Tom Dwan has been added to the stacked $1 million buy-in Hustler Casino Live games lineup next month, and according to the show's co-owner Ryan Feldman, the online poker legend intends to play three days.
Last May, the popular poker show hosted the first ever $1 million minimum buy-in livestreamed cash game at Hustler Casino in Los Angeles. For four days, poker fans witnessed some of the biggest pots ever, including a record-setting $3.1 million hand won by Dwan.
This coming May, starting on the 28th, the former Full Tilt Poker pro will attempt to one-up his own record by winning an even larger pot. But he'll have to do it against a juicy lineup that includes Ethan "Rampage" Yau, Tony G, Dan "Jungleman" Cates, Doug Polk, and the loosest player in nearly any game, Alan Keating, a fan favorite on Hustler Casino Live.
According to Feldman, Polk is scheduled to play Day 2 of the Million Dollar Game (May 29), one day prior to the $25,000 buy-in World Series of Poker (WSOP) Heads-Up Championship, an event he finished runner-up in last summer. The Upswing Poker founder who will be traveling out to Los Angeles from his home in Austin, TX, told PokerNews he hasn't yet determined if he'll travel to Las Vegas for to play some heads-up poker, his specialty, following the big game in Southern California.
During last year's milly game at Hustler, Polk lost a $1.1 million pot to Dwan, who was accused by many on social media of a slow-roll or nit-roll when he tanked for quite some time with a monster hand, an accusation "durrrr" denied.
The full daily lineups haven't yet been set, but the second day of play is scheduled to include Polk, Dwan, Charles Yu, Tony G, Santhosh Suvarna, Jungleman, and Brandon Steven, making it one of the juiciest games ever on livestream given the stakes and colorful personalities at the table.
Dwan, one of the most popular poker players ever, is always a draw on any livestream. But his appearance in the upcoming $1 million games seemed a bit unlikely a month ago when he was accused by Peter Jetten of refusing to pay back an old six-figure debt. Dwan appeared on the PokerNews Podcast in March to discuss the allegations, which he claimed had been misrepresented. Jetten, who recently deleted the accusatory tweets, informed his X followers that he'd won a ruling in arbitration to settle the debt.
The full lineups for all four sessions will likely be made public at some point next month.
