Return Of Tom Dwan
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Dwan was born on July 30, 1986, in Edison, New Jersey. He attended Engineering class in Boston University before dropping out after the first year to pursue playing poker full-time. Poker career Online poker. Dwan began playing online poker with a $50 bankroll. He initially focused on sit-and-go tournaments, later switching to multiplayer cash games then to heads-up cash games.
[toc]This week marked the return of popular poker television show Poker After Dark to the airwaves. If we are being honest though, it might as well have been The Tom Dwan Show.
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After a couple years of laying low in Asia, Dwan returned to the States to take part in the show. Aria Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada hosted the action. PokerGO aired the show live on its subscription streaming service.
There were three cash game sessions with a different line-up each night. Dwan, better known to some by his online handle “durrrr”, sat in all three games.
Dwan won high six figures after three sessions
After the three days wrapped, Dwan was up over $500,000. He certainly won big. However, a glance at the key hands will give you some understanding of how well he ran during the sessions.
On the opening night, he picked up pocket aces preflop in a pot where Daniel Negreanu had queens and Antonio Esfandiari had kings. Esfandiari and Dwan got it all-in, making for a $700,000 pot. The aces held even after running it twice, so Dwan scooped the entire pot.
The following night, Andrew Robl joined the line-up, as did living poker legend Doyle Brunson. The action was $200/$400 no-limit hold’em, but with straddles in play, Robl decided to buy in for a whopping $1 million. All told, there was over $3 million on the table.
During the second session, Dwan finished with over $1 million in front of him. Dwan stacked millionaire Bill Klein when he had a set against Klein’s two pair. He then added even more to his stack when both he and Jean-Robert Bellande flopped a set, but Dwan’s was bigger. To Bellande’s credit, he did manage to fold the river, but Dwan won $575,000 from the hand.
Brunson left an impression on Poker After Dark too
The next morning, Brunson Tweeted about Dwan’s fortunate run.
You should have seen him last night! I used to be young and catch hand after hand like he does.#poorJRBhttps://t.co/l99Sr4MjiM
— Doyle Brunson (@TexDolly) August 16, 2017
In Brunson’s defense, he was more critical of his own game. He was initially supposed to play the third night, but bowed out. He said his game was not where it needed to be to play at such stakes.
Tx for the kind words about my poker last night. True, I was card dead most of the night but I was uncomfortable. Been awhile since I played
— Doyle Brunson (@TexDolly) August 16, 2017
I don’t know if I’m going to play tonight on Poker After Dark tonight. Game is going to be huge and I’m not sure my game is ready.
— Doyle Brunson (@TexDolly) August 16, 2017
Brunson did not play. Instead, “Aussie” Matt Kirk jumped in the fray.
Dwan and Poker After Dark had fans feeling nostalgic
Social media was abuzz during the Poker After Dark sessions. Certainly, there was a fair amount of criticism. Most notably, viewers were frustrated by the limited graphics package, which did not include position at the table or bet sizes.
Much of the other chatter was excitement about the big pots though. It harkened back to the heyday of online poker, when players railed the nosebleed cash games featuring Dwan.
Unfortunately for the show and PokerGO, you cannot exactly script a popular player coolering the crap out of everyone. So, it remains to be seen if future Poker After Dark episodes will retain the level of hype around this one. As for Dwan, we do not know if this means he is back on the scene or if we will return to life under the radar with several hundred thousand dollars in his pocket.
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One of the biggest enigmas in all of poker, Tom Dwan is finally making his long-awaited return to televised poker. When the new season of “Poker After Dark” premieres, Dwan will be playing on the first three episodes starting on Monday, August 14.So who is Tom Dwan, anyway?
At only 31 years old, Dwan has accomplished more than many players do in a lifetime. Dwan first reached notoriety in the late-2000’s when he would regularly go through multi-million dollar swings on Full Tilt Poker playing no limit hold’em and pot limit Omaha at the highest stakes available. Dwan feared no one and would take on all comers resulting in the start of the “Durrrr Challenge” where he faced off against the likes of Patrik Antonius and Daniel Cates. While neither of the matches every finished, both still garner attention to this day.
Even at 21, Dwan was already on the path to greatness as evidenced by his final table finish in the WPT World Poker Finals Main Event at Foxwoods in November 2007.
Dwan may have built his bankroll in online cash games but he is remembered best for his appearances on the former version of “Poker After Dark” and “High Stakes Poker” where his aggressive play made for glorious viewing.
A YouTube search featuring Dwan’s name pulls pages of six-figure pots that he was often on the right side of as his legend grew among professionals and fans alike.
Where has Tom Dwan been?
Following Black Friday and the subsequent fall of Full Tilt Poker, Dwan’s whereabouts became a consistent mystery to the poker world. Over the last few years, Dwan has been seen in both Macau and Manila playing in high stakes cash games along with the occasional high roller tournament. The specifics of these games, however, are shrouded in hearsay.
The questions about Dwan and if he would ever return to live poker in the United States never ceased during his absence. Interestingly enough, Dwan was spotted by none other than Luke Vrabel in a Las Vegas Whole Foods store around this time last year.
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Return Of Tom Dwan
Dwan remained under the radar until this March when he cashed in a Super High Roller event in Macau, earning $252,000.
Dwan’s whereabouts over the last few years may remain a mystery, but starting next Monday, he will be back in front of the cameras ready to play for an audience that has been waiting a long time to see him.
How to watch Tom Dwan on Poker After Dark?
Six years after “Poker After Dark” went off the air, it is back and some of its biggest stars return with it. All of the action will be live streamed on PokerGo. Three new lineups are on the marquee with Dwan listed on all of them. Some of the names to appear alongside Dwan next week are Daniel Negreanu, Antonio Esfandiari, and Doyle Brunson.
Launched over the summer, PokerGo is the new home for all things live streaming in poker. Following a successful summer of World Series of Poker streams, PokerGo is taking the next step in their subscription-based business by bringing back one of the most popular poker shows of all-time with legendary producer Mori Eskandani at the helm.
There are more lineups set to be announced in the near future and the rundown of the first set is listed below.
| Monday, August 14 | Tuesday, August 15 | Wednesday, August 16 |
| Tom Dwan | Tom Dwan | Tom Dwan |
| Daniel Negreanu | Doyle Brunson | Doyle Brunson |
| Antonio Esfandiari | Andrew Robl | Andrew Robl |
| Jean-Robert Bellande | Jean-Robert Bellande | Jean-Robert Bellande |
| Lauren Roberts | Lauren Roberts | Lauren Roberts |
| Bill Klein | Bill Klein | Bill Klein |
When “Poker After Dark” formally returns, it will be played inside Aria, the home of Super High Roller Bowl along with the WPT 500. The game will be live streamed on PokerGo starting at 8:00 p.m. ET on August 14 with additional streams taking place on Tuesday, August 15 and Wednesday, August 16 at the same time. The stakes are $200/$400 with a $400 button ante and a $100,000 minimum buy in required.