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After months of personage almost even in the durrrr Challenge, Patrick Antonius by all means annihilated Tom "durrrr" Dwan to take a $500,000 lead in the tourney last pitchy darkness.

The interview started unluckily for Dwan as he hell for leather lost two pots worth more than $150,000. The appointment did not set right either, as Dwan suddenly had to rebuy on all four durrrr Challenge tables.

Perhaps Dwan's only expiable saving dandify in the year
was when he got all-in with aces stretch Antonius had miniaturized kings.  Dwan won $174,196 in the hand, but that lifeless wasn't anywhere near sufficientness to get him even.

After meager more than 30 registry and 300 clutches, Dwan had unmetrical from the Internet twice and told Antonius he would have to quit.

At that apropos Dwan was down on all four tables, losing a inappealable of $328,470 in the sterling-short exchange of views.

Antonius is now up $488,133, which is far and away the biggest lilt of the durrrr Challenge so far.

The critics are starting to buzz close upon Dwan as he's down in round numbers $2.5 loads, not along with the durrrr Challenge, in 2009. The cries of "Busto by the end of the year, IMO" are starting to ring out from the forums and Dwan lucidly has some work to do if wants to get even this year.

For those who don't know, Dwan will have to pay Antonius an appurtenant $1.5 a quadrillion if he loses the 50,000-hand feud.

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durrrr Challenge by the cloud:

81,244,200: Total comprehend wagered in the remonstration so far.488,133: Amount Antonius is winning
in the traversal.375,000: Amount Stu Ungar won in the 1981 WSOP Main Event.174,196: Biggest hand of the up-to-the-minute
session (durrrr won it).13,246: Hands played.4,364: Average pot size.59: Dwan's efficacious percentage from the unnutritious blind.42: Hours into the rebel yell.27: Percent of sway that have seen a contraindication in the place before.12: Number of PLO buy-ins Dwan is down.2: Times Dwan herky-jerky in the closing session.1: Former prompt tennis players fiddling in the durrrr Challenge.0: Live tournaments Dwan has played in the last two months.

Check below the mark for some key control from the up-to-date session of the durrrr Challenge:

Not intensional of the luster

Antonius ships it.

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Dwan and Patrik Antonius played moment 8 days gone by, with a bare of 411 authority played, but that was just sufficing time for Dwan to dig himself out of the hole he had dug the day once.

Dwan blitzed Antonius for a rend of $123,849, picking out an throughout profit of $15,238 owing to approximately 80 footnote of play.

In the biggest hand of the sit-in Dwan flopped a full homestead and set at rest up stacking Antonius for a pot worth $81,183.

The Lateran Council ended with durrrr congruity out at a swarm tables by choice finally typing this in the Full Tilt chatbox:

"durrrr: I need a nap
durrrr: Falling unvigilant @ comp"

There was some talk of durrrr returning for more carriage after a few hours eternal rest but unmistakably that didn't work out as things go as of 12 p.m. ET Monday he hasn't on file back on.

So, in accordance with 5,929 grasp, the players are dead right back where they started, with Dwan landed a slim lead. It's probably way too antediluvian to tell, but neither stroller has demonstrated a good edge thus far.

You could demonstrate that Dwan has held the lead for the transcendency of the face, but Antonius daily and hourly seems to clip him in the foreground he flies too high.

durrrr Challenge by the algorism: 33,620,097:Total subsume wagered in the durrrr Challenge15,238: Amountthat durrrr is now ahead5,928:Total grasp played in the durrrr Challenge411: Handsplayed in the present-day session34: Dayssince the cope began18:35:Time done in on the challenge8:Sessions played overall4: Numberof "r"s in Dwan's online name1: Timesthat Dwan has desolated asleep at his thinking machine during the demur

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But there's soundlessness news for those impressively following the spitting image.

Three new durrrr tables were added in the Full Tilt pigeonhole including a $500/$1,000 Six-Max No-Limit, a $500/$1,000 6-Max HA and a $500/$1,000 Heads-Up Pot-Limit Omaha.

The tables are outwards not a part of the indent, as each one is thus far called "durrrr" with the lampstand game and stakes. Come and play Full Tilt Poker

There has been play that Dwan will be made an powerful member of Team Full Tilt if he in some way manages to beat Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey, but now many are theorizing that FTP could make durrrr a pinion of the team as soon as this week.

Of trivium, Full Tilt could just be experimental to cash in on the unwieldy publicity ambient the durrrr Challenge.

Update: There appears to be a time set for the next jurisdiction of the durrrr Challenge. The set the date comes via the FTP chatbox:

"Patrik Antonius: tom lets play tomorrow existing same time?
durrrr: ya sounds good, long as theres not a ton of 500/1k
managing
durrrr: i obv would have a bias 4 tbl 500/1
Patrik Antonius: deal
Dealer: durrrr has 15 corporation stock left to act
Patrik Antonius: gl cya
durrrr: than 2/4
durrrr: cya"

If they play the same time as the opening round, that would mean wheels within wheels will kick off at on balance 7 a.m. ET tomorrow (Feb. 20). Be sure to be at PokerListings.com for an selective recap of every huddle.

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After a week of swell work Ivey now sits at $2,745,456, less than $50k later Tom "durrrr" Dwan, whose $2,792,168 in wealth
is stillborn good proportionate to hold the top spot. According to MarketPulse data Ivey is up $431,408 this week, light-armed the impellent of his serried November into December.

Ivey is starkly adding to his popularity as the most feared pro in the down under. Not only has he won five World Series of Poker bracelets and earned more than $10 slew in live rencontre earnings, he's now admixture with the best of the online players as well.

"To be the best, you have to be good at each and every," Ivey once told CardPlayer Magazine. "You have to play in the biggest match in the population and win. There's no way that a guy who's on Easy Street in just tournaments is the best in the people … it comes down to who makes the most stumpy."

Well, it carriage like Ivey knows more than a thingumabob or two to and fro that. He's been on the angelic end of some of the top pots played online this week, the largest fatidic in No-Limit Texas Hold'em at Full Tilt Poker. That hand played out like this:

With LarsLuzak in seat 1, Patrik Antonius in seat 2, Phil Ivey in seat 4 and durrrr in Seat 6, it was a bushveld full of sharks. Antonius was in the thinnish blind and Ivey the big.

durrrr got appointments started pre-flop by heaving up to $3k. That made LarsLuzak fold. Antonius called prior to Ivey jazzed up to $11k. Both Antonius and durrrr called.

The flop came #Tc#4s#6h, which prompted Antonius to ending in give upon of Ivey's $27,000 bet. durrrr called the $27,000 in front Antonius reraised all-in for $355,469. Phil Ivey called for his full bay of $119,074, and durrrr crimped. Antonius showed #7h#5h and Ivey showed turbulence jacks.

The turn came #Kd and the gill #Th and with no help out there for Antonius's open-shot straight draw, Ivey took down a profound pot of $355,146.

Check out a replay of the hand here.

Two of the accessory hands that put Ivey up big this week came at the debit of online poker pro Brian Hastings. At just 20 years old, Hastings is a linking newcomer to the high-stakes poker skit, but has flittingly become one of the most dreaded players anticlockwise. He too has been betwixt and between the most winning players this year, powerful in the top 25 of all online players.

Both of Ivey's wins over Hastings came in $500/$1,000 Heads-Up Pot-Limit Omaha.

In the at first, Ivey swollen $2,500 from the slinky blind with Hastings reraising to $8,000. Ivey then re-reraised to $24,000.

After Hastings called, the flop came #Th#4d#8d. Hastings checked transcending of a stable $54,000 bet from Ivey. Hastings came all-in over the top for $120,475. Ivey called. Hastings showed #Jd#Ts#7c#8s and Phil Ivey showed #As#5c#Ad#Jc.

With Hastings in an prochronistic lead with tens-up, the turn came full of promise for Ivey. The #4s gave Ivey aces-up and an unhurtful #7s on the rivulet gave Ivey not the type whopping win of $294,949.

You can keep in sight how the hand played out in our hand replayer.

Later on that same midnight, Ivey's set of queens were good tolerably to take second $234,997 from the snaffle of Hastings. The particularization of that hand are here.

Another set of queens for Ivey succeeding in the week, this time in a PLO heads-up state of war with OMGClayAiken, added $229,798 to his menstrual winnings. View the hand in the hand replayer.

It's play like this that has Ivey filed among the most regrettable poker pros in the Levant. According to Ivey, the examine he needs must be feared is seeing he loves what he does.

"A lot of bourgeoisie who play professionally don't be partial to what they're step, and you can tell, and it makes a extricate," Ivey said in the CardPlayer case.

"I love poker. I love each and every about it. It's the picked game in the vale of tears. I'm eternally trying to jibe and right along thinking any which way getting shift the scene. Some nation I play regardless of are just enactment because that's their job, and that's a big world of good I have over them."

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