Challenge Durr at Full Tilt

Hadn't seen this posted yet. but now you can actually have a chance to challenge Durr, maybe copying Stars challenge Isildur.

There's a lot to read thru and you will find it on your tilt promotions page.


Beat Tom Dwan at His Own Game to Win $1.5 Million

Team Full Tilt’s Tom "durrrr" Dwan is looking to take on the best of the best. Are you game?
Earn the right to Challenge durrrr heads up for $1.5 million starting Saturday, February 26th. Before you can take on durrrr, you’ll need to win your way through a series of consecutive challenges across a variety of poker disciplines:

• Challenge 1 – Ring Games: Fight your way to the top of a Challenge durrrr Leaderboard to punch your ticket to the next challenge, plus earn a Full Tilt Points multiplier if you post a high enough chips score on a Leaderboard
• Challenge 2 – Tournaments: Conquer your fellow challengers in three simultaneous Freeroll Tournaments to win your cut of prize money and move on to the next challenge
• Challenge 3 – The Matrix: Nine players, four Sit & Gos, one goal – earn the top Matrix score and advance to the final challenge
• Challenge durrrr – Heads Up: Take on this online legend at his own game to win up to $1.5 million!

Challenge 1 – Ring Games

Tom Dwan has made millions online by playing his bread and butter ring games: No-Limit Hold ‘em (NLH) and Pot Limit Omaha (PLO).
In order to Challenge durrrr, you’ll need to prove your ring game mettle and earn a top spot on any one of three Challenge durrrr Leaderboards, which are determined by stake levels:

• Low - $0.01/$0.02 to $0.10/$0.20
• Medium - $0.10/$0.25 to $0.50/$1.00
• High - $1.00/$2.00 and beyond

Challenge durrrr Leaderboards are open from 00:00 ET on Saturday, February 26th through 23:59 ET on Sunday, March 13th. Play at least two NLH or PLO ring game tables simultaneously, or at least one NLH or PLO Rush Poker* ring game table to start earning Leaderboard chips.
Leaderboard chips are awarded for winning pots, so channel your inner durrrr and stay aggressive at the tables. The flop must be dealt in order for a hand to qualify, meaning you’ll need to outwit your opponents post-flop in order to master this challenge. You’ll earn one chip for each player dealt into hands that you win. Please note that heads-up hands do not count toward this promotion.
Rack up 500 qualifying hands at any one of the stake levels and your chips score will be posted on that Leaderboard. Keep playing to try to beat your current score – only your best 500 hand run will be posted to the Leaderboard.
At the end of Challenge 1, the top 1,000 finishers on the Low Leaderboard, the top 750 on the Medium Leaderboard and the top 500 on the High Leaderboard will all move on to Challenge 2.
To keep track of your chips score and Leaderboard status, visit your personal Challenge durrrr page in the My Promotions section of the game Cashier.
For an in-depth explanation of Challenge durrrr Leaderboards and qualifying hands, see the Challenge durrrr Rules.
Full Tilt Points Multipliers

Post a Leaderboard score of 500 chips or more and you’ll receive a Full Tilt Points multiplier for all Full Tilt Points earned in qualifying hands for your stake level. The multiplier you receive depends on which Leaderboard your score is posted:

• Low Leaderboard – 2x Full Tilt Points
• Medium Leaderboard – 3x Full Tilt Points
• High Leaderboard – 4x Full Tilt Points

This means you can double, triple or quadruple the number of Full Tilt Points you’ve earned during Challenge 1 play! For example, if you post a score of at least 500 chips on the Low Leaderboard and earned a total of 750 Full Tilt Points in qualifying hands, we’ll give you an extra 750 points for a total of 1,500 Full Tilt Points.
Please note that while it’s possible to post a score on more than one Leaderboard, you will only earn a Full Tilt Points multiplier for the highest Leaderboard that you post a score on.
Challenge 2 – Freeroll Tournaments

Just as durrrr has done with his game, you’ll need to expand your poker repertoire to thrive in the next challenge.
Make the Challenge 2 cut and you’ll receive Tournament Tickets to three simultaneous Challenge durrrr Freerolls, based on the Leaderboard you qualified for. There are three Freerolls for each Leaderboard. Low Leaderboard Freerolls feature a total of $15K in prize money, Medium Leaderboard Freerolls feature $30K and High Leaderboard Freerolls feature $45K.
Each set of Freerolls kicks off at 16:30 ET on Saturday, March 19th. Put your tournament skills on display as you play for your share of prize money in three events – all at the same time. Take down one of your Freerolls to advance to the next challenge.
Challenge 3 – $25K Matrix Sit & Go

One of Tom Dwan’s best attributes as a player is his ability to take on the same opponent simultaneously at multiple tables, as he has done with the durrrr Challenge.
Your final challenge before earning the right to take on durrrr is to enter the Matrix: nine Freeroll winners, four simultaneous Sit & Gos, $25,000 in prize money!
The $25K Matrix Sit & Go runs at 16:30 ET on Sunday, March 20th. Square off against your fellow Freeroll winners in a battle to earn the highest Matrix Score. Your Matrix Score is determined by how many players you outlast and how many you knock out across all four Sit & Gos, so it pays to stay aggressive. Grab the top score to prove you’re ready for some face time with Mr. Dwan.
Challenge durrrr – Heads Up for $1.5 Million

You’ve conquered ring games. Destroyed tournaments. Deconstructed the Matrix. But can you beat durrrr at his own game?
Your final challenge is to take on durrrr at four heads-up Sit & Gos, all running simultaneously, for up to $1,500,000!
The Challenge durrrr Final starts at 16:30 ET on Sunday, March 27th. Select either No-Limit Hold ‘em or Pot Limit Omaha as your game of choice in any of the four Sit & Gos. The amount of prize money you take home is determined by the number of matches you take down:

• Defeat durrrr in one match to win $10K
• Win two matches for a cool $25K
• Take down three matches for a total of $100K
• Beat durrrr in all four matches to win the $1.5 million grand prize!

How to Participate

Follow these steps to Challenge durrrr and claim your share of cash and prizes:

1. If you haven’t done so already, and set up an account.
2. Log in and click on the red Cashier button in the game lobby.
3. Click on the My Promotions box and then the Challenge durrrr link.
4. This will lead you to your personal Challenge durrrr page. Follow the instructions on this page – you must elect to participate in this promotion or you will not be eligible to Challenge durrrr.

It prob would be possible to make the top 1,000 on the low leaderboard, but winning one of the three freerolls would be tough. It would set a goal for ring players though to make the top section of their leaderboard, though, for ring players wanting motivation.

All that is nice but the chances of durrr actually playing is low!

He doesn't even play his own challenge he issued to Patrik and Daniel Cates lol.

He's far to busy with the live circuit to actually care about playing online at the minute.

i'm sure full tilt would not have set this up without Durrs consent or agreement

This sounds like you have to be so lucky to win this. Even if you do make it to play him you still have to take down four tables to win the 1.5 million.

I don't get this. How does it work pertaining to cash games. So basically you just have to run like durrrr to post a good leaderboard score? lolz.

I'll do it. I'll sweep all 4 from this durr guy.

Weird how they make it so difficult to win a freebie $1.5mil ..?

what a goofy promo. you get points based on how many multiway pots you win in samples of 500 hands. sounds like gaining points at rush would be terrible for this. lolz.

blah I totally misunderstood the rules, thought x number of people had to see the flop. Seems like a pretty good deal. Like Happy Hour for 2 weeks.

I'm going to try and place in the low leaderboard. The multiplier is definitely worth it if you can make it. I'll give it a shot some time tomorrow.

Ship the 3x multiplier. Considering whether i should play some 200nl to get the 4x multiplier instead.

I actually tripled up one time playing rush poker. It would probably be better if I forgot about tho.

This is a strange promo. I can't see how it's worth doing it.

Just seems to be a mountain of a task for anyone.

But then again, someone will accomplish it. Just not me

For a start it isn't costing a player to "do it" so of course its worth it. It's just your standard playing of cash games and getting lucky enough to post good results on the leaderboard. It's hardly not worth doing it lol as you say.

For standard multi table grinders this wont make a difference to them as they will still be grinding its just an added bonus for them but this will attract sooo many more newbies to the game and making full tilt poker several million in the process through rake. This also wont make a difference to just casual once a week poker players either who play cash games they might well get lucky in 500 hands and get a top leader score.

It is a task if you're going out of your way to try and achieve it, however like you say someone has to top each leader board, impossible not to so someone will accomplish the heads up vs duurrr.

However, the chances of someone taking home 1.5million is very unlikely even against a good player a poor player can win a HU SnG at least once vs a pro, I really can't see anyone avoiding variance with 4 SnG's HU's in a row vs a pro too. So chances are I reckon someone will take home maybe 20-30k...which is stil good but lets face it. This is just a gimpy promotion and at the very very low chance of someone winning all headsup vs durrr I bet FTP will have made at leat 5x the top prize in rake prior to the heads up challenge. FTP poker knows the chances of anyone scoring 4 consecutive heads up games vs Tom Dwan (or anyone for that matter) is not very likely and they know this, otherwise I'm sure they would of done a headsup cash game over a set amount of hands as you can see more of an edge that way but they wont do that. It's just a promotion a very good one for earning FTP lots of money and like I say someone will see this advertised who is interested in poker and think "omg this amazing I might have a chance to play Tom Dwan im gonna deposit etc"

A very very clever promotion by FTP and nothing to lose for anyone who plays cash games anyway, only positives. It's just basically to attract a lot more custom which it will do, fact and obviously the amount in rake they will get during this promotion will be a much more massive percentage than they currently get. Also the thing is that makes it very clever is they advertise "win upto 1.5mill" but the thing is if tom dwan wins all of them, u get nothing - again this isn't very likely but look at the prizes available. A massive difference from winning 3 of them as opposed to 4 of the headsup!


Still a fun thing though to do!

After about 400 qualifying hands on the medium leaderboard, I'm at

Current Chip Score: 544.50

So I already got the 3x bonus, looking to get higher on that leaderboard

I have less than 200 hands, and I have 208 chips, so I guess I'm doing ok so far.

Best Chip Score: 706.50

Puts me 34th at the moment on the medium leaderboard.

Think that will stay in the top 750 through the promotion?

Seems good. I've not even looked though how long the comp goes on for?

Good luck on your mission!

Just checked, it does not end until Sunday, March 27th, 2011, so I'll probably have to get that score a little higher for it to hold top 750 I think

I'm sorry but anything, anything to get people to play so they can get more rake. Plus it is sorta copying PS.

It' s still a promotion. Everybody loves a promotion. Esp the donks & fishes.

do the chips ever reset?


i got like 300 chips for my session today and don't really want to play anymore today, will my chips reset tomorrow or whenever?


i do want the 3x multiplier pretty badly but i gotta take care of some stuff today and am wondering if i'll be able to get it tomorrow or whatever

No they won't reset. You can resume the session whenever.

Is there a big difference playing the ring game section FR vs 6-max? Unless I'm reading it wrong there's 9 chips up for grabs in each FR hand vs 6 in every 6-max hand (assuming a full table) but I guess you're in the running to win more pots in 6-max.

The max points possible is simply higher at full ring. I think if you played and won every hand at fullring it's 4500 points, and 3000 as far as 6 max. I think people are just moving down to like 2NL and cheezing it to get the higher numbers if you care about the freeroll. (like there's a 2400 already) I just care about getting the multiplier which shouldn't be super difficult unless you play really tight or something.

I think it would be almost impossible to meet all of the requirements that are necessary in order to challenge Dwan. It seems as though FullTilt made it as tough as possible to play one of the best in the game, most likely because Duree doesn't want to be stuck playing a bunch of low-bankroll players online when he could be doing so many other things with his time. If anyone ever meets these requirements, let me know ASAP!

Erm... it's set up so that someone definitely will do everything, at least until they get around to playing Dwan himself. The ring games will provide the freeroll fields, the freerolls will all have winners that will provide the matrix fields and those games will have a winner that will play Dwan. It's as inevitable as any other tournament playing down to one winner.

Basically. You need to be in a lot of multiplayer hands and take down a high percentage of them post-flop. I haven't quite figured out how to get a really high score -- I think I'm too nitty, even when I try to LAG it up. Maybe you have to forget where the fold button is, and only hit raise. I dunno. Channelling my inner Durrrr isn't working too well. Not sure I have an inner Durrrr.

I was thinking that PLO was the best game to play for the challenge, since more people will limp in. But it hasn't quite worked out that way, mainly because I am having a really hard time winning the necessary pots. You can get all aggro in PLO when you flop the nuts -- and still lose by the river.

At this rate, I may squeak into the top 1000 in the low levels, but that's not a done deal. And there are 2 weeks left to go, in which a whole lot of people may figure out how to lock in a good high streak.

Yep, someone is going to play Durrr. And I sincerely doubt that that someone will be me. Or you. Or anyone who plays moderately rationally.

I do not understand how Durrrr plays. They say he reads others very well. But it sometimes seems more like he just out-aggros other players. One hand he had against Ivey on one of the TV shows took my breath away. Bluffed a quarter mil (real money, not tourney $) on a missed draw, after betting the draw all the way. I cannot understand that sort of thing. YouTube - Tom 'Durrr' Dwan vs Phil Ivey - High Stakes Poker 2010 Big Bluff!
Oh, I understand why. I just cannot imagine doing it.

It's not about being laggy pre-flop. The only hands that count are "qualifying hands," hands that you play that go to the flop. So folding a lot pre-flop would not hurt you.

Buuuuuuuut, to get a really high score on this you need to be insanly laggy post-flop. Raise and re-raise, just hoping to take down the pot.

OK, hadn't quite processed that point, but totally got the last one. It's so not me. I'm not much of a bluffmeister.

I'm playing pretty consistently at the 600-700 range in the challenge as a result. Don't know if that will do it to get to the freeroll.

Guess I'll just be happy with the extra FTPs.

Apparently they had some problems with standings. Just got this when I went to check my status:

The Challenge durrrr Leaderboards are currently unavailable while we verify that all players have received the correct scores. The Leaderboards will be restored later this week.
You can continue to play towards your Challenge durrrr score. All your play will be recorded and will count towards the Leaderboards.
Please note that any scores previously posted on the Leaderboards are subject to change.
We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

Just checked out the leaderboard. #1 of the low leaderboard has 3132 pts. Now unless I misunderstood the rules that means at FR he won 348 out of 500 qualifying hands with 9 people dealt.

Thru Jan 11 he was a losing player. How is this possible? Is he seeing every flop and shoving?

Leaderboard chips are awarded based on the number of players dealt into qualifying hands. If six (6) players are dealt into a qualifying hand and one player wins the main pot, that player receives six (6) Leaderboard chips for that hand. If the main pot is split between two players, each winning player receives three (3) Leaderboard chips for that hand. All losing players will receive zero (0) Leaderboard chips for that hand.

Players who participate in at least 500 qualifying hands at one of the three stake levels detailed below will have their Leaderboard chips score posted on a Challenge durrrr Leaderboard.

Interestingly the high leaderboard #1 is 1512.