High-Stakes Pro Tom Dwan Signs As ACR Poker Ambassador‘Durrrr’ To Host New Streaming Game On The Site |
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Longtime high-stakes pro and former online crusher Tom Dwan has signed with ACR Poker as a site ambassador, joining fellow poker heavyweights like Chris Moneymaker, Chris Moorman, and Jose “Nacho” Barbero on the site’s roster of team pros.
As a member of team ACR Poker, Dwan will play under his well-known screen name “Durrrr” and also host the regularly-streamed “Durrrr’s Game,” featuring other high-profile players. ACR officials said the game will also experiment with some new formats and features.
“I’m really excited to be joining the ACR team,” Dwan said. “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 found success in high-stakes online cash games during the height of the poker boom in the 2000s. The 37-year-old started playing poker with a relatively small bankroll about 20 years ago and continued to build that up.
Dwan has been a regular in some of the world’s largest cash games from Macau to Las Vegas and in other locations. In 2009, he won the then-largest televised cash game pot against Phil Ivey in Full Tilt Poker’s Million Dollar Cash Game for $1.1 million.
Dwan was largely missing from the poker world for many years, but then in 2023, the cash game specialist resurfaced and broke his own record by winning a $3.1 million pot against Wesley Fei in Hustler Casino Live’s Million Dollar Game.
Along with high-stakes cash games, Dwan has appeared in tournaments such as the Triton Poker Series and PokerGO high roller events. He now has $6.5 million in live tournament winnings, including several six-figure scores in high buy-in events.
“We’re really excited to bring Tom Dwan aboard,” said 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 excited about their new ambassador, there are a few players who voiced their displeasure at Dwan’s reported unpaid debts. Fellow high-stakes players Peter Jetten and Haralabos Voulgaris have called Dwan out for failing to repay hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Jetten claims that Dwan has failed to pay him $226,000 from high-stakes tournaments played in 2020, and Voulgaris alleges that Dwan has owed him for a sports betting deal for the last 12 years. This is despite the fact that Voulgaris was playing in the same Million Dollar Game that Dwan won his record pot in.
Dan ‘Jungleman’ Cates came to Dwan’s defense on social media, although Cates himself admitted that he is still owed six figures from Dwan stemming from the long-defunct ‘Durrrr Challenge’ that took place prior to Black Friday.
Dwan refuted many of the claims in an interview with PokerNews, stating that Jetten is sour over a staking relationship gone bad, and that Voulgaris is guilty of ‘misrepresentations, lies, and omissions.”
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