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Antonius takes the lead in the durrrr Challenge
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2009-03-25 07:02
Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan got together again on Friday for a further 425 hands of their 50,000 hand, $1 million challenge. This session only lasted for about 82 minutes though as durrrr was having connection problems and that can be rather costly at the stakes involved. The dry spell that’s been following durrrr around lately persisted over this challenge session too. At the end of it, he’d dropped $161,086 to Antonius, which meant that the latter overtook him in the challenge race for the first time.
Antonius began the session about $50k behind, but it didn’t take him long to jump right into the lead. He took down a $80,399 pot during the first few minutes of the confrontation, on a hand in which Dwan moved all in on the turn of a board of Jd,5c,3h,Qd. Antonius showed Ah,6h,4d,2d for a flush and a straight draw, while Dwan tabled As,6c,5h,5s for a set of 5s. The 7h which landed on the river, filled Antonius’ flush to give him the pot.
Another major pot went down only a few minutes later. Dwan opened the preflop betting and got a call from Antonius. The flop came Js,5h,4d and Antonius took the initiative with Dwan calling. A 10h came on the turn and both players checked. The river was the culprit for the action that ensued in the hand. The Jc prompted a bet from Antonius which then got raised by Dwan. Antonius re-raised him and Dwan eventually made the call. Needless to say, the sums involved in these moves were very significant ones by this stage. Antonius showed J,10,10,4 for the boat and took down the $90,399 pot.
As impressive as these two pots were, they were both eclipsed by a later one that gave Antonius a $155,683 pot. He made a Q-high flush on a board of Qc,6s,5c,Jd and 4c against durrrr’s lower flush.
So far, it was Dwan who won more pots, with 3,010 against Antonius’ 2,487, but the pots which the Finn pocketed were bigger on average. Only 5,517 of the scheduled 50,000 hands have been played.
