We agreed on 5k hands/month on the condition that there is some sort of hiatus (vague obv) to avoid what happened last challenge

Correct me if I'm wrong but you've played 258 hands this month so you will play at least 4742 hands in the next couple days?

weren't both of you talking about getting it done by the end of the year? now you are saying we agreed to try to get it done within 10 months? geeesh...5k hands a month when you guys could do that in a day..

i am a bit surprised you'd agree to such awful terms. for so much money, do you really want this weighing on your head for a year when it could be wrapped up without even rushing it in a matter of a couple monhts?

insideman,

i think you think about this challenge totally differently than either of the participants.

for a hypothetical:

say you're a hunl specialist making a couple/few million dollars a year. someone offers to do battle with you over a large number of hands and to escrow a decent chunk, and sets up terms to make sure the match runs at a decent pace. if you have a huge edge against the person obviously you'd love to crank it out asap, but you also don't really care (beyond the weight of the escrow) if it takes a bit longer. it's not like it stops you from playing poker on a day to day basis because the other participant isn't willing to play.

so yes, while 5k hands a month is far from a super-fast schedule, you're happy to have someone you believe you have an edge on locked in to play you quite a bit, and you play them when they play, hopefully within the confines of the rules set forth at the beginning.

if you wanted to take it to an extreme, if some hopeless drooler offered to play you 1k hands a day for the next year and escrow 100 buyins on the side, would you really be upset that he wouldn't play you 2k hands a day? (obviously this isn't the same example for a number of reasons, but still.)

basically, while any of the participants in any of these challenges is of course within their rights to be annoyed with the paces, they had plenty of ability to negotiate the rules at the start, and probably communicate better between themselves than they care to post in threads like these. in the current challenge, dwan appears to be in europe playing tournaments and traveling with his girlfriend, both of which would certainly slow down almost anyone. if you look, he's played 68 hands online in the last 2 weeks according to PTR, so it's not like he can be accused of grinding all day online but ducking this match.

i don't disagree with you. but what is confusing is A: wouldn't you think both Dwan and jungleman would want to agree to terms that were faster than a snails pace? i mean if they both feel they have an edge, then shouldn't they both have wanted faster terms? and B: since this challenge is 50% about publicity and attaining poker world fame, don't you think respect, somewhat along the lines of jungle posting here with some clarification, in the way of an occasional status update from dwan could be in order? and yes, for the millionth time, NO they don't have to, but yes it would be a courteous thing to do for the poker world they make so much off of.

Guess he doesn't think his edge is as cute anymore.

Dwan is either clearly dodging, or he just isn't in shape enough to play and sustain another big downswing.

The Durrrr Challenge is the biggest joke ever.

seems a bit off relative to what tom posted almost two months ago. why would he agree to such a slow pace if he is/was hoping to be done sunday?

jungleman
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so far jungleman and i have played somewhere around 7,000 hands and im down right about 700k. I cant seem to find the ftp page with exact results, so i’ll ask someone to make that a little easier (or explain to me why im dumb). Anyway obviously the challenge hasn’t gone too well so far, but luckily theres still 43k hands left and i’m hoping they will go a little bit better than the first 7k. We’re obviously playing this challenge a lot faster than patrik and i played the last one, so hopefully we’ll be done with it in a reasonable timeframe. Dan’s going to london too and said he might be busy there- which i also will be some, so there might be a slight lull for 3 or so weeks- but hopefully we’ll still play a few thousand hands in that time. I’d really like to finish this by the end of october or so (and hopefully be up at least 700k by then). Have to run now- but i’ll try to get a more detailed blog up sometime soon.

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I mean, durrrr does what he wants, what can I say?

Hopefully we will play in November.

Why can't Jungleman can't just ask Durrrr to provide him with some times he'll definitly be free and play the times that work with his schedule too if it's such a big issue?

Obviously it's none of our business demanding they do anything and I feel bad for Jungleman here if he really is geting shafted but after seeing the urnotindanger chat I don't think anyones knows they aren't both trying to hustle for some sort of extra edge or if durrrrr is actually dodging.

At this point it seems pretty obvious that there's something going on other than scheduling problems.

obviously this challenge is not going to be done by tonight. Lets hope by the end of November, even this seems unlikely at this pace. I'm predicting its not finished by by the end of 2010.

be careful my response to a thread in nv"g" got me almost banned, and topic locked...

in b4 ike is perma banned

i'd been looking for a reason to ban myself

the chances of Ike being banned from this site are about even with this challenge getting done before january.

just ask if someone is ******ed in the sporting event forum, that works like a charm.

Im pretty sure Durrrr is aware of the time and is only going to play when it is good for him. It is his money he is risking.

lol. you got a 10 point infraction for your post the Kirby stalling 2-7 thread
Ike, if you want to call someone out in NVG for wishing to live under Kirby's scrotum because they're on his dick so much I promise I won't ban you.

seems like durrrr got some coaching from cowboymarco

what kind of odds can i get this this is over by end of year??

and ill bet that durrrr wins also with more odds

Ending this year is unpossible. Tom will be too busy with your annual toy drive.

+1

can i bet 5k on tom +300? i just won some money and want to gamble more

Looks like they might be playing this month some more but most of the challenge trackings are off. Durrrr won about 1500 2 sessions ago and a late night win of almost 35k is not included for him either. Im sure it will be updated but good to keep in mind for people betting. Should be a line on what % of sessions Durrrr can actually win with an opening line of maybe 25%