Seat 4: Steve O’Dwyer, 30, Pennsylvania, USA - 5,270,000
American Steve O'Dwyer is about to sit down at his third EPT Main Event final table – and his second in a row at EPT London. As he put it, he’s “three for three in Main Event final tables!”
O’Dwyer’s first big score was in 2009 when he came sixth in the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic for more than $200,000, but it was 2011 when the communications graduate had his breakthrough year. O’Dwyer won nearly $1.5 million in 2011 and the following year snagged a further $880,000, tearing through EPT Season 8 with a fifth place in the EPT Barcelona €10,000 High Roller, runner-up at EPT London for ￡465,000, and seventh at EPT Copenhagen for DKr 290,000.
However, despite a seventh place finish at WSOP-E in Cannes last October, worth another ￡130,000, O’Dwyer says that, poker-wise, the last eight months have “sucked”.
He said: “I’ve been having a nice time but poker-wise, it’s not gone well so this is a nice change of pace.” O’Dwyer hails from the States originally, but now lives in Ireland so he can play online.