Durrrr Challenge Returns...

Yes, the much ballyhooed and initially much railbirded challenge that kind of fizzled away has returned. I'm a Mac, Patrik Antonious and I'm a PC, Tom Dwan have turned their online battle back on.

We don't know if Patrik is actually playing his poker on a mac, but he could if he played on bwin, and of the stereotypes he's definitely the cooler more hipster of the two. Dwan is kind of IBM of the online world.

To review: durrrr offered anybody in the world heads up action in PLO or NL Hold’Em. His challenge had many suitors but Patrik Antonius was the first in line. Dwan offered odds to anybody (but Phil Galfon) of 3 to 1 that he was favored over 50,000 hands. If he lost, the winner would get what he won plus 1.5 million. If he won, he’d keep what he won plus 500k.

For mac lovers, the good news is the durrrr Challenge is back and Patrik is having some success. When it schreeched to a halt Dwan upped his lead to over 700k. Some time has passed since then. In fact, the rest of the World Series of Poker came and went.

However, Dwan and Antonius aren't afraid of playing each other. In fact, it's been suggested they've been playing all along. They've just been playing in front of fewer railbirds in live play at Bobby’s Room in the Bellagio, Las Vegas. The latest edition of the challenge had quite a different result then the previous one. Antonius was wounded when Dwan reclaimed the lead and built on it. But this go round Antonius was the big winner. The 700k separation became just over 334k after it was all said and done.

The two have played almost 22,ooo hands. With 28,000 hands to play and the challenge 8 months old it doesn’t look like resolution will come any time soon. Maybe by next World Series? We can hope.

-Durrrr has won 11,620 of the hands.

-The big Swede won 9,751 of the hand

(Durrrr wins more often)

-Durrrr has been winning on average $2,529.15 per winning hand

-Patrik has been winning on average $2,979.38 per winning hand

(Patrik wins more pots)

-Patrik won the largest pot ($477,555.50)
-PCs outsell Macs

-Macs swear they are better machines

-PCs are more susceptible to viruses

-Macs get more chicks

To close to tell who will win this race... Stay tuned.