Tom Dwan protects himself
14/03/2024

Tom Dwan protects himself

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Tom Dwan is now an ACR sponsored professional We have actually formerly blogged about allegations that Tom Dwan has actually prevented paying high stakes financial obligations for several years, both by Peter Jetten and Haralabob Voulgaris. It’s just reasonable that we release when Dwan protects himself.

Talking To Chad Holloway of PokerNews, Dwan talked for 45 minutes about the allegations. The 2 had actually formerly tried an interview however Dwan’s phone lacked battery 9 minutes in.

Jetten has actually declared that Dwan purchased a 50% piece of him in the 2020 Aussie Millions on credit, then never ever paid him the $246k in buy-ins he played. They formerly had a staking offer which Jetten remained in makeup for, however he purchased out of the handle 2019.

Dwan declares that a 2nd backer fronted Jetten the Aussie Millions buy-ins and he just wished to work with that individual. He likewise declared that he let Jetten purchase out of his makeup at a decreased rate, and given that Jetten went public about the Aussie Millions financial obligation, Dwan chose to retroactively withdraw the ‘favour’ he carried out in the makeup buyout offer, and desired a few of the cash he let Jetten off with deducted from what he owed.

We have actually currently formerly composed that Haralabob Voulgaris has actually declared Dwan put sports bets on his behalf as a ‘Beard’ and Dwan would get 25% of any revenues. Dwan did not provide Voulgaris any payouts, due to the fact that he utilized the funds to wager on behalf of another sportsbetting group, and the bets lost. Dwan validated this held true, however was upset that Voulgaris utilized a 3rd party to gather a few of the funds, due to the fact that it left him in a hard area with other individuals he owed cash to. Since of this, Dwan stated he didn’t seem like paying the rest that was owed.

In both cases, Dwan did not especially refute the claims of Jetten or Voulgaris, rather, he disagreed with the way in which they have actually tackled recovering their cash.

Dwan is likewise set up to appear on the Nick Vertucci Show today to even more safeguard himself.

All of this has actually come following a week when Dwan was called the brand-new ambassador of ACR, the uncontrolled poker space that was at the centre of a bot farm scandal at the start of 2024.

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barry carter Barry Carter Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO.