Since Tom "durrrr" Dwan  challenged the poker world through his offer (as reported) and Phil Ivey officially accepted the challenge, also David Benyamine and Patrick Antonius followed and announced that they would play the 50,000 hands online against Dwan.
Patrick Antonius had to think about it once, because he suspected a catch of the matter. Apparently he could not find anything that convinced of a big disadvantage he would have to face.

Barry Greenstein has already stated in his radio-telephone interview with Phil Ivey that playing 50,000 hands means so much as playing 4-5 hours each day simultaneously at 4 tables and always playing against the same guy ( "durrrr"). While Barry believes that Ivey will quickly get bored, he is nonetheless convinced that Ivey is the best heads-up player.

Tom Dwan had a good year in 2008, but is that enough to prevail against the three challengers? Phil Ivey joked with Barry Greenstein about it and wondered if Dwan had still enough money in his bankroll when he competes against Ivey. The odds that Dwan goes busto are fairly high. HighStakes players have calculated that playing blinds of $ 200 and $ 400 a bankroll somewhere between $ 10 and 20 million is required. This also seems to be the reason that until now only three HighStakes players have accepted "durrrr" 's challenge.

In order to further clarify: Guy Laliberté, billionaire and founder of Cirque du Soleil, has in recent years lost approximately $ 21 million in HighStakes poker. That is about 56% of the total profits of all professionals in HighStakes poker. Thus one can assume that out there in the virtual world of online poker there are not many players worth $ 10 million in their accounts.

Perhaps soon you will watch a video on Youtube showing Ivey, Antonius and Benyamine playing crabs, playing out the order of who is playing poker first against Dwan. Indeed, at the latest after the second round against the challengers, not much is suspected to be left of Dwans money.

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