The location? Unregulated. The agreed sum? Unknown. The participant? Tom “durrrr” Dwan.
The 37-year-old has $6.5 million in dwell earnings and was noticed patched up by the unregulated poker website whereas taking part in on the Triton Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection in Jeju, South Korea.
“I occur to be actually optimistic on the subsequent few years of poker,” Dwan stated in an announcement video. “You’ve acquired to be attempting some new stuff and doing fascinating stuff. I believe plenty of the poker world is lacking that.”
This is not Dwan’s first poker sponsorship, having beforehand been a Full Tilt Purple Professional from 2009-13 and served as a Triton Poker Ambassador.
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Dwan’s Excellent Money owed
The information of Dwan’s sponsorship comes weeks after Canadian poker participant Peter Jetten cautioned towards doing enterprise with Dwan, saying he’d delayed cost for 4 years.
And solely this week skilled gambler and soccer membership proprietor Haralabos Voulgaris additionally took to social media to debate a sports activities betting debt that Dwan incurred in 2012.
“He was all the time civil after I was giving him extra time however after I put my foot down he modified ways fully”
The settlement was that Dwan would place bets for Voulgaris, resulting from his status as an expert gambler, a course of often known as “bearding”. In change, Dwan acquired 25% of the income. In response to Voulgaris, the pair gained “excessive 7 figures”.
Nonetheless, Dwan concurrently misplaced cash with one other bearding group and didn’t have the cash to pay Voulgaris his winnings.
“Tom doesn’t dispute the debt,” Voulgaris stated, earlier than including that he’d recouped a few of his money owed by way of a 3rd get together who additionally owed Dwan. “With out his assist I might possible nonetheless be owed mid 7 figs from Tom”
Dwan is no less than ultimately conscious of the cash owed, with Jetten (pictured) receiving $30,000 in direction of the debt after his tweet. Nonetheless, discussions on the remaining stability being paid on the Triton Poker Tour cease in Jeju broke down.
“That is after 4 years of claiming he’d pay full quantity quickly,” Jetten tweeted. “He was all the time civil after I was giving him extra time however after I put my foot down he modified ways fully. I’ve by no means handled somebody this unethical.”
Who’s Tom Dwan
Dwan gained fame in the course of the late 2000s, notably for his aggressive taking part in fashion. Recognized for his high-stakes money recreation exploits, he grew to become a favorite of poker followers by way of his appearances on poker TV exhibits equivalent to Excessive Stakes Poker and Poker After Darkish.
Moreover, Dwan was concerned in varied on-line poker challenges and prop bets, such because the “durrrr” Problem, his now notorious heads-up duels with Dan “Jungleman” Cates.
As of 2024, the Problem stays incomplete, with Dwan having paid between $700,000 and $800,000 in penalties for not taking part in. Dwan is at present down $1,251,059 after 19,335 of the 50,000 fingers.
Lately, nonetheless, Dwan has made a return to the dwell felt and has been a daily on the Triton Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection, cashing 9 instances throughout 2022 and 2023 in Madrid, Cyprus and Monte Carlo.
Final yr Dwan even made it to Day Three of the WSOP Essential Occasion solely to bust wanting the cash. Dwan’s final WSOP money got here again in 2011, the yr after he nearly bankrupt the whole poker group because of some of the well-known bracelet bets of all time.
He’s additionally appeared on quite a few money recreation dwell streams together with Hustler On line casino Reside the place, in Could 2023, he gained the biggest pot in live-stream poker historical past for $3,081,000 towards Wesley Fei.
WATCH: The rise and rise of Tom “durrrr” Dwan
Be sure you try this video from 2022 that takes a have a look at the story of Dwan’s poker historical past. From dropping out of college, transitioning to on-line poker and dominating the heads-up poker scene.
Managing Editor
Based mostly in the UK, Will began working for PokerNews as a contract dwell reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time workers in 2019. He graduated from the College of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He additionally holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports activities Journalism.
