DWAN ENDS CHALLENGE ON A HIGH NOTE (Update)
27 November 2009
Poker ace makes it a series victory
The Full Tilt Dwan Million Dollar Challenge concluded
Friday at Les Ambassadeurs in London with a $750 000 win
for Tom Dwan against UK businessman Sammy George, giving
the young poker ace a 2 to 1 series victory.
He
had previously lost $22 500 to Italian Marcello
Marigliano and pipped Ilari Sahamies at the post with a
$68 000 win (see previous InfoPowa reports).
Dwan's clash with Sammy George revolved around a $250
000 buy-in NLHE competition over 500 hands or 12 hours,
whichever came soonest. Following the trend of the
earlier two matches, the pace was fast from the outset,
where Dwan's skill and bold bluffs, augmented by an
extraordinarily good run of cards, had George re-buying
early during the game in order to stay afloat, and
halting the game just before the 500 hand limit had been
reached.
Conceding that he had enjoyed an element
of good fortune, Dwan said after the match, "I don't
think I played too well today, I just think I happened
to get a bunch of hands, like I don't think Sammy played
badly, he just happened to be on the wrong side of some
tough spots."
"It's easy to look like a genius
when you have the best hand every time, and easy to not
look like one when you get beat every hand."
The
three match, high stakes series was organised for Full
Tilt by Matchroom Sports, who's Eddie Hearn commented
that the event had been sufficiently successful to
warrant a further competition along similar lines,
perhaps on the American side of the Atlantic next year.
"All-in-all, the event was a huge success and we are
already in talks to take the challenge to the States
early next year," Hearn said.
Online Casino News Courtesy of
Infopowa
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