Ivey accepts Durrrr brained prop bet.

[thefairy]

When Tom "durrr" Dwan challenged the pokerworld for a heads-up match giving 3:1 odds, all eyes were at players like Phil Ivey to take it on. Now it's official, Phil Ivey accepted the challenge and we're looking into an epic heads-up battle between the biggest winners online. In a phone conversation with Barry Greenstein on PokerRoad Radio he confirmed that he'll be playing Dwan, but he doesn't think he's got an edge.

Even more interesting is that Ivey mentioned that David Benyamine and Patrik Antonius might be up for the game first. David Benyamine said he had not accepted the challenge yet, but is still considering. Whether or not Patrik Antonius has or has not officially confirmed yet is still unknown, however, Dwan stated to Ivey in a phone call that "he's gonna play someone else first".

Ivey stated: "You know what, the funny thing is he probably does have an edge. But you know, like, I don't know, it's just something tempting about that million and a half to that $500,000.". He also mentions that he doesn't think Durrr and the other players realize how long 50.000 hands is and that "Somebody’s probably going to go broke". Ivey usually plays 2 tabled heads-up, so it might take him some time to get used to the 4 tables, but he's confident he'll have time to catch up in those 50.000 hands.

As you could have read before, two players will be playing 50.000 hands 4-tabled heads-up at $200/$400 NLHE or PLO blinds minimum. If Dwan is up 1 dollar or more at the end of the 50.000 hands, he'll get $500.000 from the one accepting the challenge (Ivey for example). If the other player is up at the end he'll get $1.5 million from Dwan. So 3:1 odds on the sidebet, and we can expect huge swings throughout these hands.

We'll be looking forward to one or more of the most interesting battles in online poker history.

Update: Patrik Antonius has now officially confirmed he's up for the challenge as well. He confirmed it in this interview with CardPlayer.

[Gerrard48LFC]

lol whats antonius doing, he is going to get raped. ivey durr will be good to watch though!

[thefairy]

Antonius wll be on a street selling big issue this time next year

odds on betfair 1.01

[Pates]

I'd love to rail any of this. Great article. What site is this going to be played at? I'm guessing FTP.

[thefairy]

full tilt for sure, as i said before, i think durrrr will be unveiled as a red pro for it on FTP and or his signing fee i think theyl absorb any losses he makes against ivey for him, as this will create such interest it will be worth it.

[James]

wow this is a truely epic milestone in poker history, i am definitely going to make sure i watch a good few hours of these matches. And yes 50k hands is alot but im sure they will plow through them heads up!

[Twigman]

How long roughly would that take to play?
I have no idea

[James]

they recon about 80-90 hours of 4 tabling.

[Pates]

I played 50k hands in a month at Full Ring. Yes it took forever. But forever is ok when you're addicted.

[ccottis]

Antonius will play Omaha though so he might not do too badly