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Tom Dwan’s $1 million challenge
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2009-01-07 19:22
Action-hungry railbirds are likely to get their fill soon at Full Tilt Poker as the beginning-of-the-year lull does apparently hide a perfect storm brewing just over the horizon. Tom Dwan, known as durrrr at the online poker tables, high stakes player and poker news headliner has come up with a new way to generate ultra-high stakes action together with the usual fan and press-fare.
Durrrr has recently admitted in a 2+2 forum thread that he had indeed been preparing for such a challenge but figured he still had one or two weeks more to nail down the details. He has formulated some of the basic rules of the challenge though on the spot, and it’ll look something like this: Dwan will take on any challenger looking to make a name for him/herself in a high stakes game, namely in $200/$400 PL or NL Omaha. He will wager $1.5 million against his opponent’s $500k and the one who will be up even one dollar at the end of a minimum of 50,000 hands wins the wager and gets to take home not only the money his opponent has bet on the challenge but also the money he/she has won during play.
So, if someone plays against durrrr and wins $500k from him in 50,000 hands, he’ll end up with that money plus the $1.5 million, which means he’ll take home $2 million.
Play will only be heads-up and it will take place at 4 tables simultaneously. That will serve to knock the luck element out of the equation on one hand and to accelerate play on the other, so 50,000 hands won’t take an eternity to reach.
The stakes have to stay the same all the way, and players have to reload once their stacks fall below 75 BBs.
For some reason, durrrr decided to exclude Phil Galfond from his challenge.
Given the fact that he is one of the most active, not to mention successful high stakes online players these days, I wouldn’t want to be in the shoes of the person who takes durrrr on for that much money.
