After more than a month without a single session, the “durrrr challenge” is well and truly back on track, with Antonius and Dwan slugging it out for several hours.
Patrik Antonius accepted the challenge of Tom “durrrr” Dwan fourteen months ago and the 50,000 hand, $200 / $400 Pot Limit Omaha contest looked to have fizzled out, with rumours of Antonius potentially throwing in the towel.
Those rumours were quashed earlier in the week, as the two settled down to an eight and a half hour marathon session, followed by a further five hours the following day. As this article is being written, the two have begun the week’s third session and it seems as though the pair are now keen to bring the challenge to a close.
There seems to have been a problem with Full Tilt Poker’s “durrrr challenge” tracking software during the week, as various websites have reported wildly differing figures on hands played and pots won, but consensus is that Patrik Antonius came out on top in both sessions, winning around $240,000 in total. That would leave the man from Helsinki down by around $1.8 million, with over 12,000 hands still to play.
Earlier in the week, rumours began to emerge that Brian Townsend is next in line to accept the “durrrr challenge”, but Dwan moved swiftly to deny the speculation over the CardRunners co-owner, posting on the TwoPlusTwo forums, “Long story, but he’s not next”, before promising updates on his blog.
Full Tilt Poker insist that Phil Ivey and David Benyamine are ahead of Townsend in the queue to take on the high stakes poker specialist and it was reported back in January 2009 by CardPlayer, that Ivey had accepted Dwan’s initial challenge, so it does seem likely that the Townsend speculation is unfounded.
Tom Dwan once commented on the likes of Benyamine and Ivey, as well as initial “durrrr challenge” opponent Patrik Antonius, in an interview, stating “I think all of them actually are better overall poker players than me”, before adding, “I happen to think in this one area, I might have a little edge”.
It would certainly seem that he has the edge over Antonius, who faces a huge task in clawing back the $1.8 million deficit with 75% of the challenge complete, but it will be very interesting to see how the likes of Ivey fare.
*At the time of writing, the week’s third session was 212 hands old, with Antonius having earned $265,396.
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