Ninth session in million dollar poker challenge held

03/25/2009

Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan have increased the tempo of the latter's 50 000 hand, multi-table, million dollar online poker challenge, having at each other in another intense two hour session Tuesday that saw a further 704 hands played, bringing the total thus far to 6 633 - only 43 367 hands to go, according to MarketPulse statistics!

The ninth session involving the two players ended with Dwan remaining ahead with an overall lead of $67 162 despite Antonius winning two six figure pots during the session.