Ivey accepts Durrr's challenge! -update

<img src="http://www.tlpoker.be/staff/Pindarots/09Januari/philivey.jpg" align="right" style="margin:6px; border:0px solid black;">When Tom "durrr" Dwan challenged the pokerworld for a heads-up match giving 3:1 odds, all eyes were at players like Phil Ivey to take it on. Now it's official, Phil Ivey accepted the challenge and we're looking into an epic heads-up battle between the biggest winners online. In a phone conversation with Barry Greenstein on PokerRoad Radio he confirmed that he'll be playing Dwan, but he doesn't think he's got an edge.

Even more interesting is that Ivey mentioned that David Benyamine and Patrik Antonius might be up for the game first. David Benyamine said he had not accepted the challenge yet, but is still considering. Whether or not Patrik Antonius has or has not officially confirmed yet is still unknown, however, Dwan stated to Ivey in a phone call that "he's gonna play someone else first".

Ivey stated: "You know what, the funny thing is he probably does have an edge. But you know, like, I don't know, it's just something tempting about that million and a half to that $500,000.". He also mentions that he doesn't think Durrr and the other players realize how long 50.000 hands is and that "Somebody’s probably going to go broke". Ivey usually plays 2 tabled heads-up, so it might take him some time to get used to the 4 tables, but he's confident he'll have time to catch up in those 50.000 hands.

As you could have read before, two players will be playing 50.000 hands 4-tabled heads-up at $200/$400 NLHE or PLO blinds minimum. If Dwan is up 1 dollar or more at the end of the 50.000 hands, he'll get $500.000 from the one accepting the challenge (Ivey for example). If the other player is up at the end he'll get $1.5 million from Dwan. So 3:1 odds on the sidebet, and we can expect huge swings throughout these hands.

We'll be looking forward to one or more of the most interesting battles in online poker history. The conversation between Greenstein and Ivey on this can be found here.

Update: Patrik Antonius has now officially confirmed he's up for the challenge as well. He confirmed it in this interview with CardPlayer.

Awesome!

sick

I can't wait!

gonna be great :D

gogogo!

"Somebody’s probably going to go broke"

Well David Benyamine would go broke ^^

Durrr has like 8 Million and Ivey has like a lot more
I doubt one of these 2 will go broke here ^^

nice!

EPIC. go go i cant wait!

EPIC indeed!

On January 07 2009 07:48 PplusAD wrote: Show nested quote + "Somebody’s probably going to go broke" Well David Benyamine would go broke ^^ Durrr has like 8 Million and Ivey has like a lot more I doubt one of these 2 will go broke here ^^

i doubt he has only 8 million

but this is gonna be a sick game

On January 07 2009 07:48 PplusAD wrote: Show nested quote + "Somebody’s probably going to go broke" Well David Benyamine would go broke ^^ Durrr has like 8 Million and Ivey has like a lot more I doubt one of these 2 will go broke here ^^

How do you know Durrr has 8 million to his name?

sick sick sick sick sick sick sick

YESYESYES!!! i hope this is gonna be publicly watchable

this is gonna be crazy

i feel like this is a great thing for full tilt to market :D

Yeah wtf, Durr gotta have more than 8 millions. However, this is gonna be great. ;D

I dont know exactly maybe he has a bit more
But in some old interview or article , whe he was crushing the Nl tables with Sbrugby but losing big in the Omaha games ( some may remeber)
And i have a number in my head that he had made something like 3-4 Millions from online poker back than.
since that time he has made ~ 5 million from online poker on FT ( Highstakes database)

So its only a rough estimation.

I dont know how much he made from Pokerstars on his Holdem_Nl account , i dont know what he made in live cashgames + i dont know how much money of that he actually did spend.

so yeha , he may have some more

He made about a mil in live tourney winnings.