The Durrrr Challenge seems to have faded with Durrrr currently ahead of Patrik Antonius by $140,380.00 having played 4,178 hands of the 50 000 scheduled for the event consisting of 6 total sessions taking 13 hours 12 minutes to date.
The slow down comes as a result of Durrrr taking a beating in 2009, he is currently losing approximately 4 million dollars this year at Full Tilt Poker with a recent losses over last weekend against Phil Ivey who got the better of “Durrrr” while playing two tables at FullTilt Poker’s $500/$1000 Pot Limit Omaha plus an additional 2 tables of $500/$1000 H.A (Hold’em, Omaha High), Phil Ivey managed to build chip stacks of $2 million dollars over the four deep stacked tables with Durrrr holding $1 million.
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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.
