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Durrrr Challenge – yet another bad day for Antonius
Posted by: Jo Martin - Wed, 2010-02-10 07:27
With not much going on at the nosebleed stakes cash tables At Full Tilt Poker the other day, Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius convened for yet another durrrr challenge session. The Finn was obviously hoping to shave a bit off of Dwan’s lead, and to generally overturn his bad luck-plagued 2010 online poker run. It soon became obvious though that Lady Luck had not yet considered the time right to give Antonius a break. The 833 hand session the two of them logged, saw Dwan dart to a $314,818 session profit, thus increasing his overall challenge lead to $1,392,760, by far the biggest lead any of the two players had managed to build during the 1 year history of the online poker Challenge.
Though he’s best known for his taste for huge pots, this time Dwan proved that he wasn’t a bad scrapper either when push came to shove. His impressive session profit came from small to medium pots, as there were only 6 pots that cracked the $100k mark in this outing.
The first of these monster pots took nearly 45 minutes to show up. Antonius brought the aggression preflop and Dwan was the caller. As the 10c, 8d, 3d landed on the table though, the roles were reversed: Dwan shot out a pot size bet and Antonius made the call. The 4c fell on the river and Dwan pushed everything into the middle.
Antonius made the call, holding a two pair and a flush draw. Dwan had a top pair, a flush draw and a gutshot straight draw. The Jd which landed on the river filled Dwan’s flush and the $117,984 pot disappeared in his virtual pockets.
The second over $100k pot came about a mere 8 hands later. This $146,399 monster landed in Dwan’s pocket too. The New Jersey Wonderkid made a boat this time to lay claim to what was then the biggest pot of the session.
The biggest monster though, a $150,777 whooper, went to Patrik Antonius. Dwan hit a top set on the flop, which made him more than willing to tangle. Things looked good for the American right up to the river card, which gave Antonius a 7-high straight.
With 17,000 hands remaining in the challenge, the noose appears to be tightening around Antonius’neck.
