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Last December 14^th, the Durrrr Challenge II played out once more, this time with the two putting in 1,163 hands of $200/$400 NLHE with Dwan coming ahead by around $28k. Check out Full Tilt Poker Review for a little more info.

Tom Dwan has inch by inch been able to trim down his shortfall against Dan “jungleman12” Cates over the last few sessions, and with over a quarter of the challenge done, Tom Dwan is now $555k down from his onetime ditch of $755k. The session lasted almost two and a half hours with the largest pot of the night valued at $124k going to Dwan. Grab a Full Tilt Referral Code for your Full Tilt Poker account.

Dwan continued his recent approach of just calling his insistent opponent’s actions, which paid off well in the hand with Dwan taking down the $124k pot. Dan “jungleman12” Cates, however, took the next biggest pot of the night valued at $115k, after being dealt pocket jacks on the small blind to Dwan’s pocket nines.

Its early days, but Dwan will be hoping to go on making more steady progress at the expense of his young opponent if he is to take down $500,000 of Cates and avoid having to pay out $1.5 million at the end of the 50,000 hand challenge.