A grueling five days at the Pokerstars.com EPT London Main Event when all was said and done it was young maths graduate David Vamplew was the surprising winner after coming through a roller coaster Heads-up session beating four-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and Team PokerStars Pro John Juanda.

Vamplew, 23, whose previous best live event cash was just $6,000 in one of this summers WSOP side events. This £900,000 first place win elavates Vamplew to the top earning Scottish player. This EPT event was the UK's biggest-ever live poker tournament with a total of 848 players competed, for a total prize pool of £4,112,800.

He said: “It’s going to take a while to sink in. I had to get lucky to win. I won a few all-ins but I’m pretty proud of the way I played. I’m pleased with myself for sure.“

In addition to the first prize Vamplew wins a seat into the EPT Grand Final next Spring. He will also be competing in the televised Pokerstars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour Champion of Champions tournament. The event involves all eight UKIPT Season 1 champions and will be held at the Hilton Metropole. The winner of this receives a seat into all of next season’s UKIPT events as well as next year’s EPT London Main Event.

About David Vamplew

Vamplew has been playing poker since 2005 and turned pro after graduating in maths from Edinburgh University last year. He normally plays mid-stakes cash games and only started playing live tournaments this year. His previous best cash was $6,000 in a World Series of Poker side event this summer.

Another record breaking tournament from PokerStars, Following days after the WCOOP 2010 seen over $63 Million in prize money. A total of 848 players in the PokerStars European Poker Tour London Main Event has been whittled down to just eight players; leading the chip counts are a double WCOOP winner and none other than WSOPE 2008 winner John Juanda.

Kyle "kwob20" Bowker holds the chip lead over Juanda by the slimmest of margins, his 7.165m good enough to top the Full Tilt Pro 's 7.075m. Bowker was the first ever player to win double WCOOP titles online and was also the first to break 1 million chips at the 2006 WSOP Main Event.

Juanda chipped up steadily throughout the day. Also in the hunt at the final table, albeit on the shorter stack of 1.48m, is Tom “kingsofcards” Marchese – the online cash game pro plays up at the nose bleed levels of $500/$1,000 game on Full Tilt so he certainly has the poker capabilities to ride his shorter stack all the way to the £900,000 first prize.

The final table lines up as follows:

• Seat 1 - David Vamplew, UK, 3,670,000
• Seat 2 - Tom Marchese, USA, 1,480,000
• Seat 3 - Fernando Brito, Portugal, 1,100,000
• Seat 4 - Per Ummer, Cyprus, 1,245,000
• Seat 5 - Artur Wasek, Poland, 2,250,000
• Seat 6 - Kayvan Payman, Canada, 1,295,000
• Seat 7 - Kyle Bowker, USA, 7,165,000
• Seat 8 - John Juanda, USA, 7,075,000

In an annoucement yesterday it has been confirmed by Pokerstars.com that Liv Boeree is the latest member the Team PokerStars Pros. Liv, 26 a former model and actress was previously sponsored by UltimateBet.com and will be making here first live Team Pro appearance at this week PokerStars sponsored European Poker Tour (EPT) in London. It is estimated the winner will take home almost £1,000,000.

Formally a astrophysics graduate, she is already one of the world's richest female poker players with career earning in excess of £1.3 million. In an interview she has an advantage over men at the table.

"I have a young online player's style, I play loose, aggressive poker, but in a female body and it can be quite disarming"

"People definitely underestimate me at the poker table, which is an advantage. "

"They see this young attractive girl and think I'm just in tournaments because of the way I look. That's a huge benefit."

"I'm always trying to work out which players think I'm no good, which players are scared of me because of my results and which players are trying to flirt with me."

"If you can identify who thinks what, you can adapt your play."

About Team PokerStar Pros

The team includes the biggest names in Poker from Chris Moneymaker who is credited with changing the face of Online Poker following his WSOP main event success in 2003. Kid Poker Daniel Negreanu, 2004 and 2005 WSOP Winners Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem. Not to mention current reigning 2009 World Champion Joe Cada.

If you are new to online poker or what to play along side Liv, why not signup to PokerStars today - The World's Largest Poker Site.

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Tom 'durrrr' Dwan expressed his plans to win the upcoming WSOPE Main Event during an interview following his exit from the $7,000 PartPoker World Open in London.

Tom 'durrrr' Dwan has revealed he plans to win the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event to be held in London at the The Casino at the Empire between September 23rd and September 28th.

He was also quizzed regarding the current status of the new "Durrrr Challenge" with Daniel "jungleman12" Cates. Dwan commented that they have not taken a break however Dwan has been travelling to Europe for the upcoming Full Tilt Poker sponsored Million Dollar Cash Game which is also taking place in London.

Dwan is unavailable for the next three days and he knows Cates is on his way to London for the World Series of Poker Europe, where both players will be playing a lot of live poker so playing online will be taking a back seat for now.

Dwan asked Tatjana Pasalic when the WSOPE finished and when she replied "29th September" Dwan said he was "planning on winning that one," that he was saving "winning his bracelet bet until the very last event," and that he would be free to play after the Main Event had finished.

As reporting during the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas it was common knowledge Dwan had several large 'prop' bets with a number of high-stakes pros that centre around him winning a WSOP or WSOPE bracklet in 2010.

He came ever so close going into the Final Table of Event #11 of the WSOP, Tom 'durrrr' Dwan was in good shape to take his first WSOP Gold Bracklet and what is rumoured to be his biggest payday in sidebets for a win.

Simon Watt was the winner of the third $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em championship at this year's World Series of Poker. The 27-year-old software developer from Auckland, New Zealand. With his thrilling victory, Watt becames the first New Zealander in history to win a WSOP title. - Details of the full story - Top Poker Pros are breathing easy thanks to Simon Watt at the WSOP

The World's Top High Stakes Pros hit London for the latest addition of the Million Dollar Cash Game sponsored by Full Tilt Poker

Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies and Tom "durrrr" Dwan are both currently filming the fifth season of the Full Tilt Million Dollar Cash Game in London. This year's Million Dollar Cash Game will be recorded in High Definition (HD) and will take place at an exclusive venue in London on the 8th and 9th September. As has been the format over the previous 4 seasons it is an invitation only event, with the world's poker elite being personally invited by sponsor Full Tilt Poker. Views in the UK will be able to see Season 5 broadcast on Sky Sports from January 2011.

Ziigmund confirmed his participation to the show on a recent blog entry and durrrr told the world about it on Twitter. "Omw to ftp cashgame, hoping to run as good (or better) than last year", durrrr wrote.

James Hopkins, Founder and Managing Director of Emblaze Productions, talked about the fifth season of the show on a Emblaze Productions press release in the summer. "We are delighted that Full Tilt Poker have continued their association with the Million Dollar Cash Game and we are expecting the strongest player line up yet for season 5".

The show has now been responsible for the 2 highest televised record pots; The first was Phil Ivey taking a $807,400 pot against Patrik Antonius in Season 2. This was surpassed by a $1.1 million pot won by Tom Dwan against Ivey when they both hit a straight in season 4.