If you are over 24 years old, or if you are less than 24 years old, or even if you are exactly 24 years old, answer this question. Can you imaging at 24 years of age losing almost $ 1 million dollars in one day playing poker online? Well Tom “durrr” Dwan did that the other day. He was playing another regular in Full Tilt Poker’s super high limit games, “cadillac1944”. They were playing $ 500 - $ 1,000 pot limit Omaha and the action was out of this universe. In one massive hand, both players chose the “run it twice” option. That is where you play the hand twice from after the flop or turn and win one and lose one, win both, or lose both hands. In this one case of pot limit Omaha between “durrr” and “cadillac1944” , “durrr” had 9? 5? 7? 6? and “cadillac1944” held A? K? 6? 9?. Before the flop, “cadillac1944” raised to $ 3,000, “durrr” 3 bet to $ 9,000, and “cadillac19444” called.

The flop came out 10? 8? 2? making “cadillac1944” a 60% favorite to win the hand. “durrr” bet out with $ 13,000 and “cadillac1944” raised it to $ 57,000, “durrr” re-raised it to $ 189,000, and “cadillac1944” 4 bet the pot to $ 378,000. “durrr” called the the bet and was all in for almost $ 250,000. This is the point where both players agreed to the “run it twice” option and unfortunately for “durrr” he lost after both river cards and “cadillac1944” picked up a little more than $ 500,000. Tom “durrr” Dwan ended up losing almost $ 750,000 to “cadillac1944” in that match and, consistent with a very bad day, also lost about another $ 200,000 in other games the same day, bringing his daily total loss to just shy of $1 million dollars.

Full Tilt Poker is the online site for these really big games and some of the regulars in these games, in addition to Tom “durrr” Dwan and “cadillac1944”, are David Benefield, Patrik Antonius, Di “Urindanger” Dang, J Andreas “skjervoy” Torbergsen, “ronnyr37617” Rami “Arbianight” Boukai, Daniel “jungleman12” Cates, “IHateJuice”, “DrugsOrMe”, “davin77”, “GooGie MonA”, and Phil Ivey. Even if you cannot afford to participate in games at this level, and not very many people can afford to do that, you can still open the table up and watch this incredible action. This is really pretty cool because you can learn a lot from these players and in a live, brick and mortar, cash game that is even close to this size, you could never get this close of a view of the action.

Tom “durrr” Dwan started playing poker at the age of 17, making him a 7 year veteran of the game of poker. Dwan started out with a $ 50 stake that he got from a $ 50 birthday present that his father gave him on his 17^th birthday. Dwan initially lost $ 35 of his original stake leaving him with only $15 before he started winning and began the process of building his skills and his stake. 7 years later, here he is losing almost $ 1 million dollars in one day and still ahead for the year.