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Durrrr challenge – halfway mark finally reached
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2009-10-09 06:19
With the hype surrounding it slowly dying off, the durrrr challenge, 231 days after its kick-off, has finally reached the 25,000 hand mark, which means that half of the required 50,000 hands are finally in the bag.
The latest challenge session saw Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius log 1,063 hands over three and a quarter hours, as durrrr’s $235,453 lead grew to $697,532. This means the New Jersey Wonderkid managed to effectively turn the tables on his opponent who had had a similarly large lead going into the WSOP. Will Dwan’s current lead prove to be a significant one in the economy of the series? Hard to tell as we’ve already seen such leads go up in smoke during the first half of the series. Anyway, this is just the type of spot Dwan wants to be in at the halfway mark. If he does just as well in the second half of the challenge, he’ll be pretty damn pleased with himself.
Both players bought in for serious dough on
Full Tilt Poker, as a result of which several large pots developed. Altogether, 5 pots drifted into 6 figures, of which Dwan won 3, including the biggest whooper of the session, a 194,994 one.
In this hand, the money went all-in on the turn of a board made up of: Kd,8h,5d,7d. Antonius had Ac,9c,7c,8s, but he was no match for Dwan’s K,K,Q,J which hit top set. The 4c on the river did Antonius no good and the monster pot was shipped Dwan’s way.
It took about an hour and 15 minutes for Dwan to land another whooper of a pot. This time, he pocketed $187,000. The money went in on the flop this time, which fell Ks,5h,3s. Dwan had nothing but a flush draw with his Ac,10s,9s,8c, against Antonius’ Ah,Ad,9c,4s but the Js on the turn gave him a spade flush and the 10h on the river failed to mess up it up for him.
With the halfway mark of the series reached, it’s time to take a step back and look at a few statistical factors that may point to future trends.
Dwan has won 2,125 hands more than Antonius, the Finn on the other hand won bigger pots. His pots clocked in at an average of $3,009 while Dwan’s average was only $2,590.
8 of the 10 largest pots played in the series so far went to Dwan.
