Poker standard deviation conclusion. Standard deviation is a measure of how much you are likely to swing up and down during the course of small sample sizes of hands. The higher your SD is, the larger the swings you will face and the longer it will take for your results to converge to your actual win rate. South Dakota Gambling & Poker Laws Summarized; Type/Code Summary; State Code Section(s) 22.25; 42.7: Definition of Gambling: Any person who engages in gambling in any form with cards, dice, or other implements or devices of any kind wherein anything valuable is wagered upon the outcome, or who keeps any establishment, place, equipment, or apparatus for such gambling or any agents or employees.

Four of America’s most famous faces stare down at you from the towering peaks of South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore. It’s fun to stare up and wonder what each would have thought about modern developments like the Internet, and to ponder what position these titans of history would have taken on the issue of online poker.

The rest of South Dakota has certainly voted, with thousands from the state logging on to Internet poker sites every month, and thousands more visiting pages like ours to find out How to Play Online Poker From South Dakota.

Online Poker in South Dakota

We employ a very simple formula to create our list of recommended online poker rooms for South Dakota players. Valid, legal license to operate plus high-value rewards programs plus simple and fast banking equals an ideal room for a new online poker player. We followed that formula to the letter when putting together this list of poker sites.

Can Poker Players From South Dakota Play Internet Poker?

Anyone can play poker online, so what most people generally mean when they ask this question is whether or not it’s possible to play real-money games of poker from South Dakota. Good news: all of the US-facing poker sites you’ll find online accept players from South Dakota. The next question we hear quite often involves how you deposit at and withdraw from online poker rooms. While each poker site has different options, the most popular choices for poker transactions among South Dakota poker players are credit cards, cash transfer and check.

Is It Legal to Gamble in South Dakota?

That’s a tougher question to answer than most people think. Gambling law in the U.S. at the state level is notoriously obtuse, so clear answers are often in short supply.

What all online poker players should shoot for at a minimum is a grasp on the fundamentals of South Dakota poker laws. Below we’ve assembled the key aspects of the law and broken them down in simple terms.

The first problematic aspect of South Dakota gambling law is that the state has a tautologically-tinged definition of what it means to gamble. From “Gambling defined, “Section 22-25-1:

“Any person who engages in gambling in any form with cards, dice, or other implements or devices of any kind wherein anything valuable is wagered upon the outcome […] is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.”

As you’ve no doubt noted, that doesn’t really define gambling so much as just repeat the term.

The remainder of the definition isn’t any help – it simply addresses those who “keep establishments” for gambling or lets their establishment be used for gambling.

Section 22-25-1 also contains the sole charge for players engaged in illegal gambling (to the best of our understanding) – a misdemeanor.

South Dakota is one of the few states in America that has passed laws specifically built to address online gambling. The law (Chapter 22-25A) aims at operators, not players, and prescribes felony charges for those who accept bets that begin or terminate in South Dakota or establish internet gaming businesses in the state.

To date (again, to the best of our understanding), there have been no criminal charges pursued under South Dakota’s Internet gambling laws.

South Dakota gambling law does not contain any provision allowing social or private gambling.

Now that you’re done with our list, move on to reviewing the full text of South Dakota gambling law for yourself.

Will South Dakota Regulate Online Poker?

Despite the significant presence of land-based gambling in South Dakota, there has been remarkably little talk about moving poker, casinos or any other form of gambling online. South Dakota would be a minor poker market, so that could explain the lack of interest. It could also be that the state’s disparate gambling industry has been unable to get on the same page when it comes to online gambling. Whatever the reason, the conclusion remains the same: Regulated online poker sites isn’t likely to ride into South Dakota at any point in the near future.

South Dakota Gambling Facts

There’s quite a good bit of regulated gambling in South Dakota, especially when you consider the relatively sparse full-time population of the state. Just like the majority of American states, South Dakota has a state lottery. In addition to the various games of chances available via the lottery, you can choose from hundreds – if not thousands – of unique games at the state’s various commercial and tribal gambling facilities. The regulated gambling menu in South Dakota is rounded out by pari-mutuel bets on live racing and charitable gaming (lottos and bingo).

Social gambling is not explicitly exempt from the gambling laws of South Dakota. Authorities may not prioritize pursuit of such activity, but it remains against the letter of South Dakota law.

The state of South Dakota doesn’t regulate or license any online gambling activity.

South Dakota Gambling Resources

CGR: South Dakota. Get an immediate and thorough overview of South Dakota’s gambling industry with this capsule report from the UNLV Center for Gaming Research.

South Dakota Commission on Gaming. Regulator for most of the state’s gambling activity, the SDCG homepage contains complete licensee information, links to forms, statutes and applications and a variety of statistics related to regulated gambling in South Dakota.

South Dakota Lottery. Online home for the South Dakota lottery hosts current jackpot and winners information, the laws and regulations regarding the state lottery and resources covering its development and history.

South Dakota’s Contributions to Poker History

If you do a bit of digging on the connection between South Dakota and poker, one name keeps coming up again and again: Deadwood. It’s that not-so-sleepy frontier town that provided the backdrop for such mythic gamblers as “Poker” Alice Ivers and – of course – the legendary Wild Bill Hickok, who is said to have been shot dead in a Deadwood tavern during a poker game while holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights.

The games in modern Deadwood are probably not quite as lively as in the days of yore, but the town continues to play an outsized role when it comes to gambling in South Dakota, providing more modern gamblers with a backdrop for their leisure that still strongly echoes those bygone times.

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Thomas Dwan Jr. (born July 30, 1986)^[1] is an American professional poker player who played online in the highest-stakes No-Limit Texas hold 'em and Pot-Limit Omaha games, primarily on Full Tilt Poker under the screen name 'durrrr'. Dwan has won prize money in live poker tournaments and has appeared on NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship, the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons of Poker After Dark, the third, fourth and fifth seasons of Full Tilt Poker's Million Dollar Cash Game, and the fifth and sixth seasons of GSN's High Stakes Poker.

Poker career[edit]

Dwan attended Boston University before dropping out to pursue playing poker full-time.^[2][3]

Online poker[edit]

Dwan began playing online poker with a $50 bankroll. He initially focused on sit-and-go tournaments, later switching to multiplayer cash games then to heads-up cash games.

According to HighStakesDB.com, a site that tracks high-stakes online poker, Dwan earned $312,800 in 2007 on Full Tilt Poker and $5.41 million in 2008.^[4] Before the 2007 World Series of Poker, Dwan claimed to have lost, at the time, $2 million of his $3 million bankroll, over a four-month period.^[5] He recovered from this loss within a year. In January 2009, Dwan lost more than $3.5 million, which he recovered after six months. However, from late October to late December 2009, Dwan suffered his then-largest downswing, losing approximately $2 million to Phil Ivey, Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies and $5 million to Swedish professional Viktor Blom.^[6]

In mid-November 2009, Blom (who uses the online name Isildur1) challenged Dwan to a series of heads-up No Limit Holdem cash games. Blom's foray into online high-stakes cash games began in late October, when he initially lost $1.1 million to Patrik Antonius, Brian Townsend, and other high-stakes players. By the beginning of November, Blom had recovered his losses and challenged Dwan to a heads-up marathon playing six tables at a time with over a million dollars in play. By the end of the week, Blom had gone on the largest run in the history of online poker, winning approximately $5 million from Dwan, prompting Dwan to issue a live challenge to play Blom at the Full Tilt Poker Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge.^[7]

At the end of 2009, HighStakesDB.com reported that Dwan had lost $4.35 million in 2009, putting his cumulative online poker winnings at Full Tilt since January 2007 at approximately $1.4 million.^[8] HighStakesDB.com also reported that after stepping down in limits following his loss to Isildur1, Dwan won $2.7 million in December 2009.^[9] According to the same site, Dwan had more than recouped his 2009 losses in the first few months of 2010; he was reported to have won $1.6 million in the first two weeks of April 2010,^[10] and after a session in which he won $1.6 million from Sahamies in a little over two hours,^[11] was ahead $7.3 million for the year as of April 21.^[12] However, Dwan lost about $4 million in the next three weeks, leaving him ahead about $3.3 million for 2010.^[13]

Million dollar challenge[edit]

In January 2009, Dwan issued a $1,000,000 challenge to play anyone online, 'with the exception of Phil Galfond', heads up for 50,000 hands four-tabling at $200/$400 limits or higher No-Limit hold 'em or Pot-Limit Omaha. If his opponent is ahead after 50,000 hands, Dwan agreed to give them $1,500,000 more, while if Dwan is ahead, he will get $500,000.^[14][15] Regarding his challengers, Dwan has said, 'I think all of them actually are better over-all poker players than me -- by quite a bit; I happen to think in this one area, I might have a little edge -- and we'll see if I do.'^[16]

Patrik Antonius and Daniel Cates are playing Dwan as part of the challenge, but neither challenge has been completed. In October 2013, Cates was ahead about $1.2 million after roughly 20,000 hands.^[17] Since then, however, Cates has publicly claimed that Dwan has stopped playing and is not responding to his queries.^[18] In August 2017, Cates stated that Dwan had paid him approximately $800,000 in penalties for not playing, that Dwan was committed to finishing the game, and they expected it to be completed by the end of 2018.^[19]

Live tournaments[edit]

At the age of 19, Dwan cashed in his first live tournament, finishing 12th in the £3,000 no limit Texas Hold 'em Main Event of the European Poker Tour's second season held in London, earning £7,000 ($12,398). His next cash was not until he was 21 years old, at the World Poker Tour's 2007 World Poker Finals $9,700 No Limit Hold 'em Championship Event, where he finished 4th earning $324,244.^[20] In January 2008, Dwan finished second at the Aussie Millions A$3,000 Pot Limit Omaha with Rebuys event, winning A$103,200 ($90,716) and later finished in 62nd place in the A$10,000 No Limit Hold 'em Main Event, good for A$25,000 ($21,976).^[20] Dwan finished second to James Michael Sowers at the 2008 WPT Borgata Winter Open in the preliminary $5,000 No Limit Hold 'em event, earning $226,100.^[20][21]

Dwan cashed twice in the first year that he could to play in a World Series of Poker (WSOP) event held in the United States. Dwan reached the final table in the $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event at the 2008 World Series of Poker finishing in 8th place, earning $54,144. He nearly made another in a seven-person final table, but finished again in 8th, this time in the $5,000 No Limit 2-7 Draw with Rebuys event, earning $45,110.^[20]

Dwan participated in the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship held at Caesars Palace Las Vegas, where in his first match he defeated Phil Hellmuth in the third hand. Dwan was eliminated in the next round by Mike Matusow.^[22] At the 2008 Five-Star World Poker Classic (the $25,500 WPT Championship), Dwan finished in ninth place, winning $184,670.^[23][24]

At the 2010 World Series of Poker in the $1,500 No Limit Hold 'em event, Dwan finished in second place for $381,885.^[25]

In 2011, Dwan cashed three times at the 2011 World Series of Poker, including a 5th-place finish in the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship for $134,480.^[26]

As of March 2019, his total live tournament winnings exceed $3.1 million.^[27]

In 2016, Dwan went under the radar and was notably absent from that year’s WSOP. It was rumored that he was traveling to Montenegro to play in Richard Yong’s Casino. He was, however, present in two events including the Third Edition of the Triton Super High Roller Series in Manila and was seen in company of Daniel Cates.^[28]

In 2017, Dwan appeared at the Macau Billionaire’s Poker 2017 Spring Challenge set at the Babylon Casino in Macau. Running from March 17 to March 20, the Super High Roller saw Dwan lose the final against Belarus player Mikita Badziakouski. For his first live cash tournament since February 2014, Dwan pocketed the runner-up prize of US$275,000.^[29]

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Live cash games[edit]

Dwan previously held the record for the largest pot won in a televised live game at over $1.1 million, which occurred during the fourth season of Full Tilt Poker's Million Dollar Cash Game. This record broke the previous record of over $919,000 also won by Dwan in the fifth season of High Stakes Poker.^[30] As of 2016, Dwan has spent much of his time playing high stakes cash games in Macau and Manila.^[31][32]

More recently, he has mostly (though not completely) abandoned standard Texas hold 'em in favor of short-deck hold 'em. In a 2018 interview with Poker News, he said that he viewed poker as more of a game than a sport, and also tired of what he saw as the constant staredowns many players employed. While he admitted to having popularized staredowns, he objected to players doing so even when they were not in a crucial situation.^[33]

Full Tilt Poker Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge[edit]

Dwan's Million Dollar Challenge was expanded to a 500-hand live heads-up format in the Full Tilt Poker Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge. The event was held November 17 to 19, 2009, at Les Ambassadeurs Club in London and televised by Sky Sports.

The rules of the Challenge were that each player paid $250,000 for the privilege of playing, blinds were set at $500/$1,000 with each opponent having the choice of playing either Texas hold 'em or Pot Limit Omaha (PLO). Neither player could leave the match until at least 500 hands had been completed or one of them lost all of his buy-in and decided not to re-buy. Dwan's opponents were Marcello 'luckexpress' Marigliano, Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies, and Sammy 'Any Two' George, respectively.^[34]

The first match between Dwan and Marigliano consisted mainly of Texas hold 'em, although the players did agree to play Pot Limit Omaha near the end of the match. Dwan lost $22,500 which was highlighted by two bluffs by Marigliano. In the second match between Dwan and Sahamies the players played only Pot Limit Omaha. Although the match started surprisingly slow considering the history of online competition between Dwan and Sahamies, the match eventually became aggressive as expected. There were several large pots resulting in large swings in both players’ stacks. After 12 hours, the match concluded with Dwan winning $68,000.

The final round pitted Dwan against George in an exclusively Texas hold 'em match.^[34] During the match, the parties agreed to a 7-2 prop bet wherein if a player wins a pot with 7-2 then he earns an additional $10,000. This led to one of the most memorable bluffs in television poker history when Dwan bet $479,500 on the river, all in, into a pot of only $162,000. Dwan was bluffing with 7-2 against George’s two pair (aces and sixes). George folded his two pair after much consideration even though Dwan, after making a 6x pre-flop raise, had said he had 7-2 and just wanted the blinds. George went on to lose $750,000.^[34]

Dwan made a final profit of $795,500 after winning two of the three matches.

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Team Full Tilt[edit]

In November 2009, Dwan became a member of Team Full Tilt and re-signed as a brand ambassador for the site on October 15, 2012.^[35][36] In December 2013, Full Tilt Poker confirmed that they and Dwan 'agreed to part ways following the recent expiration of Dwan’s contract'.^[37]

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Notes[edit]

1. ^'Profile: Tom Dwan'. Poker News. Retrieved February 11, 2010.
2. ^Dwan, Tom (November 14, 2009). 'durrrr's blog'. Two Plus Two. Retrieved March 29, 2010.
3. ^'Tom 'durrrr' Dwan'. Full Tilt Poker. Archived from the original on March 25, 2010. Retrieved March 29, 2010.
4. ^'Player Profile Durrrr'. HighStakesDB.com. Retrieved April 10, 2009.
5. ^Kristy Amett (January 22, 2009). 'The Won'durrrr'ful Life of Tom Dwan'. Card Player.
6. ^Gary Wise (December 14, 2009). 'A pause in the action'. ESPN.
7. ^'Tom Dwan issues live challenge to Isildur1'. Poker Listings. November 13, 2009.
8. ^'Player Profile Durrrr'. HighStakesDB.com. Retrieved January 4, 2010.
9. ^'Baard' (December 28, 2009). 'Year-end summary for durrrr'. HighStakesDB.com. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
10. ^'Teemu' (April 13, 2010). 'durrrr and Patrik Antonius making some nice profit in April'. HighStakesDB.com. Retrieved April 14, 2010.
11. ^'Baard' (April 21, 2010). 'Durrrr wins $1.5 million from Ziigmund in just over two hours'. HighStakesDB.com. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
12. ^'Teemu' (April 21, 2010). 'Durrrr is unstoppable – reaches $7.3 million in winnings'. HighStakesDB.com. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
13. ^'Teemu' (May 13, 2010). 'Durrrr keeps plummeting'. HighStakesDB.com. Retrieved May 18, 2010.
14. ^Polson, Sarah (January 6, 2009). 'durrrr issues million-dollar challenge'. pokerlistings.com. Retrieved January 7, 2009.
15. ^Murphy, Steve (January 6, 2009). 'Ivey Accepts Durrrr's Poker Challenge'. CardPlayer.com. Retrieved January 7, 2009.
16. ^'Cardplayer TV interview'. cardplayer.com. January 7, 2009. Retrieved January 7, 2009.
17. ^Brian Pempus (October 4, 2013). 'Dan Cates Extends Seven-Figure Lead Over Tom Dwan In Heads-Up Poker Challenge'. Card Player. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
18. ^Matthew Showell (September 22, 2014). 'Jungleman: Dwan Won't Play, Pay Penalties in durrrr Challenge'. pokerlistings.com. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
19. ^'Railbird Report: Tom Dwan Paid Dan Cates $700,000 in Penalties'.
20. ^ ^abcdButt, Robert. 'Tom Dwan - results'. The Hendon Mob. Retrieved April 23, 2008.
21. ^'Mike 'SowersUNCC' Sowers Takes Down $5k Borgata Winter Poker Open Event for $399,000'. Poker-King.com. January 27, 2008. Retrieved April 23, 2008.
22. ^LUCCHESI, RYAN (March 1, 2008). 'NBC National Heads-Up Championship Day 2'. CardPlayer.com. Retrieved April 23, 2008.
23. ^Court (April 24, 2008). 'Hat Bet is Over, Durrrr 9th'. PocketFivesLIVE.com. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. Retrieved April 25, 2008.
24. ^'Hands #37-38: Tom 'Durrrr' Dwan Eliminated in 9th Place'. WPT Enterprises, Inc. CardPlayer.com. Retrieved April 25, 2008.
25. ^'Full House gets Simon Watt the win'(PDF).
26. ^'Tom Dwan's profile on The Hendon Mob'. The Hendon Mob Poker Database.
27. ^'Tom Dwan's profile on The Hendon Mob'. The Hendon Mob Poker Database.
28. ^'The Day That Saw Tom Dwan Return (Manila 2016)'. somuchpoker.com. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
29. ^'Mikita Badziakouski Defeats Tom Dwan Heads Up to Win Super High Roller'. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
30. ^'Ivey, durrrr play largest pot in TV history'. Pokerlistings.com. Retrieved March 21, 2011.
31. ^'Tom Hall Reveals Intimate Details of Macau's High-Stakes Poker Cash Games'.
32. ^'Ivey, Dwan, and Cates Playing HK$20,000/$40,000/$80,000 in Manila'.
33. ^Pill, Jon (August 3, 2018). 'Tom Dwan Wants the Stare Downs to End'. HighStakesDB.com. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
34. ^ ^abcFull Tilt Poker Million Dollar Challenge, Cypra, Dan (November 21, 2009) Poker News Daily.
35. ^'Full Tilt Poker Adds Tom 'durrrr' Dwan to Team Full Tilt'. Poker News. November 9, 2009. Retrieved November 9, 2009.
36. ^'Full Tilt Poker Adds Tom 'durrrr' Dwan and Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom to Roster'. Retrieved October 16, 2012.
37. ^Matthew Showell (December 16, 2013). 'Breaking: Tom 'durrrr' Dwan Dropped as Full Tilt Poker Professional'. pokerlistings.com. Retrieved June 4, 2015.

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