It's probably cuz he gained weight.

I thought the same thing

I didn’t for a second think the same thing but you are probably right.

i remember the days they could him one off the new young online poker guy

It‘s because he disappeared from the spotlight for a couple of years.

Only Ivey and Tom can pull that off, that's why they r the greatest

@@lurning8985 I do that in Grosvenor and get called a donkey. Dwan does it and he's a genius. Pfffft

Pro

@@mojitofall5441 u do that with $2 pot games, don't compare ur donkey games to 100k games

Standard call

He's been around. He just always plays weird games now, mostly games with huge buy-ins over in Asia

Tom is dead. It's his twin that's why he looks older.

@@mhscchampion14ebudget yes, his 9 years older twin brother.

@@raven_of_zoso455 not sure you understand how time works

@@tonypine3434 actually, I have studied time in various forms for about a decade. I think I got the gist of it.

He only missed one call. Made one over bet. Just a clinic.

"Phill.." lol

Classic

Now imagine if, as requested above, it was Tony G. I can hear him saying it now, lol. And "on your bike, off you go."

Tom has to much class to do that. But as Eric said Tony G would not let him get off that chill :D "Where is that belt? Heres the new champ!"

Dwan has never been one to bad-mouth anybody at the table. It's mostly why it seems as if everyone except Jungleman and Doug Polk like him.

Lmao

Tony g - "I played it like a set, bring more russian on"

Implode instead of impress

Haha I thought I was the only one who laughed

Couldn't be fixed for the TV could it?

ooooooh.....what he has now is real problems :)

@@awpmerst Haha yeah

That’s how Dawn got the read for the rivered 8 to take the huge lead. I didn’t see this against anyone else, but Dwan set the read, then made the call when it counted. Dwan uses the Helmuth magic and the GTO in a good mixture

honey he called me with K2

Probably calls dwan a donkey. Well maybe not dwan, but virtually any other player winning like this against him, he'd call a donkey.

Also what's up with the big cut? hellmuth should be up by about 120k on the next hand instead he's down to 84k

There were a bunch of straight draws that missed, and Phil's value range is only trips probably, maybe a few 9's. So I think Dwan was always calling that size, he just used his time cause it was a big pot. If Phil jams it would've been interesting.

Mate he has loads of old school showings on PAD also. You would love some of them. Free on KZfaq . I wouldn't bother watching the PLO one even through I play PLO solely. His NL showing made for better TV. The K2 bet sizings ignored I guess he figured there were lots of busted draws Phil could have took that line with and with the price and look on his face I guess it was a marginal call. Tom has always been my favourite player. Him and Isildur

Not that impressive. Phil takes a lot of stabs at the pot when the board gets paired on the turn. And if you don’t believe him on the turn and call, you have to call the river. If Phil has the ace, it’s just plain bad luck.

Whatd you think of him calling jj with 2 overs on the board? He plays everything

@@paulg6274 wow you’re such an expert I’m guessing you’re one of the best players in the world?

Tom ageing fast

Tom dwan is a degenerate gambler

excellent comment, if u know the history. way way way back when when they did that interview with phil and durrr . prollly 15 years later now . i woulda bet a million on durr here helmouth is way out of his league. sadly he doesnt even know it

@@Financere425 wth you talking about .. the rungood of Durr is insane .. he is nothing but a damn luckbox here :-s ..and no i`m NOT a fan of Hellmuth :D .. by far i`m the opposite .. but Durr here .. damn the luck .. hitting the miracle cards on the river time and time again

​@@Financere425 what odds would you need in order to place that 1million bet

@@Financere425 yeah because hitting your open ended str8 everytime you bet is insane skill haha

@@gutzzgutzz6795 u clearly dont know anything about poker. First of all, this only shows some of the hands, theres hours worth and helmuth hit just as many miracle cards (i.e. the king). And the skill isnt in hitting the open ender, the skill is in getting paid off and paid off more than other opponents would. Yea dwan hit some cards in this vid, which helmuth had been doing while beating antonio and daniel he ran really good against them. But dwan also got paid off by phil

This last one his hand didn't matter much as was down to a few big blinds..

@@beedizz3748 did he not lose with aces? Stfu

@@beedizz3748 Not really, if he won it'd be 44k vs 156k. Still perfectly playable.

exactly. one of those heads up matches where dwan truly lucked out

Phil helmuth a legend? A whining psycho that's stressed by playing a few $1000 in tv/ Internet cash games.. Certainly not a legend.

@@alexthedeal1827 Hellmuth has won the most WSOP bracelets so he’s definitely a legend. Also his rants/whining make poker far more entertaining to watch.

@@conormountain6326 Something doesn't add up. All the great players know how to sometimes bluff big, Helmuth plays like an old woman, careful, careful, let's try to make a combination. Bet $250 in a cash game??!! Only with AA or KK. Others bet sometimes $100.000 or more. It's all strange.

Well said :)

@@alexthedeal1827 it's pretty pathetic of you to try and discredit his clearly earned and indisputable status as a poker legend, simply because you don't like him lol. Very immature.

really ur gonna say he ran good? Phil was the one constantly with the pocket pairs and the aces, and he binked a king with garbage against dwan's jacks (which if reversed helmuth wouldve killed someone). The match was won with dwans huge read and call with K2, not cuz of luck. Oh helmuths aces didnt hold up? Thats why u RAISE PREFLOP so they dont catch a piece then suck out. Dwans folding the 93, thats what phil gets for playing weird.

@@smash2zero u are the best

@@smash2zero so did tom

Right it went from like a 50k swing in stacks and these are the “highlights”? What did we miss?

@@chrischester7465 Well go sign up for Poker Go lol...I imagine that's the idea

It went for almost 6 hours, there’s lots of small pots in between the highlights.

Dean owned all the small pots, and if you agree w most Heads Up specialist, PH’s hand won% is just too low to be successful - granted he did go on a 9 match winning streak so PH knows what he’s doing obviously. Doug in his post match analysis vs Daniel said Daniel winning - only - 48% of the pots is already nearly an impossible stat to overcome in NLHU, and PH is winning significantly less than that. Quite interesting how he can fly in the face of GTO and be so successful.

@@vinni522 Not that interesting if you ask me. Phil's success is in tournaments and that's very important when talking about his success in relation to him making GTO mistakes. Phil is the ultimate "feel" player. He's all about what does my opponent have right now and what is the best way to play against them at this particular moment rather than playing a GTO focused style where your opponents actual cards in any given hand become less important. Phil is about winning right here right now, which is much more optimal for tournaments rather than cash, obviously. Phil's style in a cash game against good players is filled with mistakes that can and will be exploited in the long run. But put him in a field that's 50% "bad" players for a two day tournament and he can make his reads, play his strategy with the blinds, run through fish and accumulate tons of chips and that's where he has had his success

dwan ran really well when he really needed it in this match.

He acknowledged him back in 2010 as well ...just not on camera ..lol I do remember seeing a show back then where Phil did truly respect Dwan’s game . But went right back to his normal tantrums about him on the next poker after dark or what ever show was next 🤣

@@jasonshields515 Yeah i get ya, it's a lot about ego and public image. Each kind of these players know what kind of players they are facing. For Hellmuth, he would like to be recognized as the one. He's prolly close to be in tournament considering WSOP. But in Cash, he had some problems with these disruptive patterns of the youguns. Anyway, everybody is defending is share lol.

he did a long time ago, you know nothing

@@OBWInspector Aight bro

I never put more than 3 dimes in with pocket tens

He has now been around for something like 20 years. I think he'll stay.

@@beepbadapup8523 Son I'll tell you this much son I would have never have put more than three thousand in with TT before the flop!

He's a poker pro and a millionaire, you're a nobody

@@noobtubers999 🙄🤔🤦🤦🤦

Awesome call I agree but ... the river changes nothing and A high is a very strong possibility. Great call but I am not overly surprised.

In the end, he got lucky when he needed to. Just because he wins here doesn't mean he's great at heads up. I doubt Phil will play again, he's too much a tightwad.

Heads up no big deal

@@MrRondonmon Phil's already said yeah to the rematch.

I'm just throwing in the towel after that call. The guy has your number if he can call 25k with a pair of 2's.

What K high call?

Called with a pair of deuces not king high, not much better though tbf

Yup

Completely agree - I think the time extensions should only be collected once the hand is over.

tf? he couuld haave reacted because he wanted dwan to call?

@@user-te2ze1ud7v he definitely did not want Tom to call

@@user-te2ze1ud7v tf? He definitely wanted Tom to fold.

That's why you generally don't play formats like this to test skill, it has extremely high varience

Your English suks

that's headsup dude, ur range is unlimited, non different between Aces and K2o.

Especially when the other two cards were a 9 and a 3 Phil's not playing those cards often there. He knows Phil's game inside out. Phil's still trying to work Dwan out.

The fact its the turn card too. To end another heads up match...how is there not a God? He clearly has some ironic humor

Vernon Schaal why are you telling us when EVERYONE already knows his outs? 🤦‍♂️

@@jeffreyjosrph2505 Indeed. Pokergods love Dwan and its better to be lucky than good

King high? 🤦‍♂️

Phil checks way too much Jesus

@@gutzzgutzz6795 Yeah look at gutzz gutzz critiquing the greatest player to ever play the game while you're there playing Zynga poker with 1k play chip refills.

@@LS-ed2mk 🤣🤣🤣🤣

There is a good chance he will BE around in 2040 too, unless all rich businessman from china Have disappeared until Then.

I want a comp of all your life failures like your youtube channel

@@OBWInspector aww you'll get to where I was a year ago soon and im sure youll try alot harder... I promise you'll get the attention you deserve