Nosebleed round-up

Player of the week: durrrr

The nosebleed arena was left wanting this week, with losses and profit margins lacklustre compared to the fireworks seen by the likes of Ziigmund and Patrik Antonius in recent times.

The big match up of note was the latest session in the durrrr Challenge, with Tom Dwan and Dan ‘jungleman12’ Cates squaring off across 1,214-hands.

durrrr walked away the victor, although the $63,362 raked in from jungleman12’s bankroll was a drop in the ocean considering the 24-year-old is still trailing Cates by $500,783 with 37,024 hands left to play.

Dwan was up over $300,000 at one point, but after losing the biggest pot of the Challenge so far (see below), a technical glitch denied him the chance to value bet his nut flush and the high-stakes star was in no mood to laugh about it…

durrrr: thats so gay
jungleman12: hey
durrrr: gg
jungleman12: i thought it was pretty cool
durrrr: nice douchebag comment ty
jungleman12: joking obv
durrrr: pretty off timing
durrrr: to joke
durrrr: after running pretty sick for 20min and then my 1st intnet messup in days it chks behind nut flush vs ur 2p which obv autocalls
jungleman12: gg

Hand of the week:

Despite the lack of six-figure winnings, this week’s match up produced the biggest pot of the durrrr Challenge so far.

Looking at 9-5h, Dwan raised to $1,200 before Cates re-raised to $5,200 with 7-8 suited and Dwan responded with a four-bet to $14,500. The flop came 9-6-3. Dwan bet $17,000 with top pair and Cates called with his up-and-down straight draw. A five on the turn completed jungleman12’s nut-straight and he insta-called once Dwan shoved with his top pair. A blank on the river left Dwan trailing and jungleman12 raked in the $210,000 pot.

Winners*

URnotINdanger2  $478,904
Urindanger  $278,868
O Fortuna PLS  $271,202
ShutTheClubDown  $189,844
IReadYrSoul  $165,697

Losers*

Gus Hansen  – $256,114
jama-dharma  – $207,074
bemyguestbud  – $202,466
luckexpress10  – $197,387
Patrik Antonius  – $189,535

*as of Dec 16