“What he has now is real problems,” Ali Nejad said as he called the action on PokerGO‘s High Stakes Duel III. “Dwan binks the nine on the turn, a demoralizing development…and now, Hellmuth has twelve outs, or the streak is over.” The river was a brick for the defending champion and as soon as Phil […]

Phil Hellmuth’s High Stakes Duel seven-match winning streak came to an end Wednesday night after nosebleed cash game savant Tom Dwan defeated the reigning champion in an entertaining five-and-a-half-hour, hard-fought heads-up battle for $200,000.

For six hours on Wednesday night, Phil Hellmuth sat across from Fox Sports 1’s First Things co-host Nick Wright and found an opponent willing to match him blow-for-blow – both in cards and the verbal jabs. In the end, it didn’t matter and Hellmuth went on to win the opening round of PokerGO’s High Stakes […]