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Hi all.. we just announced this today. Should be fun...

Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge begins next week
Full Tilt Poker to sponsor poker’s biggest ever live challenge

Matchroom Sport is delighted to announce that the Full Tilt Poker Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge will take place in London from November 17-19th.

Tom “Durrrr” Dwan issued the challenge in July and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies and high-stakes cash player Marcello “Luckexpress” Marigliano have stepped up to join Sammy “any two” George in taking on the most feared cash player in the game at the Les Ambassadeurs club in Mayfair. The challenge will see Dwan take on three opponents over 500 hands each in a live heads up match up. Each player will buy into the challenge for $500,000 and the blinds will be set at $500/$1000 with each opponent being offered the preference of Pot-limit Omaha or No-Limit Hold’em. No player can leave the contest until either the 500 hands are up or the player has bust.

Finnish star Ziigmund is known as one of the most aggressive Pot-limit Omaha players around and his love of high-stakes and trash talk has earned him a huge following online and jumped at the chance to pit his wits against Durrrr.

“I am always excited to play my good friend Tom,” said Ziigmund. “He is one of the best Hold’em and PLO players in the world, and when I heard about the challenge I couldn‘t wait to sign up. With the gambling, the side-bets, the partying and the drinking in London, this is going to be a whole lot of fun.”

Londoner Sammy George was the first player to sign up to the challenge and fancies his chances on home soil. “While other pro’s have dithered in accepting the challenge I was the first man to step up to the plate and if Tom thinks he can come to my backyard and take half a million from my back pocket, he can think again,” said George.

Eddie Hearn, managing director of Matchroom Sport, said: “We are delighted to be working with Tom in creating poker's biggest ever TV spectacle – Matchroom are always looking to stretch the boundaries and with the introduction of PLO this is a new dawn for TV poker. Tom is a fearless competitor and he laid down the challenge to the entire poker world. Three players have stepped up to the plate. This is poker in its most raw form – two players battling it out for $1million, mano-a-mano. It doesn't get any bigger than this."

The Full Tilt Poker Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge will be televised on Sky Sports in 2010.

For further information please contact Anthony Leaver at anthony.leaver@matchroom.com or on (+44)7813 845 144.

Just LOL

Haha is the game going to played outside in a light drizzle and Durrrr be forced to drink lukewarm bitter.

Can I deal it? Thanks.

Sounds good fun.

Any chance of a decent interface on the broadcast? Most UK poker productions tilt me so bad. They take ages to put hole cards on the screen. The pot's never up to date. You can't tell who's bet what or who action is on. etc. Just copy the way HSP do it.

Interval dining is a choice of Liver and Onions or Jellied Eels

GG Sammy, you had a good run

This promotion has been a fail imo.

Hardly the 3 names people would have wanted to see.

Full Tilt Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge – day one review Press release

Marigliano comes out on top in Durrrr’s opening encounter

The opening match of the Full Tilt Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge saw Italian Marcello “luckexpress” Marigliano come out on top after 12 hours of play with Tom “Durrrr” Dwan at the Les Ambassadeurs club in London.

The duo bought in for $250,000 at the beginning of the match and as the clock struck 2am and the last hand was over, Marigliano ended with $272,500 – a $22,500 gain – having played No-Limit Hold’em until the final hour where they switched to Pot-limit Omaha.

Durrrr won the greater number of pots – 55 per cent to Marcello’s 45 per cent – but the key hands and bigger pots went in the Italian’s favour to see him triumph on the first of three days of action.

“In the end I won a small amount but I’m happy though as I won with bluffs,” said Marcello. “He raised a lot pre-flop and you have to play tight but I made some good moves and I’m happy I proved I can play with Tom.”

Both players were down 100k on more than one occasion and Durrrr rebought as his stack dropped below 150k when Marcello bluffed him off a 100k pot with King-high, but he fought back to move 100k to the good. Marigliano levelled the match up when he flopped a full-house with A3 on the 3AA board and as the day sped to its conclusion, the Italian moved close to 100k in front when they both held hearts  - Durrrr with six-deuce, Marigliano with Queen-seven – and two hearts came on the flop. Marcello was all-in before the Ace of hearts on the turn gave him the pot and a healthy lead over Dwan before they moved to Pot-limit Omaha. Durrrr clawed his way back in the final hour, but goes into the second day on the back of defeat.

“It was a really aggressive match,” said Durrrr. “There was a time when Marcello folded 20 hands in a row then the next hand he picked up a gutshot and decided to win the 150k out there. But he made two really good reads and without either one of them he ends up down 50k or so but instead he’s up. They were key hands really and there were some other big hands but it was an interesting match – of course I wish I’d won.”

The small swing in Marigliano’s favour belies the action with Durrrr recording a button raise frequency of 84 per cent, and Dwan seemed surprised at the end of the match that they had gone the distance.

“It’s so crazy that at the end there was just a 25k difference in the end – that’s absurd. It’s so unlikely that one of us didn’t lose 500k,” said the American, who faces Finnish star Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies today (Wednesday). “I was up 150k at one or two points and down 200k – but it still wasn’t as swingy as I thought it would be, we didn’t have many big hand versus big hand spots, or even medium hand versus medium hand spots. I expect there to be more action in the matches with Ziigmund and Sammy George.”

Durrrr and Ziigmund will begin their match at 2pm, starting off by playing Pot-Limit Omaha, with George ending the challenge on Thursday. Both matches will be blogged live at www.matchroompokerforum.co.uk, where you can also view the blog from the opening day.

" 7s 2h for durrrr and sammy has Ad 6c on the Jh Ah 6h 3c board... durrrr bets and sammy calls... 3d... sammy checks... durrrr moves all in... sammy has a good 5 minute think.... make that about ten mins... and Sammy folds... wow... durrrr shows for the 10k of course and sammy looks sick, sick, sick..."

"sammy 401k down now..."


Taken from www.matchroompokerforum.co.uk

sammy down 630k according to matchroom

Sammy is running above expectation then.

com how the other two matches have barely seen a swing and sammy is nearly in for a mil.

chuckles

Sammy wasn't lying.

just watched the interview with Durr and he said Sammy played well as he took the $750k off him. lol

Sammy George in the well imo!

Sammy George in the hole imo.

who is Sammy George, and where does his $ come from?

Just watched the final episode of durrrr v Sammy George, pretty painful to watch, esp when Sammy was losing and just lumping money in randomly, which made u realise that was his best chance to win.

Excellent comment from Roland at the end: "This challenge could run and run, we could see durrrr sitting down with Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius or Big TR Trevor Reardon."

Every commentary Roland gives Trev a mention lol

72 hand from last week was so good. I wanted him to call bad, but obv knew he was folding from all the spoilers that durrr owned. Sammy came across really wel though imo, really nice guy.

how good is isaac haxton's commentary compared to the usual crap they have from players who aren't very good and don't know what they're on about

Totally agree he sounds a smart kid i can remember him being on Seboks radio show and totally ripped him apart when they started talking strategy they hads a beef or something.

Tbh Durrr definatley run better in the session but we all know there only ever was gonna be one result. Sammy G was funny when Durrr sucked out in a few spots crying to the rail and Durrr saying nothing(thinking of future matches me thinks)

Btw where does Sammy G get his dough he doses't sound the brightest spark in the interviews. I say John Magill steps up and plays Durrr ;scarymoment;