Dan Cates Calls Out Tom Dwan Publicly About Defunct ‘Durrrr Challenge’

Monday on Twitter, Dan “jungleman12” Cates asked Tom “durrrr” Dwan about their currently defunct “Durrrr Challenge,” which pitted Cates against Dwan online for 50,000 hands.

Before Black Friday in April 2011, Cates was up $1,251,059 through about 20,000 hands.

@tomdwan, would you like to continue our challenge instead of playing everybody else at every game on @fulltiltpoker ?

— Daniel Cates (@junglemandan) March 11, 2013

Cates’ Tweet came a day after Dwan finished playing in a promotional match versus Team PokerStars Pro at the European Poker Tour London. Dwan responded to the message.

@tomdwan depends on what exactly you mean by this. Talk to you in private about it.

— Daniel Cates (@junglemandan) March 12, 2013

Dwan told PokerListings in an article published Mar. 11: “[The Challenge] should be starting sometime soon. I’ve been talking to him about it so I think we’ll be starting it up at some point.” Cates Tweeted in response to the article: “He’s not talking to me lately.”