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Steve O’Dwyer’s landlord won’t have to worry about October’s rent after the high rolling phenom showed his versatility in winning four major titles both online and in the land of buttered toast and tea.
Steve O'Dwyer
The American star has applied the defibrillators on cashier tills across the globe with increasing frequency in the past seven years winning an incredible 21-titles, but he has never found the same rock ‘n’ rolling rhythm when competing against the very best in the digital world.
Whether his lack of success is down to fear of Wi-Fi rays giving him head cancer, tipping oxtail soup on his keyboard and never replacing it, or just plain online poker run bad, until this year, you wouldn’t find the online pseudonyms MrTimCaum (PokerStars & Full Tilt) and eet_smakelijk (partypoker) at the top of the major online ITM records.
Until now.
In the past four weeks, O’Dwyer went from tins of braised beef to fillet steak after nailing big scores in both the PokerStars’ World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), and partypoker’s POWERFEST.
On the 16th September, O’Dwyer topped a field of 667-entrants to win the $2,100 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Eight Max for $227,100.97, eclipsing his previous best online score of $93,750 for winning the $1k Monday event on Full Tilt Poker (FTP) way back in 2009.
Five days later, O’Dwyer destroyed that personal best like a famished builder destroys the first pint of beer to greet his lips on a Friday night, beating 156-entrants, including a final table that housed the likes of Michael Zhang, Jon Van Fleet and Jason Koon to win the $25,500 buy-in $3m GTD Championship Event during partypoker’s POWERFEST for $896,610.
Those two results mean O’Dwyer has won a lilliputians’ shoe length below $5m playing online tournaments. Not too shabby until you compare it to the $24,796,309 O’Dwyer has won playing live, and that’s where we head to next in this incredible journey.

Steve O’Dwyer Owns partypoker MILLIONS UK.

The first major live event to take place after September’s online shenanigans was partypoker’s MILLIONS UK, and O’Dwyer turned up with all the heat of a hot water bottle after his two online triumphs.
The £25,500 No-Limit Hold’em Super High Roller became title #20 after O’Dwyer conquered a field of 51-entrants, including Fabrizio Catalidi, heads-up, to win the $592,448 first prize. It says something when you consider that score only ranked as his fourth highest of the year.
Four days later, and O’Dwyer secured the double vanquishing 105-entrants, including the former SCOOP Main Event winner, Gianluca ‘Tankanza’ Speranza, heads-up, to send another $407,734 whizzing down a wire to a bank manager who has grown accustomed to watching O’Dwyer’s account twinkle like a star.
O’Dwyer’s MILLIONS double saw him return to the All-Time Live Tournament Money Earned List Top #10 on The Hendon Mob, replacing David Peters.
Here are those final table results:
£25k Buy-in Final Table Results
1. Steve O’Dwyer – £450,000
2. Fabrizio Cataldi – £286,750
3. Orpen Kisacikoglu – £200,000
4. Christoph Vogelsang – £140,000
5. Aymon Hata – £100,000
6. Niall Farrell – £60,000
£10k Buy-In Final Table Results
1. Steve O’Dwyer -£314,000
2. Gianluca Speranza – £193,000
3. Preben Stokken – £129,000
4. Dominik Nitsche – £95,000
5. Michael Zhang – £75,000
6. Chris Brammer – £60,000
7. Joao Vieira – £45,000
8. Anthony Elliot – £35,000
How long will this incredible heat last?
I think it’s already ended.

Steve O'Dwyer
Steve O’Dwyer

Taggers were hopping over electrified lines to squiggle on the side of coal hoppers unbeknown that the commodity owners were complaining to the rail hauliers that graffiti-covered wagons carried their product.
Steelworks stinking of dragon poop sent poison into the air through chimney stacks shaped like the cigars favoured by the giant who sang Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum while his harp played a phat tune.
And all the while I was being nominated Father of the Year.
I would round up my mates’ 7-8-year-old kids, stick them in the back of my car, fill their bellies with red liquorice shoestrings, and drive them to Jump, an indoor children’s play area with the outstanding Internet.
My buddies (and especially their wives) thought I was the business for playing with their kids.
“Are you sure?”
“Only if it’s no bother?”
“I wish Dave was like you xx.”
Little did they know, once I had taken the shoes off the kid’s foul-smelling, funky feet, I loaded up eight tables of $1/$2 No-Limit Hold’em cash games, and spent the next few hours doing my bollocks.
I loved it.
And I think of this, right now, while a little old lady plays with her pearl buttons, patiently waiting for her vegan mushroom burger loaded with butternut squash, avocado and chilli jam because I think it would have been rather cool to win close to a million bucks while I was doing that.
Like, Steve O’Dwyer.
POWERFEST Round-Up: O’Dwyer, Leonard, Astedt Oh MY
The last time I sent a thousand words into your face likes the shards of a bottle of Worcester sauce; I told you that O’Dwyer was all excited after finally winning a PokerStars’ World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) event.


O’Dwyer won $227,100.
If you follow O’Dwyer on Twitter, you’ll know that he doesn’t tweet often. The one you see above was his first since July.
Here is his second.


Yup, three days after setting a new personal best he smashed it like kids on a pinata full of Monster Munch.
O’Dwyer won the $25,500 buy-in, $3m Guaranteed Championship event, for $896,610, an incredible amount of money to be earned while sitting in your birthday suit eating Pot Noodles.
The win for O’Dwyer was the most significant of the series. There was no Main Event in the traditional sense, with partypoker preferring to schedule 20 Championship Events with buy-ins ranging from $1,050 to $25,500.
Here are some of the stories:
A hop, skip and a jump ago, I brought you news from the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona that Andras ‘probirs’ Nemeth had taken down the €25k Single Day High Roller for €605,600, and that he had done so a few months shy of winning a $25k High Roller at the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) earning $576,086. Well, the Hungarian was at it again, this time beating 195-entrants in Event #29 $5,200 buy-in $1m GTD Championship for $177,934.
Leon Tsoukernik plays host to some of the most significant private live cash games in the world, and the King’s Casino owner also won a Championship Event when he took down the $5,200 buy-in Event #16: $1m GTD Championship Event for $207,978, beating 204 entrants in the process.
PocketFives World #1, Niklas “Drulitooo” Astedt, also turned it on during POWERFEST. The Swedish scintillator beat 194 entrants in Event #62: $5,200 buy-in $1m GTD Championship Event for $203,900, and made the final table of at least two other Championship Events.
Two men who have been kicking arse in the high stakes realm for a decade are Ben “CowEyed” Tollerene and Sami “LarzLuzak1” Kelopuro and they both picked up POWERFEST titles with Tollerene taking down Event #95 $5,200 $1m GTD Championship event for $310,440, and Kelopuro beating 327 entrants in Event #142: $1m GTD Championship Event for $317,190.
The man you can thank for the new look POWERFEST schedule is Patrick Leonard, and the high stakes online and live star, was one of the stories of the series winning two events including beating 379-entrants in Event #42: $530 buy-in $200k GTD 6-Max PKO for $20,102, and defeating 305 entrants in Event #83 $300k GTD 6-Max PKO for a $34,796 payday.
669 events.
$69,106,263 in prize money against the $60m Guarantee
946,000 entrants
POWERFEST
It’s no wonder they capitalise it.