05 30th, 2010
The poker rooms at the Rio were filled with a unique mixture of elite poker players and relative amateurs.
With nearly 3,000 players all playing simultaneously the day was a good forecast of what’s to come at the 2010 WSOP.
Here’s a closer look at the tournaments that played out today:
Event 2 - $50,000 Player’s Championship
Action picked up in a big way on Day 2 of the $50,000 Player’s Championship.
Although only six players busted on Day 1, a total of 56 players were relieved of their $50k buy-in on Day 2.
It was hard to keep track of the big-name pros that busted as Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Michael Binger, Isaac Haxton, Hoyt Corkins, Patrik Antonius, Carlos Mortensen, Ashton Griffin, Tony G and Mike Matusow were all eliminated.
On the other hand Kirk Morrison has come out of nowhere to wield an impressive stack of 760,000 chips.
Morrison went on a massive heater in 2007, placing second in the WPT Championship for $2 million and then cashing four times in that year’s WSOP.
Since then Morrison has been non-existent on the tournament circuit and his appearance in this event was unheralded.
Morrison is joined at the top by Andy Bloch who finished with 716,000 chips and Nick Schulman who bagged 683,000.
Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel, Justin Bonomo, Cole South, David Bach and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson made it through the day as well.
Day 3 of the $50k Player’s Championship begins tomorrow at 3 p.m. PST. Join us for ongoing of this elite tournament.
Event 3 - $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em
To say the first $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em event was packed was an understatement.
A total of 2,601 clambered into the Rio in the first real test of the building’s expanded poker facilities.
It passed with flying colors as it took only a few levels to fit ever player into the cavernous Pavilion Room.
The relatively shallow structure of the helped cut the field down to size and by the end of the day over 2,300 players had been relegated to the rail.
Among the players to be eliminated were Shannon Elizabeth, Sam Stein, Joe Cada and Shannon Shorr.
Meanwhile Vanessa Rousso, Joe Sebok, Bryan Devonshire and Jonathan Little found themselves amongst the 290 players to secure a trip to Day 2.
Action resumes at noon PST time tomorrow with records on the line as organizers are expecting even more players. Tune in to PokerListings for all your needs.
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05 12th, 2010
Yeah, OK, if I’m going to pick a poker professional to be then jungleman12 isn’t the obvious choice. Why not Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey? Not only are they the best players in the world but they make eight figures a month from .
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05 12th, 2010
We’re only minutes away from the start of the first ever Pokerstars UKIPT Nottingham event and it looks like we’re going to have a grand old time.
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05 12th, 2010
Come back, Isildur1 or Guy LaLiberte. I want some more $500,000+ pots! The high stakes regulars have taken to playing the $500/$1,000 CAP PLO game instead where they can only bet up to $40,000 per hand.
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05 6th, 2010
Isildur1’s day began with losing just over $1k from 38 hands of $25/$50 Pot-Limit Omaha. After making back $333 at a $25/$50 Cap PLO game he sat with unkown player humpybfly for a short 79-hand heads-up $50/$100 Cap PLO session.
Having lost almost $28k to humpybfly, and another $319 from 12 hands of $25/$50 PLO, Isildur1 sat for his main event of the evening: A $100/$200 Heads-up No-Limit Hold’em grudge match against URnotINdanger2.
The match took place on 12 tables with as many as eight being in play at the same time. Over the three-hour match, the two booked 2,402 hands with the largest pot coming in at $55,797.
In the end, URnotINdanger2 left the session up $112,218.
Isildur1 stuck around for another 25 minutes after the heads-up match had seen its last hand, jumping up in limits to $200/$400, only to lose an additional $26k.
When the unknown Swede finally logged off for the night, he had lost a total of $168,540, keeping him at around even for the year and down approximately $2 million since he first showed up on the high-stakes scene in 2009.
Meanwhile, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies and pro Patrik Antonius sat for two hours of heads-up $500/$1,000 PLO, where they booked 221 hands and played the largest pot of the day worth $254,947.
In the end, Sahamies made off with $132,438 of Antonius’ money, a welcomed win after his $360k loss the night before.
Below are three of yesterday’s largest pots. More hand replays and online stats can be found in our
05 5th, 2010
If most people were up almost $50,000 from poker in five months we’d be ecstatic. Patrik Antonius is probably quite happy with that result also – for him it’s not a great deal of money but it marks the official end of a $4m hole.
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It seems that Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius are eager to get the 50,000 hand Durrrr Challenge over with – in the past four days they have played more sessions than we have seen since the very beginning of the challenge.
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05 2nd, 2010
For the third day in a row, Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Patrik Antonius put in a long session of the “durrrr” Challenge, leaving them with only a little over 11,000 hands to go in their 50,000-hand match. Although the session was marked with dozens of..
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05 1st, 2010
The latest session was brimming with action, a dozen pots worth over $200k hitting the books.
The largest pot of the Challenge session, worth $367,166, went to Dwan after flopping top-set with kings. Antonius committed his stack to the pot after hitting two-pair on the turn.
Despite the massive action, and multiple pots worth over $300k, Dwan was only able to make it out of the session up $37,250.
Dwan actually began this session of the Challenge while playing Cole South heads-up at $200/$400 Pot-Limit Omaha, playing as many as seven tables of heads-up poker at the same time.
Dwan managed to take over $155k from the ex-CardRunners pro, bringing him up to a total profit of $192,989 on the day.
After yesterday’s 1,601 hands, the Challenge has only 11,026 hands left to go. Assuming the average session for the rest of the challenge lasts just 1,000 hands, Antonius would have to make $137k per session to close the $1.5 million dollar gap.
At present, there is a discrepancy between some of the numbers provided by PokerListings own durrrr Challenge tracking software and those that appear on Full Tilt’s website for last night’s session.
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04 29th, 2010
CardRunners instructor Brian Townsend is next in line to take on Tom “” Dwan in the online version of the Million Dollar Challenge, according to Bluff Magazine. However, Dwan shot down the rumors in a post on TwoPlusTwo.
The cover story of the May issue of Bluff Magazine, “Facing All Challenges,” chronicles the 15-month saga of the Durrrr Challenge. In it, Dwan revealed that his next opponent would be none other than Townsend, who is known as “sbrugby” online. The article sheds some light on the structure of the rumored match against Townsend: “Dwan says his goal for the match against Townsend – the starting day for which is still being worked out, while parameters such as buy-ins, number of hands, choice of games, etc., are staying the same – is simple: Make the action fast, exciting, and get the buzz going once again about the Durrrr Challenge.”
Dwan forecasted that the match against Townsend could take as little as six weeks, although play could stretch for two or three months. Dwan told Bluff Magazine, “With Brian, there will be days when we’ll probably play 5,000 hands. With Patrik, we didn’t really have any of those days. It’s possible we could get it done in six weeks.” Townsend is apparently ready to play immediately, whereas Poker’s website contends that and are next in line to play. Dwan, Antonius, Ivey, and Benyamine are all sponsored pros of the world’s second largest online poker site.
While the Bluff Magazine article, which was devoted mainly to the Durrrr Challenge, seems to indicate that Townsend is the clear-cut favorite to step up to the plate, Dwan posted on TwoPlusTwo on April 20th, “Long story, but he’s not next. I’ll blog after seshy.” No blog was submitted after Dwan’s session; its most recent entry is an advertisement for the Academy that came on April 15th. Bluff officials and the poker community were equally perplexed.
Dwan’s post ignited a flurry of discussion in a TwoPlusTwo thread even though the poker pro failed to respond to reveal who his next opponent would be. Poster “britewire” chimed in, “I’d love to see or aejones take up the challenge, but I don’t think they have the [bankroll] for it.” Others demanded that Dwan publish a new blog post to shed some light on the situation: “Wtf is this thread still running? Durrrr came on at like post #20 and shot the rumor down (although he’s failed to deliver the blog about it that he promised).”
The Durrrr Challenge featuring is nearing the 40,000-hand mark thanks in part to extensive sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday. The total number of hands played and the amount Dwan is up remains unclear due to conflicting reports from various poker outlets, but the latter number is likely around $1.9 million. Full Tilt officials told Poker News Daily that challenge stats on their website would be corrected by the end of the day on Thursday.
Townsend, meanwhile is fresh off a 30-day suspension of his Red Pro status for sharing hand histories with fellow CardRunners instructors Brian Hastings and Cole South to fend off the Swedish mystery pro . On his $4 million day against Isildur1, Hastings told ESPN in a December interview, “Obviously I’m happy and I’ll take it, but Brian [Townsend] did a ton of work. The three of us discussed a ton of hands and the reports that Brian made, so I’m very thankful to him and to Cole [South] as well.” Townsend was suspended for multi-accounting in 2008.
Many in the poker industry have grown weary of play between Dwan and Antonius that started in the beginning of 2009. Antonius told Bluff, “Obviously, we failed when it comes to keeping it interesting. Everyone was following it, and then we… didn’t play.” Diversions included the annual (), high-stakes games against Isildur1, and extensive traveling.
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