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Sport Allstar Bio: Tom Dwan

Known online as durrrr, Tom Dwan is one of the hottest online poker players right now. Known for his ultra-aggressive style of play, Dwan has burst onto the nosebleed-stakes cash game scene in 2007, when he logged an over 300k profit over the course of the year. From that point on, his earnings have sky-rocketed right up to the point where he became one of the best known faces at Full Tilt Poker. Compelled to reward him somehow for the publicity he'd generated for the site, Full Tilt Poker accepted him as a member of their team of professional players in November 2009. As such, Dwan currently endorses the 27% full tilt rakeback the site offers its new players. Make sure you take full advantage of this rakeback deal by signing up through the right channels.

Dwan began playing poker at the age of 17, back in 2004. He got $50 from his father for his birthday and he decided to invest that money into online poker. He made a deposit at Paradise Poker and started playing SNGs. He'd dropped most of his bankroll initially, but with his last $15, he mounted a spectacular comeback and was soon able to move to the cash tables.

It didn't take long for the Edison, New Jersey native to work his way up the stakes. Before long, he was playing $10/$20 with Frederick Halling, then $25/$50 with Prahlad Friedman. Freiedman proved to be a difficult obstacle to overcome, but after several failed attempts, Dwan managed to march right through the professional player on his way to still higher stakes.

Despite the fact that he earned a massive $5.41 million in 2008, and set quite a few records as far as pot sizes and single-session profits were concerned, Dwan's online poker career had its fair share of downs too. In 2009, a mystery player known only as Isildur1 to this day, burst onto the nosebleed stakes scene. Dwan became one of his most notorious victims. Over just a few sessions, Dwan dropped more than $5 million to Isildur1, money that he hasn't been able to recover to this day. As a matter of fact, he ended up dropping even more money to the Swede in subsequent bouts.

He was forced to drop down the stakes in order to rebuild his bankroll, a mission which he completed successfully in December 2009. His bankroll restored, he now continues to roam the nosebleed stakes at Full Tilt making money off just about anybody and sometimes dropping a chunk or two to Isildur1.

He is involved in a heads-up series against Patrik Antonius, called the Durrrr Challenge or the $1 million challenge, which he had initiated back in 2008 in an effort to generate more high stakes heads-up PLO action. He is currently ahead in the challenge, seemingly increasing his lead with every new session.

His online antics earned him spots on live poker events as well. He had money finishes in two WSOP events, he scored some dough in an EPT event as well as in 2 WPT ones. He also made a WPT final table.

Dwan played in the Aussie Millions as well in the National Heads-up Poker Championship. He's also appeared on High Stakes Poker and on Poker After Dark.

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