Tom "Durrr" Dwan's $1M heads up challenge

Ca va saigner Durrrr !

Un certain Tom "Durrr" Dwan (un des meilleurs joueurs on line du monde) vient de lancer un $ 1M heads up challenge... David Benyamine, Patrik Antonius et Phil Ivey ont bien sure accepté le challenge...

Dur pour Durrr mais il ne doute de rien le garçon. 50K mains et s'il gagne il repart avec 500 K$, si son adversaire gagne il lui donne 1 M$ de plus soit 1.5 M$...

En attendant voici une interview de Phil à la radio concernant le sujet => ICI

Tout cela me rappelle l'histoire d'Andy Beal.

“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.

“So I’m giving a million dollars free if anyone thinks they can do it.”

Friday, January 02, 2009

Tom Dwan Issues the Million Dollar Challenge
 
 
 
 
 Author:
Lance Bradley
lance@bluffmedia.com  

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Update: January 6, 2009
The rumor is Phil Ivey and David Benyamine have taken Durrr up on his challenge.
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Since the early 1990s when future Vice President Al Gore emerged from his secret bunker in the hills of Kentucky and dropped the Internet in the laps of the American youth there seems to be two constants; first, it’s now ridiculously easy to ruin the life of your ex-girlfriend, and second, really fucking smart kids are dropping out of college to get crazy rich.
 
Bill Gates and Paul Allen left Harvard behind to start up Microsoft and force the entire world to surf the web with Internet Explorer. Michael Dell sold computers out of his dorm room before leaving the University of Texas-Austin to figure out a way to cram a webcam into every college student’s laptop. Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook while attending Harvard so that every twenty-something guy had a distribution channel for those “private photos” their ex-girlfriend took on her webcam.

All joking aside, each one of those men took advantage of Internet technology and their wicked smarts to create an empire. Over the last three years the online poker world has watched a similar phenomenon as a teenaged Tom Dwan crushed the biggest online cash games, backed a number of players in live and online tournaments with great success, and found live tournament success of his own as he built Durrrr Inc. into a poker powerhouse.
 
However, Dwan – perhaps known more to his countless fans by the screenname “durrrr” – might just be more confident in his abilities than Gates, Allen, Dell, and Zuckerberg combined. That’s why he’s 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. 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.”

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