Friday, June 19, 2009

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durrrr Challenge: Dwan crushes in epic session

By Sean Lind

After a marathon 15-hour session last night, the durrrr Challenge is finally nearing the halfway mark with the suddenly red-hot Tom Dwan now up over $726k.

Dwan, once down over $640,000, has made a staggering comeback over the last two sessions and now hold's the challenge's biggest lead either way.

The amount of his lead isn't the only record this latest session broke either. This session alone saw:

• 43 pots worth over $100k.
• 13 pots worth over $200k.
• The largest pot (won by Antonius): $477,556.
• The largest stack on a single table (Dwan): $928,451.
• Over $5 million wagered.
• Over 15 hours of continuous play.
• 4,523 total hands.

Even with Antonius winning the largest pot of the session (and challenge), durrr still managed to make $764,000 profit - mostly thanks to winning seven of the 10 largest pots overall.

Dwan's challenge graph.

It could have been even more as the largest pot was a cooler for Dwan, seeing all the money go in on the turn and his 6 6 6 9 9 full house losing to Antonius's better full house of Q Q Q 6 6.

Perhaps the most impressive part of this whole epic session was Dwan completely running over Antonius for over 3 hours straight and pushing his lead to well over $1 million at one point.

The night ended with the two players having this brief conversation:

durrrr: i need to sleep sry
durrrr: been barely keeping my eyes awake the last 5hrs
durrrr: was planning on napping 14hrs ago lol
durrrr: anyway gg, ill be able to play some more rest of this week except 10k plo

Patrik Antonius: ok
Patrik Antonius: gg gn

Straight from the horses mouth; expect to see more durrrr Challenge action coming your way this week.

Keep your eyes on MarketPulse to watch re-plays of the action, or log in to Full Tilt and watch it live for yourself.

durrrr Challenge by the numbers:

• 168,000,000: Most expensive item ever sold on eBay (405-foot yacht)
• 158,095,312: Total amount wagered in the challenge
• 14,000,000: Most paid for a domain name (Sex.com)
• 726,546: Amount durrrr is ahead
• 20,647: Total hands played so far
• 5,513: Average pot size
• 41: Percentage of challenge completed

The three largest hands of last night's session:

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