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Durrrr challenge gathers momentum
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2009-03-26 07:30
Tom Dwan’s $1 million challenge finally seems to be on the right track. After weeks of sparse play and short sessions, the two players, Dwan and Antonius, seem to have focused in on their challenge match-up lately. On Tuesday, they played no fewer than 705 hands of $200/$400 PL Omaha, one of their sturdier sessions so far.
After he’d made Antonius’ slight lead vanish and had taken the lead himself in the previous session, Dwan kept at it and extended his lead with another $51,924, building up a $67k lead over his opponent.
During the latest session, it was Dwan again who took down the majority of the pots involved, although Antonius did pocket a few monster pots himself.
One of these monster pots came about shortly after the start of the session. Antonius began the betting game with a bet before the flop and got called by Dwan. The flop came Kh,Qh,Js and Dwan fired a $2,000 bet into Antonius. The latter responded by raising it to $8,500. Dwan re-raised him and they wound up all-in. Dwan then showed the nut straight with his Ad,Jh,10h,7h, and Antonius showed a set of Kings on his Kd,Ks,4d,4c. The turn though changed the whole picture as it fell a J, pairing the board and giving Antonius a boat. The 3 on the river couldn’t save Dwan’s hide that time as Antonius pocketed the $77,192 pot.
The largest pot of the session was a $163,596 one which went Antonius’ way too. The two moved all-in on a flop of 9c,8h,6c after a preflop show of force. They both ended up with two pairs after the A on the turn and the K on the river, but Antonius’ two pair was the bigger and he pocketed yet another pot.
Antonius won yet another huge ($142,291) pot, about 20 minutes after the above described one. This time, he made a boat again to suppress Dwan’s overpair.
With more than 43,000 hands to go in the challenge, Dwan holds a meager lead of about a buy-in and a half, and by the looks of things, this is going to turn into a race to the wire.
