Online Poker -- Patrik Antonius Up, Tom Dwan DownAntonius Climbs Out of Red, Dwan Loses $3 Million in Two Weeks |
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Patrik Antonius is down $1,844,430 to Tom Dwan in the Durrrr Challenge to with just over 11,000 hands remaining. In all likelihood, Antonius will have to pony up an additional $500,000 to Dwan once the challenge ends, but the Finnish poker superstar couldn’t be happier at the moment with how his game has been going.
The year started off as a disaster for Antonius, and for the first four months, he bled cash at the nosebleed games on Full Tilt Poker. By mid-April, Antonius had somehow found a way to be a $4 million loser at the tables. Nothing was going right, and seemingly everyone was getting the best of him.
All of a sudden, however, he can do no wrong. At the end of the first week of May, Antonius is now up just over $100,000 in 2010. Not a ton of money (for him) to be sure, but given where he was just a few weeks ago, Antonius will surely take it.
Meanwhile, the complete opposite is true for Tom Dwan. The man known as “durrrr” came out firing in 2010 and somehow managed to completely erase the losses he suffered against Isildur1. In fact, Dwan was running so well that just two weeks ago, he was up a reported $7.5 million on the year.
Then variance reared its ugly head. In just 12 days, Dwan managed to lose just under $3 million playing no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha against the likes of Phil Ivey and jungleman12.
Though he is still the biggest winner this year, Dwan will have to grind hard if he wants to make it to that mythical eight-figure number that so many believed he had locked up already.
Recently, Card Player TV caught up with Dwan at the WPT Championship at Bellagio to discuss his opinions on Isildur1, his prop bets with Phil Ivey, and how much money he would need to quit poker forever.
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