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03 9th, 2010
Tom “durrrr” Dwan scored yet another win in the Durrrr Challenge versus Patrik Antonius, who must be strongly considering buying out by now. The young American earned a $342,157 victory in their last 364-hand session which takes his overall lead to $1,755,708 with almost 70% of the hands played.
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03 9th, 2010
Daniel Negreanu’s latest blog post at Full Contact Poker makes for an interesting read as the second all-time tournament money earner lists what are, in his opinion, the ten toughest tournaments in the poker world.
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03 8th, 2010
The first big session for Dwan came Saturday evening when he sat for 413 hands of heads-up $200/$400 Pot-Limit Omaha against Isildur1.
Dwan left the session up $81k, logging off for the night.
Eight hours later, before dawn on Sunday, Dwan sat for 360 hands of $300/$600 PLO against Patrik Antonius and PixKim.
By the end of that four-and-a-half-hour session, Dwan had massed over $624k in profit, the majority coming from the quickly floundering Antonius.
After the $81k loss to Dwan, Isildur1 went on a series of swings.
First he made back $79k of his losses, then dumped another $177,990 at $200/$400 Cap PLO.
He was soon back on the up-swing, however, making $64k from Cole South heads-up before meeting up with Dwan again, this time at a six-max $300/$600 PLO game.
The six-max game saw hours of furious action between Isildur1, Dwan, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, Hac “trex313″ Dang, Patrik Antonius and others.
And despite playing against some of the most prolific players in the world, Isidlur1 left after 1,689 hands with a profit of $517,223.
Dwan took a $229k loss at the same game, Sahamies nearly broke even losing just $10k, Dang made away with $119k and Patrik Antonius took a massive hit, losing over $874,000.
After breaking the six-max game, Isildur1 moved on to play a couple of cap games, losing $18k at $200/$400 Cap PLO and making around $90k from LarsLuzak at $500/$1,000 Cap No-Limit Hold’em.
The unknown Swede went on to make another $83k from Triko at $200/$400 PLO, and after just ten hands of heads-up $200/$400 PLO against Sahamies, called it quits.
By the end of the weekend Isildur1 had made $526,083, bringing his total profit for the year up to around $915,000.
Meanwhile, Dwan put in two more heads-up sessions and a couple small Cap PLO sessions before logging off.
His first heads-up match resulted in a $76k to LarsLuzak after 222 hands of $500/$1,000 Cap NLHE.
But Dwan turned it around in his final heads-up match of the weekend, taking another $306k from Antonius, this time over 344 hands of $300/$600 PLO.
All toll, Dwan finished the weekend with a massive profit of $856,489, bringing him up to around $1.7 million profit for the year so far.
Antonius came out of the weekend as the biggest loser by far, finishing stuck over $960k bringing his losses in 2010 up to $2.8 million in so far.
Below are three of the largest hands from the weekend, to see more head to .
The field of 64 is set in the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, which will air on NBC. One of the highlights of the opening round is a titanic showdown between pros Jason Mercier and , who have both been on a hot streak.
Mercier and Negreanu made the final table of the () Europe Main Event last year. Mercier finished fourth in the £10,000 buy-in poker tournament, while Negreanu fell heads-up to CardPlayer Magazine owner Barry Shulman after entering as the short stack. Mercier and Negreanu collected £267,000 and £495,000 for their efforts, respectively. Both are bracelet winners and members of Team PokerStars Pro.
Mercier enters the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, which is emanating from Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, on a high note. Last week, the Florida native took third in the L.A. Poker Classic’s High-Roller event for $141,000. In December, Mercier won a $5,000 HORSE event during the Five Diamond World Poker Classic for $100,000. Negreanu made waves during the recent Premier League, finishing fourth at the final table. Heading into Thursday’s draw party, Negreanu Tweeted his desired first round opponent: “Headed down to Pure for the NBC HU draw party and I’m hoping to NOT draw one of the 7 qualifiers or a woman. Record going into #6 is 7-5.”
Meanwhile, two titans of the online poker industry will tangle, as 13 bracelets will meet when front man takes on UB.com bad boy . Lederer was fourth on Bluff Magazine’s Power 20 list, while Hellmuth leads the all-time bracelet count with 11. Both have crafty nicknames, as “The Professor” will take on “The Poker Brat” in a high-stakes first round encounter.
In an all-female first round showdown, Poker’s is paired up with actress . A total of seven women will make their way to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas today for first round action. Joining Harman and Tilly to add estrogen to the field are , Annette Dworski, Annette “” Obrestad, , and Kara Scott. Six women took to the field in 2009, including Rousso, who finished as the runner-up to .
Those in the hunt for the title range between 21 (Obrestad) and 76 years-old (Doyle Brunson). The tournament hits television airwaves on NBC beginning on April 18th and will run for six consecutive Sundays. The ultimate survivor of the single elimination heads-up tournament pockets $500,000, while its runner-up takes home a cool $250,000. Here’s a look at the first round match-ups in the 2010 National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
Clubs Bracket – Top Half
vs
Leo Wolpert vs Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin
vs
vs Huck Seed
Clubs Bracket – Bottom Half
Dan Ramirez vs
vs Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier
Stephen Quinn vs
Dario Minieri vs
Spades Bracket – Top Half
vs
Richard Edwards vs
Shawn “westtexasman” Rice vs
Gabe Kaplan vs
Spades Bracket – Bottom Half
Daniel Negreanu vs Jason Mercier
Pieter de Korver vs
vs Tom “” Dwan
vs
Hearts Bracket – Top Half
Jesper Hougaard vs
Eli Elezra vs Greg “FBT” Mueller
Annette Dworski vs
Kara Scott vs
Hearts Bracket – Bottom Half
Brock “t soprano” Parker vs Doyle Brunson
J.P. Kelly vs Don Cheadle
Howard Lederer vs Phil Hellmuth
Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad vs Orel Hershiser
Diamonds Bracket – Top Half
vs Vanessa Rousso
Sammy Farha vs
Jennifer Harman vs Jennifer Tilly
Jerry Yang vs
Diamonds Bracket - Bottom Half
vs Bill Huntress
vs Annie Duke
Andrew Wilson vs Paul Wasicka
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Rice and Huntress both qualified for the National Heads-Up Poker Championship at the host casino, while Dworski, Edwards, Quinn, Ramirez, and Wilson all won online satellites. The tournament’s first round will play out today, while the second round will take place on Saturday. The quarterfinals, semifinals, and championship match will all pan out on Sunday.
Stay tuned to Poker News Daily for the latest from Caesars Palace.
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03 1st, 2010
Patrik Antonius has had a few winning sessions in a row now – nothing new by any means but it does mean he appears to be out of the bad spell that January cast on him. In the first month of the year he lost $1.8m before dropping another six figures in the first week of February.
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Late Saturday night, Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Patrik Antonius played a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it session of the “durrrr” Challenge spanning only 79 hands. After four-tabling for only 16 minutes, Dwan came away a winner, adding $21,790 to his lead…
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02 16th, 2010
Coming off a $9m year into a -$2m January must be tough – add that to reported illness and it’s no wonder that Patrik Antonius has run from European winters into the sunny climes of Mexico.
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02 16th, 2010
Gus Hansen added to his huge total winnings for 2010 with a near-half million score last night, playing over 4,000 hands in the past day – that kind of effort, as Dusty “leatherass” Schmidt would tell you, is readily rewarded.
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02 16th, 2010
“It’s all a bit overwhelming actually,” said the 34-year-old Wahlbeck, who finished among the top 13 players in six events at the 2009 World Series of Poker, including winning the $10k World Championship Mixed Event.
“Doing so well in the summer was incredible and getting these awards tonight is a real bonus.”
The PokerStars Nordic Poker Awards celebrates the achievements of players from Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden. Poker fans from the region vote online for their favorite players in four categories and a jury of journalists and poker industry insiders pick the overall winners from a shortlist.
In addition to Wahlbeck’s two awards, fellow Finn Patrik Antonius was awarded Best Online Player of the Year. Antonius was the biggest winner on the high-stakes tables online in 2009, earning better than $8.9 million.
Following wins in the High Roller event at the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker and the Master Classics of Poker in Amsterdam, Swede Kristoffer “Sumpas” Thorsson took home the Rookie of the Year title to round out the awards.
The awards ceremony was hosted by EPT presenter Michelle Orpe at the Park nightclub last night with 2010 EPT Copenhagen set to begin at Casino Copenhagen today.
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02 15th, 2010
Tom Dwan has added to his $749,000 victory in the CAP PLO games by taking to them again, as well as the smaller-stakes NL games. He also managed to squeeze in 71 hands against Patrik Antonius in the Durrrr Challenge and extend his lead by $21,000.
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