What are the odds all of this just a set up by them
Nah, they genuinely hate each other. I'm not sure why Daniel agreed to even do this. He has already resigned to the fact that he has no chance, and says a win for him will just be "at least making it close". Furthermore, playing Doug does three things that are terrible for Daniel and great for Doug:
1) Gives more attention to Doug, which is exactly what he wants. He will make a bunch of videos about the challenge and resuscitate his Youtube channel.
2) If he thinks the non-stop ribbing from Doug was bad before, Does he really think losing a heads-up match to him will make it less, or stop completely??
3) He's going to give Doug a lot of money, and Doug will hold that over him forever.
This is a completely nonsensical move for Daniel, and I expect him to either back out of it, or buy out Doug after a few thousand
hands citing that he doesn't have the time to finish it.
He's also going to get trolled by Doug and ridiculed non-stop on the live streams. How many times will the action be paused so Doug can take a big bite of steak in the middle of the match? We've seen how Daniel can tilt while playing online, so how long before he's kicking his dogs and throwing stuff? This whole event could be the beginning of the end for Daniel's image.