Durrr Challenge Session 27It’s been a long, strange, and tumultuous road for the Durrr Challenge and there are no signs of it letting up. After 8 months, Tom “Durrr” Dwan and Patrik Antonious have finally made it halfway through their 50,000 hand challenge last night when the two put in a 1063 hand session of Pot Limit Omaha.

Known as being a game of wild swings and massive pots being played out between big made hands and oftentimes even bigger draws, PLO has become the game of choice at the mid and high limits online because it’s the only game where a nearly $200,000 pot can break out over hands like this:

Opening the button as usual, Dwan responded to an Antonius 3-bet the only way he knows how — by 4-betting. Opting to flat call, Antonius looked down at a flop of 5d Kd 8h and called a pot-sized bet that was roughly half the size of his stack. The 7d fell on the turn and Dwan again lead out for the size of the pot, forcing Antonius to call all in for over $40,000. The hands?

Dwan: KsKhJhQc
Antonius: Ac9c8c7s

Dwan’s top set rendered Antonius’ two pair absolutely useless and left him drawing nearly dead to a gutshot 6 on the river. A harmless 4 on the river shipped Dwan the $194,000 pot.
At the end of the session, Dwan booked a win of $418,000, extending his lead to just under $700,000. Despite being head, the nature of PLO combined with the unthinkable stakes the two are playing for makes it very likely that we’ll see that figure start to swing over the next 25,000 hands.