Steve O'Dwyer

Steve O'Dwyer
Steve O'Dwyer (2018)
Personal information
Date of birth	April 6, 1982
place of birth	Colorado Springs
Nicknames 0 0	Mr. Tim CaumPokerStars eet_smakelijkpartypoker MrTimCaumFull Tilt Poker
place of residence	Dublin
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	0$ 1,872,580
Total prize money	$ 30,471,478
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	no
Cashes	19th
Best main event	261st ( 2016 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	8th
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	1
Cashes	9
Main Event of the PokerStars Championship
title	no
Cashes	1
Main Event of party poker Live
title	no
Cashes	4th
Last updated: July 24, 2020

Stephen Patrick "Steve" O'Dwyer (born April 6, 1982 in Colorado Springs , Colorado ) is a professional American - Irish poker player .

O'Dwyer is considered to be one of the best tournament players in the world. He has earned almost 30.5 million US dollars in live tournaments , making him tenth among the most successful poker players in terms of tournament prize money . With over 12 million US dollars in prize money as well as a title in the main event and two titles each in the high roller and super high roller , he is the most successful player on the European Poker Tour . O'Dwyer was at the top of the Global Poker Index , equivalent to the world's poker rankings, for 22 consecutive weeks from January 13 to June 14, 2016 . This improved the previous record of 18 weeks in a row that was set by Ole Schemion at the beginning of 2015 . Meanwhile, the record is held by Alex Foxen . As part of the 50th edition of the World Series of Poker , O'Dwyer was named one of the 50 best players in poker history in June 2019 .

Personal

O'Dwyer's grandparents immigrated to the United States from Ireland, so he has been dual citizens since 2012. O'Dwyer grew up in New Britain in the US state of Pennsylvania . He studied communication science at East Carolina University in Greenville , North Carolina . O'Dwyer lives in Dublin .

Poker career

On-line

O'Dwyer came to poker as a result of the moneymaker boom in 2003 . In 2004 he saw an advertisement for the then new online poker platform Full Tilt Poker , which was looking for beta testers, and as a result began to play on their software under the nickname MrTimCaum . Since July 2007 he has also been playing under the nickname Mr. Tim Caum on PokerStars and since November 2016 as eet_smakelijk at partypoker . The so-called " Black Friday " on April 15, 2011 hit O'Dwyer so hard that he had to sleep on Scott Seivers floor at times and borrow money during the 2011 World Series of Poker . O'Dwyer's online poker tournament revenue is just under $ 7 million , of which over $ 4 million was earned at PokerStars and nearly $ 2 million at partypoker . He won his highest online prize money to date on partypoker in mid-September 2018 when he won the Powerfest championship event with a prize of almost 900,000 US dollars. In 2018, O'Dwyer was also able to place himself in the top 10 of the PocketFives ranking for the first time , which lists the most successful online poker tournament players worldwide.

live

Career

2007–2011: First final tables

After graduating from college , O'Dwyer went to Las Vegas and played his first poker tournaments there . He has been taking part in renowned live tournaments regularly since 2007. In the summer of 2007 O'Dwyer took the first time at the World Series of Poker in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and came in part in four tournaments of the variant No-Limit Hold'em in the money, u. a. he finished 295th in the main event . In mid-December 2009 he finished sixth at the Main Event of the World Poker Tour (WPT) at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas and won over $ 200,000 in prize money. At the main event of the European Poker Tour (EPT), he reached the final table in London in early October 2011 and finished the tournament in second place behind Benjamin Spindler , which earned O'Dwyer £ 465,000, or more than US $ 700,000 at the time. brought in.

Overall, O'Dwyer had tournament revenue of around $ 2 million by the end of 2011.

2012–2013: EPT title and promotion to high roller

Steve O'Dwyer (2013)

At the beginning of March 2012, O'Dwyer won the WPT National Series Main Event in Vejle, Denmark with a prize of just under 160,000 euros . At the World Series of Poker Europe , which was held in Cannes in October 2012 , he took seventh place in the Majestic Roller with a buy-in of 50,000 euros for 130,000 euros in prize money. In mid-March 2013, O'Dwyer reached the final table of the EPT Main Event in London again and received around $ 220,000 for his fifth place. In May 2013 he won the Main Event of the EPT in Monte Carlo and secured a prize money of over 1.2 million euros. At the beginning of September 2013, O'Dwyer finished third behind Erik Seidel and Vitaly Lunkin at the EPT super high roller event in Barcelona and received 355,000 euros for it.

At the end of 2013, O'Dwyer tournament revenues were over $ 5 million.

Since 2014: Successful super high roller

O'Dwyer at WPT Amsterdam (2017)

At the beginning of November 2014, O'Dwyer won the super high roller event of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour in Macau and secured his highest prize money to date of the equivalent of almost 2 million US dollars. At the beginning of January 2015, he also won the Super High Roller Event of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventures (PCA) in the Bahamas and received an additional 2 million US dollars. At the end of October 2015, he won the EPT's high roller event for the first time, collecting almost 330,000 euros in Malta . In December 2015, O'Dwyer won the EPT Super High Roller in Prague for just under 750,000 euros. In January 2016, he reached the final table of the Triton Super High Roller Series in the Philippines , finishing fourth for just under a million US dollars. A week later, O'Dwyer won the PCA high roller for another $ 1 million. In the same month, he secured two prizes at the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne , including the equivalent of around $ 750,000 for winning the A $ 250,000 Challenge . At the PokerStars Championship (PSC), which took place in Panama City in March 2017 , O'Dwyer cashed in both the main event and the super high rollers, and a few days later won the high roller event for $ 240,000. At the beginning of April 2017, he also won the PSC's super high roller event in Macau and secured a prize money equivalent to more than one million US dollars. There he caused a stir in advance, as he was sitting at the final table with a "lucky mango ". At the PSC Monte-Carlo, O'Dwyer took second place behind Philipp Gruissem at the Eight Max Shot Clock at the beginning of May 2017 , but received the most prize money of almost 500,000 euros due to a deal . At the end of October 2017, O'Dwyer finished second behind Dietrich Fast in the Super High Roller of the Asia Championship of Poker for the equivalent of 1.5 million US dollars. In January 2018, O'Dwyer won the PCA high roller in the Bahamas for around $ 770,000. At the end of April 2018, he won a high roller at the EPT in Monte-Carlo for just under 680,000 euros. In July 2018, O'Dwyer finished second behind David Peters at the Six Max of the Triton Series in Jeju-do, South Korea, and received prize money equivalent to just under 750,000 US dollars. At the beginning of October 2018, O'Dwyer prevailed in both high-roller tournaments of the partypoker Millions Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham and received prize money of 764,000 pounds, at that time the equivalent of around one million US dollars. Mid-November 2018, he finished in Millions World of party poker Caribbean poker party in Nassau in the Bahamas took second place and received a cash prize of 1.3 million US dollars. In November 2019, O'Dwyer finished sixth at the Super High Roller Bowl Bahamas, worth $ 765,000.

Prize money overview

O'Dwyer after winning the Millions UK High Roller at partypoker Millions Dusk Till Dawn (2018)

year	Prize money (in $ )	Tournament victories
2007	00.132,459	-
2008	00.012,683	-
2009	00.314,803	-
2010	00.124,898	-
2011	01,423,680	3
2012	00.884.779	1
2013	02,471,423	1
2014	01,852,500	1
2015	04,879,829	5
2016	03,998,537	4th
2017	04,190,144	2
2018	06,425,031	5
2019	03,259,242	2
2020	00.501.478	-
total	30,471,478	24

Web links

Commons : Steve O'Dwyer  - Collection of Images

• Steve O'Dwyer in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Steve O'Dwyer in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• Steve O'Dwyer in the World Series of Poker database : until 2015 & 2018 , 2016 (English)
• Steve O'Dwyer in the database of Pocket Fives (English)

Individual evidence

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10. ↑ Powerfest # 122-SHR: $ 3M Gtd [Championship Event] in the PocketFives database, accessed on November 13, 2018 (English).
11. ↑ 38th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2007 ($ 10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 4, 2017.
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14. ↑ WPT National Series - Denmark (€ 1,500 + 150 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 4, 2017 (English).
15. ↑ 2012 World Series of Poker - Europe (€ 50,000 + 1,000 No Limit Hold'em - Majestic Roller - Re-Entry) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 4, 2017 (English).
16. ↑ EPT - 9 - UKIPT - 3 - London (£ 5,000 + 250 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 4, 2017.
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18. ↑ EPT - 10 - ESPT - 4 - Barcelona (€ 48,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 4, 2017 (English).
19. ↑ APPT 2014 Asia Championship of Poker (HK $ 500,000 Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 4, 2017.
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21. ↑ EPT - 12 - IPT - 7 - Malta (€ 10,000 + 200 # 41 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller - 8 Handed) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 4, 2017 (English).
22. ↑ EPT - 12 - EUREKA - 5 - Prague (€ 48,500 + 1,500 # 19 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 4, 2017 (English).
23. ↑ 2016 World Poker Tour National (WPTN) - Philippines ($ 196,000 + 4,000 No Limit Hold'em Triton Super High Roller Series (Event # 3)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 4, 2017.
24. ↑ PCA - 2,016 ($ 50,000 # 38 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller 8-Handed) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed (English) on 4 April 2017th
25. ↑ 2016 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 245,000 + 5,000 No Limit Hold'em $ 250,000 Challenge - Day 1 (Event # 22)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 4, 2017.
26. ↑ PokerStars Championship Panama ($ 10,300 No Limit Hold'em - PokerStars Championship High Roller (Event # 35)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 4, 2017.
27. ↑ PokerStars Championship Macau (HK $ 388,000 + 12,000 No Limit Hold'em - PokerStars Championship Super High Roller # 12) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 4, 2017.
28. ↑ PSC Macau: Steve O'Dwyer beats Fedor Holz and Manig Loeser on pokerfirma.com April 3, 2017, accessed April 4, 2017.
29. ↑ PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino (€ 25,500 No Limit Hold'em - Eight Max Shot Clock (Event 47)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 3, 2017 (English).
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31. ↑ PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) 2018 ($ 49,200 + 800 # 8 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 10, 2018.
32. ↑ European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo (€ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - 8 Handed # 17) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 30, 2018 (English).
33. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Jeju (HK $ 500,000 No Limit Hold'em - 6-Max) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 29, 2018.
34. ↑ partypoker Millions Dusk Till Dawn (£ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - Millions UK High Roller # 3) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 3, 2018.
35. ↑ partypoker Millions Dusk Till Dawn (£ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller # 5) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 9, 2018.
36. ↑ partypoker Caribbean Poker Party ($ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - Millions World) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 14, 2018.
37. ↑ Payouts on pokercentral.com, accessed November 18, 2019.