Steve O'Dwyer (MrTimCaum)

Steve O'Dwyer was born in Colorado in 1982. As his name suggests, he is of Irish origin. He is best known for his performances on the World Poker Tour (WPT) and the European Poker Tour (EPT). In the WPT, he has 1 title, 4 final tables and 4 paid places. In the EPT, he has 2 titles, 9 final tables and 22 paid places. He is also a regular player in high-stakes tournaments. His total earnings in live tournaments approach $40 million. His biggest lifetime win came in 2015, when he won the 2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, a $100,000 buy-in tournament. Some players dream of winning $100,000 in a poker tournament, but Steve plays in tournaments where that amount is the entry fee. Now you can see why we mentioned he's a regular at high roller tournaments.

His most notorious wins

We'd need several pages to talk about all of Steve O'Dwyer's tournament wins, but to summarize, here are a few notable wins on his record.

In 2015 he won the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure for $1.8 million.

In 2018 he won the PCA $50,000 High Roller for $769,500.

In 2020, he won the SCOOP High Roller on PokerStars for $521,598.

In 2023 alone, he won several purses, including one for $1 million in a tournament in South Korea. He played tournaments in more than 10 countries around the world in 2023 alone (his profession means he travels a lot, of course). We probably haven't heard the last of him with all the tournaments he's playing!

The Black Friday disaster

Any active online poker player in 2011 remembers the event when the 2 largest online poker sites had been blocked. To sum up in a very short way a story that could make a 3-hour movie, players with funds on Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars didn't know whether or not they would ever have access to the money they had on the site (money which, as of April 15, 2011, had just been blocked). This episode greatly affected Steve, who had all his money online. During this period, he was put up by a friend and had to borrow money to eat. Fortunately for him, the whole story had a happy ending, and today he's one of the biggest winners ever in live poker tournaments.