Tom "durrrr" Dwan

Tom durrrr Dwan has become a poker legend in a remarkably short period of time. He started out with a small stake playing online games and built himself into one of the top players in the world. In doing this has played with a very aggressive style that has attracted a lot of attention. Whether he can translate his online success into success as a live tournament player remains to be seen but for now he is one of the top online players in the world.

Tom Dwan is very definitely a part of the new generation of poker player. Like many young players these days he got his start playing online long before he was old enough to go into a casino. At the age of seventeen he started playing online with a fifty dollar bankroll. He quickly proved to be one of the top online players and as his bankroll grew he started playing in games for higher stakes. This was when Tom Dwan started to become well known as a poker player. Poker magazines were actually reporting on his online games.

At the age of nineteen still too young to play in a casino's in the United States, despite the fact that he won hundreds of thousands of dollars online, Dwan went to Europe to start playing in live tournaments. He continued to play in tournaments in Europe until his twenty first birthday when he could finally start to play at home. He finished fourth in a World Poker Tour event a few weeks after his birthday winning over three hundred thousand dollars. Since then there have been a number of other successes in live tournaments.

Despite the success that he has had playing in live tournaments Tom Dwan is largely known as an online. Player this is where he has had his greatest success. His online games have a large following and he frequently plays for very high stakes, often against other top pros. With his track record of success in online games it is often hard for Dwan to get a game. This has resulted in him having to come up with some creative approaches to attract opponents. One of them has seen him put up one and half million dollars against which anybody can put up half a million to play fifty thousand hands with the winner taking the whole pot.

Tom Dwan has built a reputation for being a very aggressive poker player. The nickname durrrr comes from the screen name he used when he first started playing online in order to irritate people. He is famous for making very large bets, even when he has a weak hand. This approach has worked very well for him in online games. It has only been moderately successful in live tournaments however. It may be necessary for him to change the way that he plays live if he wants to become a top tournament player.