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Durrrr challenge – Antonius takes a sizeable lead
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2009-05-06 13:26
Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan have logged another session in their $1million, $200/$400 PL Omaha series. Though this session was a brief one (less than an hour long), it was a huge one in terms of gains for one player.
At the end of it, Patrik Antonius left the challenge tables $328,406 in the black, which meant that he managed to extend his overall challenge lead to $488,130 – by far the biggest lead any of the two players had managed to build up to that point.
Dwan had a positively hellish day, as he got taken apart over the 290 hands of the session, and was forced to rebuy several times.
Antonius closed the session up on all four challenge tables, something which hadn’t really happened before.
Right from the start, things took a wrong turn for Dwan. He opened one of the early hands of the session with his usual $1,200 raise, Antonius three-bet him to $3,600 and he four bet to $10,800. Antonius called. The flop came Q, 9, 4 and Antonius bet $21,600. Dwan made the call, and the turn came a 6. Antonius moved all-in and Dwan called him again. durrrr had A,J,10,4 for a pair and a straight draw, while Antonius had A,Q,J,9 for the two pair. An A landed on the river which gave Dwan two pairs too, but Antonius secured the bigger two pair (A,A, Q,Q) and took down the $150,800 pot.
Dwan wasn’t off the hook yet though. It didn’t take long for another similar sized pot to develop, which - guess what – found its way to Antonius too.
Antonius’ two pair made short work o Dwan’s overpair that time, as the American dropped another $150,949 pot.
The session’s largest pot though ended up in Dwan possession. Antonius held K,K,Q,J in that hand, against Dwan’s A,A,5,5. The money went all-in on the turn of a board of Q,6,6,10. The 4h on the river meant that Antonius’ flush redraw failed to fill up, and thus Dwan’s rockets held out.
In the last monster pot of the session, Antonius called Dwan’s bluff on nothing but a pair of 6s to take firm control of the challenge series. There’s still plenty left of the 50,000 hands the two have agreed to play in the challenge, and Antonius’ nearly $500k lead doesn’t really provide him a reason to lay back just yet.
