Tom Dwan Crushing Online Poker in 2010

Tom Dwan, stone cold killer.

If 2010 isn’t the Year of the Woman after all, we have another nomination for this year’s appellation: the Year of the Durrrr.

Tom Dwan seems to be everywhere these days. He’s on the cover of the new Bluff Magazine, talking about the second installment of the Durrrr Challenge that he has planned when he’s finished shellacking Patrik Antonius in their never-ending battle to bore the railbirds. He’s got a big commercial on TV for some online poker room, a moment that has all kinds of people who love to talk about Durrrr talking about Durrrr even more than they usually do. And he’s on GSN every weekend running over whatever lineup has been assembled to take him on at High Stakes Poker - at least, when he isn’t busy paying more attention to vegetarian prop bets.

But most importantly of all, he’s at the tables putting in a crazy number of hands. Just shy of four months into the calendar year, Dwan has logged more than 150,000 hands. And on top of the volume is the fact that he’s winning, and winning big. He continued his nearly-total dominance over the online poker world yesterday by robbing Ilari Sahamiesblind, taking some $1.5 million from the Finn in the space of just two hours and probably driving Sahamies to drink himself into oblivion in an effort to calm his rage. With that win Dwan boosted his personal winnings for 2010 to more than $7.3 million, erasing any memory of his losses to Isildur1 late last year.

The old saw says you’re supposed to play your rush, and Dwan is on an incredible one at the moment. With the World Series of Poker just around the bend, you have to think he’s ready for both the challenge of improving on his three career cashes and the high stakes live games that run 24/7 at the Rio. Whatever he chooses to take on for the rest of the year, one thing is for sure: everyone in poker will be watching to see what Tom Dwan does next.