Poker Challenges
Sunday, January 11th, 2009There has been some very interesting challenges made recently in the world of online poker. Firstly we have Durrrr (high stakes cash game player Tom Dwan) who has laid down a challenge that he cant be beaten over 50,000 hands of NL Holdem or PL Omaha.
To put his money where his mouth is he has offered to put up $1.5 million against any challenger, to their commitment of $500,000. Effectively offering a $1 million prize.
This challenge has obviously created a lot of interest and it looks like a minimum of David Benyamine and Phil Ivey are set to take him up on the offer. You can probably safely add Patrick Antonius to that list.
With the minimum limits of 200/400 there is much speculation that someone could go broke and the challenge wont ever reach 50,000 hands. We could certainly see someone being so far down that they would have to make the decision to pay off the bounty early to stop going even further down overall.
This challenge will take place on Full Tilt Poker, and I will post again when any firm dates are arranged.
A second very interesting challenge recently made is by PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu, he has said he’ll be able to run a starting bankroll of $10 all the way up to $100,000 just through good poker and good bankroll management. It certainly seems a long grind. We have seen Chris “Jesus” Ferguson accomplish something similar, going from zero to $20,000. It will be interesting to monitor the progress of this and see whether Daniel really does have the patience to play at such low limits compared to what he is accustomed too.
