Tom Dwan - Durrr

I've recently been thinking about who I really admire and love to watch play poker. As a kid you always have your favorite action hero, football player or actor, someone that you like the idea of being someone you could emanate.

I always saw myself as a Maverick style, adventurous, risk taking wild child so you may imagine that I'd be more of a Stu Ungar fan or some flash, extrovert, loud, ostentatious young pro. However it surprised me when I found myself thinking that if I had to pick my favorite poker player right now it would be the rather plain looking, softly spoken Tom Dwan aka Durrrr.

When you first lay eyes on Durrrr the man that you'll see looks decidedly normal even boarder line geeky. If someone pointed him out and said he was a train enthusiast or has seen every episode of Star Trek you probably wouldn't doubt them.

But you see that's just it, he's understated (thinking about it, maybe not the best choice of picture to illustrate his understated, low key style). Much like an Aston Martin compared to a Ferrari, (one day that DB9 will be mine!!) the Italian machine snarls and grabs attention with it's normally flamboyant coloring and attention grabbing design, whilst the Aston is just that little more reserved with it's understated style yet still a very capable beast.

For me Durrr may in fact be one of the smartest poker players out there. He learnt the game whilst only in his teens and in no time at all found himself in the biggest games going. He doesn't have the mouth of Mike Matuso or the brat like character of Phil Helmuth yet everyone still knows who he is, all this and he's never even won a WSOP event.

It seems now that every time I watch poker on TV, he's there or whenever I pick up a poker magazine there's an article about him in it. His latest $1,000,000 challenge open to all comers has indeed made many headlines where even the likes of the great Phil Helmuth have already declared that they will not play Durrrr. Helmuth (the often self proclaimed greatest tournament player) went as far as to say that Durrrr is the best player under 30 right now and may even be the best player there is. I think the man has done a terrific job of marketing himself and knows precisely what he's doing, all this and clearly a talented player.

Whilst searching google for the latest news on what Durrr is upto at the moment I stumbled across a site that really sums up what a great job he is doing with his self promotion. The site is simply called Tom Dwan and if you want to know more about the guy then you should check it out.

Durrr clearly loves playing heads up poker and here is an amazing heads up poker course with some insane videos on how to crush the games.

Good Luck

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