The Durrrr challenge has started

He's up about $134K against Antonius, with only 48,459 hands to go.

*nods*

Full Tilt has created eight $200/$400 HU PLO tables for the durrrr challenge - doesn't seem to be any corresponding NLHE ones yet though.

I heard the reason they made the other 4 is for if someone gets >275 (I think that's the number?) BBs they can go back down to 75 or w/e so they have to be able to switch tables. Should be interesting, but at the rate they're going it's gonna be a few months before even the first match is done.

Full tilt poker has a page dedicated to the durrrr challenge. You should find updated accurate stats on it.
http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

i think this is going to be very interesting. i think durrrr has the advantage when he is playing antonius four tables at a time especially as the sessions pile up. hopefully they play more often so that we can observe these high stakes pro in action

There's a long way to go yet

Blahhhh why can't it be NLHE.
If Antonius ends up buying out I hope Ivey plays next, that would be a craaaaazy Hold'em duel!

Ok.....maybe I missed something, or a few somethings... They started playing the other day, and nothing since right?

Last I knew was that Durrr stated he wanted a short break, and Antonius said "I've got to go" and hasn't returned..... I haven't seen him online since actually.

What's up with that?

No real timefram on the durrrr challenge afaik,so there is no real rush for either of them to get this finished.

I think the plan was to continue the challenge today, but there was action on the 500/1000 tables and one of the stipulations is if there's action up there, they can call a halt to it for the time being. I read that they're planning to play again tomorrow

At the rate they are playing (just over 300/hour) it is going to take over 160 hours to complete this.

4h53m to complete 1541 hands.

I like Tom "Durrr" Dwan. He seems to be pretty good.

Apparently he won over 1 million on Full Tilt. That's alright !!!!!!!!!!!

the pace that this is taking will speed it over the next few weeks. Its just antonius is on the other side of the world on a trip, so its 7am est when its 9pm whereever he is or something, so arranging times is tough. Its too boring to watch anyway, im just interested in results

fyp

Yeahh i am also a huge fan of Durrr...

So is there a site or anything where i can find the coverage of this?

Try High stakes DB; google it.

I hope durrrr loses the challenge. He has too much of an ego, don't get me wrong, he is a great online player, maybe better than patrick, but i hate his ego.

I would like for Antonius to win, I like his style of play.

I hope Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey wins. Tom Dwan looks like a stuck up. I saw the way he plays. plays like a stupid donk. all ins with pocket 10s and then sucks out on turn. that donkey play is what i see only on freerolls or 2/5 sit-n-gos. lol.

Can you explain why you think durrrr plays like a stupid donk?

He plays against Phil Hellmuth. watch hellmuth vs dwan on national heads up poker championship. he puts up all of his chips with pocket 10s. sucks out to win and then he thinks he's the shit and talks beef. wtf? i'm not gonna deny it. dwan is far more skilled than i'll ever be because I play 5/10 live and i'm a newbie online. but he's arrogant and thinks he can take on anyone. just can't wait till ivey or antonius squashes him.

Like he says in the video, all in with 10s HU is (relatively) standard. Yeah there very deep at this point and it was probably a bad move. But consider the hand again and do you think it ends any other way?

There's a thread on this so I'll keep it brief, but if Dwan flat calls Hellmuth's raise, he is not giving up on that flop. He hits his set on the turn and his money goes in. And yeah he shoots his mouth off because Hellmuth did the same, and Dwan knows that if, say, Hellmuth took up the challenge he layed down, he would just own him so bad it wouldn't even be funny.

Again, I go back to you calling him a donk. You highlighted one questionable play. We cannot call any moves that someone like him makes online 'donk plays' simply because we do not know the thought processes that these players go through.

And Ivey will crush him? Think again. Even Ivey admits that at least at the start of their challenge, Dwan will have an edge on him.

Sorry to be such a durrrr fanboy but there is no way anyone can argue against him being one of the best online cash game players in the world

You're basing your opinion of him on one hand of poker??? LOL


Pocket 10's heads up is a pretty damn salty hand.

He holds his own among the best. You can call him arrogant, a prick, or whatever, but he's surely not a donkey.

Wow, your line of reasoning keeps getting even better!!!


Maybe you need to go back and watch that video again, and watch what happens at the end CLOSELY and LISTEN to what is said between the two players. Hellmuth jumps up and all but assumes that his aces are good, talking to the people in the crowd.

But then, of course, Hellmuth did what he always does when he loses and immediately attacks the play of his opponent, which he does EVERY SINGLE TIME and regardless of how good or bad his opponent's play was! HE IS THE POOREST OF THE POOR LOSERS!!

So Dwan says something to the effect of "I was going to tell you good game, but then you acted like an ass so I'm not going to," which I believe is more than justified by the act that Hellmuth was putting on. Would you let Phil Hellmuth talk shit to you and berate you on national television, because I damn sure wouldn't. He lost and he acted like a spoiled little punk kid, which he always does, and you think the other guy was in the wrong???

Only someone related to Hellmuth in some way could have such an illogical view of what happened. Hellmuth was the ass, not Dwan.

If his aces had held up, Hellmuth would've been saying "tough beat, you had a good hand" instead of crying like a little baby.

How many times in a heads up match do you think a player gets pocket cards of 10-10 or better?

Oh, just to clarify that I'm not a big fan of Dwan's at all, but I just think those statements are so ridiculous and erroneous that they need to be argued against.

Looks like Antonius is getting back on track, 2921 hands played and he is +56k$. From the graph it looks like it's a pretty close game, no one getting away too far. Does anyone know when their next session will be? Are there recorded videos of them playing?

I know the first session was on a Wednesday morning, not sure when the other 2 sessions were but seems like they were yesterday, maybe last night. Keep in mind that Antonius and durrrr are often in different time zones, so even they probably don't know exactly when their next session will be. You just have to look on FT for them.

Antonious is on vacation somewhere in Europe traveling all around so they are in way different time zones thus having trouble finding sometime to play