Poker Pro Daniel Cates Calls Tom Dwan Out on Twitter

Poker pro Daniel Cates is not happy with fellow pro Tom “Durrrr” Dwan and his perceived avoidance. 

Cates wants to challenge Dwan to another head’s up poker matchup but Dwan has, to date, been nonresponsive.  To make matters worse, Dwan has been seen requesting challenges from other players online.

“He doesn’t really want to play based on his actions so I thought if I called him out on Twitter he’d feel more pressure to play,” Cates told PokerListings.com. 

Cates claims Dwan has been “getting crushed” of late.

“Nobody Wants to Continue When They're Getting Crushed,” he added. 

“He just wasn't playing the challenge,” Cates said in reference to Dwan’s highly public challenge of a few select pros two years back, “so I felt like my only option was to go public with my disapproval with him not cooperating.

One of those Dwan initially challenged was Cates. 

“It seems like he'd rather just stall until 2020 or something and never finish.  I think part of him just won't be convinced that he's worse than me, necessarily, but he seems to think he's going to lose the challenge.”

Less than 20,000 of the proposed 50,000 hands have been completed in the durrrr Challenge with Cates currently up over $1.2 million, PokerListings.com noted. 

- Ace King, Gambling911.com