Tom "Durrrr" Dwan vs Rui Cao - The SICKEST Cash Game Poker hand of ALL TIME 🤯 

The greatest televised cash game in the history of poker. Enjoyed every episode!

Please we need Rui Cao to explain the hand, pretty sick sick play. Other level

do you need players in Montenegro

Ahahahahahahah

Agree. High level poker. Borderline insane

@@tonyswe9463 he was trying to disguise his hand by calling the bets hoping Tom will check so he can shove

And then supposedly value bet his 8 high vs what he thought was 72.

I think ur giving him wayyyy too much credit, and I dont think he is trying to induce a bluff at all, and i think what he said after (about planning to call 100% w 8 high) is probably bravado, but I could be wrong ofc. What I will say is if he was caling the river it had to be because he put him on 72.. if so, why shove the river.. other than "to be sre".. but if that was your logiic.. fod the flop to be sre and save 250K EUROS, maybe?! Anyway, imo he more likely is (just gambling and) trying to rep a strong hand by flatting (which actually is good way to rep it rather than re-raising) and force Dwan to give up on his bluff, which obv worked so fair play...so sure, MAYBE he read it the same as Nanonoko was callin the commentary.. (a check-raise on that board after flatting pre IS a bit odd).. but tbh I just think, like a fish often does, he simply decided to just "put him on" 72o.. if its not that (putting him EXACTLY on 72), then calling to INDUCE A BLUFF is awful when half the bluffs ALSO beat your 8 high.. Like, ASSUMING that Dwan has enough bluffs in his range to make this a good call in the first place, that means he is blffing a LOT.. and u would then have to assume it includes T9s..JT..why not Q9s? etc.. u see what I'm getting at. As t happens, I don't think Dwan will bluff a lot in this spot, and 72o is the main bluff he has tho if I was to add more likely ones it would be gutters like JTo which got there on river anyway, and even if they didn't hit river THEY BEAT 8 HIGH.. I know, I know.. Dwan did have 72 THIS time.. but it just aint good poker in the long run. It was ridiculously risky because, first of all, with the stack sizes he was PRAYING that Dwan gave up on the river w less than pot left, as like other players pointed out, Dwan would often just continue and shove his bluffs leaving the opp no option to reshove Dwan and win that way knocking out hands like small pocket pairs that missed, 98 J9s Q9s etc as well.. the only way he would then win is being FORCED to call and PRAY that Dwan had 72op and not some "bluff" that was actally winning (or indeed a 55, AQ AK etc!!!) .. In terms of the likelihood of the play working out, sure Dwan COULD have 72, and did sure, THS time.. but also could be 55, AK, AQ and maybe slowplayed QQ.. JT also could've been a flop bluff and it got there w a str8 but tbh given the board and pre action I am not sure Dwan would attempt many bluffs other than 72o w the 72o game ongoing, and that means there's more value hands (55,AK,AQ,QQ) combos than there are bluffs.. making his calls horrific. Im for sure making some assumptions that could be way off.. like, maybe Dwan bluffs loads of his other air as well like 45s eg.. but tbh that would mean there are plenty "bluffs" that are actually beating 8 high as well.. like maybe he turns missed set mining hands into bluffs like 33 in order to fold out better pairs ike 88/99.. so 33 is beating 8 high.. ... maybe Q9s etc as well.. and if Dwan ISNT bluffing much then the play is bad for a more obvious reason..Dwan is going to show up with a boat in that case! I just doubt Dwan is bluffing much in this spot having watched him in recent years he is much more tight and str8forward vs fish in general.. also on this dry Axx flop it LOOKS bluffy... now that can go 2 ways and it depends what evel the opponent is thinking.. if he knows it LOOKS bluffy then it actually should look LESS bluffy (if he knows that Dwan knows he knows it looks bluffy!!! :-P ) fwiw this, along with the stack size situation) I believe is why Dwan assumed the other guy HAD TO have it.. because calling the turn otherwise is suicide.. but I guess he underestimated either what level this guy is thinking, OR what stupid things a rich fish can do just for the sake of bravado at the table!!! Having said all that, I know absolutely nothing about Dwans opponent in this hand.. he might've been levels and knew Dwan would have to give up and knew that Dwan was more likely on 72o than anything else.. (but for that to be true he would have to know Dwan NEVER flats QQ AK AQ ...and NEVER bluffs anything other than 72o.. leaving only 55 and 72o as the hands he is check raising that flop with .. is that likely??? i highly HIGHLY doubt it ) So, imo, its just that its the type of thing see from fish who love to "put someone on a hand" and if they happen to be right THIS time they feel vindicated like they were "right" but , as I said, thats not how "good" poker works, and its a sure way to lose money in the long run. EDIT: Just realized something I cannot BELIEVE I didnt notice before.. - Rui HAD A 7 IN HIS OWN HAND (making it so much less likely Dwan had a 72) .. this tips it from debatably bad play to CERTAINLY terrible play imo!

He’s the entree at that table and he knows it.

Tony's busy getting rubbed down 😂

I raise u a sober Alan keating

@@DeezNuts-zy5ci yeah, i'm gonna have to agree with you. Keating much crazier lol.

Super saiyan

"He's one of my kind"

For sure! Props to both men, especially Dwan taking his loss like a champ, even after seeing the 8 high on the other side!

Wholesome Poker moment.

@@LucianDevine I'm so sure, Hellmuth would have EXPLODED had he seen the 8 high on his opponent.... 😅🤭

when you in the 8 figure millionaire range ya can bet like this sheeesh

They are good actors

You made me rewatch it for nothing the dealer just sat there and got on with collecting the chips in wtf you on about?

@@maybe-xh8il it brings sadness to my heart knowing that I stole some of your precious time.

@@michelcharbonnier7603 don't let it get you down il be alright

100% agree! Snap call an all-in bet with 8 high and win! That truly would have been one of the greatest hands of all time!

He was calling. no doubt. Dwan saved a little check folding.

I was hoping he would check back the river and casually ask Tom to show his 72

I think if he shoved quickly it would have been called quickly. If he sat in turmoil for a while then I think Cao might have lost face & second guessed himself. But given how he played that hand I think he’d have probably called anything Tom did, amazing hand of poker by two great players. Tom would have won that pot had he been facing any other player on earth, shows the level these guys are at.

Lol that would be too risky to check back river imagine dwan had 9 2, but yea he was calling if dwan shoved

"by far" is so overrated now-a-days. I bet you have wrote similar "by far" comments hundreds of times

@@MultiJejje actually, I haven't used those exact two words related to poker comments ever. If you know of a sicker poker hand, please share.......the reactions of all the other players is hilarious and the reaction from Durr when he realized Rui only had 8 high is epic!

Would've been great to see him call down a river shove.. however I don't doubt that he would've none the less

Great hand. Entertaining

@@georgelee5416 Q4 shove by Helmuth 🤣🤣🤣

They call him “The Iron Head” (铁头) if you watch the full episode😂

@@IdeaIsSimple What's knucklehead in chinese?

Rui Cao is a joke😅

Easily best hand of all time for me and the best cash game of all time.

@@aaronlloyd6905 , agree. Best hand played by top notch poker players

It’s how poker should be but people take it so seriously cause money is involve

Ikr what the heck is going on lol I was like what is he doing when they’re screaming 72 haha

@@Ndhdhdb the icing on the cake is that Paul didn’t have 72 😂😂😂

He was probably talking about another hand as its a big no no giving away information whist the hand is going on, especially if you are not in the hand.

@@rexoid0800 you def def didn’t watch all the episodes.they’re all pissed drunk

Its against Dwan, he's got an 8 and he knows Durrr can go three barrels with 7deuce. If he's right half the time, hes at least breaking even on this hand.

Oh my lord... you Dwan fanboys are just too much. RuiCao made the play... why do you aaaaaaalways have to make everything about Dwan? Do you all live in some sort of neverending supernova of 2009 HSP clips?

@@AnaInTh3Skytalk about unnecessarily angry …. chill man it’ll all be ok

@@AnaInTh3Sky Dwan encourages the 7 2 bounties at the games and makes them more fun, this clip is an artifact of Dwan through and through

@@alfarachet2 Jesus... if you are giving Dwan credit for the 72 game now... you most definitely are too much of a blinded fanboy haha

​@@AnaInTh3Sky😂😂😂😂

Hellmuth angling and cutting deals with amateurs 😂

He’s buying in minimum stacks against youtubers and celebrities.

"We will see if your around in 5 years kid" 🙊

But it is interesting also Dwan didn't rebuy and played very reserved there, but here going for it against Rui...

@@redbull4fly797 i think by episode 3 of the series he was already in for 600k.

Elton’s laugh makes the whole clip

Gutsy read

If the action smellys fishy, its fishy.

When you have millions in the bank it doesnt really matter

Who cares what the hand is when the opponent never see it?

@@MMaRsu there all winning players Even if you have millions doesn’t mean your gonna win in these games .

Yeah, I've been caught by some amateurs in hands that were ridiculous, but were very well played. It's normally the older folk who played like this. Scary.

This is not high level play. This is just people with too much money in their banks and big egos

Pretty hard not to have the best hand when the other guy has 7 high

As DNegs once said - "this might be how y'all play poker, but that isn't poker"

This is closer to gambling I'm pretty sure. If real poker is nosebleed stakes, degen bluffs with the 72 game on, then yea sure. But there's almost no way either player is taking a GTO-informed line in this particular hand. Maybe Dwan is to some extent, but I don't think a solver would ever recommend that you float flop and turn with 8 high in a three-bet pot so as to steal it on the river. Very entertaining television, but I don't think there's much to learn here for anyone.

A quick call usually means weakness trying to look strong though. And yeah, that was the case here too.

I know I was wishing he'd had it in him to shove and *bluff* Rui off of his massive 8 high!

Watched the full session and Dwan check raising was weird compared to his play all session, he kept trapping. It looked weird to me too on a rainbow flop and Randy said the same thing. It didn't help that the table joked about 7-2. Prop bet was on for an hour and I think Dwan won once with it already.

@@terencekwong3033 still incredibly difficult to make that play with so much money involved

@@terencekwong3033 sick that he had a 7 in his hand too which blocks 72. i watched it many times, and id say this is the most insane hand ive seen over the years.. high stakes poker is exclusively for loaded players with unlimited bankroll. pros can only hang in there by sticking to the book imo. i cant imagine anyone else playing eight high that way at these stakes. maybe miki, even still, not at these stakes. rui cao is insane

I watched the whole series of this cash game and for sure Rui Cao gives the most action I've ever seen! The check raise by Dwan was fishy which is why RC committed. The A turn convinced him TD didnt have it, so he would have a chance to steal the river. If TD shoved river I dont think RC insta calls even though he doesnt think he is up against a made pair from the board. Great poker hand

Flop bet and small bet on the turn n the A on the turn indicated Tom is bluffing. The combination is unsure but Tom was asking for 72 game, so... Leads strongly for that hand. River check is Ruis chance to get all other bluffs off the hand.

LOL

honey he all in me with 8 high

Oh for SURE! Dwan hated the bet, knowing that he'd lost, but respected it all the same, ESPECIALLY when he saw the 8 high that also missed the whole board.

The main reason I know Hellmuth is the greatest is seeing people hate him, even in videos not about him. No one hates the worse, 23rd best, 4th best, or even 2nd best.

@@1stFactCheckerthats simply a lie. Lots of players in lots of sports who are not the best have been hated.

He was value shoving :D

It would be a big mistake to check back. Ok i'm sur if dwan shove, cao call, and it would be a stu ungar call, but when Durr check, cao has to shove in case durrr had poket pair or like JT . But of course Cao put Dwan on 72

Would be too sick..

@@maeliza258 do u think that if thats the case, and Dwan has all those bluffs that beat 8 high in his range, then calling the turn in the first place is pretty bad? With the stack sizes its super likely Dwan would've just shoved the river at that stage a lot of the time

@@maeliza258 do u think that if thats the case, and Dwan has all those bluffs that beat 8 high in his range, then calling the turn in the first place is pretty bad? With the stack sizes its super likely Dwan would've just shoved the river at that stage a lot of the time

He’s blowing off someone else’s money so it’s all good for him

Balls of steel or have an unbelievable amount of money.

i mean imagine if Dwan had anything he coudla very well been a fish right there

Pair of 6.

I think people forget this way too often. The play leading up to these often matters in these situations.

in opposite to garreth adelstein ^^

Makes you wonder if the money is real or if it someone else's money.

A high stake player. One of the best poker player in France.

@@tonyswe9463yea it’s a quote guy

Respect

Which one is now?

@@aronkar9599 J4 probably

Yea, calling all in on the turn W J4 high when putting your opponent to A high and pray to win is maybe considered sicker hand xD by Robbi the fish

So why Rui shove? :)

@@kicklekick7551 Just incase Tom maybe had some other bluffs in his range 8hi doesn't beat. Better to be safe.

if he just checked and showed 8 high BEFORE tom, then yeah this would probably be THE BEST hand ever...

@@davidwain7890 , well explained

He made over a million in their cash game before this one. He's still very positive

It’s an awful high pitched laugh

Betting makes no sense if he put him on 7-2 only

@@jonathanbotek2077 In my opinion, it does make sense, because even if he put him on 7-2, it cannot be guaranteed 100%, and so I believe his thought is that he can get Tom to fold, just in case he has better. It's like insurance on his read, in a sense. I do believe he would have called Tom's shove on the river. Super sick hand, one of my all-time favorites for sure. Makes it even better that Tom was asking for the 7-2 game all night, even asking for 8-3 and 9-4 lol. Epic! :)

@@Ninjasnipes7 Your first paragraph kind of negates the second. I think 50/50 chance he calls a shove on the river.

@@mitchrapp5214 It doesn't negate, because poker is a game of incomplete information, and even if he is confident in his read, the shove on the river is a "just in case it's not 7-2" shove.

@@jonathanbotek2077 , betting is the right play. Cuz if Tom has a Q or pair under Q it’s hard to call. Betting is like an insurance.

Agree

@@tonyswe9463 Look up his bluff vs paul jackson.

@@reezellthia , nah. That is old stuff.

@@reezellthia oh！

who are

He would have because they were playing the 72 game. I think he had a read on Tom on that hand.

Bad flop raise and turn bet from Dwan with massive range disadvantage. Looked hella bluffy although tbf rui cao doesn’t really have a range

Yea I am pissed Tom didn't go all in on river, would of been best call of the universe

Not sure he calls. Would say 50/50 at best. Hes holding 87 which blocks one option for 72. But with less than a 3rd of pot behind might be pot commited already.

He wouldn’t have called obviously . That’s why he shoved the river hoping to induce a fold from middle pair or bottom pair … if he knew he had 7 2 he would have checked back river ?? Lol

Nice racist joke. Very funny

lol was thinking the same

Check raising that board instantly gave away his hand?? Lol

+. A / Q Tom check-call, but he could play AQ same way too...

@L G: I just can't imagine any other hand that would check-raise in that spot. Whoever hits this particular flop will most likely bet out or just check-call, while gutshots check-fold or float. Check-raising doesn't make any sense in that situation - unless you're completey airballing.

@Dmitriy: I don't see much additional benefit in check-raising AQ there. Only very strong Aces might sometimes call, but most likely you're up against a set...

@@ChattyAvocado check Tom hand with AJ On AJ8, max from Ax, any gutshots

Respect

Lol

Gangster

Rui is a boss

I'm pretty sure that any attempt to properly analyze this hand is doomed to fail. There was over half a million dollars in that pot, with both players not only missing completely, but also have the highest card between them being an 8.

Just lmao at this hand breakdown. This is just one staked donkey playing the 7-2 game and one rich donkey trying to bluff the pro.

Gee, you sound like a real expert.....

That’s why this hand is awkward as fuck and very suspicious to me..

Or one of the worst

I think Elton have no chance against Garrett…

This hand was terrible.

Top 😂, hahaha , if you are rich you could play that game . The money that those people don’t came from poker 😂

I think Cao still calls with 8 high on the river because he has so many chips in the pot.

@@jasonleetaiwanhe could well have done, but at that point it was worth another 100k to find out, having already put in 300k+ & would be due around an extra 100k from the 7 deuce bounty from all players. Checking was absolutely pointless, might as well have just folded at that point.

Lol. Dummy

You can watch the whole session, they broke it up in 7 parts. This was a crazy hand but definitely not the only one. Dwan already won with 7-2 earlier, even the players joked one of them must have it

Yeah, not true buddy. You’re talking about cash game pros that have spent and played literally 1000’s of hours against each other. Not to mention money is literally nothing to these guys anymore. Paul Phua is a certified billionaire, as well as the rest. Mix in alcohol and the 7-2 game and this is the result.

look at players' reactions, these are not staged or anything

I think he would have since he was getting 4.5-1 odds and since he knows he’s beating probably all of Dwan’s bluffs. I doubt Dwan has any other bluffs in this line. This is a board where the 3-bet caller should have very few raises.