Tom Dwan and Matthew Marafioti Prop Bet at WSOP Main Event

As we all know Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan is a baller and he loves to get action whenever he can to keep things interesting.  Apparently the 2009 WSOP main event was getting a little boring for him so he decided to make a prop bet with fellow internet high stakes player Matthew Marafioti.  The bet was that Marafioti couldn’t finish 10 shots of Patron (which is a baller form of tequila) in 15 minutes without puking.  If Mariofiti did it Dwan paid him $5K and vice versa.

The winner of the bet is unknown, but what is known is that Mariofiti got messed up from the Patron and was actually forced to go home and sober up before continuing with the tournament.  This was probably the best move for him because he actually has a lot of chips and could have quickly lost them in his drunken state.  Durrrr of course felt a little bad, so he tipped the tournament director a few hundred dollar bills to ensure that Mariofiti got home safely.

These kids are too baller to just be happy playing the Main Event of the World Series.  Instead they need to get completely trashed trying to win a prop bet!  Pretty insane in my opinion, but I like Durrrr spicing things up and actually removing his biggest competitior from the table even though that surely wasn’t his intention.

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The Durrrr Challenge Gets Very Tight after a couple of short sessions

Durrrr and Patrik Antonius played 2 short sessions over the weekend with very different results.  In the first session Patrik dominated Dwan finishing the session up $161K and pulling into the lead with a $107K advantage over Dwan.  The next session was the complete opposite with Dwan coming up on top by $123K and pulled back into the overall lead by just $15K.  The two have now played a total of 5928 hands.  It looks promising that the challenge is still going and the two are still meeting for sessions, but with 44000 hands yet to be played and the sessions seeming to get further and further apart, we can only hope that the challenge is completed in the next few months.

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The Durrrr Challenge is back and Antonius pulls closer to Durrrr

The Durrrr Challenge finally had it’s sixth session after a long lull.  This session lasted for almost 3 hours and 914 hands were played.  After it was all said and done, Antonius was up a little over $87K for the day, which brings him back to within $53,640 of Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan.  Hopefully the challenge will continue and regain the hype that it had at the beginning before the long break.  The battle is as close as it has ever been and it will be fun to watch the next 45,000 hands play out.

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Antonius Takes Session 2 in Durrrr Challenge

Patrik Antonius has moved into the lead in the Durrrr Challenge with a strong performance today in a 6 hour and 56 minute session.  Patrik was in the black on each of the 4 durrrr challenge tables profiting a total of $228,069 for the day.  This win for Antonius puts him at a profit of $56,177.50 after 2,921 hands over 12 hours and 5 minutes.  Only just over 47K hands left to go!

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Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan Strikes first in Heads Up Challenge

The Tom Dwan vs Patrick Antonius heads up challenge has officially begun.  The two have four-tabled $200/$400 PLO Hi for almost 5 hours now and Tom Dwan has managed to build a lead.  Of the 1541 hands that have been played so far Tom has won 853 and is up $134, 911.50.  According to a written agreement in the chat at the end of their last session the challenge will continue tomorrow, February 20th at around 7am EST.

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Antonius Accepts Tom “Durrrr” Dwan’s $1.5 Million Heads Up Challenge

If you haven’t heard, Tom Dwan, aka Durrrr, put out a challenge to any player in the world to play him in high limit heads up no limit hold’em or pot limit omaha at 4 tables simultaneously for 50,000 hands.   What makes the challenge really interesting is that if Dwan wins his challenger must pay him $500K, but if Dwan loses he pays the challenger $1.5 Million!  The 3 to 1 ratio shows just how confident Dwan is that he will come out on top, but it is also a very good value challenge for many top poker professionals.

Patrick Antonius was the first player to accept Tom’s offer to play in this heads up Challenge with Phil Ivey and David Benyamine close behind.

Full Tilt Poker has already created “durrrr challenge” tables in the $200/$400 PL Omaha section of their software in preparation for the challenge.  Antonius had the choice and decided to play PL Omaha.  The challenge will start in a week or two and we will keep you posted on the outcomes.  Whatever happens you can be sure that this event will be followed with the utmost attention and will be very good for online poker as a whole.  It’s anyones game as these are two of the best poker players in the world.  One thing that we can be sure of is there will be many big pots with lots of money exchanging hands and some huge bragging rights on the line.  One player will end the challenge with a big increase in their poker bankroll, while the others may be completely crippled.

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