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As an average online poker player, you may sit back sometimes and dream of making $1.5 million in a single year.  As Tom Dwan, you can sit at the poker tables and make this much money in one day! Dwan made the aforementioned $1.5 million earlier this week on October 6th while playing high stakes games at Full Tilt Poker.  The special day began when he faced off against fellow poker pro llari “Zigmund” Sahamies, and the two played a little $500/$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha.  Some of the pot sizes Dwan won in this session’s poker hands included $275,000, $302,000, and …

Tom Dwan isn’t finished with the 50,000 poker hands he needs to play against Patrik Antonius to end the first “Durrrr Challenge.”  Even still, Dwan has decided to start a new Million Dollar holdem poker challenge against Dan “JungleMan12” Cates. The challenge, which just recently started, has already seen the two high stakes pros play through around 7,000 hands.  Looking at how this challenge is only 50,000 hands, it looks as if the two will actually finish their poker games quickly.  The second Durrrr Challenge is currently taking place at Full Tilt Poker and Cates is off to a $692,000 …