After a fifteen hour Durrrr Challenge session last week Durrr managed to make an amazing comeback against Patrik Antonius, with Durrr now being way ahead in the grueling 50,000 hand heads-up challenge. Although they have almost reached the half way mark at this point with just over 20,000 hands played in a total playing time of 65 hours.

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The 40th Anniversary of the World Series of poker is well underway with the first event being the Casino Employees tournament which started on Wednesday but the real news is the $40,000 Event #2 of the WSOP 2009.

The $40,000 No Limit Hold’em special tournament got underway this Thursday with a total of 201 entrants the $40,000 buy in was designated to highlight the World Series’ 40th year anniversary and has managed to attract a poker star studded tournament, the tournament itself will be conducted over four days with a slow blind structure and deep stacks of 120,000 for starters event, slowed down the structure and gave players plenty of chips to play with. The $40k NLHE will be one of only four WSOP events aimed for broadcast on television by ESPN next summer.

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The Durrrr Challenge seems to have faded with Durrrr currently ahead of Patrik Antonius by $140,380.00 having played 4,178 hands of the 50 000 scheduled for the event consisting of 6 total sessions taking 13 hours 12 minutes to date.

The slow down comes as a result of Durrrr taking a beating in 2009, he is currently losing approximately 4 million dollars this year at Full Tilt Poker with a recent losses over last weekend against Phil Ivey who got the better of  “Durrrr” while playing two tables at FullTilt Poker’s $500/$1000 Pot Limit Omaha plus an additional 2 tables of $500/$1000 H.A (Hold’em, Omaha High), Phil Ivey managed to build chip stacks of $2 million dollars over the four deep stacked tables with Durrrr holding $1 million.

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The Durrrr Challenge is now fully underway at FullTilt Poker with 3,952 hands already having been dealt in what to date has made for great match up, the ‘Durrrr Challenge’ features well known Team Full Tilt poker pro Patrik Antonius in a heads up match against renowned online poker pro ‘Durrrr’ – Tom Dwan.

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FullTilt Poker have opened up four new tables to cater for Tom Dwan a.k.a “durrrr” whom recently challenged any poker player in the world bar Phil Galfond “OMGClayAiken” to a contest in which he (Dwan) will put up to $1,5 million of his money up against $500,000 of any rivals, the contest involves playing four $200/$400 heads up tables consecutively over a minimum of 50,000 poker hands, Durrrr has permitted his opponent to select from either Pot Limit Omaha or No Limit Hold’em or a mixture of the two, should the contender end up ahead of Durrrr after the allotted hands he will win the challenge and take down the $1.5 million side bet prize should the contestant loose he would be out of $500,000 in addition to keeping any money that was won during the sessions.

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