Longtime high-stakes professional and former on-line crusher Tom Dwan has signed with ACR Poker as a website ambassador, becoming a member of fellow poker heavyweights like Chris Moneymaker, Chris Moorman, and Jose “Nacho” Barbero on the positioning’s roster of crew professionals.
As a member of crew ACR Poker, Dwan will play below his well-known display title “Durrrr” and in addition host the regularly-streamed “Durrrr’s Game,” that includes different high-profile gamers. ACR officers mentioned the sport may also experiment with some new codecs and options.
“I’m really excited to be joining the ACR team,” Dwan mentioned. “CEO Phil Nagy and I share a similar view on online poker and I’m excited to see where this relationship can take us and grow the game for players.”
Originally from New Jersey, Dwan discovered success in high-stakes on-line money video games through the top of the poker growth within the 2000s. The 37-year-old began enjoying poker with a comparatively small bankroll about 20 years in the past and continued to construct that up.
Dwan has been a daily in a number of the world’s largest money video games from Macau to Las Vegas and in different places. In 2009, he received the then-largest televised money sport pot in opposition to Phil Ivey in Full Tilt Poker’s Million Dollar Cash Game for $1.1 million.
Dwan was largely lacking from the poker world for a few years, however then in 2023, the money sport specialist resurfaced and broke his personal document by profitable a $3.1 million pot in opposition to Wesley Fei in Hustler Casino Live’s Million Dollar Game.
Along with high-stakes money video games, Dwan has appeared in tournaments such because the Triton Poker Series and PokerGO excessive curler occasions. He now has $6.5 million in stay match winnings, together with a number of six-figure scores in excessive buy-in occasions.
“We’re really excited to bring Tom Dwan aboard,” mentioned ACR Poker. “His bold, daring approach to poker is a great fit with ACR Poker’s mentality and we’re excited that he’ll be working with us to bring big poker to more people, both in the U.S. and around the world.”
While ACR Poker is happy about their new ambassador, there are a number of gamers who voiced their displeasure at Dwan’s reported unpaid money owed. Fellow high-stakes gamers Peter Jetten and Haralabos Voulgaris have referred to as Dwan out for failing to repay tons of of 1000’s of {dollars}.
Jetten claims that Dwan has did not pay him $226,000 from high-stakes tournaments performed in 2020, and Voulgaris alleges that Dwan has owed him for a sports activities betting deal for the final 12 years. This is even supposing Voulgaris was enjoying in the identical Million Dollar Game that Dwan received his document pot in.
Dan ‘Jungleman’ Cates got here to Dwan’s protection on social media, though Cates himself admitted that he’s nonetheless owed six figures from Dwan stemming from the long-defunct ‘Durrrr Challenge’ that occurred previous to Black Friday.
Dwan refuted most of the claims in an interview with PokerNews, stating that Jetten is bitter over a staking relationship gone dangerous, and that Voulgaris is responsible of ‘misrepresentations, lies, and omissions.”