1Milllion USD Challenge - Cao vs Antonius

Rui Cao and Patrik Antonius just agreed to play a $1,000,000 challenge at NLHE, PLO and 2-7...

Patrik Antonius: ok
Rui Cao: by the way
Rui Cao: wanna play a challenge?*
Rui Cao: lets say 1M freeezeout NL PLO and deuce?*
Patrik Antonius: it depents what kind of
Patrik Antonius: this would be online?
Rui Cao: yes
Patrik Antonius: i would do that
Rui Cao: ok lets say next tuesday?
Rui Cao: so i can wire the money
Rui Cao: ok
Rui Cao: lets do 300 deuce
Rui Cao: 100 BB
Rui Cao: 400 plo
Rui Cao: 10 buy ins
Rui Cao: 200 400
Patrik Antonius: i dont know the day so far i can play but we can agee to do the challenge
Rui Cao: 300 holdem
Rui Cao: can u be sure u can do it?
Rui Cao: so i wire the money
Patrik Antonius: yes i can give you my word on it
Rui Cao: ok 300 at 200 400 nl
Rui Cao: 400 plo
Rui Cao: 300 deuce
Rui Cao: ok?
Patrik Antonius: how about 400 in holdem 300 in deuce and 300 in plo?
Rui Cao: 350 holdem 350 plo
Rui Cao: 300 DEUCE
System: The $1,500 Super Turbo Guarantee ($10+$0.65 NL Hold'em) will be starting in 4 minutes.
Rui Cao: its fair i think
Patrik Antonius: ok thats fair
Rui Cao: do you have
Rui Cao: skype
Rui Cao: or whatever so we can discuss
Rui Cao: some things
Patrik Antonius: yes can you get my phone number from someone so i can give you my skype then?
Rui Cao: yep
Rui Cao: tom?
Patrik Antonius: ok
Rui Cao: ok
Rui Cao: lets play my last 50 here
Rui Cao: for today

Sick challenge... Cao has been/is playing the big games in Macao but 1M challenge seems real big!
Also Antonius just took Cao for 200k today...

http://www.highstakesdb.com/3589-patr...o-battle-next-week-for-1-million.aspx

to most pros million dollar challenge is big deal, to isildur its called a monday

how does a challenge like this work, what does it mean when they say 400 holdem for e.g? first to be up 400k?

and how do you win, what if one wins holdem other wins plo?

On January 31 2013 10:55 TalentedTom wrote: to most pros million dollar challenge is big deal, to isildur its called a slow tuesday

Who's Rul Cao? Never heard of him.

Rui Cao is PepperoniF on PokerStars and "Rui Cao" on FTP.
He used to be a red pro on FTP. French player who specializes in PLO. He's really close friend with seb86 and Seb Luneau who are both considered to be in the top 5 in world players of 2-7 triple draw.

Rui Cao:
http://www.highstakesdb.com/profiles/pokerstars/PepperoniF.aspx
http://www.highstakesdb.com/profiles/Rui-Cao.aspx

Seb86:
http://www.highstakesdb.com/profiles/Seb86.aspx
http://www.highstakesdb.com/profiles/pokerstars/Seb86.aspx

Luneau:
http://www.highstakesdb.com/profiles/Alexonmoon.aspx
http://www.highstakesdb.com/profiles/pokerstars/BiatchPeople.aspx

Note that 2-7 was not tracked until a couple of month ago by HSDB. Luneau first got famous when he had a +3mil month at 2-7 on FTP prior to BF. So I believe the 2 Sebs are up many more millions than what is reflected on their HSDB stats.

patrik is an underdog here

Is he really? Patrik is pretty good at PLO and I think might be stronger at NL (which is obv why he wanted to weight it on NL)

for that much money i'd be really paranoid that the other guy is getting sweats in their non-specialist games. and for example someone in this thread says rui is buddies with the best triple draw players in the world who would assuredly enjoy 1.5/3k action from antonius.

its hard to call people favorites and underdogs considering the "structure". 10 buyins here, 100 bets there. these are relatively small swings with 2 high variance players. id imagine patrik has the edge in NL, but rui has the edge in PLO and a big edge in 2-7. patrik seems bad at 2-7 and rui would be a favorite there even without help from his friends. the possibility of his friends helping only adds to his edge

They often said in the past that they would sweat each other to learn from the others i.e Rui would watch them playing 2-7 and the Sebs would watch him play PLO.

That's how Rui got good at 2-7 and the Sebs improved their PLO game. But from what we know from Rui, he is not the type of guy that would take an unfair advantage (by being sweat by the Sebs) because he has this "gambling gene" and thrives on challenges/big games.

Also, the 2 Sebs have a rule of never playing at the same table because they don't want to play each other/gain unfair advantage (even though not many 2-7 tables ever run at the stakes they play). So I doubt they would help Rui "cheating" Patryk here.

GO RUINED COW~

triple draw is actually fun to watch gogoog

ive played a bit with pepperonif at triple draw(obv not super high), and he was pretty good, but I think antonius probably got the edge

On February 01 2013 05:29 BadGoNe wrote: They often said in the past that they would sweat each other to learn from the others i.e Rui would watch them playing 2-7 and the Sebs would watch him play PLO. That's how Rui got good at 2-7 and the Sebs improved their PLO game. But from what we know from Rui, he is not the type of guy that would take an unfair advantage (by being sweat by the Sebs) because he has this "gambling gene" and thrives on challenges/big games. Also, the 2 Sebs have a rule of never playing at the same table because they don't want to play each other/gain unfair advantage (even though not many 2-7 tables ever run at the stakes they play). So I doubt they would help Rui "cheating" Patryk here.

seb luneau? two sebs? whatlol.. there is one seb (seb86) and the other guy (biatchpeople) is called alex luneau

I dont get the structure.
Are they playing 10bi overall?

Also whatsup with the durrrr challenge. FTP s up again

Rui Cao: ok lets say next tuesday?

has it happened yet or it next week?

I've read some hungarian news portal that claimed Rui Cao winning TD, taking PA for 300k or 350k, cant remember.