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[QUOTE="dmorris68, post: 2205804, member: 40397"]
Doubt this really hurt Tom at all.  By all accounts I've heard, he's still likely up in that game.

Was listening to a podcast just today that interviewed the guy who originally set those Macao games up and brought Phil Ivey and Tom into the game.  He continues to organize and play in them.  He recounted just one game with a $25K buy-in, where just one of the Chinese businessmen [I]bought in 36 times[/I].  The casino ran out of chips so they were writing IOUs on stacks of paper.  He said by the end of the session there was $15M USD in chips on the table and probably another $10M in IOUs, and Tom had most of the chips in front of him.

I think the people saying Tom is a bad player clearly don't understand the depth of his game.  He plays a high variance style so his swings can be huge, but he's in the very upper echelon of players when it comes to success at the tables.  You don't luck your way into that, especially without big tournament binks.
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