"Somebody's probably going to go broke"

Phil Ivey has accepted 22-year old Tom Dwan's open challenge to play 50,000 hands with him heads up at $200/$400+ online. If Ivey is up on Dwan at the end of the 50,000 hands then he'll get an additional $1.5m. If the Ivey is down, he'll have to ship Dwan $500k.

If the match goes ahead it will probably be the biggest and most talked about heads-up online poker game ever. Dwan has stated that they have to be multi-tabling across 4 or more tables, in either No-Limit Hold'em or Pot-Limit Omaha.

Some random stats... in his last 50,000 of hands online Durrrr is up somewhere between 6 and 7 million dollars. Phil Ivey is up around $2.5m in 18,000 hands. A lot of that was at higher stakes ($500/1000), but even still you can get a feel for the sort of crushing someone could take over 50k hands.

David Benyamine and Patrik Antonius are also reported to be considering Dwan's bet. The matches will likely take place on Full Tilt Poker and 50k hands will take a month or two to play.

Durrrr stipulated that the only player in the world not elidgable to take the challenge is his friend Phil Galfond :) “A lot of people are confident in their game, but no one I’m aware of has ever backed it up like this,” Galfond said, of Dwan's challenge. “As far as the challenge being open to anyone but me, I take that as one of the highest compliments I’ve received as a poker player.”