Earlier this week, Tom ‘durrr’ Dwan threw down a gilded gauntlet, challenging players to a special heads-up match. As he said,
“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.”
Obviously, mere mortals weren’t meant to take this challenge. (You know how hard it is to get $1million USD together in this economy? We tried.) Anyway, not one but three major players have accepted Dwan’s challenge – Phil Ivey, who made nearly $8 million in 08 just in online play, Patrik Antonius and David Benyamine.
When and if this match will actually take place remains to be seen, but we bet this will be a heck of an event to watch even from the rail.