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Durrrr challenge – Antonius loses again
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2010-02-16 15:12
With the 50,000 hand Durrrr Challenge slowly winding down, it is more and more obvious that Tom Dwan has found some sort of lucky charm, or a key breach in his opponent’s approach that allows him to close each and every session out with a profit. Dwan’s lead in the series is therefore increasing with every session.
It must be pretty disheartening for Antonius to see his chances for the Challenge win slowly slip away, even after he’d managed to control the bleeding of his bankroll following a disastrous January run. Whatever he did at those other tables is clearly not working against Dwan. The two Durrrr Challenge protagonists convened for another
online poker session on Saturday, at
Full Tilt Poker’s specially set up Challenge tables. By all accounts, this latest outing in the series was a mini confrontation. Only 79 hands were logged over a span of about 16 minutes. That was well enough for Antonius to drop $21,790 to Dwan, who thus managed to extend his overall lead to $1,414,000. Although big leads had evaporated in the series before, none of them had been quite this big and none of the players had managed to put together a winning spree as impressive as Dwan’s current one.
Due to the shortness of the session, not many monster pots developed this time, at least not by Durrrr Challenge standards. The largest pot of the session was a $64,800 one, a pretty modest showing for a series that had gotten railbirds used to 6-figure pots. The way this mini-monster went down was rather uninteresting too. Dwan made a preflop move on the button and he got called by Antonius. The flop landed Jc, 10c, 4s and Antonius fired out a $2,400 bet. Dwan made the call and the two players saw the 2s hit the board on the turn. Antonius kept up the pressure hitting Dwan with a $7,200 bet. Dwan made the call once again and the 9d landed on the river. Antonius fired another $21,600 bet into the pot, in response to which Dwan shoved all-in. Antonius folded as he had obviously nothing in his pocket. Both players mocked their cards, so their starting hands remained unknown.
