Apparently, the Christmas season must have been too boring for Internet PokerPro Tom "durrrr" Dwan, as he challenges the poker world.  Whoever plays 50,000 hands heads-up against him either Texas Hold'em No Limit or Pot Limit Omaha with $ 200 - $ 400 blinds and at least 4 tables online and leads after the 50,000 hands played against him will receive additional $ 1.5 million from Tom "durrrr" Dwan as a bonus. If Dwan is in the lead, he retains the profit and receives additional $ 500,000 from his challengers. Dwan has also expressed an exception to his offering: His good friend and PokerPro Phil Galfond is not invited and limited to railing.

Whether now Phil Ivey felt insulted by this exception, or simply the 3:1 odds appealed is a detail we do not dare to judge. In any case, he has commented the challenge: "Somebody’s propably going to go broke."

Ivey told his friend Barry Greenstein yesterday that he officially accepted the challenge and informed Dwan. Greenstein is not sure whether Ivey ever has the patience playing against the same player over a month. According to his quick calculation, one would have to play daily 4-5 hour sessions on 4 tables for about a month in order to come up to 50,000 played hands. Nevertheless, Greenstein believes that Ivey is the best heads-up player and would have expected from Dwan that he excluded Phil Ivey from his challenge instead of Phil Galfond.

Apart from Phil Ivey there are also other pros like David Benyamin and Patrik Antonius interested in the challenge.

The 22 year-old online pro, who already proved his skills at the live poker tables of the Poker After Dark and HighStakes Poker shows , polarizes the poker friends. One side will find him arrogant and his challenge seems to be a proof of it, the others are impressed with his strength and his self-confidence.

In any case, it is once again a successful PR campaign, which the poker fans fascinates. More of it can be read in the new edition of the CardPlayer Magazine.

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