Up to last week Tom Dwan (durrrr) offered anyone a million dollars if they could beat him over 50,000 hands of poker multi-table heads-up. The best in the world lined up to play but durrrr seemed unbeatable. And in one week Isildur1 destroyed him to the tune of $6 million. Even if Isildur goes broke next week he'll always be the one to break the icon that was durrrr.
I don't follow online hs poker that much, but I think durrrr is far from the unbeatable icon the article portrays. He gets plenty of action online outside of his challenge which suggests many do consider him beatable. Looking at the highstakespokerdb.com stats, it appears he finished up around 6 million in 2008 and is now down nearly 6 million in 2009 (not all to Isildur, presumably).
In turn, Isildur is down nearly 3 million in the past 24 hours alone (after this article was published, which listed his total winnings as "well over 5M"). With variance like that it is way too early to tell how lasting the effects of his successes this week will be.
Does this mean before Isildur1 arrived he was just about breaking even for 2009?
In any case, my primary objection is that defeating durrr over two weeks does not mean "He has cemented his name in the annals of online poker as one of the strongest players of all time."
