Almost 1000 More Hands - Small Variance Again

Good news - we have seen some Challenge hands played during the world series of poker after all.... after Antonius suggested that this would not be happening in one of his earlier interviews

The bad news (for Tom Dwan at least) is that this low-variance session saw him slip another $23k to bring the total deficit to $451k. While this is small change compared to some of the pots played on Poker After Dark it is becoming increasingly questionable where Dwan's edge is actually supposed to come from... and let us face it, if you are going to offer the world 3/1 as a challenge then you'd better be sure you have an edge of some sort.

Before we list the numbers, a quick comment on the ongoing poll (in the blog sidebar on the right). The more votes we get the proportion of Antoinus fans increases. What is really noticable about this poll is that it was 'Ivey vs None Of Them' at the start... as the challenge gets further it appears that the 'None of Them' has stalled. Our take on it is that it is still early days, Dwan is fearless and a couple of good sessions could see the whole thing back in the balance

Here are the latest numbers

After 15,123 hands
Tom Dwan - ($450,980.50)
Patrik Antonius + $447,684.00
Raked By The Full Tilt Fat-Cats = - $3,296.50c

Here is the raw data for the 6-tables played in the latest session:

Table 1) Dwan +$6,152.50 Antonius -$6,196.50 215 hands
Table 2) Dwan -$104,605.00 Antonius +$104,571.50 164 hands
Table 3) Dwan +$21,824.00 Antonius -$21,852.50 145 hands
Table 4) Dwan -$41,885.00 Antonius +$41,839.00 225 hands
Table 5) Dwan +$15,293.50 Antonius -$15,308.50 67 hands
Table 6) Dwan +$79,986.50 Antonius -$80,000.00 5 hands

874 hands
Dwan -$23,233.50 Antonius +$23,053.00

If the action stops for the WSOP we will bring you news on how Dwan / Antoius get on in those bracelet events - so bookmark the Durrrr Challenge Blog now!