Durrrr Challenge Update: Dwan Slices Lead in Brief Session

After a couple of marathon sessions last week that saw a swing of over 1.5 million dollars, Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan played a relatively short and quiet session of PLO last night for the ‘durrrr challenge’.

The result after 90 minutes or so of play: Dwan managed a small turnaround and came up about 40k over 500 hands before the pair called it a day.

The results after however many months this challenge has been running: 23,197 of 50,000 hands played and a $34,143 lead for Patrik Antonius.

Other Antonius news this week: A pseudo-stalker is posing as Patrik on ye ol’ Twitter.

What is the durrrr challenge, you ask? In early 2009, nosebleed cash phenom Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan issued the following open challenge to the poker community (except for Phil Galfond):

“I’m making this heads-up challenge to the world. Anyone can accept. Four tables, minimum of $200/$400, and I’ll put up $1.5 million to their $500,000. We play 50,000 hands minimum and if they end up a dollar after rake they keep the side money or whatever. So basically, if you and I played and you won a dollar, you would get my $1.5 million and if I won a dollar I would win your $500,000.”

“So I’m giving a million dollars free if anyone thinks they can do it.”

Patrik Antonius was the first to take Dwan up on the challenge. If you’re interested in watching the two battle it out, download Full Tilt and look for the special ‘durrrr challenge tables’ under the Omaha Hi tab in the main lobby. Read this before you download Full Tilt Poker.