The Dwan Challenge has been on the tip of everyone’s tongue in the high stakes online poker community for the past year. By now everyone has heard of Full Tilt Poker pro Tom Dwan. He has been going up against Patrik Antonius in a heads-up match that will have lasted for 50,000 hands when it soon comes to an end. Antonius could be $1.5 million richer if he wins, and Dwan will earn $500k if he wins.
But whatever the result may be, Dwan already has his next high stakes pro opponent picked out. Brian Townshend will be the next to take Dwan on. Townshend is normally found in cash poker games and hardly ever gets involved with the poker tournament events. He has definitely made a name for himself, and is now one of the top Texas Hold’em players in the world.
But Townshend has also been extremely controversial stemming from a few different events at Full Tilt Poker. In one of the episodes, he was caught multi-accounting in an effort to go under the radar. As if this wasn’t enough, he colluded with Cole South and Brian Hastings in order to defeat the red hot “Isildur1”, who quit online poker after losing the tidy sum of $4.2 million to Hastings.
It won’t be the first time Dwan and Townshend have dueled, so they’re able to step above the controversy to make it a good competition. Dwan sounded positive about the match-up when he said, “With Brian, there will be days when we’ll probably play 5,000 hands. With Patrik, we didn’t really have any of those days. It’s possible we could get it done in six weeks.”
