Tom Dwan

Tom "durrrr " Dwan ( born July 30, 1986) is an American professional poker player who grew up in Edison, New Jersey and currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is a member of Team Full Tilt.

• 2.1 Live Poker

Career

Dwan spent a year studying English at Boston University, then broke off.

Online Poker

Dwan is a young player who has not made ​​primarily to gain attention success in online poker. He began his game on the online platform Paradise Poker, where he first earned some money. After about two months, he began to play at the cash tables and made to these gains of about $ 15,000. Thereupon he decided to play for higher stakes. He succeeded in a very short time to get to the top and make a name for himself in the scene. His reputation he earned mainly by high profits at No Limit Hold'em and Pot Limit Omaha cash games. He is also in the ranking of the top Hold'em Cash Game Earners listed with a profit of about $ 4,300,000.

Play

Dwan is known for his extremely aggressive style of play. Dwan plays loose, which means that he does not follow the classic good starting hands in poker game, but opened with almost any arbitrary combination of his game. Therefore, it is often very difficult to predict his opponent or to read.

Live Poker

In September 2005 he reached the twelfth place at the European Poker Tour event in London.

Two years later he finished fourth at the World Poker Tour and was awarded $ 324,244.

He is very successful start to the year 2008. In January, he reached two money finishes at the Aussie Millions, including a second place. On the 25th of the month 2008 he was second in a pre-tournament of the Borgata Winter Open and got for $ 226,100. At the WSOP 2008, he came in two tournaments in the money, for which he took along some $ 100,000 prize money.

Dwan participated in the National Heads - Up Poker Championship 2008 part, and sat down in the first round after just three hands against Phil Hellmuth by since his TT win against Hellmuth's AA. Hellmuth took all his chips though as favorite before the flop in the middle, on the turn but came Dwan's saving ten. However, in the second round, he was eliminated by Mike Matusow.

Tom Dwan difference at the World Series of Poker 2010 Heads Up of Event # 11: No-Limit Hold'em out against Simon Watt. He thus won $ 381,885. This match brought the entire poker world sweat because Dwan has probably run a series of high-profile bets on winning a bracelet. Rumored a victory would have brought him a betting profit of 9-14 million dollars.

To date, Dwan has earned over $ 2.2 million in poker tournaments.