In a recent blog post by young UK Pot Limit Omaha expert Ben “milkybar-kid” Grundy, Grundy toys with the idea of taking up the $1.5 million “Durrrr Challenge”, an open challenge issued by Tom “Durrrr” Dwan to all takers in the poker world. Unlike a lot of successful online players, Grundy hasn’t embraced media whoring and self-promotion, seemingly preferring to just grind away and make millions. Accepting the challenge will more than likely give the young Brit some serious international exposure, and possibly infamy if he did triumph over Dwan.
If Grundy does play Dwan, his bankroll can probably survive the hit if he does lose, as his PokerTracker statistics show him as a serious winner, with a profit of over $7,695,980!
the offer of $1.5 million if i beat him, compared to paying out $500,000 is really appealing. I’d definitely do it if i could sell a big enough percentage. I’d guess the worse case scenario would be losing $2 million ish, then having to pay up $500k. I’m way to much of a bankroll nit to take the chance of that kind of loss. It would be interesting, i’m not ruling it out under the right circumstances
Dwan is currently more than half the way through the challenge with big-game poker-superstar Patrik Antonius (with Dwan in the lead by $1.8M), see the Fulltilt Durrr Vs Antonius challenge Page for detailed statistics.
