Tom "durrr" Dwan
Tom Dwan is a legendary online poker player. He is one of the few people who have ever made more than 1 million dollars playing poker tournaments. Here is some of the information about the poker guru. Tom Dwan spent his early childhood in New Jersey and schooled at Boston University and that is where he discovered his poker talent. He started as a small fish playing for small 50-dollar stakes after which he diverted his focus to ring games.
His transition to ring games was not an easy ride though he still made ample money that enabled him to climb the up the poker ranks. After settling, he was unstoppable and within no time he was clashing with other globally renowned poker titans. He later decided to drop out of college and dedicate his time fully to playing poker. Tom Dwan is an online poker star, for you will hardly search online poker without coming across his name. He is a poker prodigy and his legendary rise in the poker ranks has given him such incredible popularity. He is always wining at Full tilt online poker and his lifestyle is a symbol of his achievement in poker.
At the age of 19, Tom Dwan claimed his first tournament cash prize at the 2005 London European poker tour. In 2007, he won the 4th place and a staggering 300,000 dollars, the biggest cash reward in his career in the World main event poker tour in Foxwoods casino in America. The year 2008 was not a bad year either for Dwan, for he was able to smile his way to the bank 225 thousand dollars richer in the 5000 dollars No-Limit Hold 'em tournament in Bogotá. In the same year he banked in two Aussie millions tournament for more than 100,000 dollars. During the summer of that same year in the poker, World Series was when Dawn's name rolled in the poker arena. He was able to clinch the seventh place in the world poker championship in the 10,000-dollar category where he got over 65,000 dollars. In 2009, he was ranked ninth at the National heads up championship as well as 14th place in the Europe World Poker series in Omaha. Even though he is currently focused on the ring-game play, he still participates and dominates in the live tournaments.
The same year of 2009 in the month of January, Tom dared all the poker players globally. For every 500,000 dollars that a player put he agreed to put up 1.5 million on condition that if he won, he was to take the five hundred thousand plus all his winnings and vice versa. After the final hand the player with the most money, even a dollar more won the challenge. During his idle time, Tom will still be found in Omaha at the poker tables and he can be found at Full Tilt Poker online. Since then his involvement in big online poker events has been significant and so far, he has participated in four out of the seven prime online poker events where in one he collected a massive pot of over 919,000 dollars.