The Durrrr Challenge resumed for a few hours recently and the pendulum swung in a direction it seemed to have forgotten recently: that of Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

Dwan had sustained some pretty heavy losses recently in his million-dollar, 50,000-hand challenge with Patrik Antonius. At his lowest point so far in the contest durrrr was down over $600,000, but thanks to a monster win in a session yesterday he’s back to within one good-sized pot of being even with the Finn. The two high-stakes pros logged nearly three hours at the $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha tables and Dwan dominated the proceedings to the tune of a $376,597 score. It was one of those days where it seemed that no matter what Antonius did, durrrr found a way to counter.

The biggest pot of the day saw Antonius open on the button for $1,200 and Dwan reraise from the big blind to $3,600. The Finn wasted no time raising to$10,800, and durrrr called to see a flop of Ad-Jd-2s. Dwan checked, Antonius bet $16,400, and Dwan then came back with a check-raise to $70,800. Antonius called there, and then called once more for his last $33,195 when the turn came the 6d and Dwan set him all-in. Antonius showed Qc-Td-6c-3d for the flush, while Dwan held Jc-Jh-Th-9d for a set of jacks and needed the board to pair. It did just that on the river with the 2d, shipping the second-largest pot of the entire challenge so far to Dwan.

Outside of that huge pot, Dwan managed to grab four others worth more than $100,000. Two of them saw him hit a straight against Antonius’ three of a kind, and another saw his six-high straight beat Antonius’ wheel straight. Antonius managed to keep durrrr from taking the lead in the challenge when he grabbed a $106K pot of his own with a queen-high flush against Dwan’s two pair, aces and queens.

The two competitors have now played 16,124 of the 50,000 hands needed to finish the challenge. Over the course of those hands they have played more than two full days of poker and wagered a total of more than $107 million. Despite swings back and forth between the two of more than $800,000, Antonius holds a slim lead of  $34,594.50, meaning it’s still really anybody’s game.

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