1.1m he won against Phil Ivey in 2010’s Million Dollar Cash game back in 2010.

As ever, a shroud of secrecy still surrounds the uber limit cash games in Macau, but while Dwan may be the headline name at the Starworld Hotel’s Poker King Club right now, he’s not the only star living it up in the East.

Former Victory Poker pro Andrew Robl has also dropped in for one session this week before confirming his participation in the $1m Big One at this summer’s WSOP.

“Excited to play poker for big money and help charity by playing the $1,000,000 tournament for @ONEDROPdotorg at the WSOP this summer,” Robl tweeted.

Trickett also confirmed his participation this week, and so far, 40 or so players have signed up for the event. Check back with PokerPlayer to see how the Big One goes, and whether Dwan’s Macau record will ever be trumped… don’t hold your breath.