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Tom Dwan Offers Million Dollar Poker Challenge
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January 7 - Bluff Magazine, the online poker publication, noted that Tom "Durrrr" Dwan has challenged any online poker player from around the world to a series of games that may be too good to refuse.
During the interview with Bluff, Tom Dwan said that the challenge would involve himself putting up $1.5 million to the online poker players' $500,000 - or 3:1 odds - making this one of the most lucrative offers ever to be made on the internet.
"I'm making this heads-up challenge to the world," Dwan told Bluff Magazine. "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 get your $500,000. So I'm giving a million dollars free if anyone thinks they can do it."
Tom Dwan, who plays at Full Tilt Poker under the username Durrrr, has shot to celebrity status in the online poker industry, after proving his worth at the tables and earning himself vast sums of money for a player in his early twenties.
The recent challenge is typical of Tom Dwan's huge confidence that is keenly felt in his game strategy. His sometimes brash ways have helped him rise from an unknown teen to one of the greatest players of all times. Dwan has even been eyed by all time great poker player, Phil Ivey, as the player most likely to succeed him.
While it is not believed that the average online poker player could afford to jump to the challenge and risk $500,000, there are certainly top names in the industry who would love to play at such lucrative odds.
Rumor has it, though, that Tom Dwan has stated that he will not play against his fellow poker player and friend, Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond.
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