Tom Dwan Online Poker Strategy
PokerNews caught up with Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan for tips on the Short Deck Ante Only poker format at the 2018 Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro. Live Events 1. PokerStars EPT Prague. World leading live reporting and poker strategy content and provides comparison features of various online poker sites to its visitors. Jul 29, 2010 Then a certain Tennessee accountant named Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 World Series of Poker and that all changed. People like Tom 'durrrr' Dwan and Patrik Antonius championed a loose-aggressive style that exploited the tendencies of opponents no longer thought of as solid but now derogatively called “nits”.
Jul 31, 2013 In an interview with Poker Player UK’s Ross Jarvis, Negreanu talked about his long history in the game and, during that discussion, focused a great deal of attention on one of the stars of the online poker world, Tom Dwan.
Over the course of the last decade Tom Dwan has emerged as not only one of the games' more elusive players, but also one of its most bewildering. To watch him is to be left scratching your head asking 'how?', while to imitate him is to find yourself drawing dead with just a high card. To take durrr on typically results in humiliation, the public kind, the kind that will live on forever in poker history.
Like these five hands, that we've taken from the vast PokerStars archive, and which we think stand as five of the best hands played on television by Dwan.
They range from the ridiculous to the sublime - from the 8-high shove to the nut straight kind. Along the way he encounters, and dispatches, the likes of Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth and Patrick Antonius, rendering them completely silent. As reactions go it's an easy one to understand, given that these hands include the biggest pot ever shown on television.
You can watch the Top 5 hands for yourself below. And if you think we missed one then get in touch with us on Twitter: @PokerStarsTV.
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Could the long dormant Durrrr Challenge resume this year?
Dan “jungleman” Cates sure hopes so, as he was up about $1.2 million against Tom “durrrr” Dwan when the challenge slowed to a snail’s pace and was later put on ice several years ago. Only about 40 percent of the required 50,000 hands have been played.
The game was $200-$400 no-limit hold’em.
They had no interest in having to learn a new playing system, being put through 'trial by fire' checkout procedures before being approved to play, being supervised in the casinos, or having to fill out detailed player sheets (such as casino, cash in and cash out totals, time period, betting strategy and limits, and the rest) for every playing session. A couple of the players were initially averse to the idea. Former mit blackjack team member talks about breaking the bank of america.
About six years ago, Dwan offered the high-stakes community a chance to play him in a heads-up contest in which the winner would earn a bonus. Dwan would win an extra $500,000 if he finished up by at least $1. If Dwan ended in the hole, he would fork over $1.5 million to his opponent.
The challenge was endorsed by Full Tilt Poker and held on the site.
Last month, the Durrrr Challenge was back in the news after Doug Polk, another top heads-up no-limit hold’em pro, called the contest “one of the most massive scams in poker history.”
“I totally understand where [Doug] is coming from,” Cates told Card Player. However, the Maryland native is still confident that there will be an amicable conclusion to the match.
“I’m not happy how it has gone, but I am trying to resolve things with Tom,” Cates said. “[Dwan] has been somewhat cooperative. He’s been in a bit of trouble and I guess gambled beyond his means or something. He’s been busy with some pretty big stuff lately. I hope that we get it resolved this year. I don’t think it was a scam or ever intended on being one.”
Dwan hasn’t cashed in a major tournament since 2014. In late 2013, Dwan said that he had suffered his worst poker session ever, and there was rumor that it was to the tune of about $4 million. According to online poker tracking site HighstakesDB, Dwan hasn’t played a hand of high stakes poker over the internet since around that time.
Late 2013 was also the last time Cates and Dwan played a session.
Cates said last year that Dwan had lost a live poker hand worth more than $20 million, though it’s not certain if the pot was from the day Dwan had his “biggest loss ever.”
According to Cates, the aftermath of online poker’s Black Friday in April 2011 has also played a role in the challenge going inactive, but he doesn’t think it’s a good reason.
“I do think the challenge should be completed by now,” he said.
“I’m working with Tom to either finish it this year or get a bunch of hands done this year, or just have it resolved this year. He’s still agreeing to pay me some penalties, and I guess if he doesn’t want to do that he’ll have to forfeit or something like that.”
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Last week, Dwan tweeted for the first time since May 2015, though it wasn’t about the Durrrr Challenge. Dwan said that it seems people have been impersonating him on Facebook.