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Phil Ivey won a near half-million dollar pot last night playing heads-up PLO on Full tilt. Here is how the hand played out:

Ziigmund raises to $3K from the SB
Ivey re-raised to $9K
Ziigmund re-raised to $27K
Ivey re-raied to $81K
Ziigmund calls

Flop: 6d Qd 9c

Ivey bets the pot ($162K)

Ziigmund raises for 2k more, and is all-in

Ivey shows: Ac As 2s 4d
Ziigmund shows: Ks 9s 2c 7c

Turn: 6c
River: Th

Ivey takes down the $491,891 pot

Love him or hate him, durrrr has talent at the poker tables. His strongest game is probably NL Holdem, where he knows how to dominate a table and how to mix things up in a often hyper-aggressive style.

Many players almost worship the ground durrrr walks on. Others fall over themselves to try to knock him. As we remember from just a few months ago, this is the sort of prime example of the latter:

sunra18: so bad and so lucky
durrrr: i try
durrrr: u obv kno we can play more tbls
durrrr: if u rly believe tht
durrrr: not trying to rub nething in but just in case u thought id
sitout or somethin
sunra18: I mean, look at how u get your money in doofie
durrrr: ok tht 1 mightv been bad, sry
sunra18: should go broke when u dont hit your miracle cards
sunra18: puke
durrrr: im omw dont worry
Dealer: David Benyamine shows a full house, Kings full of
Fives
Dealer: durrrr shows two pair, Jacks and Fives
Dealer: David Benyamine wins the pot ($383,170.50) with a
full house, Kings full of Fives
sunra18: look durr
durrrr: nh
sunra18: u dont know this game
durrrr: lol go kill urself sunra
sunra18: always in with the worst
durrrr: thts kindv @&$%
David Benyamine: ty
sunra18: dont even know how to play deep, just pot with
shia..t
sunra18: u play as ugly as u look, go back to playing
pokemon u little geek
sunra18: U even know what a girl is`?
durrrr: pls play me hu to go busto
sunra18: loser
durrrr: instead of busting to someone else
durrrr: plsplspls
sunra18: plsplspsl
sunra18: get a life fagggg
sunra18: nobody likes to get close to a gayboy like u
sunra18: I always try to take seat as far as away from u
sunra18: retarded and ugly

Yes, sure durrrr can be described as a little geekish, but you could easily say that about 90% of players who are stuck behind their computer for large proportions of the day. Winning players easily attack haters, who pick up on the quirkiness of a player or small things they say and try to go after them verbally to try to knock them down.

Broadly speaking I think durrrr is ok. He’s seems to be enjoying himself with all these prop bets etc, and I think the guy gets more of a tough time than he deserves.

There has been some very interesting challenges made recently in the world of online poker. Firstly we have Durrrr (high stakes cash game player Tom Dwan) who has laid down a challenge that he cant be beaten over 50,000 hands of NL Holdem or PL Omaha.

To put his money where his mouth is he has offered to put up $1.5 million against any challenger, to their commitment of $500,000. Effectively offering a $1 million prize.

This challenge has obviously created a lot of interest and it looks like a minimum of David Benyamine and Phil Ivey are set to take him up on the offer. You can probably safely add Patrick Antonius to that list.

With the minimum limits of 200/400 there is much speculation that someone could go broke and the challenge wont ever reach 50,000 hands. We could certainly see someone being so far down that they would have to make the decision to pay off the bounty early to stop going even further down overall.

This challenge will take place on Full Tilt Poker, and I will post again when any firm dates are arranged.

A second very interesting challenge recently made is by PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu, he has said he’ll be able to run a starting bankroll of $10 all the way up to $100,000 just through good poker and good bankroll management. It certainly seems a long grind. We have seen Chris “Jesus” Ferguson accomplish something similar, going from zero to $20,000. It will be interesting to monitor the progress of this and see whether Daniel really does have the patience to play at such low limits compared to what he is accustomed too.