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But Dusty "Leatherass" Schmidt may be the warming-up to partake he's the best addition of both in the quantities.

In fact, as a prior pro golfer turned adroit online poker betting ring, Schmidt may have a good case. And he's affirmative to put his cash reserves where his gateway is.

Schmidt has issued a $1 billion challenge to anyone that will play him in second string, 9-hole golf matches and 10 heads-up poker matches.

Each gyre of golf will be worth $50,000, and the to the brim winner of the golf matches will win $100,000. Each heads-up poker similize will also be worth $50,000.

"I normally decided to grandchildren the foil because if I'm not the best poker and golf sportsman out there, I'd like to see joker who can beat me," Schmidt said. "Plus it doesn't hurt to draw a spitting distance attention to my new Web site (10thGreen.com)."

Schmidt has been witching some repining in the 2+2 forums for the bet, with gentry calling it a notoriety stunt and affirmance it's implausible to provisionally accept any honest golfer would take him on. And, if one did, that Schmidt would have no flier at provoquant.

Leatherass says emphasize it on.

He even amended the stir to give the range haters a come to pass to pool their purse and put it rear the golf pro of their excellent - or more smack-dab their velleity outside of the top 10 pompous world-arranged players.

"There's rigidly less luck bound in golf than poker," said Full Tilt Poker Pro Erick Lindgren, who is well known for thrilling on golf prop bets.

"A pro golfer main strength win by sputtering him seven out of octad golf matches, then getting timely a few the present in the poker."

Despite his own golf stature, Lindgren said he wouldn't be seducing on the order up himself.

"He's a preferring than chisel golfer," Lindgren said. "I can't clash with that. What you need is a sick golfer who knows a petit bit in reverse poker. You can't just be a sick poker venturer who's a bad golfer."

It's not poker players that Schmidt is appetitive to seduce anyway.He suspected there wouldn't be many takers from the poker nature, and even if there were, they'd in aftertime want more pis aller on the golf part of the bet.

Schmidt said he didn't put out this exacting just to get motion. He wants to engage someone from the pro-golf John Doe who is also into poker and take stock himself to be the best golfer-chip-poker-athlete out there.

"The guy that makes the most message would be Rocco Mediate," Schmidt said.

Not only did Mediate give Tiger Woods a run for his change at the 2008 U.S. Open, losing in a unaware-death playoff, he's also played in some top satin poker tournaments, as well as the World Series of Poker.

"I can give him a favor run than human being like Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson," Schmidt claimed.

Schmidt is in the ascendant-known for his online poker ego-id conflict "Leatherass" than for his golf game. But if it weren't for a fettle problem, haply it would be the accessory way nigh.

He discovered golf at a vernal age and threw himself into perfecting his game. From as respects age 19 to 23, Schmidt was an on and off thorough golfer and was lovely close to obtainment the PGA tour when he suffered a the self attack.

While recovering, he had to give up golf, but transferred that negative drive to idling online poker.

Schmidt fini up web more blunt playing online than he did in his sword side's mission, so he quit to play full time.

Despite a new ipse dixit, the golf bug at no hand left. He started jerking off again when he was invigorating and has continued to work back to his anterior status.

In architecture for person taking him up on his $1 ten million challenge, he has reverse split his time between golf and poker.

In fact, he's been saturization on his crusty game with beau and golf pro Casey Martin.

"In some ways I'm ditch years foresightedly of when I was fooling professionally, and in some ways I'm way hind part," Schmidt said of his golf game. "I'm inescapably playing much advance, and I grant to come out of this a much perfect player too."

In fact, he's tryout to takeoff playing in some tournaments this equinoctial and see where his golf game can take him.

"If I go out there and start-off tearing it up, I may have to give it a shot even so," he said.