Tom Dwan Online Poker Strategy
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Is he back?
This past weekend, Tom “durrrr” Dwan finished second in the $64,400 buy-in high roller event at the 2017 Macau Billionaire Poker Spring Challenge at the Babylon Casino. It was his first tournament score since February 2014.
— Poker King Club (@PokerKingClub) 9 octombrie 2015. As you can see, Tom is still a poker player even if he decided to avoid the scrutiny of the poker community. With a little bit of luck, we may also see him in the upcoming months battling with ‘jungleman’ and finally ending the ‘Durrrr Challenge’ and his online poker.
It’s worth noting that the tournament had just 12 players, but any public appearance for Dwan is welcome news these days. The legendary cash game player has been absent from the live scene in America for several years now, but he’s apparently still a regular in nosebleed games over in the Asia-Pacific region.
Mikita Badziakouski, the winner of the high roller, took home about $420,000, while Dwan pocketed $250,000. Dwan now has $2.9 million in lifetime tournament earnings.
The score is great news for Dwan, who has been criticized by some of his peers in the high-stakes poker community over the defunct “Durrrr Challenge.” High-stakes player Doug Polk also took to his video blog this month to speculate about Dwan’s finances.
Dan Cates, Dwan’s opponent in the online poker challenge, said that Dwan has “gambled beyond his means.” According to online poker tracking site HighstakesDB, Dwan hasn’t played online in about three years.
Dwan was widely regarded as one of the most feared cash game players in the world during the pre-Black Friday era, but he also had some deep tournament runs. At the 2010 World Series of Poker, Dwan had millions in action on bracelet bets. With a rumored $12.5 million on the line in a measly $1,500 buy-in tournament, Dwan finished second out of 2,563 players and missed out on a payday that was likely larger than first place in the main event.
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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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