Dwan vs Fei

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The Hand

Q♠Q♣DwanCovers
A♦K♥Feiabout 1.5MD
Blinds 500 / 1K, ante 3K
3♦8♠8♦
3♦8♠8♦5♥
3♦8♠8♦5♥6♣

Wesley Fei and Tom Dwan. Blinds 500 / 1K, ante 3K.

Before the Flop

  • Blinds 500 and 1K. Fei has the button.
  • Hank raises to 7K.
  • Fei raises to 30K.
  • Another player folds.
  • Dwan raises to 100K.
  • Hank folds.
  • Fei raises to 275K.
  • Dwan calls. Why

    Dwan. Against four raises, queens are behind aces and kings, a small favourite over ace-king, and far ahead of the bluffs. Calling keeps the bluffs in and avoids stacking off against aces.

The Flop

  • Dwan checks.
  • Fei bets 125K.
  • Dwan calls. Why

    Dwan. Queens are ahead of ace-king and every bluff; only aces, kings and an eight beat them. A raise would only get called by those.

The Turn

  • Dwan checks.
  • Fei bets 350K.
  • Dwan calls.

The River

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The river

The Famous Decision

Dwan. Fei’s line also fits ace-king that missed everything: with the ace of diamonds it had only a backdoor flush draw. Queens beat that and every other bluff.

Dwan called after nearly four minutes, and his queens won.

The Result

Dwan wins at the showdown with Two pair, Queens and Eights.

Why It Is Famous

Tom Dwan called an all in on the river with a single pair of queens, after nearly four minutes, and won a pot of about $3.1 million, the biggest in the show’s history.

What to Take from It

A big hero call comes from listing the bluffs, not from hoping.

Sources

What the sources do not say. The seats are not documented. Fei is shown on the button and Dwan in the big blind, which fits Dwan acting first after the flop. A straddle seat for Dwan would fit too. The suit of Fei’s king is disputed (spades in one report, hearts in another). It changes nothing. Dwan’s $2,000 straddle is uncertain, and the pot is reported as $3,081,000 or $3.1 million. No pot figures are shown. Fei’s all in was $786,000 (PokerNews), which with his earlier bets makes his stack about $1.5 million. Dwan, who is "over $1 million deep", is only known to cover it. The all in is still shown as "all in", with no size. The date is 30 or 31 May.

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