FullTilt Poker have opened up four new tables to cater for Tom Dwan a.k.a “durrrr” whom recently challenged any poker player in the world bar Phil Galfond “OMGClayAiken” to a contest in which he (Dwan) will put up to $1,5 million of his money up against $500,000 of any rivals, the contest involves playing four $200/$400 heads up tables consecutively over a minimum of 50,000 poker hands, Durrrr has permitted his opponent to select from either Pot Limit Omaha or No Limit Hold’em or a mixture of the two, should the contender end up ahead of Durrrr after the allotted hands he will win the challenge and take down the $1.5 million side bet prize should the contestant loose he would be out of $500,000 in addition to keeping any money that was won during the sessions.
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The 40th Annual World Series of Poker 2009 takes place between 27th May till 15th July with the remaining top 9 players going through to the Main Event which is set for 7th – 10th November 2009. The overall cost of entering each event is $295,500. All 57 event winners will be awarded with a WSOP gold bracelet which is the highest achievement of any poker player career. For the 40th WSOP anniversary there is going to be a once off special No-Limit Holdem event to start the WSOP 2009 off with a bang the event estimates a field of more than 5000 players.
