Born in Edison NJ is 1986 Tom Dwan has taken the world of online Poker by storm. In just a few short years he has risen from obscurity through the stakes - and is now playing with the best in the world at the highest available levels, regularly winning pots which are measured in the $100,000+ range.
Starting with a $50 deposit and playing $5 1-table tournaments, Dwan was actually down to his last 2 buy-ins before the cards started to fall his way. A different result in those two games could have seen Tom Dwan complete his engineering course at Boston University and be leading a far quieter life.
Instead, Dwan switched to Poker Stars and then Full Tilt Poker - two of the largest online poker sites - and began to rapidly move from the lower to middle stakes cash games. At this point the screen-name 'Durrrr' was created, Tom stating in a recent interview that he was looking for a name that would make people 'Tilt' (play badly due to anger or frustration) when they lost a big pot.
Equally proficient in the poker variations of No-Limit Holdem and Pot-Limit Omaha, Tom Dwan currently plays in games where blinds are $200 / $400 - ensuring the pots are big enough to make an average players eyes water.
In addition to success in cash game poker, Dwan has shown he is a force to be feared in poker tournaments too. Despite only turning 21 recently he already has some major successes on the live tournament circuit including 3 WPT (World Poker Tour) final tables with cashes totalling over $700,000 in these events alone.
In January 2009 Tom issued what has become known as the 'Durrrr Challenge' to all who would take it. This offered $1.5 million for anyone who could beat Dwan over 50,000 hands heads-up, as long as the challenger offered $500,000 in return. These odds of 3/1 show how confident Tom has become about his abilities. At the time of writing the first challenge is underway with Finnish poker professional Patrik Antonius. Challengers lined up for the rest of the year include legend Phil Ivey and high-stakes pro David Betyamine. You can watch the challenge as it happens live at specially designated tables at Full Tilt Poker.
Any biography of Tom 'Durrrr' Dwan would be incomplete without mentioning that he is currently only 22 years old - and with the huge amount of talent in the game he could be making poker history for many decades to come.
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