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Source: Nicole Gordon, PokerNews.com

It started off innocently enough, with Tom “durrrr” Dwan typing the following into the chat box on a $500/1,000 table where Patrik Antonius had just sat down and bought in: “I have 20 mins u wanna play here or 2/4?”

It ended over 15 hours later, at just before 7 a.m. Las Vegas time. There was a million-dollar swing and over $5 million wagered. There were $600,000 stacks on $80,000 buy-in tables. Then $700,000. Then $850,000. Then nearly a million. There was a $408,000 pot. Then a $477,000 pot. It was the most epic session yet in the ongoing “durrrr Challenge” — the one fans have been waiting for since this battle started over four months ago. And as night turned into day, Tom Dwan emerged as the winner… by a landslide.

With this unexpected marathon session, Tom “durrrr” Dwan blew the doors open on this match, taking over $764,000 off Antonius to leap out to a $726,000 lead. From Thursday evening into Friday morning, Dwan and Antonius played 4,523 hands across four tables, bringing the match total thus far to 20,647 hands—just over 40% of the required 50,000. Though Dwan and Antonius initially bought in for $80,000 on each table, they allowed their stacks to grow well past the 250-big-blind cutoff point where, per the rules of the challenge, either player is allowed to close out that particular table and start anew with one buy-in on a different table. This resulted in nine of the ten largest pots ever played in the “durrrr Challenge” unfolding in this single session, with Dwan winning seven of them. In all, there were 43 pots over $100,000, 13 over $200,000, four over $300,000 and two over $400,000.

In the early hours of the session, Antonius jumped out to a $300,000 lead rather quickly. In one hand, the pot was six-bet (yes, six-bet!) before the flop, Antonius opening for $1,200, Dwan reraising to $3,600, Antonius making it $8,400, Dwan coming back over the top for $25,200, Antonius re-potting to $75,600, and Dwan at last, making the call. Got all that? The flop came down QH,10C,6S and naturally the rest of their stacks went into the middle, Dwan shoving for $46,668 and Antonius calling all in for $21,798. Dwan showed AH,QS,JS,2H for top pair, top kicker while Antonius revealed AD,AS,8C,7S for the overpair and a gutshot straight draw. The turn was the 4H and the river was the 9C, Antonius rivering a ten-high straight to take down the $194,795 pot.

Though he ended up stuck over $600,000 early on, Dwan started turning things around in a major way. By the time they paused for a dinner break around 8 p.m. PDT, Dwan was back in the black and up $331,000 over Antonius. Dwan continued his upswing throughout the evening, culminating in a $377,000 pot that unfolded right around midnight. Dwan had over $245,000 in front of him on Table “durrrr Challenge 3”, while Antonius’ stack was just over $188,000. Antonius opened for a standard raise to $1,200, Dwan three-bet to $3,600 and Antonius called. Dwan led out for $4,800 on the KH,8S,5D flop and Antonius flat-called. The turn came the 6D and Dwan checked to Antonius, who bet $13,200. Dwan came right back at him with a check-raise to $56,400 and Antonius called. The river was the 7D and Dwan checked. Antonius moved all in for the $123,595 he had behind and Dwan made the call. Though Antonius had flopped a set of eights with 10S,8H,8D,2S, Dwan hit runner-runner diamonds to make an ace-high flush with AD,AS,9D,7C and raked in the massive $376,791 pot.

If you thought that pot was huge, the one that unfolded only minutes later was even more of a monster, at over 1000 BB. Sitting on a $204,000 stack, Antonius opened for $1,200 from the button, Dwan, with over $310,000 behind, three-bet to $3,600, and Antonius called. Dwan led out for $4,800 on the 9C,8D,2D flop, Antonius raised to $21,600 and Dwan called. The turn fell the 5S and Dwan checked. After a bit of a think, Antonius settled on a bet of $50,400. Dwan came over the top, re-potting to $201,600 and Antonius called all in for $128,597. Dwan held 8H,7H,7C,6S for a nine-high straight while Antonius needed the board to pair on the river with AD,10H,9S,9H for a set of nines. The 10C, however, fell on the river, Dwan improving to a ten-high straight and earning the $408,394 pot in the process.

By this point, Dwan had over $1.2 million spread across the four tables, not to mention the fact that he was also playing Gus Hansen heads-up on two tables of $500/1,000 PLO; Dwan also played a short match with Alexander “PostFlopAction” Kostritsyn, picking up $100,000 from the young Russian. Within the space of 4,000 hands, Dwan went on a massive heater, going from stuck $600,000 to up over $800,000.

Though Dwan won most of the evening’s monsterpottens, it was in fact Antonius who took down the largest one of all. After the action was five-bet by Dwan, creating a $36,000 pot pre-flop, he check-raised Antonius’ $16,400 flop bet to $47,100 when that flop came down QS,6S,6D. Antonius called, and they went to the turn, which fell the 9H. Dwan took the lead this time, betting $54,600 but was met with an all-in raise from Antonius to $173,678. Dwan called all in for $119,078 and showed 9C,8D,7D,6C, for sixes full of nines, but Antonius had the nut boat with KC,QH,QD,9D for queens full. The river was the 4H and the night’s largest pot belonged to Antonius, $477,555 in all.

Though that pot spelled a bit of relief for Antonius, Dwan just kept on rolling, dragging two more $200,000-plus pots to expand his lead over Antonius to an all-time high of $1.2 million by 5:10 a.m. After losing $200,000 of that back in the space of ten minutes, Dwan asked for a short break. Once they returned to action, Antonius began to mount a comeback, winning three huge pots to cut Dwan’s lead to $764,000. In the largest of the three, the two got $194,000 in the pot before the flop after Antonius six-bet to $97,000. The rest went in on the QS,JS,7C flop, Dwan betting the pot and Antonius calling all in for $41,781. Dwan flopped top two pair with AC,QC,JD,10D,while Antonius had aces and the nut flush draw with AH,AS,10S,6S. Antonius got there on the turn when the 3S fell and there was no lucky queen or jack for Dwan on the river, which fell the 4D to give Antonius the $277,962 pot.

At just before 7 a.m. Pacific time, Dwan quit the match:

durrrr: i need to sleep sry
durrrr: been barely keeping my eyes awake the last 5hrs
durrrr: was planning on napping 14hrs ago lol
durrrr: anyway gg, ill be able to play some more rest of this week except 10k plo
Patrik Antonius: ok
Patrik Antonius: gg gn

Only… Dwan didn’t go to sleep. An hour and a half later, he was spotted playing four tables of $300/600 PLO and another $500/1,000 heads-up match with Gus Hansen.

If Dwan is to be believed, we’re in for some more action this week. Stay tuned to PokerNews for all the skinny on this epic heads-up battle.

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When I first started this blog, I kept running into the name Tom Dwan “durrr” and the “durrr” challenge everwhere. Who is Tom Dwan “durr” and what’s the big deal? Thanks to Pokerbloggs.com, I now know.

Here’s the scope on Tom Dwan “durrr” and his fearless style of play.

Tom Dwan, online name “durrrr”, is deemed one of the best online poker players. He is a 21 year-old college dropout originally from New Jersey who has become one of the biggest cash game players in a very short amount of time. Did I mention he is only 21? He has said to have made over $2,000,000 playing high stakes poker online. He makes a session out of sitting down with the top poker pros such as Phil Ivey, Patrick Antonius, John Juanda and others at limits as high as $300/$600 NLH. It’s not a big deal for him. He does this consistently and wins!

Tom Dwan is famous throughout internet forums and chat rooms. When other college students see a young player such as Tom Dwan being so successful, they believe they can make large amounts of money too. He is the trail blazer for young online poker players.

Dwan began playing poker at age 17 in New Jersey. He first started out on play-money tables on Paradise Poker, before he deposited some cash and started playing low-stakes SNGs. He decided to choose a screen name with the goal of tilting people (“durrrr”). He saw from the beginning that he was a winner. He said “I never really worried if I was good at it; I just thought everyone else was bad and it seemed like an easy way to make money.”

Two months into his poker career he moved to the cash tables. By the time he turned 18 he had won around $15,000 and was looking for higher stakes to play in. He says he started playing $40/$80 limit and went on a good run to win about $35k. Then he lost $20k and switched to no-limit. At that time he had around $40k to his name and was playing $5/$10 NL. Then he moved up to $25/$50 losing about $10k. He proceeded to move back down until about three months later when he had more money and has been gaining ever since then. He has risen to the top in a very short amount of time but Dwan is quick to downplay his success. “I run good, what can I say?” he said jokingly.

A couple years ago Bluff magazine ran a piece on Tom Dwan and his housemate David Benefield (“Raptor517”). Chris Vaughn watched Tom Dwan play a quick session. He said a quick “sesh” for Dwan involved him opening up six tables with the smallest limit being played was $100/$200 NL Hold’em. In less than an hour Chris Vaughn witnessed this fearless, young poker phenom win nearly $200,000. He made this amount of money in less than an hour! That means he made approximately $4500 a minute or $75 a second! That sounds better than any job he could get out of college.

His reputation is so well known among fellow online poker players that it is sometimes hard for him to get a game.

Tom Dwan’s ability to make stellar calls is that of legend. On one such hand he called down Patrik Antonius’s $100,000 rive bluff with third pair. He says, “In that hand I had a timing tell on Patrik Antonius, but most of the time it comes down to putting your opponent on a range of hands and deciding what they would do with that range a percentage of the time. Against a really good play I can never be 100%, but if I am 75% sure I am always going to make the call.”

Tom Dwan has started to play a lot more pot-limit omaha because he believes his edge is bigger, even though he is better at NL, because the people he is playing against are worst he believes. He claims this is because in PLO you get more cards, you get more good hands and it’s easier to think you’re amazing. He says it is a better game to make money off of.

Here’s a Video of Tom Dwan “durrr” in action at an online High Stakes Poker Game
Markus Golser and “durrr” in a 136k Pot

Since Tom Dwan has turned 21 he has decided to join the live tournament circuit. He has had some great success so far with a 4th place finish at the WPT Foxwoods event (NLH), 2nd place finish at the Aussie Millions Poker Championship (PLO), and 2nd place finish at the WPT Borgata Winter Open (NLH).

Those who watch Dwan play say he has the audacity and raw intelligence that resembles Phil Ivey. He is known to be a very nice guy and easy to get along with but journalist Alun Bowden witnessed him play a $2,000 game of rock, paper, scissors with another poker phenom Sorel Mizzi. He stared at his opponent, looking fierce with his glazed eyes focused on his every move.

He is fearless when it comes to gambling. During the 2007 WSOP he had $50,000 prop bet with his house-mate David Benefield where he had to play a series of high stakes chess matches against an International Chess Master who started without one rook. Dwan lost that bet.

When people tell Dwan that he is a natural talent he is quick to squash that idea. He says “I think the natural talent thing is pretty overrated. I think anyone can learn to play poker and do pretty well if they are intelligent and open-mind.”

Meet Tom Dwan as he chats with Amanda Leatherman on his break at the Heads Up Tournament

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