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

After 51 days of intense competition at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2010 the WSOP Main Event November Nine is now confirmed. Over the course of 2 weeks 7319 poker players took their seats at the WSOP Main Event. Among them 18 former world champions, almost 150 gold bracelet winners in addition to Pros and Amateur poker players from 92 different nations.

Who are the Players

Seat 1 - Jason Sentl, a 25 year old Poker Pro from St. Louis Park, MN (USA).

Seat 2 - Joseph Cheong, a 24 year old Poker Pro from La Mirada, CA (USA).

Seat 3 - John Dolan, a 24 year old Poker Pro from Bonita Springs, FL (USA).

Seat 4 - Jonathan Duhamel, a 22 year old Poker Pro from Bonita Springs, FL (USA).

Seat 5 - Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, a 29 year old Poker Pro from Miami, FL (USA).

Seat 6 - Matthew Jarvis, a 25 year old Poker Pro from Surrey, BC (Canada).

Seat 7 - John Racener, a 24 year old Poker Pro from Port Richey, FL (USA).

Seat 8 - Filippo Candio, a 26 year old Poker Pro from Cagliari, Sardinia (Italy).

Seat 9 - Cuong "Soi" Nguyen, a 37 year old Medical Supplies Salesman from Santa Ana, CA(USA).

Chip Counts

• SEAT 4: Jonathan Duhamel - 65,975,000
• SEAT 3: John Dolan - 46,250,000
• SEAT 2: Joseph Cheong - 23,525,000
• SEAT 7: John Racener - 19,050,000
• SEAT 6: Matthew Jarvis - 16,700,000
• SEAT 8: Filippo Candio - 16,400,000
• SEAT 5: Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi - 14,450,000
• SEAT 9: Cuong "Soi" Nguyen - 9,650,000
• SEAT 1: Jason Sentl - 7,625,000

We are at the Business End of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the WSOP Main Event #57 only 78 Players remain from the 7319 hopefuls who turned up to the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino 11 days ago. It seems hard to believe we are in a Global Recession and yet we have a total prize pool of $68,798,600 with a 1st pricce of $8,944,138.

All of the remaining players are guaranteed at least $94,942 as you would expect the majority of players remaining are US however we have players from Canada, Denmark, Italy, Russia, Sweden, and United States Represented in the Top Twenty.

Day Six Headlines

Day Six started with 205 players, at the end of Day Six Danish Professional Theo Jorgensen was the chip leader with 9,300,000 chips. This is 1.7 million more than his nearest rival.

There are no women remaining in the Main Event.  The last survivor was Breeze Zuckerman (Moorpark, CA), who finished in 121st place.

We have seven former gold bracelet winners still in the Main Event – Theo Jorgenesen, Michael Mizrachi, Eric Baldwin, Hasan Habib, Scott Clements, Pascal LeFrancois, and David Benyamine.

There are 45 Americans remaining in the Main Event.

There are 33 non-American (international) players remaining in the Main Event.

There are 15 different nations with players still alive in the Main Event.

WSOP Acadamey to fill the final seat to the Tournament of Champions Event

In an announcement on the WSOP.com site, the final remaining seat of the Tournament of Champions will be awarded to the World Series of Poker Academy.

The World Series of Poker Academy, the exclusive educational provider for the World Series of Poker, were awarded the final sponsor exemption seat for the 2010 WSOP Tournament of Champions.

The WSOP Academy will hold a single table "sudden-death playoff" tournament for nine players who were not eligible for the public voting to fill the final seat.

Here is a complete list of the Lucky 9 players - Tom “Durr” Dwan, Andy Bloch, Bertrand “ElKy” Grospellier, Gus Hansen, actor Don Cheadle, Sorel Mizzi, Michael Mizrachi, Liv Boeree and Paul Wasicka. They will battle it out to play poker in the WSOP Tournament of Champions All-Star event and a chance at the $1 million prize pool.

The WSOP Academy tournament will be held today June 10th at 12:00 PST.

"Now poker has a playoff game to go with its All-Star Game," said WSOP vice president Ty Stewart.

The Tournament of Champions is the premier All-Star Event in all of poker. This freeroll poker invitational features 27 players; 20 selected by public voting, 5 automatic entries and 2 sponsor exemption entries. To be eligible for voting, players must be a WSOP bracelet-holder. Entering the 2010 WSOP, there were 521 WSOP bracelet holders eligible for the vote, which began March 15 on www.WSOP.com/TOC and will remain open through June 15, 2010 at midnight ET.

The five automatic entries into the tournament are the three previous WSOP TOC winners [Annie Duke, Mike Matusow & Mike Sexton], the reigning WSOP champion [Joe Cada] and the reigning WSOP Europe champion [Barry Shulman].

“The WSOP Academy will utilize the sponsor seat at the TOC to highlight the talents of players who are champions in their own right but did not have an opportunity to be voted into the TOC,” said Jeff Goldenberg, CEO of the WSOP Academy. “We have created a unique opportunity for our customers to watch and learn from these players as they battle for a highly coveted prize. We expect to see some great poker!”

The sponsor’s exemption tournament will be filmed for exclusive use by the WSOP Academy. Ali Nejad and Phil Hellmuth will provide hand-by-hand analysis and expert commentary of the tournament. The content will be available to WSOP Academy customers through its website and live events. The winner will be announced upon the tournament’s conclusion.

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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.

This is Watt's second big tournament win having previously won the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) championship in his hometown of Auckland in 2009. Watt collects $614,248 in prize money and the Gold Bracklet which is pretty good for three days of playing poker.

Tom Dwan is one of the world’s top poker pros -- in both online and live action. He frequently plays for what has been described as "nosebleed" stakes at Full Tilt Poker. Dwan regular has huge million dollar swings on multiple occasions in online matches and big cash games. I am sure he is happy with his $381,885 pay day.