Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Patrik Antonius have now completed almost 30% of the 50,000 hands they will play in the $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha challenge, where Dwan is laying $1.5 million to Antonius’ $500,000 that he will be ahead at the end. Antonius has recently built a $480,000 lead, which means that Dwan must recover twelve buy-ins or else lose both the $1.5 million and whatever Antonius wins at the tables.
Dwan’s upcoming challengers might include not only Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, but also Luke “_FullFlush1_” Schwartz, a recent big winner in the high stakes games on Full Tilt Poker. Schwartz has recently blogged that he will “defi nitely play” Dwan if he can, and that he believes that he is next in line after Dwan fi nishes with Antonius. Dwan quickly accepted the challenge, so we’ll see if the two start tangling soon.
The European Poker Tour just fi nished its Monte Carlo fi - nale, and the tournaments there included a $25,000 High Roller event. Vanessa Rousso topped a 79-player fi eld to take the championship and $720,000 (over €950,000). Tony “G” Guoga, William Thorson, and secondplace winner Randy Dorfman were among the other players at the fi nal table.
Huck Seed is now forty years old, but that isn’t stopping him from making ambitious bets on the track. He is reported to have bet that he can run a 4:39 mile. Many consider the bet nearly impossible for Huck to win, but he is getting 33:1 on his money.
Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies has been feeding his competitive side both on and off the felt: he recently fi lmed an episode of the Finnish version of Fear Factor (Suomen Pelkokerroin) in Buenos Aries, Argentina. It is not yet publicly known whether Sahamies won the $10,000 fi rst prize, but he planned to give any winnings to charity.
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier recently set a Guinnessendorsed world record for sit-and-go tournament playing. He opened 62 $6.50 tournaments in an hour, and made a net profi t of $23.67. The exhibition took place in Monte Carlo before the second day of the EPT Grand Final.
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