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Dwan Drops First Live Challenge Match

November 20, 2009

The Full Tilt Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge is officially underway, and its namesake came out on the wrong end of the first match though not by much.

Durrrr lost some pocket change to Marigliano at Les Ambassadeurs Tom durrrr Dwan played Marcello luckexpress Marigliano heads up for 12 hours yesterday at the Les Ambassadeurs club in London, with a $250,000 initial buy in and the first 11 hours of play consisting solely of no-limit holdem before the format changed to pot-limit Omaha for the final hour. Dwan won 55 percent of the pots in the match, but that was not enough to keep him from posting a $25,500 loss at the end of the session.

It was a really aggressive match, said Dwan. There was a time when Marcello folded 20 hands in a row then the next hand he picked up a gutshot and decided to win the 150k out there. But he made two really good reads and without either one of them he ends up down 50k or so but instead he is up. They were key hands really and there were some other big hands but it was an interesting match of course I wish I had won.

Next up for Dwan is Ilari Ziigmund Sahamies, followed by Sammy Any Two George. The series of heads up matches is being filmed to air on British television next year, while Americans will have to be content with reruns of the WSOP and whatever new poker game show the networks throw our way until it is time for the new season of High Stakes Poker.

Source: Bluffmagazine.com

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