What happens when you mix the excitement of playing high stakes poker and the adrenaline of doing it with the best players of the world? You definite catch attention, and this is what Full Tilt has done with their Durrrr Challenge extravaganza. This little game, but mostly a dare, is simple. Tom “durrrr” Dwan, young poker hot shot and Full Tilt’s poker pro, threw a challenge in 2009. He said he could beat any player that was able to play against him 50,000 hands of No-Limit Texas Hold’em or Pot Limit Omaha with any money there put up, with a side bet and a thrilling plus. If he loses the winner would take $1.5 million plus all the winnings for the play involved; but if he wins, he would take the winnings plus $500,000 from his opponent. But there’s another condition. It must be played in 4 simultaneous head’s up tables and once you choose your game and stake you can’t change.
It wasn’t a surprise that the hot shots took the challenge. The first one on the list, Patrick Antonious, the female heart melting Finn that is deadly playing poker and one of the best in the world, that can definitely finish durrrr’s aspirations to become victorious from such a challenge.
The latest match of the “durrrr” Challenge was this weekend and it’s a match that Patrick Antonious probably wants to forget. They played for nine minutes on Saturday and after 61 hands they wrapped it up and Dwan took another $230,710 off Antonious. So far they have played 33,303 hands out of 50,000.
So far the battle hasn’t been easy, both players have played over 33 thousand hands of 50,000 and the results so far are against Antonious with an impressive $2 million dollar loss.
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