Durrr Heads-up Challenge

<img src="http://www.tlpoker.pl/staff/Soprano/dwan.jpeg" align="right" style="margin:6px; border:1px solid black;">As you might have read on our forum, Tom "durrr" Dwan, made an incredible heads-up challenge. In an interview with Bluff Magazine, Durrr stated the following:

"I’m making this heads-up challenge to the world. Anyone can accept. Four tables, minimum of $200/$400, and I’ll put up $1.5 million to their $500,000. We play 50,000 hands minimum and if they end up a dollar after rake they keep the side money or whatever. So basically, if you and I played and you won a dollar, you would get my $1.5 million and if I won a dollar I would win your $500,000.

Basically, I'm offering a free million dollars for anyone that thinks he can beat me"

Rules of the challenge are simple:

1) 200-400min (NL/PLO)
2) Players can change tables any time effective stacks are >250bb
3) Players have to reload when stacks are <75bb
4) Cash won in the challenge is kept.
5) Same stakes the whole time
6) Challenge is not open to Phil Galfond

Throughout the poker community people are wondering who might actually be interested in taking on this kind of challenge. With that much money on the line and an insane number of hands to be played, swings could be disastrous and might actually cause the player challenging Durrr to go busto. Not many players actually have the bankroll to face this challenge, let alone the skill to beat one of the best online poker players at the moment. So will this event happen? Time will tell, but we all hope it does.

"Anyone can accept"
"Challenge is not open to Phil Galfond"

does not compute. Anyway, sounds megasick and cannot wait to rail that. Would even download FTP client again o_O

Second.

hope this will happen

Sounds cool. :D

peachy or rekrul gogo

rekrul play plo?

how much durrr has now $ approximately?

wow that pic makes him look really... gay

so ask him out

His body movement and facial expressions are somewhat "gay", but I find them kind of charming since they're not forced or played.

On January 04 2009 07:57 qu4nTum-fLuX wrote: wow that pic makes him look really... gay

On January 04 2009 08:19 MadeInPolanD wrote: so ask him out

ROFL PWNED!

its crazy shit like this that makes me love this game.

i wonder why this excludes phil galfond

I think he should now be called Tom "MF" Durrr Dwan.

On January 04 2009 09:27 EscapingR wrote: i wonder why this excludes phil galfond

because they are like best friends and probably sharing their poker thought on daily basis, big point destroying eachother?

Imagine how funny as hell it would be if you were Phil Galfond and you read the list of conditions

it'd be funny if it gets close and we see some crazy hands late in the game

lolfag

I'd accept if Durr allow me to play one hand instead of 50k

durrr looks creepy in that pic lol

well imo there are couple of FT guys who can take this on and not endanger their BR like PA or PI to say the least..

bm to not let galfond play ;( coulda been kinda sweet event between those two
allthough i understand why he'd not wanna play just him if he's to dodge 1 player
he's kinda not human -_-

TAKE HIM JAMIE GOLD

On January 04 2009 10:23 okyougosu wrote: I'd accept if Durr allow me to play one hand instead of 50k

So you have $500k to put up for it?

On January 04 2009 10:45 HeRoS)eNGagE wrote: TAKE HIM JAMIE GOLD

and who will stake him? Matusow?

this guy is nutz

On January 04 2009 11:04 MadeInPolanD wrote: Show nested quote + On January 04 2009 10:45 HeRoS)eNGagE wrote: TAKE HIM JAMIE GOLD and who will stake him? Matusow?

na chrismoneymaker

let's do it the American way: we issue shares of stakes. Then we issue an option on the risk of that stake. And then we issue another derivative on the risk of the risk option!

On January 04 2009 07:21 CruiseR wrote: peachy or rekrul gogo

peachy says in his blog he is busto and I doubt rekrul has so much money... because playing 50k hands on 4 tables 200/400 + 500 k = 1.5 - 2 milions or even more

Galfolnd wouldn't have accepted the challenge anyways get real

yang already agreed to it

I think 50k hands is way too much...

On January 04 2009 14:12 traxamillion wrote: Galfolnd wouldn't have accepted the challenge anyways get real

Why not ? He's as good as durrr, he's got the roll and Durrr gives him 3:1 he'd probably snap call this bet if he were allowed to participate

i dont think this is going to happen

On January 04 2009 10:36 Darki wrote: durrr looks creepy in that pic lol

I was trying to convince myself that this wasn't the case, but I have failed.

where is the original post of durr making this challenge?

i love this shit.

biggest cock swinging contest EVER

wow what a man.

On January 04 2009 14:12 traxamillion wrote: Galfolnd wouldn't have accepted the challenge anyways get real

LOL are you insane, if durrr is going to put forth such an egotistical (well, i don't entirely think it's an ego trip, it's just durrr trying to generate action he can't otherwise get) proposition, and then openly admit that phil galfond is AT LEAST profitable given the odds (which is more like saying that galfond will probably win)

then galfond will accept

it's not like durrr thinks galfond has an edge but galfond disagrees

you get real

On January 04 2009 22:44 NerO wrote: where is the original post of durr making this challenge?

. In an interview with Bluff Magazine, Durrr stated the following:

On January 04 2009 14:13 [GiTM]-Ace wrote: yang already agreed to it

whos this yang ?

On January 04 2009 22:44 NerO wrote: where is the original post of durr making this challenge?

Here: http://www.bluffmagazine.com/poker-ne...the-Million-Dollar-Challenge-1705.htm

It´s in the februari number of Bluff Magazine apparently, it came out earlier than Durrr expected, as he says on 2+2 here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=7940834&postcount=32

Can someone tell me what account name durrr use in pokerstars ?

On January 05 2009 04:47 ReADy wrote: Show nested quote + On January 04 2009 14:13 [GiTM]-Ace wrote: yang already agreed to it whos this yang ?

lol, jerry 'plz god if you let me win this hand i will glorify your name' yang or jerry 'raise 1 mirrrrrrrion' yang

and durrr's ps nick is holdem_nl

On January 05 2009 08:12 Rolon wrote: and durrr's ps nick is holdem_nl

I thought it was Nazgul18

thats his warmup acc.

phil galfond is better IMO

On January 05 2009 00:42 [vital]Myth wrote: Show nested quote + On January 04 2009 14:12 traxamillion wrote: Galfolnd wouldn't have accepted the challenge anyways get real LOL are you insane, if durrr is going to put forth such an egotistical (well, i don't entirely think it's an ego trip, it's just durrr trying to generate action he can't otherwise get) proposition, and then openly admit that phil galfond is AT LEAST profitable given the odds (which is more like saying that galfond will probably win) then galfond will accept it's not like durrr thinks galfond has an edge but galfond disagrees you get real

durrr might still think its profitable but doesnt want to play 50k hands vs galfond. also he migth think it would generate more action by adding that extra rule. i think theres a real good chance he wouldve not done it. he only playeds 20k hands? vs boostedj before they stopped there challenge. also boosted said that there were swings of 100k like every 2k hands. they were only playing nl25/50.

Everyone seems to take this Galfond comment really serious. For me it more looks like durrr did like a joking thing friends between and put that rule in since they knew from the start they wherent gonna play eachother and everyone goes like "zomg hes scared of him! - no way hes scared of him!!". At least I think its obv he didnt put the rule there to prevent Galfond from taking the challenge and more doing it like a salute for a friend he knows is good at poker.

i wouldnt be surprised to find out that rule was added for a prop bet or something. like post it on two plustwo and if the percentage of posts including the rule about galfond is higher then x blah wins

he posts that so people see hes scared and beatable by other players, or scared atleast

when in all fact hes not scared of phil, they're friends most likely

i'd be willing to bet he would play phil under close circumstances

im sure he dosn't mind playing Jman, just not with 3:1 on the 500k, for even money i'm sure he would play him all day non stop

Ya defo,Jman would NIT it up for the extra EV,course he would play him str8

50K hands? wtf i play like 15k in 2 months :o

stop failing then! ;<>

I'm surprised that Jman came in 2nd of online $ earned in 2008... It seems every time people post his hands on here on RH he gets coolered for 6-figures every time, lulz.

Maybe the unwritten condition is that the hands have to be played *CONTINUOUSLY* (in one session), and Galfond is his nap-time stand-in. Oh, that was supposed to be a secret.

http://www.pokerlistings.com/phil-ivey-is-up-to-durrrrs-challenge-34467

Acording to this article, Phil Ivey accepts his challenge.

Ohhhhh shit




I can't wait to see this happening, durrr underestimates Ivey's capacity to adapt to 4 tables imo... If it was 2 tables i'd probably put Ivey as a favorite but 4 tables i dunno, gotta wait and see, should be very interesting.

lol one hand...