Another night another Dollar for Antonius in “Durrrr” Challenge

April 29, 2009

Another night another 4 hour session at the high stakes full tilt tables for Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius. They stuck to 4 tabling the $200/400 Omaha tables and after another 842 hands of the 50,000 scheduled , Antonius came out on top by $75,153 to push his total lead in the challenge to $159,727.

Antonius won the vast majority of the large pots with 10 of the 15 pots over $50,000 being won by the charismatic Finn. He was dominant across all 4 tables and will be confident in the next few sessions that will be squeezed in before the WSOP next month. However, despite Antonius’s dominance this evening, he did lose the largest pot of the night:

Both players were hovering around the $100,000 mark when Antonius was dealt, AdAsKhKc and Dwan held Qs10s9d8c. The Finn 4 bet his hand pre flop with the ever aggressive Dwan coming along for the ride creating a pot of $108,000. The flop dropped 9s8s7h hitting Dwan as well as he could have hoped leading him to push his remaining $45,000 into the pot which Antonius called with his over pair. The turn dropped the 5s and the river was the 9c filling Dwans boat and shipping the $199,000 pot his way.

The roles were reversed in the nights second largest pot of $148,000. Dwan held the big pair this time with KcKsQc7S whilst Antonius held Jd10c9d6c. After Dwan 3 bet preflop for Antonius to flat call. The Flop must have made the Finn smile with QhJhJc. Antonius led out the betting with a half pot bet which Dwan called only for the turn to blank for both of them with the 3d. Antonius pushed all in for his remaining $48,048 and after some deliberation Dwan calls. The river was the 6c, this time giving Antonius the house and the pot.

The balance shifting was evident when Antonius played his AhAdKh9s aggressively 3 betting preflop. Dwan calls with 10d8d7s4d happy to see a Qh7c4h flop. Antonius led out with Dwan flat calling. The 2d on the turn missed them both. After Antonius fired another shot of near $20,000 into the pot Dwan retaliated with a shove all in for $72,479. After a small pause Antonius called for the remainder of his $40,992 in chips. The river was the 8h giving Antonius the nut flush and the $139,583 pot.

These two have now completed nearly 13,000 hands (12,956). Playing at this rate it is going to take another 45 sessions or so before a result is posted so there is still plenty of time to go for Dwan to catch up. The $160,000 Dwan is down is small change to him especially compared to the $750,000 losses he sustained playing Gus Hansen this week.

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