Tom Dwan

Tom Dwan

Tom Dwan, best known by his online alias “durrrr” is an American poker pro who emerged into the high-stakes online poker scene in 2007. He first started playing poker online in 2004 at the age of 17 and in three years he climbed up the stakes ladder to the biggest digits available online.

Tom Dwan Background

Tom Dwan was born in Edison, New Jersey in 1986. He started playing poker online on Paradise Poker at the age of 17. He made his first deposit with $50 which Dwan received from his father for his 17th birthday. He was soon able to turn profit from his investment and went on to play at higher stakes. In 2005 Dwan cashed in his first major live tournament, the £3,000 European Poker Tour Main Event in London where he finished in 12th place for £7,000.

At that time Full Tilt Poker was the place for all the high-stakes poker action and Dwan became a regular at the heads-up nosebleeds. He was playing against some of the biggest names in online poker including Frederick Halling, Prahlad Friedman, Phil Ivey, Ilari Sahamies, Patrik Antonius, Brian Townsend, Viktor Blom and others.

Playing big stakes at the online tables Dwan had enjoyed big upswings as well as suffered huge downfalls. He would win and then lose millions of dollars in just a few days or even a couple of hours playing heads-up on Full Tilt. Dwan also took part in a number of record-breaking hands played online scooping and losing some of the largest pots in the online poker history.

Dwan was a Full Tilt Pro for a while but they parted company in 2013. These days, Dwan is an ambassador for an unlicensed and unregulated US-facing online poker room.

Tom Dwan Poker History

Dwan is best known for his high-stakes cash game prowess; at one point, he was considered the best in the world at online poker cash games. Although online cash games are no longer tracked, it is estimated Dwan has profited by more than $10 million at the now-defunct Full Tilt Poker alone.

"durrrr" is a regular in nosebleed stakes cash games in Macau and on televised live streams. According to High Roller Poker, Dwan has amassed almost $4.1 million in profit in televised live-streamed cash games, including almost $3 million on High Stakes Poker. However, he is currently down an estimated $3.2 million in Triton Poker cash games.

Since cashing in his first live poker tournament in 2007, Dwan has racked up over 55 cashes in the live arena. Although cash games are his bread and butter, Dwan has over $6.9 million in recorded cashes, with his largest prize weighing in at $793,775.

In December 2024, Dwan had cashed for six figures in 20 of his 56 cashes. The £656,500 ($793,775) he scooped for an eighth-place finish in the 2019 Triton poker SHR London £250,000 Short Deck event is the largest haul of his career. A day before that record-breaking score, Dwan finished fifth in a £100,000 edition for £514,000 ($624,514).

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