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Durrrr challenge: Tom Dwan chips away at Antonius’ lead
Posted by: James Carter. - Sat, 2009-05-16 02:22
Exactly a week after Antonius had scored a huge winning session over Dwan, creating the first serious gap between the two contestants in the series thus far, they got together again for a quickie session which lasted almost 1 hour and in which the two logged 310 hands. Badly in need of a break after the losses suffered at the challenge tables as well as at the hands of various other
Full Tilt professionals, Dwan rallied the troops and managed to cut the Finn’s lead down with almost $100k.
He finished $96,358 in the black to be exact, and closed the gap separating him from the leader to $391,704 (which is still quite a considerable amount) over the course of a total of 13,556 hands played at the four challenge tables.
This last session didn’t start well for Dwan either. He began by dropping his entire stack at challenge table no. 2 in a few short minutes’ time. The two players raised and re-raised preflop to $6,000. The flop fell 8h, 5c, 2h giving Antonius two pair (he had Kc,8s,7c,5s) and hitting Dwan for a Q-high flush draw (he had Qc,Qh,9h,6c). The money went all in right away with Antonius holding the lead, but looking at a whole bunch of outs to dodge.
The turn was a 4c and the river fell a 9c giving the Finn the $142,397 pot and putting him around 600k ahead in the challenge at that point.
The fortunes turned around though on a hand in which Dwan hit the nut flush on the river and got a call from Antonius for the $120,000 pot. From that point on, it was all Dwan, all the way to the end of the session. He picked up the largest pot of this session (a $144,382 one) about 15 minutes before calling it the day. They once again raised it up to $6,000 before the flop, which fell 9,7,3 rainbow. The turn came a Qs and the river fell a 9d before all the money went into the middle.
Dwan had hit a set of 9s on the river and Antonius never showed his hand, mucking it. After about an hour of play, Dwan was the one who called it quits and moved over to Gus’s tables to try to squeeze some juice out of the Great Dane.
With the pace of the challenge action once again down to a crawl, it is not likely that the two will complete the series before the
WSOP kicks off.
