It wasn’t another million-dollar run for Tom “durrrr” Dwan, but his heads-up session of $500/$1,000 at the HA (half Pot Limit Hold’em, half Pot Limit Omaha) tables on Full Tilt Poker with Phil Ivey did leave the young star with an extra half-million dollars in his account last night.

PLO might be more of an action game, but the two biggest pots of the session for Dwan came in Hold’em. In the first he opened for $3,000 of his $276,000 stack on the button and called when Ivey re-raised to $9,000 from the big blind. Ivey led out for $14,000 on the J 8 4 flop and Dwan bumped the bet to $37,600; Ivey then three-bet to $82,400, leaving himself another $84,730 behind. Dwan made the call and then matched Ivey’s all-in bet when the turn brought the 6. Ivey turned over K K, but he was down to two outs against Dwan’s 4 4. No king on the river, and the $355,860 pot shipped to Dwan.

Ivey would take another big hit with an overpair to the board, but this time his losses were limited because he started with the bigger stack - $317,483 to his opponent’s $136,499. Ivey opened for $3,000 on the button and called when Dwan made it $9,000. The 7 6 3 flop brought fireworks: Dwan’s opening bet of $11,200 escalated until he was all-in holding Q 7 (top pair, queen kicker) against Ivey’s pocket pair of nines. The J turn was no help to Dwan but the Q on the river gave him two pair and $272,997.

Those two pots alone were worth over $300,000. By the end of the session Ivey had donated another $200,000 Dwancount, making Dwan’s win for the session worth $500,000.

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