Thread: Dwan's Million-Dollar Challenge

Dwan in the news again -- this time with a $1.5 million dollar personal challenge.

From today's CAP Newswire:

January 5, 2009 (InfoPowa News) -- Internet poker multi-tabling and nosebleed stakes ace Tom "durrr" Dwan clearly savors the adrenaline of competition, and has started the new year with an interesting 3-to-1 challenge open to all online poker players with the wherewithal, confidence, and courage to take on one of the most exciting and unpredictable pros on the Net.

Dwan ended 2008 up $3.4 million in NLHE alone for the month of December. Out of six December nosebleed pots worth well over half a million each, Dwan won four, completing his year with an overall NHLE profit of more than $6 million.

Now, according to a report in Bluff Magazine, Dwan is throwing down the gauntlet to the rest of the poker world to prove he's the best -- and he's willing to lay anybody who thinks otherwise a better than even money price.

"I'm making this heads-up challenge to the world," Dwan told Bluff Magazine. "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.

"So I'm giving a million dollars free if anyone thinks they can do it."

Bluff will be running details on how the challenge shapes up in its February 2009 edition.

Originally Posted by NathanCAP

"So I'm giving a million dollars free if anyone thinks they can do it."

fwiw he will play anyone.. except the G-man, phil "omgclayaiken" galfond

phil ivey accepts the challenge. should be interesting imo

Definitely should be fun to follow! We've just posted a follow-up story at the CAP News page:

January 7, 2009 -- U.K. Poker News is reporting that three "of the most intimidating names in live and online poker" have accepted Thomas 'Durrr' Dwan's recent, well-publicized "3-to-1" challenge

"I'm making this heads-up challenge to the world," Dwan told Bluff Magazine last week. "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. So I'm giving a million dollars free if anyone thinks they can do it."

And the three top-tier players who have accepted the challenge? David Benyamine, Phil Ivey, and Patrik Antonius.

Receiving the most attention of these three is Phil Ivey. Ivey, who announced that he would accept Dwan's challenge yesterday, admitted that he may be in for a run for his money.

"You know what, the funny thing is he probably does have an edge," PokerListings quoted Ivey as saying. "But you know, like, I don't know, it's just something tempting about that million and a half to that $500,000."

The PokerListings article continues: "He admits durrrr will initially have the edge as he adjusts to playing four tables at once, but he's counting on durrrr not realizing how many hands 50,000 hands really is. He'll have time to catch up, and it's likely someone will go broke in this challenge."