Age: 21
Resides: Boston/Fort Worth
Online name: durrrr
Biggest live tournament win: 2007 World Poker Finals: $9,700 no-limit Hold’em WPT Championship; 4th, $324,244
Live tournament winnings: $336,642

Tom Dwan plays in the biggest no-limit Hold’em and pot-limit Omaha cash games online against the world’s most famous pros. He is friends with the infamous ‘Ship it Holla Ballas’ crew and lives a life of luxury with fellow ‘Balla’, David ‘Raptor’ Benefield in Texas.

He seems to have the right combination of skill and luck, best seen in the notorious hand where his rivered straight flush scooped a $135,000 pot after busting his opponent’s flopped quad Tens. In one of his earliest live tournaments, he final-tabled the 2005 EPT London.

Top tip
‘If you are stubborn or lack intelligence you won’t be that successful. There are some very successful people who aren’t that great at poker. They keep complaining about how unlucky they get without realising they don’t play great in some aspects.’