One of the hot topics in the world of Twitter this week has been the unfinished Durrrr Challenge. Yes, that Durrrr Challenge, the one that started three years ago, but failed to reach a conclusion due to the events of Black Friday and painfully slow play. Dan Cates brought the contest back up on Twitter this week, asking Tom Dwan (pictured), “@TomDwan, would you like to continue our challenge instead of playing everybody else at every game on @FullTiltPoker?”

Dwan responded the next day, typing, “Hey @junglemandan, sure. Also care to pay me our figure finally since I guess now we’re tweeting dick things we could text?” Cates responded back asking for a little privacy: “@TomDwan depends on what exactly you mean by this. Talk to you in private about it.” Tweets from Cates also included, “@TomDwan debatable you owe me tbh, but rather not take this online unless you want more of our business aired.”

The heat was turned up a few degrees, with the two young guns of poker hurling comments at one another in front of their combined 120,000 Twitter followers. Cates remarked, “@seanmurray139 @TomDwan I don’t think its appropriate to talk about business on twitter unless in extreme cases.”

Cates was met with silence from Dwan and followed up by saying, “Regarding my recent tweets with @TomDwan, I tweeted because he has repeated avoided playing since 2011. He’s down and likely to lose 1.5m+.”

The Durrrr Challenge between Cates (pictured) and Dwan could resume soon despite the unpleasant overtures. Full Tilt, which was out of commission for more than a year and labeled a “global Ponzi scheme” by U.S. authorities, is now back online under its new ownership, PokerStars. Cates told Poker Listings in recent days, “[The Challenge] should be starting sometime soon. I’ve been talking to [Dwan] about it, so I think we’ll be starting it up at some point.”

The concept of the Durrrr Challenge was born in early 2009, when Dwan offered to pony up 3:1 on a $500,000 bet that he would come out ahead at the end of 50,000 hands of $200/$400 or higher No Limit Hold’em or Pot Limit Omaha. If Dwan won, he’d earn $500,000, while if he lost, his opponent would bank $1.5 million.

According to Poker King, the match between Cates and Dwan is sitting at 19,335 handscompleted, with Cates holding a $1.2 million lead. The challenge began back in 2010. Dwan also failed to complete a Durrrr Challenge against Patrik Antonius, who was up over $2 million after 39,436 hands. Rumors of a buyout have been floating around.

Cates even got in a little trash-talking on Twitter, saying, “@4viffer Enough w/ the twitter war. It’s just a distraction. U know loss is inevitable. Tell @TomDwan to pick a date and I’ll play. #ScaredMoney.” It appeared that reaching out to Dwan, however unorthodox, may have worked, as Cates reported he was playing non-Challenge tables against Dwan on Thursday.

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