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Durrrr challenge: Dwan nearly erases Antonius’ lead in 786-hand session
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2009-06-15 15:55
Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius have repeatedly proven that despite being involved in many of the ongoing WSOP events, they could find some time to log a few hundred hands in their online $1 million challenge series too.
Their latest challenge session took place a few days ago and saw the two protagonists log 786 hands in a little over two hours.
As you probably know, before the latest installment in the durrrr challenge saga, Patrik Antonius had built up a $400,000 lead, the first significant difference in favor of any of the two participants. Though Dwan had managed to chip away at that advantage here and there, a significant break-through had failed to come about for the New Jersey wonder-kid, at least until this latest session.
Having won 5 of the 6 over $100,000 pots that developed, Dwan managed to finish the session $376,000 in the black this time, thus erasing Antonius’ lead almost entirely. The Finn only has an advantage of about $34,000 something that’s sufficiently insignificant to be erased by a quarter part of a pot of it comes to that.
The first 6-figure pot developed on challenge table #1 where Antonius enjoyed a nearly 3-2 chip advantage due to a few smaller pots he’d managed to pick up earlier.
The money went all-in on the turn of the following board: Qs,8d,6s,Jc. Antonius was the one who sought the decisive strike and Dwan was more than happy to oblige. He showed 10,10,9,5 for the straight and as the river failed to fill Antonius’ nut flush draw, he took down the $134,394 pot.
The monster-pot action then moved on to table #2, where Antonius’ set of 8s fell to Dwan’s rivered Q-high straight, which cost the Finn another $159,992 pot.
Next, it was the turn of challenge table #3 to yield a devastating blow for Antonius. The money went all in on the river of a hand in which Antonius managed to muster a 5–high straight (a wheel) only to be outdrawn by Dwan who showed down a 6-high straight. This pot was a $173,730 one and it too was shipped Dwan’s way.
The largest pot of the session, a $229,590 monster, appeared set to head back Antonius’ way. The Finn had secured a flush and was looking good till the board paired on the river to give Dwan a boat over his flush and to ship this pot durrrr’s way too.
This session brought the total number of hands played in the durrrr challenge to 16,124.
