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Tom Dwan
Thomas Dwan Jr. (born July 30, 1986) is an American professional poker player who played online in the highest-stakes No-Limit Texas hold 'em and Pot-Limit Omaha games, primarily on Full Tilt Poker under the screen name "durrrr". Dwan has won prize money in live poker tournaments and has appeared on NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship, the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons of Poker After Dark, the third, fourth, and fifth seasons of Full Tilt Poker's Million Dollar Cash Game, and the fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth seasons of GSN's High Stakes Poker.
Tom Dwan was born on July 30, 1986, in Edison, New Jersey. In season 5, week 7 of NBC's Poker After Dark, Dwan revealed that he worked for McDonald's prior to playing poker full-time. He attended Boston University before dropping out after the first year to pursue playing poker full-time.
Dwan began playing online poker with a $50 bankroll. He initially focused on sit-and-go tournaments, later switching to multiplayer cash games then to heads-up cash games.
According to HighStakesDB.com, a site that tracks high-stakes online poker, Dwan earned $312,800 in 2007 on Full Tilt Poker and $5.41 million in 2008. Before the 2007 World Series of Poker, Dwan claimed to have lost, at the time, $2 million of his $3 million bankroll, over a four-month period.
He recovered from this loss within a year.[citation needed] In January 2009, Dwan lost more than $3.5 million, which he recovered after six months.[citation needed] However, from late October to late December 2009, Dwan suffered his then-largest downswing, losing approximately $2 million to Phil Ivey and Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies.[citation needed]
In late 2009, the online poker player known as “Isildur1” faced Tom Dwan in a series of high-stakes heads-up games, simultaneously playing on six tables with over a million dollars in play. Over the course of the sessions, Isildur1 won several million dollars from Dwan during one of the most notable periods of high-stakes online poker action. The player was later revealed to be the then-19-year-old Swedish professional Viktor Blom.
Dwan became involved in bringing this mysterious online-only player into public view, via Dwan's issuing an invitation to Blom to participate in the Full Tilt Poker Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge, live in London, on November 17-19 2009; Finnish Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies, British Sammy "any two" George, and Italian Marcello "Luckexpress" Marigiano were already confirmed for the event.[needs update]
At the end of 2009, HighStakesDB.com reported that Dwan had lost $4.35 million in 2009, which lowered his cumulative online poker winnings at Full Tilt since January 2007 at approximately $1.4 million. HighStakesDB.com also reported that after stepping down in limits following his loss to Blom/Isildur1, Dwan won $2.7 million in December 2009. According to the same site, Dwan had more than recouped his 2009 losses in the first few months of 2010; he was reported to have won $1.6 million in the first two weeks of April 2010, and after a session in which he won $1.6 million from Sahamies in a little over two hours, was ahead $7.3 million for the year as of April 21. However, Dwan lost about $4 million in the next three weeks, leaving him ahead about $3.3 million for 2010.
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Tom Dwan
Thomas Dwan Jr. (born July 30, 1986) is an American professional poker player who played online in the highest-stakes No-Limit Texas hold 'em and Pot-Limit Omaha games, primarily on Full Tilt Poker under the screen name "durrrr". Dwan has won prize money in live poker tournaments and has appeared on NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship, the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons of Poker After Dark, the third, fourth, and fifth seasons of Full Tilt Poker's Million Dollar Cash Game, and the fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth seasons of GSN's High Stakes Poker.
Tom Dwan was born on July 30, 1986, in Edison, New Jersey. In season 5, week 7 of NBC's Poker After Dark, Dwan revealed that he worked for McDonald's prior to playing poker full-time. He attended Boston University before dropping out after the first year to pursue playing poker full-time.
Dwan began playing online poker with a $50 bankroll. He initially focused on sit-and-go tournaments, later switching to multiplayer cash games then to heads-up cash games.
According to HighStakesDB.com, a site that tracks high-stakes online poker, Dwan earned $312,800 in 2007 on Full Tilt Poker and $5.41 million in 2008. Before the 2007 World Series of Poker, Dwan claimed to have lost, at the time, $2 million of his $3 million bankroll, over a four-month period.
He recovered from this loss within a year.[citation needed] In January 2009, Dwan lost more than $3.5 million, which he recovered after six months.[citation needed] However, from late October to late December 2009, Dwan suffered his then-largest downswing, losing approximately $2 million to Phil Ivey and Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies.[citation needed]
In late 2009, the online poker player known as “Isildur1” faced Tom Dwan in a series of high-stakes heads-up games, simultaneously playing on six tables with over a million dollars in play. Over the course of the sessions, Isildur1 won several million dollars from Dwan during one of the most notable periods of high-stakes online poker action. The player was later revealed to be the then-19-year-old Swedish professional Viktor Blom.
Dwan became involved in bringing this mysterious online-only player into public view, via Dwan's issuing an invitation to Blom to participate in the Full Tilt Poker Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge, live in London, on November 17-19 2009; Finnish Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies, British Sammy "any two" George, and Italian Marcello "Luckexpress" Marigiano were already confirmed for the event.[needs update]
At the end of 2009, HighStakesDB.com reported that Dwan had lost $4.35 million in 2009, which lowered his cumulative online poker winnings at Full Tilt since January 2007 at approximately $1.4 million. HighStakesDB.com also reported that after stepping down in limits following his loss to Blom/Isildur1, Dwan won $2.7 million in December 2009. According to the same site, Dwan had more than recouped his 2009 losses in the first few months of 2010; he was reported to have won $1.6 million in the first two weeks of April 2010, and after a session in which he won $1.6 million from Sahamies in a little over two hours, was ahead $7.3 million for the year as of April 21. However, Dwan lost about $4 million in the next three weeks, leaving him ahead about $3.3 million for 2010.