Monthly Archives: September 2010

Ever since Tom Dwan’s latest thrashing at the Durrrr Challenge tables, there’s been a buzz about whether or not “Durrrr” can make a run of his own. Also, there have been news headlines and buzz-worthy forum topics in recent days, so we decided to use this break in the action as an opportunity examine the headlines and ask several poker personalities what they think of the match-up between Dwan and Dan “JungleMan12” Cates. Wasingtonian Article A website claiming to be the “Website Washington Lives By” wrote an article entitled “Lone Shark” that featured Cates. The article was clearly written by someone that has no grasp of poker, much less the culture and dynamics of the online game. The bias in it is the same old argument we’ve been hearing for the last five years from uneducated people. Fortunately, the poker community rose to defend itself once again in comments on… Read More »

Playing out all this week from London is the PartyPoker World Open. The annual high-stakes tournament will shell out $200,000 to its winner and among those in attendance is Durrrr Challenge namesake Tom “durrrr” Dwan. PartyPoker caught up with the internet poker sensation and asked a slew of questions about the ongoing Million Dollar Challenge against Dan “JungleMan12” Cates. The first Million Dollar Challenge against Patrik Antonius has seen Dwan build a $2 million lead through 40,000 hands of the 50,000 required for completion. Dwan rather confidently admitted to PartyPoker officials, “I’m a pretty big favorite in the first one. [Patrik is] still a really great player and Omaha is a high-variance game, so he has a chance to come back, but I’m definitely a solid favorite at this point.” When will we see the next action in the Durrrr Challenge? Dwan admitted that it might be a little while… Read More »

If you’re like me, every morning you get up and take a quick hop over to Full Tilt Poker to see if any action from the Dan “JungleMan12” Cates against Tom “durrrr” Dwan Million Dollar Challenge has occurred. Leading up to the first session between the two young guns, a considerable amount of hype existed. Now, after a one-week hiatus from the table, one wonders when we’ll see more action from the felts. Clueless as to when the Durrrr Challenge will pick back up is Cates himself, who posted on Twitter on Saturday, “Good session vs PA at 500/1k, dunno when Durrrr Challenge is gonna resume.” Cates last battled Dwan on August 30th and pushed his lead out to nearly $700,000. A total of 6,820 hands have been played out of the 50,000 required for completion. Amazingly, Cates has scooped 61% of them for a win rate of 25.33 BB/100.… Read More »