Winner Poker Player - News Detail

When Tom 'Durrr' Dwan and Phil Ivey were all in, the pot contained 1.2 million dollars. It was the biggest pot ever in the history of televised poker.

The record pot materialized after around 20 hours of play during the filming of no-limit holdem cash game on TV, how could anything in any form of media ever compare to that again?

Durr and Ivey both flopped straight draws on a Q53 flop, and when the 4 on the turn filled their respective straights the money went in. A total of $1.2M.

While Ivey had been drawing to the sucker straight with his A2, Durr with 76 had the nuts and pocketed a neat little win.

Just another day at work for two legendary poker players, a classic moment in the history of television for the rest of us.