High-stakes professional and former long-time online smash Tom Duane has signed with Acker poker as the site’s ambassador, joining fellow poker stars Chris Moneymaker, Chris Moorman and Jose “Nacho” Barbero on the site’s roster of team professionals.
As a member of the team Acker In poker, Dwan will play under his popular name “Durrrr” and will also host the regularly broadcast “Durrrr’s Game,” featuring other notable players. Acker Officials said the game will also test some new formats and features.
“I’m really excited to join Acker “The team,” Duane 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 evolve 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 has continued to build that bankroll.
Dwan has been a regular player at some of the world’s biggest cash games from Macau to Las Vegas and in other locations. In 2009, he won the largest televised jackpot at the time against Phil Ivey at Full Tilt Poker. 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 with a $3.1 million win against Wesley Fei at Hustler Casino Live’s. Million Dollar Game.
Besides high-stakes cash games, Dwan has appeared in tournaments such as Triton Poker Series and high-level PokerGO events. He has now earned $6.5 million in live tournament winnings, including several six-figure results in highly-buy-in events.
“We are really excited to bring Tom Doane on board,” he said. Acker Poker. “His bold, bold style of poker works great with… Acker Poker Mindset We are excited that he will work with us to bring the big game of poker to more people, both in the United States and around the world.
while Acker Poker is excited about their new ambassador, and there are a few players who have expressed their displeasure over Dwan’s reported unpaid debts. Fellow high-stakes players Peter Gitten and Haralapos Voulgaris called out Duane for failing to repay hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Gitten claims Duane failed to pay him $226,000 from high-stakes tournaments held in 2020, and Voulgaris claims Duane owes him a sports betting deal for the past 12 years. This is despite the fact that Voulgaris was playing the same way Million Dollar Game Which Duane won in his record set.
Dan ‘Jungleman’ Cates came to Dwan’s defense on social media, although Cates himself admitted he still owes six figures from Dwan due to the long-gone “Durrrr Challenge” that took place before Black Friday.
Duane refuted many He claims in an interview with PokerNewsstating that Gitten is stressed by the poor staking relationship, and that Voulgaris is guilty of “misrepresentations, lies, and omissions.”
