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“durrrr” took back the lead in the “durrrr Challenge” this weekend. Between Friday and Saturday he lost the lead to Patrick Antonius but the day after he was back in the lead again.

This weekend Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Patrick Antonius managed to play 1000 hands in the famous “durrrr Challenge” that will last for 50.000 hands.

In total they have now played around 6000 hands of poker and Tom “durrrr” Dwan is in a small lead at the moment. In total Dwan have won 3208 hands and made a $15.258 profit so far into the Challenge.
The match has been going on for 18 hours and 35 minutes and during this time frame they have managed to have a turnover of over $33 Million over the 6000 hands played.

A couple of weeks ago the first match in the durrrr Challenge started. The marathon match between Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Patrick Antonius will last for 50.000 hands and it is expected that one of these players are going to win a big amount of money. But so far we have not seen a lot of the normal crazyness at the tables as they have been playing realtively small and controlled pots. After 13 hours of play and a bit more than 4000 hands played it is durrrr that is in the lead in this challenge with a profit of $140.380.

At the FullTilt Poker website you can follow all the action and get the latest statistics from this challenge. You will also be able to get all the latest info in our Poker News blog so make sure to stay tuned here as well.

According to the information found at the FullTilt website it shows that the total turnover generated by this challenge so far is $23 Million which is a lot considering it is only two players playing in this challenge.

The statistics also show that durrrr has won the most hands but Antonius is winning higher amounts in the pots that he is taking down.

On the FullTilt durrrr challenge website you will also be able to see re-runs of the biggest pots and on the top of this list at the moment is a $166.580 pot.

The online poker king Tom “durrrr” Dwan lost another $586k at the Full Tilt Poker this Wednesday, thus shooting his total losses in the month of January to a whooping $3.53 million.

According to the stats provided by HighStakesDB.com, the total loss has arrived after 25,218 tracked hands. This means that in the month of January, Tom has lost $140 on each hand he played. This will result into an all time low for any online cash game player; so everybody is waiting with a bated breath to see how Tom fares in the last three days to save himself from registering his name in the pages of history as a “player who lost the most at poker during a single month”. Tom is undoubtedly one of the best poker players in the world, but this year’s start has proved to be very disappointing for him.

The reversal of luck can be seen from the fact that he pocketed a cool $5.41 million in 223,259 tracked hands during the 2008 Full Tilt Poker. Now, he has thrown away almost 65% of that amount within the first 28 days of this year.

Tom’s big loss of has resulted into huge gains for both Gus Hansen and Patrik Antonius. Antonius is reported to have pocketed $2.7 million dollar this month and Hansen has managed to take home $2.2 million. They have both sucked away huge sums from Tom.

One thing is for sure that Tom has a huge wealth stacked in his bank, but it is to be seen whether he can sustain for a long period of time with his wealth being depleted at such a rapid rate. Even if he has a wealth of $10 million, he has already lost about 35% of it in the very first month of this year. This figure can be mind boggling for anybody.

In the face of such a huge loss “durrrr” has remained unperturbed and is confident of bouncing back by mid February. The name of his first opponent is still to be known.

Poker player Tom “durrrr” Dwan for the third time during his short poker career has stacked up more than $1million dollars at Full Tilt Poker during a game Saturday. The other poker players that had the luck to accumulate a stack of the size Dwan did during the early morning game Saturday were Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies and Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond.

These are the only poker players that earned the stacks of this size and this does not include the limit games like poker player TexasLimitKing did several years ago. Dwan was able to do this for the third time at Full Tilt Poker while playing one of the high-stakes games of $500/$1000 No Limit Hold’em while at “RailHeaven”.

Dwan’s hand that raised his stake over the $1million dollar amount occurred while playing against Galfond, before the hand Galfond had a stack of approximately $120 thousand and Dwan’s stack was $924 thousand. Dwan was in the small blind, mastrblastr was in the big blind, when Patrik Antonius raised $3,500 and Galfond called. From the small blind Dwan raised up to $18,200, Antonius called and after summing up the situation Galfond pushed all-in. After Galfond pushed all-in causing Antonius to fold.

The hand Dwan showed was pocket Kings and Galfond was holding Queen-Ace off suit, the flop was 6-3-8 with two diamonds. On the turn the two of diamonds showed giving OMGClayAiken the upper hand since he held he Ace of Diamonds.

Dwan took the pot the for that hand, which had totaled $260 thousand when the river brought a Queen of spades and that put his stack over $1 million dollars.

Tom “durrrr” Dwan’s poker playing gave him the advantage of taking money from poker player Gus Hansen and Dwan has approximately $2 million dollars spread between 4 or 5 tables at Full Tilt Poker.