Phil Hellmuth falls to Tom Dwan in 1st ‘High Stakes Duel’ defeat.

Phil Hellmuth falls to Tom Dwan in 1st ‘High Stakes Duel’ defeat.
Phil Hellmuth’s unbeaten streak on “High Stakes Duel” is over.
High-stakes poker pro Tom Dwan defeated Hellmuth in a $100,000 buy-in heads-up No-limit Hold’em match broadcast Wednesday on the subscription video service PokerGO.
Hellmuth had been 7-0 in PokerGO’s made-for-TV format, sweeping three matches each from Antonio Esfandiari and Daniel Negreanu before beating FS1 host Nick Wright.
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Dwan (a -128 favorite on Pokershares.com) held the lead for most of the 5½-hour match, then took over completely when he called with bottom pair to snap off Hellmuth’s bluff with ten-high.
That left Dwan with a 7-1 chip lead (175,000 to 25,000), and he finished off the win shortly thereafter.
“I think I’d like to play you heads-up forever,” Hellmuth told Dwan after the failed bluff.
The final hand recalled a famous hand from 2008 when Dwan cracked Hellmuth’s pocket aces to advance in the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.