Durrrr starts his challenge at Macau - blinds $4K/$8K

Teemu - Thursday, November 18, 2010, Written by- Thursday, November 18, 2010, High stakes reports

Tom "durrrr" Dwan has started today his big Heads-Up match at Macau, and according to poker room manager of the StarWorld Casino, Stella Yeh, he has been playing against "a guy from Shanghai" ~$4000/$8000 NL Hold'em heads-up.

Few big pots from the game (update from Stella Yeh):

"Hi All,



So as someone has posted earlier, everyone is already aware that durrrr's been playing heads up with a guy from Shanghai for over 12+ hours already. 30k-60k HKD NL . As I've said already I cannot mention who's winning. But I can update two hands that were pretty big pots. And because these hands happened when I wasn't around apparently noone saw the first bits of how the hands went down. So apologies on that part.



Hand of the Day:



FLOP: 6clubs, 9 clubs, 7 hearts

TURN: 3spades (Pot is already at 10M, not sure how it got to that before the turn)

RIVER: 8 diamonds

Shanghai Guy: Bets 3M into the 10M pot

Durr: pushes ALL in .....7m raise on top of the 3M

Shanghai Guy: FOLD

Durr: Shows Kspades,9 spades



NEXT HAND (Back to Back)

FLOP: 3clubs, 8clubs, 6 spades (5M pot, again dont know how it got to that)

TURN: Qclubs

Shanghai guy: Bets 2M into a 5M pot

Durr: raises it to 6M

Shanghai guy: FOLD



Sorry I didnt get to see the beginning of these pots, but I guess everyone can comment and guess on what they think happened."

As you can see Yeh doesn't tell who is losing, but rumors say that Dwan has not started the challenge good. The hearsay is, that Tom bought in for HK$18 million last night at 11 pm, and as of 3.20 pm today he was stuck HK$10 million (about 1,3M USD).

Rumors also say, that Chinese businessman, who he is playing, is from Shanghai and has been playing poker in Macau for two years. His total losses have exceeded HK$100 million.



He agreed to play durrrr based on the condition that after every hand, both players would have to turn their cards face-up (even if there was no showdown). Dwan agreed to this condition in order to get the game going.

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