Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 26, 2010 Posted in Poker Player News | No Comments »
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The ever vigilant highstakesdb.com not only brings us the most comprehensive results from the nosebleed tables, but they also occasionally pick up a scoop from the table talk between the big name pros, and this is precisely what occurred at the $100/$200 No Limit Holdem at Full Tilt Poker last week. The discussion took place between Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan and the anonymous player who uses the online handle ‘Jungleman12’ –rumored to be a young player by the name of DanielRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 03, 2010 Posted in WSOP News | No Comments »
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It looks like the high-limit poker pros will be sweating once again at the 2010 World Series of Poker, and not over their own results. After Tom Dwan failed to take down an earlier tournament, word quickly made it around the Rio that he stood to make millions in side-bets if he can capture his 1st WSOP bracelet in 2010. Well, the Bobby’s Room regulars had to sweat out durrrr’s second place finish, and now they may have to doRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 10, 2010 Posted in Poker Player News, WSOP News | No Comments »
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After news started trickling in about the magnitude of money Tom Dwan –better known as durrrr—stood to gain should he win a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2010 the numbers are absolutely astounding. His second place finish in the $1,500 No Limit Holdem event will probably go down as the biggest prize differential between first and second place; in fact the $600k+ he would have booked for the win wouldn’t have even touched what he would owe in taxesRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 07, 2010 Posted in Poker Player News, WSOP News | No Comments »
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The online poker world saw its poster-child come up just short in his bid to take home his first World Series of Poker bracelet, but alas it was not meant to be and Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan finished in 2nd place of Event #11,the $1,500 No limit Holdem tournament. The man who ousted Dwan was Australian Simon Watt, who picked up his first WSOP win –actually his first WSOP cash—to go along with his APPT win in 2009. In addition toRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 06, 2010 Posted in Poker Players, WSOP News | No Comments »
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With 21 players left in the $1,500 No Limit Holdem it is one of poker’s biggest names atop the leader-board: Tom “durrrr” Dwan. Many in the poker world are shocked Dwan hasn’t won a World Series of Poker bracelet yet, even though he is barely into his twenties! Dwan is the only player with over 1 million chips, but six players are between 709,000 and 953,000. If Dwan can hold on for the win –FTW in online circles—it could beRead Full Article

Posted by PokerFelts on May 10, 2010 Posted in High Stakes Poker News | No Comments »
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Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan has had a great year for poker so far, with the young professional recovering from his losses against phantom Full Tilt Poker player ‘Isildur1’. The young professional poker player joined into this seasons High Stakes Poker, a televised high stake cash game which pulls in some of the biggest names in the poker industry. A victory against Israeli professional Eli Elezra meant that Dwan was able to replicate his recent form and end the session within theRead Full Article

Posted by PokerFelts on Apr 30, 2010 Posted in High Stakes Poker News | No Comments »
Durrrr-Challenge

There has been a lot of talk about the ‘Durrrr Challenge’, a high stakes real money cash game played between Full Tilt Poker professional Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan and any other professional poker player that wants to lock horns with the young starlet over 60,000 poker hands. Currently the challenge has been running for a number of months and the only player who has been involved with the game so far is Patrik Antonius. So far Dwan and Antonius have playedRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 07, 2010 Posted in Poker Player News | No Comments »

Full Tilt Poker is rolling out their latest addition to the popular online poker sites impressive arsenal of talent, a commercial featuring the latest addition to Team Full Tilt Tom Dwan. The online poker superstar was the biggest free agent in poker before he signed with Full Tilt Poker last year, and now Full Tilt is starting to take advantage of Dwan’s popularity. A sneak peak of the commercial, which features Dwan talking

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Mar 25, 2010 Posted in High Stakes Poker News, Online Poker News | No Comments »

Back in January 2009 online poker superstar Tom “durrrr” Dwan issued an open challenge to the poker community offering them 3:1 odds that he would beat anyone, except his close friend Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, over 50,000 hands of heads-up poker. The rules stated that the stakes had to be at least $200/$400, the game could be no-limit Hold’em or pot-limit Omaha

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 16, 2010 Posted in High Stakes Poker News | No Comments »

Many of us have logged onto an online poker site for a quick 10-15 minute session, but in what may go down as the most memorable 1/6 of an hour Tom Dwan was able to relieve Patrik Antonius of over $230,000 in just 9 minutes! The session puts Dwan’s lead in the “Durrrr Challenge” $1.9 million after 33,303 hands. Patrik Antonius is definitely running out of