Dwan three-bets to $13,000 with A ♦ K ♥, and Schwimer makes the call. “Alright Tom, let’s go,” says Schwimer as he puts in the calling chips. “Only guy I can beat at the table.” The flop comes 4♠5♣2 ♥, bringing in top two pair for Schwimer. Dwan bets $14,000, and Schwimer contemplates for a few seconds before deciding on a flat call. Tom 'Durrrr' Dwan is widely regarded as one of (if not the) greatest cash game players alive. Tom Dwan (Durrrr) – The epitome of high stakes online poker. Plays the highest stakes HU cash games around and has gone through some of the biggest swings ever witnessed in online poker ($3 million+ each way over a matter of days).

• Tom Dwan, having acquired poker strategy tips and developed his game as a student poker player, has rarely been seen playing such low stakes games since then. He suffered heavy losses as a student player while four tabling at $50/100 in online poker at one point; and had to.
• Tom Dwan Biography. Tom Dwan is an American poker pro, commonly known online by his username ‘durrrr’. While Dwan initially grew his bankroll playing online, he rose to prominence after great success and exciting play in televised no limit hold em games.
• Both players settled for a 7-2 prop bet where a player wins an addition $10,000 if he wins one pot with 7-2. This rule led to one of the biggest memorable bluffs in all of television poker history. Dwan bet a total of $479,500 into a pot of just $162 where he was bluffing with his 7-2 against the two pairs of George.

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.

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.

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“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.”

Where Is Tom Dwan Today

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.”

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.

Weekly Poker Hand #345: In the old episodes of High Stakes Poker Tom Dwan was known to be hyper aggressive as he consistently put his opponents in tricky situations. The new Tom Dwan that we’ve seen in this season has proved to be a lot more tame as he is looking to have a more standardized GTO approach to his hands.

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In this hand against Rick Salomon he attempts for some thin value on the river using a small sizing, do you think it was too thin?

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