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Durrrr challenge – Antonius loses more ground
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2010-03-17 04:20
One thing has become certain about the durrrr challenge lately: Patrik Antonius just cannot get anything going. Of the last 11 sessions, he finished 10 down 6 figures and to top off the counter-performance, he lost the latest nine-minute lightning session too, by quite an astonishing margin.
Only the most alert online poker railbirds managed to catch the quick challenge session the other day, as the two challenge rivals logged a further 61 hands on their way to the 50k mark, which currently seems more elusive than ever. At this pace, it’ll probably take the two players at least another year to approach the finish line, and with the losing player always reluctant to proceed, heaven only knows how long the hostilities will drag out.
The latest micro-session saw Dwan book another $230,710 win, thus taking his overall challenge lead close to $2 million. With Antonius unable to gain any sort of traction at the specially set up challenge tables at
Full Tilt Poker, this is by far the biggest advantage the challenge series have seen. With 33,303 hands behind them, the two players still have plenty of ground to cover, but it’ll take quite an effort on Antonius’ part to dig himself out of this hole.
Even though the session was an extremely short one, the two players did manage to create a monster-pot. Antonius kicked off the hand with a $1,200 bet and Dwan made it $3,600 immediately. Antonius made the call and the two players went on to see a flop of Kc,Qc,Js. Dwan kicked off the post flop action with a $4,800 bet. Antonius made the call to see the 7s fall on the turn. All hell broke loose in the wake of that card. Dwan fired out yet another bet ($12,200) and Antonius raised him. In response Dwan moved all-in and Antonius made the call. Dwan showed a flopped Broadway straight and Antonius looked pretty good with Club and Spade flush draws. The Jd which fell on the river nixed his claim over the pot though, and Dwan took down the $184,284 monster.
With 16,697 hands remaining in the
online poker challenge, Antonius still has a good theoretical chance to catch up, although for that, he’ll have to break out of this current rut. Otherwise, he may as well get the $500k ready to give to Dwan when the bout finally concludes.
