This interesting hand cropped up a couple of days ago on Full Tilt

durrrr on button $200 (SB)
harrington $400 (BB)
durrrr raises to 1K, harrington calls.
harrington checks flop of 9s Td Qs,  durrrr checks behind.
harrington bet 2140 on the turn card of 3d, durrrr flat calls.
harrington bets 4400 (into 6280) on the river card of 9h, durrrr flats.

In summary: 9 T Q 3 9 Board
durrrr flatted river bet with Q9xx
harrington25 shows TT2K to win

harrington25 seems a little annoyed that durrrr just called with the boat.  The boat however was the 3rd nuts and this was Omaha we should state.  I assume the line of check, bet, bet 70% of pot, looks like he connected and is value betting.  Anyway here is the chat that followed the hand:

harrington25: nice just call on riv
harrington25: i would have raised if i were u
durrrr: to bluff?
durrrr: didnt think ud fold
harrington25: value
durrrr: rly?
durrrr: << sarcasm
durrrr: obv
harrington25: idk man something is werid
harrington25: wierd
harrington25: idk how in the world u just call that river
durrrr: lol
durrrr: i hav a video setup to see ur cards obv
durrrr: most likely explanation
harrington25: obv not but im gonna show that hand to few ppl
harrington25: urin david etc
harrington25: see wht they say
durrrr: lol ok
harrington25: i mean ur very good but not that good to just call that river
durrrr: i guess not
durrrr: damn
durrrr: =(
harrington25: seriously
harrington25: can u explain ur reasoning for the acll
harrington25: the way the hand played out
durrrr: i jus click buttons buddy
durrrr: i thought thts y u play me

The latest cash action on Full Tilt Poker has been crazy.  Huge games everywhere with durrrr and Isildur1 ploughing through tens of thousands of hands over the space of just a few days. 

On Sunday they played around 7500 hands with hundreds of them reaching 100K or above.  A massive 21 hands topped $400K.

Dwan finished Sunday around $1.2 million down and came back on Monday looking to get some of it back.   Monday saw a mind boggling 12,000 hand session, with Dwan losing a further $600K.

Tuesday it continued with Dwan dropping a further $850K to Isidur1

On Wednesday Dwan was tied up with filming High Stakes Poker, much to his frustration no doubt.    While the cat’s away the dog must play.  Isildur1 went up against Antonius, Cole South and Brian Townsend.   He finished up around $400K from that 4-way encounter.

Then Dwan was back, keen as mustard to start getting un-stuck, and went on to lose yet again, this time around $700K

Overall after this somewhat crazy week Durrrr was about $3 million down.   That sure did screw his overall stats over for 2009.

All this action flying around reached fever pitch today with Isildur1 and Patrik Antonius competing for a pot of just under $900,000.  A world record online pot.  Antonius emerged the victor, liberating Isildur1 of around $450K

What craziness will follow over the coming days, god only knows.  But one thing’s for sure it’s going to be exciting to watch.

We were spot on with that news blogpost on 2nd Oct regarding Tom Dwan.   A month and a bit later it was announced to the world that he had indeed become a member of Team Full Tilt.   I guess we were way ahead of the game on that

Dwan becomes the youngest member of Team Full Tilt, and the last member since Patrick Antonius to join.

Unlike standard red pros who get a base deal of 100% rakeback and $35 an hour, the actual “Team Full Tilt” members are cut in for a small percentage of the profits of the whole site.

So expect to see Dwan promoting the site heavily everywhere.  He’s likely to appear on commercials and various online marketing images.

He’s certainly a great signing for them, and will help increase appeal to a slightly younger audience.    He has a very big following through numerous very high profile live events, and his exceptional results and play at the highest levels both live and online.  The shear level of widespread exposure is surly excellent for the marketing of Full Tilt

It looks very much like Tom Dwan has signed for Full Tilt. Howard Lederer and the team have been after Tom “Durrrr” Dwan for a while to join their team. Whilst browsing the schedule for the FTOPS I noticed he was listed as a host. Slightly suspiciously he was then removed from the list a couple of hours later. Luckily I took a screenshot of it before they changed it. So, if this is good enough evidence it looks like it may have finally happened: