durrrr signs with Team Full Tilt
After more than a year of speculation as to when it would happen, Tom "durrrr" Dwan has signed with Team Full Tilt.
The site is calling the 23-year-old New Jersey native and former Boston University English major "one of the most influential and successful players in online poker history," and there's really no doubt about it.
While he's down around $1.8 million playing in online's biggest games this year, Dwan took over $5.4 million off the virtual tables in 2008.
Plus, there is whatever he's been raking in at the biggest live cash games around the world, $1.1 million in live tournament earnings, and some of the biggest pots and largest winning sessions in televised poker history to consider.
After dominating the last season of GSN's High Stakes Poker, this past September he raked in a $1.1 pot at million at Full Tilt Poker's Million Dollar Cash Game in London - the largest ever.
Since much of Dwan's online work has been done on Full Tilt's tables and his $1.5 million durrrr Challenge has been one of the biggest railbird draws in online history, he is an obvious choice for the team.
But while the site has a large stable of Red Pros sponsored to play on the site, Team Full Tilt is a group largely made up of the game's most elite players, including Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, John Juanda, Jennifer Harman, Phil Gordon, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Andy Bloch, Mike Matusow, Gus Hansen, Allen Cunningham and Patrik Antonius.
"Team Full Tilt doesn't take adding a team member lightly," said Lederer. "But, Tom Dwan has proven, through skill and dynamic play, that he will be a force to be reckoned with for many years to come.
"We are proud to count Tom as one of our own."
While he will continue to prowl Full Tilt's highest stakes games, Dwan will also be lending his knowledge to the Full Tilt Poker Academy and blogging for the site.
Dwan is now Team Full Tilt's youngest member.
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Comments
5Nick.
2009-11-14Just curious. Anybody know any of the teams screen names before signing. Particualy Gus, Chris or Phils? Thanks in advance :)
rc
2009-11-11quiet lion, imsoluckyo, pearljammed
Sean Lind
2009-11-11Jen,
At this time his name for Team Full Tilt is:
Tom 'durrrr' Dwan
We've seen names change before, as Greg 'FBT' Mueller has dropped the FBT nickname. But at this time Dwan retains his durrrr title.
jen-sung tan
2009-11-10That is an interesting question. I do not know of any Full TIlt pros that maintainted there original screen name once they joined the team.
Perhaps, there will be an arrangement where Tom Dwan will be allowed to keep his old screen name in quotations if he agrees to have his real name beside it. Which, would be similar to pokerstars, where team members are listed by their real names but still play under their original ids.
kaizer
2009-11-09does he keep his screen name or is that au revoir durrrr?