PICKING UP A $1.5 MILLION INTERNET POKER GAUNTLET
(Update)
9 January 2009
Top players are prepared to go heads up with Tom
Dwan
It hasn't taken long for some of the world's most
accomplished online poker players to accept the $1.5
million challenge thrown out earlier this week by online
poker ace Tom "durrr" Dwan (see previous InfoPowa
report). Phil Ivey, David Benyamine, Barry Greenstein
and Patrik Antonius have all picked up the gauntlet,
according to Poker Road Radio.
Benyamine is likely to be the first to take on Dwan in
what promises to be an epic match that will probably be
hosted by the Full Tilt Poker.com website.
Dwan's extraordinarily confident challenge earlier this
week was that he would put down $1.5 million to any
challenger's $500 000 in games played on four virtual
tables simultaneously, heads-up with minimum $200/$400
stakes. Each contender will have to play at least 50 000
hands and if the challenger finishes even a dollar more
than where he started, he wins Dwan's $1.5 million.
Conversely, if 'durrrr' ends up ahead, he gets to keep
the challenger's $500 000.
The players have all competed at one time or another
against each other on the Full Tilt nosebleed tables,
and therefore have some idea of their opponents'
strengths and weaknesses. Added to the considerable
talent each has, this makes for some truly exciting high
stakes poker action.
Online Casino News Courtesy of
Infopowa
More news here.
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