If you haven’t heard, Tom Dwan, aka Durrrr, put out a challenge to any player in the world to play him in high limit heads up no limit hold’em or pot limit omaha at 4 tables simultaneously for 50,000 hands. What makes the challenge really interesting is that if Dwan wins his challenger must pay him $500K, but if Dwan loses he pays the challenger $1.5 Million! The 3 to 1 ratio shows just how confident Dwan is that he will come out on top, but it is also a very good value challenge for many top poker professionals.
Patrick Antonius was the first player to accept Tom’s offer to play in this heads up Challenge with Phil Ivey and David Benyamine close behind.
Full Tilt Poker has already created “durrrr challenge” tables in the $200/$400 PL Omaha section of their software in preparation for the challenge. Antonius had the choice and decided to play PL Omaha. The challenge will start in a week or two and we will keep you posted on the outcomes. Whatever happens you can be sure that this event will be followed with the utmost attention and will be very good for online poker as a whole. It’s anyones game as these are two of the best poker players in the world. One thing that we can be sure of is there will be many big pots with lots of money exchanging hands and some huge bragging rights on the line. One player will end the challenge with a big increase in their poker bankroll, while the others may be completely crippled.
