As soon as I busted out of Event No. 14 last night, I took the opportunity to head over to the last two tables of a $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event to sweat Tom “durrrr” Dwan, who had a huge stack with about 16 players left.

Yes, durrrr was my No. 1 on the list of players I thought would stink this WSOP. But what I didn’t take into account was the massive amount of volume durrrr was willing to put in this series.

Durrrr and Simon Watt at the final table of Event No. 11

I figured he’d be distracted by high-stakes cash games and play a limited schedule, but he was even multi-tabling last night, playing in the $10,000 Stud Hi-Lo championship during his dinner break.

When I arrived to watch Event No. 11, durrrr was surely a favorite, but I had written before that I thought there was no chance he’d win a bracelet, so I bet a buddy $100 he wouldn’t take home the title and pulled up a chair to watch the madness.

Turns out I had a few people on my side.

Mike Matusow, Howard Lederer, Daniel Negreanu and a bevy of pros dropped by to root against durrrr. Apparently, durrrr placed a bunch of bets on himself to win a bracelet with other high-stakes pros, and the talk was, if Dawn won, he’d take home more than this year’s Main Event champion.

Elimination after elimination, durrrr was still standing, and the pros near me were getting more and more nervous, so I can’t imagine what Dwan was facing.

When it went three-handed, durrrr was up against New Zealander Simon Watt and online pro David Randall, and I was looking around to see if the pros were trying to buy out with Dwan.

As an aside, I was more than a little disappointed to see Randall go, mostly because I thought he had the best chance to beat durrrr. I thought he played the best of all the final table participants. For those who don’t know Randall, you might have seen his online name, malicious222, on the virtual tables – he’s earned more than $1 million in tournament play online. This is surely the first of a bunch of cashes this series for Randall, though he was visibly upset about getting bounced from this event, after Watt’s A-2 beat Randall’s A-K.

When Randall was eliminated, Watt had roughly a 3-to-1 chip lead on my count, but I still expected durrrr to run over him.

To my surprise, Watt fought back, winning a huge pot to cripple durrrr down to about 1.6 million in chips. With the blinds at 60,000/120,000, Dwan had to shove eventually.

Here’s the final hand:

On the button, Dwan shoves his remaining $1.6 million in the middle and Simon Watt, with about $10 million, instantly calls.

Showdown
Dwan: Q♦ 6♣
Watt: 9♦ 9♣

Flop: 8♣ A♣ A♠

Turn: A♦

River: K♥

After the hand, Dwan shook Watt’s hand and darted for the exit and I took my $100 and went to bed. For getting heads-up in a tournament with more than 2,300 people, Dwan took home $381,885, a mere pittance compared to the seven-figure score he was bound to collect if he won the thing.