In January 2009, Dwan lost more than $3.5 million, which he recovered after six months. He recovered from this loss within a year.
Before the 2007 World Series of Poker, Dwan claimed to have lost, at the time, $2 million of his $3 million bankroll, over a four-month period. He initially focused on sit-and-go tournaments, later switching to multiplayer cash games then to heads-up cash games.Īccording to, a site that tracks high-stakes online poker, Dwan earned $312,800 in 2007 on Full Tilt Poker and $5.41 million in 2008. Poker career Online poker ĭwan began playing online poker with a $50 bankroll. He attended Engineering class in Boston University before dropping out after the first year to pursue playing poker full-time. In season 5, week 7 of NBC’s Poker After Dark, Dwan revealed that he worked for McDonald's prior to playing poker full time. Tom Dwan was born on July 30, 1986, in Edison, New Jersey. Dwan has won prize money in live poker tournaments and has appeared on NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship, the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons of Poker After Dark, the third, fourth, and fifth seasons of Full Tilt Poker's Million Dollar Cash Game, and the fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth seasons of GSN's High Stakes Poker. (born July 30, 1986) is an American professional poker player who played online in the highest-stakes No-Limit Texas hold 'em and Pot-Limit Omaha games, primarily on Full Tilt Poker under the screen name " durrrr".
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