Could the long dormant Durrrr Challenge resume this year?
'Durrrr Bob Hartley' Orders More Goo to Go. Part 2: Amidst a turkey coma, summing up a classic TV sitcom episode. Posted Nov 26, 2020. Known as duRRRR, is a Counter-Strike player from Serbia, currently playing for SCUMBAG. Tom Dwan, aka #Durrrr, finds himself in an odd spot with JJ on the new season of High Stakes Poker. Dwan puts in almost $71,000 with one pair, but was it spe.
Dan 'jungleman' Cates sure hopes so, as he was up about $1.2 million against Tom 'durrrr' Dwan when the challenge slowed to a snail's pace and was later put on ice several years ago. Only about 40 percent of the required 50,000 hands have been played.
The game was $200-$400 no-limit hold'em.
About six years ago, Dwan offered the high-stakes community a chance to play him in a heads-up contest in which the winner would earn a bonus. Dwan would win an extra $500,000 if he finished up by at least $1. If Dwan ended in the hole, he would fork over $1.5 million to his opponent.
The challenge was endorsed by Full Tilt Poker and held on the site.
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Last month, the Durrrr Challenge was back in the news after Doug Polk, another top heads-up no-limit hold'em pro, called the contest 'one of the most massive scams in poker history.'
'I totally understand where [Doug] is coming from,' Cates told Card Player. However, the Maryland native is still confident that there will be an amicable conclusion to the match.
'I'm not happy how it has gone, but I am trying to resolve things with Tom,' Cates said. '[Dwan] has been somewhat cooperative. He's been in a bit of trouble and I guess gambled beyond his means or something. He's been busy with some pretty big stuff lately. I hope that we get it resolved this year. I don't think it was a scam or ever intended on being one.'
Dwan hasn't cashed in a major tournament since 2014. In late 2013, Dwan said that he had suffered his worst poker session ever, and there was rumor that it was to the tune of about $4 million. According to online poker tracking site HighstakesDB, Dwan hasn't played a hand of high stakes poker over the internet since around that time.
Late 2013 was also the last time Cates and Dwan played a session.
Cates said last year that Dwan had lost a live poker hand worth more than $20 million, though it's not certain if the pot was from the day Dwan had his 'biggest loss ever.'
According to Cates, the aftermath of online poker's Black Friday in April 2011 has also played a role in the challenge going inactive, but he doesn't think it's a good reason.
'I do think the challenge should be completed by now,' he said.
'I'm working with Tom to either finish it this year or get a bunch of hands done this year, or just have it resolved this year. He's still agreeing to pay me some penalties, and I guess if he doesn't want to do that he'll have to forfeit or something like that.'
Last week, Dwan tweeted for the first time since May 2015, though it wasn't about the Durrrr Challenge. Dwan said that it seems people have been impersonating him on Facebook.
Tom Dwan is a professional poker player who regularly plays in the biggest online games, primarily on Full Tilt Poker, where he plays under the screen name 'durrrr'. In 2009, Dwan became a member of Team Full Tilt.
Born in 1986 in New Jersey, Dwan first started playing online poker in March 2004 at the age of 17 during his senior year in high school. He began with a $50 bankroll at Paradise Poker. Dwan moved up in limits slowly, starting with small buy-in sit-n-go's and low-limit cash games. He went to Boston University to major in Engineering, but was playing so much poker that he dropped out of college, bought a house in Texas with friends, and spent most of his time working on his game. By the time he left college, he had a good-sized bankroll. Before he turned 21, he traveled to Canada where the minimum age to play in a casino was lower than the U.S.
Online play
Best bet365 games online. According to online databases that track high-stakes players, Dwan earned $312,000 on Full Tilt in 2007 and $5.41 million in 2008, and lost $4.35 million in 2009, with much of his losses going to Phil Ivey, Ilari Sahamies, and Isildur1. His results reportedly got better after switching down in stakes.
In November 2009, Dwan got challeneged to a series of heads-up No Limit Holdem cash games by a Sweden newcomer using the online name 'Isildur1', who had recently been involved in high-stakes games against Patrik Antonius, Brian Townsend, and other players. He challenged Dwan to a heads up marathon playing six tables at a time with over a million dollars in play. By the end of the week-long marathon Isildur1 had gone on the largest run in the history of online poker winning approximately $5 million from Dwan.
In January 2009 Dwan issued a $1 million challenge to play online anybody heads up for 50,000 hands 4-tabling 200/400 or higher No Limit Holdem or Pot Limit Omaha. If his opponent is ahead after 50,000 hands, Dwan agreed to give them an additional $1,500,000. If Dwan is ahead he will get an additional $500,000. Phil Ivey said that he is willing to play, and David Benyamine said he was thinking about it. Patrik Antonius was the first to actually accept the challenge and play. Regarding his challengers, Dwan has said he thinks that the other players are better but that he may have an edge in these particular circumstances. As of February 2010, Dwan and Antonius have played almost 33,000 out of the 50,000 hands. Dwan is leading the challenge by close to $1.4 million.
Live play
'I'm not happy how it has gone, but I am trying to resolve things with Tom,' Cates said. '[Dwan] has been somewhat cooperative. He's been in a bit of trouble and I guess gambled beyond his means or something. He's been busy with some pretty big stuff lately. I hope that we get it resolved this year. I don't think it was a scam or ever intended on being one.'
Dwan hasn't cashed in a major tournament since 2014. In late 2013, Dwan said that he had suffered his worst poker session ever, and there was rumor that it was to the tune of about $4 million. According to online poker tracking site HighstakesDB, Dwan hasn't played a hand of high stakes poker over the internet since around that time.
Late 2013 was also the last time Cates and Dwan played a session.
Cates said last year that Dwan had lost a live poker hand worth more than $20 million, though it's not certain if the pot was from the day Dwan had his 'biggest loss ever.'
According to Cates, the aftermath of online poker's Black Friday in April 2011 has also played a role in the challenge going inactive, but he doesn't think it's a good reason.
'I do think the challenge should be completed by now,' he said.
'I'm working with Tom to either finish it this year or get a bunch of hands done this year, or just have it resolved this year. He's still agreeing to pay me some penalties, and I guess if he doesn't want to do that he'll have to forfeit or something like that.'
Last week, Dwan tweeted for the first time since May 2015, though it wasn't about the Durrrr Challenge. Dwan said that it seems people have been impersonating him on Facebook.
Tom Dwan is a professional poker player who regularly plays in the biggest online games, primarily on Full Tilt Poker, where he plays under the screen name 'durrrr'. In 2009, Dwan became a member of Team Full Tilt.
Born in 1986 in New Jersey, Dwan first started playing online poker in March 2004 at the age of 17 during his senior year in high school. He began with a $50 bankroll at Paradise Poker. Dwan moved up in limits slowly, starting with small buy-in sit-n-go's and low-limit cash games. He went to Boston University to major in Engineering, but was playing so much poker that he dropped out of college, bought a house in Texas with friends, and spent most of his time working on his game. By the time he left college, he had a good-sized bankroll. Before he turned 21, he traveled to Canada where the minimum age to play in a casino was lower than the U.S.
Online play
Best bet365 games online. According to online databases that track high-stakes players, Dwan earned $312,000 on Full Tilt in 2007 and $5.41 million in 2008, and lost $4.35 million in 2009, with much of his losses going to Phil Ivey, Ilari Sahamies, and Isildur1. His results reportedly got better after switching down in stakes.
In November 2009, Dwan got challeneged to a series of heads-up No Limit Holdem cash games by a Sweden newcomer using the online name 'Isildur1', who had recently been involved in high-stakes games against Patrik Antonius, Brian Townsend, and other players. He challenged Dwan to a heads up marathon playing six tables at a time with over a million dollars in play. By the end of the week-long marathon Isildur1 had gone on the largest run in the history of online poker winning approximately $5 million from Dwan.
In January 2009 Dwan issued a $1 million challenge to play online anybody heads up for 50,000 hands 4-tabling 200/400 or higher No Limit Holdem or Pot Limit Omaha. If his opponent is ahead after 50,000 hands, Dwan agreed to give them an additional $1,500,000. If Dwan is ahead he will get an additional $500,000. Phil Ivey said that he is willing to play, and David Benyamine said he was thinking about it. Patrik Antonius was the first to actually accept the challenge and play. Regarding his challengers, Dwan has said he thinks that the other players are better but that he may have an edge in these particular circumstances. As of February 2010, Dwan and Antonius have played almost 33,000 out of the 50,000 hands. Dwan is leading the challenge by close to $1.4 million.
Live play
Dwan's first live tournament cash in a major event was a minor cash in a European Poker Tour (EPT) event in London in 2005.
Dwan has cashed in the money in live tournaments and has appeared on NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship, the fourth season of Poker After Dark, the third and fourth seasons of Full Tilt Poker's Million Dollar Cash Game, and the fifth and sixth season of GSN's High Stakes Poker.
His next live tournament cash was in 2007 at the WPT World Poker Finals $9,700 No Limit Hold'em Championship Event, where he finished 4th and won $324,244.
In January 2008, Dwan finished 2nd at the Aussie Millions A$3,000 Pot Limit Omaha with Rebuys event, winning A$103,200 ($90,716). In January 2008 he also finished 2nd at the WPT Borgata Winter Open in the $5,000 No Limit Hold'em event, earning $226,100. At the 2008 $25,500 WPT Five-Star World Poker Classic Dwan finished in ninth place, earning $184,670.
In the first year that he played in the WSOP, Dwan cashed twice in 2008, finishing in 7th and 8th place. He cashed in the WSOP Europe in 2009.
Dwan holds the record for the largest pot won in a recorded live game at over $1.1 million, which occurred during the fourth season of Full Tilt Poker's Million Dollar Cash Game. It broke the previous record of over $919,000 also won by Dwan in the fifth season of High Stakes Poker.
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As of 2009, he has 3 WSOP cashes and total live tournament winnings exceeding $1,100,000.
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