Those of you who commonly follow the exploits of Tom “Durrrr” Dwan know that he is all about making headlines in the poker world for the various things he does. Dwan’s challenge against Patrik Antonius is one of the attention grabbers and Durrrr is currently losing the contest and stands to lose $1.5 million if things keep up like they are. However, I doubt the $1.5 million will break Dwan’s career since he is involved in even bigger things at the moment.
I recently saw that Dwan’s been playing Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies on Full Tilt Poker for ridiculous amounts of money. In fact, in one Pot-Limit Omaha game they were playing, the two agreed to pay $9,000 just to see the flop in their heads-up contests. With $9k being used as the big blind, you can only imagine how big the hands between these two have gotten.
The money involved is so great that Sahamies admitted he is uncomfortable playing for this kind of cash and “hopes he won’t do it again.” Unfortunately, Ziigmund noted that there is a lack of high stakes players in the online poker community so he’s almost forced to play Dwan and his crazy blind structures just to find action.
And you can bet that Tom Dwan will continue to play at these kinds of stakes since he is so used to making huge profits at the table. During the month of June, Durrrr posted a profit of over $1 million which should keep him playing at limits that will make other like Ziigmund nervous.