Patrick Antonious vs Tom Dwan Challenge

Unless you have been living on another planet you have already heard about the Tom "Durrr" Dwan challenge. If you haven't then here it is in a nutshell. Basically Dwan has challenged anyone to play him online in No Limit and Omaha on at least 4 tables for fifty thousand hands. If the challenger wins the bet and ends up at least $1 dollar ahead he wins the money he put up plus an additional $1.5 million dollars. If Dwan is ahead at least $1 after fifty thousand hands he takes down his winnings plus an additional $500k from the challenger.

This match has literally been going on for months with each player taking small leads up until this years WSOP began and Dwan had opened up a rather large lead. Since then Antonious has once again put together a monster run and not only narrowed the gap but regained the lead by a little over $76k+

If you know anything about Patrick Antonious he is probably even more lethal as an online player than a live player despite his  tournament success. The fact of the matter is that Patrick gained his initial fame as one of the hottest young online poker players on the scene a few years back. Considering that this match has barely reached the half way point at slightly under twenty-three thousand hands anything can happen. It's still way too early to tell who may come out of this as the winner. But I gotta admit that it has been very interesting to rail this heads-up battle.