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 Tom Dwan or commonly called for his nickname as “Durrrr” is a professional poker player. Did you ever wonder why he chose this nickname? In most of his interviews, he will tell you that he wanted a screen name that would sound ridiculous and childish. According to him it will give the players who lost a huge tilt.
However, in the end, durrrr’s phenomenal success in the poker world has nothing to do with his silly screen name but with his eerie instinct in detecting his opponent’s weaknesses. With only five years, durrrr has gone from a jaded high school senior playing in after school games to succeeding at the top limits in poker versus some of the best players in the world.
Tom dawn grew up in Edison, New Jersey and was born in 1986. He had his first experience with Hold’em when he and his friends discovered play money sit n’ goes on Empire Poker. Durrrr immediately took the game and thought it might be a good way to earn extra spending money for school. He began building a bankroll and deposited $50 on paradise Poker and started with $6 SNGs. He easily moved up in limits. Also, he started playing on paradise a no limit hold’em cash, usually $1-$2 NL and $2-$5 occasional game. When he successfully conquered those limits, he moved over to Pokerstars where he was able to multi table $2-$4 and $3-$6NLHE. He had earned $15,000 online when he reached his birthday.
He was an engineering student at Boston University. However, as the same cases with the young poker pros, his college experience didn’t last long. He played so much, durrrr’s bankroll grew to hundreds of thousands, but his attendance in school decreased drastically. In the end, he dropped out of school to play full time. He was able to buy a house in Texas. He moved in with his fellow player David Benefield. He continued to move up in limits. After playing for years, he now sits with players like David Benyamine, Patrick Antonius and Phil Ivey.
Because of his age, he was not able to play in the United States live tournaments. When he reaches his 21st birthday in 2007, he was able to play in those tournaments. However, ‘’durrrr’’ missed out the world series of poker in the same year. He collected one cash in the European Poker tour. He preferred to concentrate on profitable online cash games rather than the international circuits. When he reached 21, he was able to hit the tournament trail. He appeared as a force to be considered with, gathering a huge sum of money in less than a year.
In 2007, in the World Poker Finals at Foxwoods, ‘’durrrr’’ made a televised table and finished fourth. He earned $325,000. After two months at the Aussie Millions, he was able to finish runner up. He earned $112,000 in his two weeks down under. In Atlantic City, he had his first live tournament win a few weeks after, where he finished runner up. He was at the ninth place of the WPT World Championship at Bellagio. Aside from having a deep finish, this has been a memorable event for Durrrr since he had series of silly hats that he had to wear as a consequence of losing a prop bet.
During the Poker World Series in 2008; Durrrr wasted no time racking up more deep finishes. An eight game rotation of poker variants was the first to come in the inaugural of the mixed event. During the final table, Durrr finished in eight place. After five days, in a Rebuys event, he was able to bubble off the final table at the eight place. In an interview with the Poker news, Durrrr confessed that before the event, his overall lifetime experience with the game was about thirty minutes worth of hands in a single session with Bobby’s Room.
Tom Dwan is now back at the cash games in a major way. This is where he racks up the hours in a nosebleed stake games on Full Tilt. Dwan manages his time between his residences in Texas and Boston when he is not traveling the circuit or tracking down games at high stakes in Las Vegas.
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Tom Dwan
