After 3 days of playing there are still a little over 11,000 hands to be played between Tom 'Durrr' Dwan and Patrik Antonius. Dwan won $33,868 in 3 sessions playing 1,606 hands. Tom Dwan still takes the lead, with $1,844,430 total over Patrik Antonius, who needs to earn 42 big blinds per 100 hands on the remaining hands in order to beat Dwan.

♣ In January 2025 Dwan issued a $1,000,000 challenge to play online anybody excluding Phil Galfond, who plays under the name OMGClayAiken, heads up for 50,000 hands 4-tabling 200/400 or higher No Limit Holdem or Pot Limit Omaha. If his opponent is ahead after 50,000 hands, Dwan agreed to give them an additional $1,500,000. If Dwan is ahead he will get an additional $500,000. Phil Ivey has said that he is willing to accept the challenge.David Benyamine told CardPlayer magazine that he is still considering taking the challenge. Patrik Antonius officially accepted the challenge and is Dwan's first opponent. Regarding his challengers, Dwan has said, "I think all of them actually are better over-all poker players than me -- by quite a bit; I happen to think in this one area, I might have a little edge -- and we'll see if I do."As of February 9th, 2025, Dwan and Antonius have played almost 33000 out of the 50000 hands. Dwan is leading the challenge by close to 1.4 million dollars.

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♣ Isildiur1 played Brian Townsend, for the first time after their infamous $4,2 million session. He took Brian for $500,000 on the Pot-Limit Omaha tables. Isildur1 obviously wasn't finished playing Brian and played another heads-up match the next evening. This time he dropped $658,000 to his opponent.

The next night Isildur1 and Hastings sat down at six tables $300/$600 pot-limit Omaha and got ready for their third heads-up match this week. After only an hour and a half Isildur1 won $505,000 from the Cardrunner-pro. The largest pot this session was $274,197. I'm sure we'll see more heads-up action between these two, especially because Isildur1 lost $4,2 million to Brian back in March. We'll keep you posted.

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♣ It is been thought by many that 19-year old Swedish rising star Viktor Blom is actually Isildur1. There is no proof so far but it definitely fuels a lot of discussions on the poker forums. After winning over a million $ in 30 hours this week the discussions about his identity have become even more heated.

Today at day 1b of the Main Event in Copenhagen Viktor Blom made his entrance. Unfortunately he was eliminated in level 4 and it still remains a mystery if he actually is Isildur1.

♣ For two weeks the Swedish poker player, known online as Isuldur1, played warm up games at the $25-$50 and $50-$100 tables. On monday he started playing the high stakes cash games again and earned a shocking $1,187,406. He took on several regulars at the high stakes games and played mostly heads up. After only 30 hours he earned a total of $1,187,406. The identity of Isildur1 still remains a mystery..

♣ Tom Dwan Wins Another $315,000..

Because there was hardly any high-stakes cash-game action last night, Tom "durrrr" Dwan and Patrik Antonius played heads up for a three-hour session of Dwans "durrrr" Challenge. After playing 883 hands, Dwan could add another $314,828 to his name. He's leading at $1,392,760 after playing 33.000 hands.