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Durrrr challenge – Antonius and Dwan back in action
Posted by: Randy Williams - Thu, 2010-08-05 07:48
It took them a while in the wake of the
WSOP (where Dwan was busy chasing that elusive prop bet bracelet of his), but the two Durrrr Challenge rivals finally got together again for a session on
Full Tilt Poker’s specially set-up challenge tables.
The feat was a rather impressive one in light of the fact that the two haven’t really played a single challenge hand in 92 days, and railbirds were slowly but surely beginning to give up on the whole thing.
This session consisted of 280 hands and it lasted for 50 minutes. At the end of it, it was Antonius who bagged his chips with a $244,599 profit. This round of action left Dwan in the lead by a $1.6 million margin, but given the size of some of the pots that were played for (two of them cracked the $150k mark), large swings are always a possibility.
The two monster pots of the session went Antonius’ way. The first one, a $160,394 whooper, saw Dwan kick off the preflop action with a bet. Antonius made the call and the two of them went on to see the 7h,5h,3s land on the flop. Antonius fired out a bet, which got raised by Dwan almost immediately. Antonius three-bet it and when Dwan raised it again, he shoved all-in. Dwan had a nut straight and an open-ended straight flush, while Antonius had a set and a nut flush draw. The turn put a pair onto the board, thanks to which Antonius made a boat and the river could not tip over the power-balance.
A few minutes later, the Finn took down another even bigger pot, when his nut straight got the better of Dwan’s two pair.
