FullTiltPoker.com has just launched a brand new informative site covering all the action of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an incredible online heads up tournament involving some of the finest big money poker players taking on the Heads Up Specialist Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The new website section gives poker players and followers the chance to stay on top of this historical online poker challenge and check out timely updates. With this innovative “durrrr heads up Challenge” portal fans can track all the details and look at each poker hand played during this poker challenge, and look at lots of stats, including how many hands were played, time of session, cash won, average won during each hand and lots more.

Close to six months ago, the 23 year old online poker phenomenon dealt out a heads-up poker challenge for any poker player with the cash, time and talent to accept it. Any player entering the poker challenge has to bet $500,000 against durrrr’s $1.5 million. Dwan’s challenge states that at least 50,000 hands need to be played simultaneously at 4 or more poker tables of no-limit Hold’em or pot-limit Omaha. At the end of the poker challenge, the poker player who has more cash will secure the pool. Basically if you enter the Full Tilt Challenge and win a dollar after the 50,000 hands, then you will take home durrrr’s $1.5 Million, but if he succeeds by a dollar then he will take your $500,000.

So far, several poker players have accepted to play the “durrrr challenge”, including WSOP Champ Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, but, only Patrick Antonius has accepted the challenge. Thus far, both poker players have completed in a total of 20,647 poker hands out of 50,000, with Tom durrrr Dwan ahead $726,546 total.

If you would like to see more details on the Full Tilt Poker durrrr Challenge and durrrr vs. Antonius, please stop by http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

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The hugely successful poker website Full Tilt Poker is taking the coverage to the next level with the WSOP 2009 with their 2009 World Series of Poker Coverage Page, a new site dedicated to give poker players on everything related to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, updates, poker stars’ blogs and more.

FullTilt WSOP Coverage Page is not the usual information site provided by hundreds of other sites. Full Tilt WSOP Site is divided into three parts, and includes a daily highlights area in where players can get access to the WSOP 2009 events info, results, players and more in an articles series written by the FullTilt.com poker experts Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the run of the mill daily updates and results on all of the poker event, Full Tilt 2009 WSOP News Page also highlights two poker blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights commentary, poker news, insider info from FullTilt.com star players, opinions from FullTilt.com’s viewers and writers and guest posts from other poker bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which highlights posts from members of Team Full Tilt participating in the WSOP 2009, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

In addition, FullTilt.com WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter area that supplies immediate updates and info from various poker professionals. Some of the players that participate in the Twitter portion include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter section allows poker players to create short messages permitting people from around the world to listen to them. These updates known as “tweets” can be transmitted from any place in the world through a cellular phone or other portable device.

To see more information on FullTiltPoker.com’s new WSOP Coverage Page please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/series-coverage.

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Open to ALL WDIAV Forum Members

This is your LAST BEST CHANCE to win one of SIX $1,500 2009 World Series of Poker event tickets in Las Vegas!

May 17th, 9 pm EST - Put it on your calendar! $500 Freeroll PLUS a chance to win a ticket to our WSOP Step 4 final where we are giving away 6 WSOP seats. Top 18 placers in the event will win a Step 4 ticket.

Terms and conditions:

1. You MUST be a registered WDIAV Forum member. This Freeroll will be by pre-registration ONLY. No password.

2. You MUST have a minimum of 50 valid (i.e. non-spam or redundant) posts to the forum threads.

3. You must have a minimum of 50 forum points available to enter. You can still earn points under the CURRENT point system (more about that below) by making posts to the forum and by posting your avatar. When you enter this final freeroll tournament, you will be redeeming ALL of your current forum points for this last chance to win.

4. All Step 4 Tickets are transferable to another forum member or WDIAV Player. Anyone found selling tickets will be immediately disqualified and their forum account will be cancelled. All tickets have no cash value.

5. WSOP seat(s) are non-transferable and have no cash value. You must be present at the RIO with your Harrah’s players card to obtain your WSOP seat.

6. You MUST be 21 years old at the time you present your ticket in Las Vegas for your $1,500 event #7 seat. This event will be played on June 2nd, 2009 at 12 noon.

7. Winners are responsible for any and all taxes, travel, expenses and any other costs incurred in this promotion. Winners of WSOP seats agree to wear the shirt and hat of our choice while playing in the event. Winners agree to hold WDIAV harmless for any occurrence as a result of this promotion. Void where prohibited or restricted by law.

8. The final date to earn forum points and to make 50 posts to the forum is May 15th, 2009. After that date, forum members who try to enter this tournament by completing their posts and points will not be allowed to play in this tournament!

If you haven’t had time to earn points and post into the forum or you’re a new forum member, here’s your chance to get into a really GREAT DEAL! Get your points and posts into the WDIAV forum by NO LATER than May 12th, 2009.

ANNOUNCEMENT - WDIAV POINTS WILL BE CHANGING

We’ve been working hard to try to create a point system that rewards forum members who contribute to our forum and who make it a fun and interesting place to visit. The DAY AFTER this special tournament, we will be announcing our new forum point system. At that time, all old WDIAV points will be come invalid.

Some of the new features:

* Automatic point calculation

* Automatic point redemption for passwords to tournaments

* Point rewards for all parts of the forum - threads, posts, photos, videos, referrals, blogs, comments, adding events to the calendar and much more.

* Redeem points for cash and gift certificates

Once again, we want to say thanks to all our members who have made our forum the success it is. Now we want to take it to the next step in enjoyment.

Regards, WDIAV Team

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Christmas cheer has struck most of the most popular online poker rooms this holiday season, and they have become very giving with their bonuses. Taking into account what type of online No-Limit Poker site special you are searching for; there is one that you will like. Checking out the top internet poker sites, we came across these specials.

Starting things off with the ever popular online Texas Hold’em Poker website Full Tilt Poker, this site has “The Holiday $100k”. The poker site is granting all their Texas Hold’em players an opportunity to win $100,000, for buying-in with only 2000 points. This Texas Hold’em promotion will kick off on Dec. 27th and a second game on December the 28th. Full Tilt Poker is also allowing players an opportunity to win an entry into one of the tournaments by playing in a Freeroll on the website.

The 2nd Texas Hold’em Poker room we looked at was Ultimatebet.com poker, they are having promotions each day throughout December. They have already awarded IPods, a $1000 New depositer Freeroll, and on the 19th it is possible to win a flat screen TV. The poker website will have their “Days of Deals” promotion continuing during the month of December.

To finish, PartyPoker.com is promoting “The Great Gift Giveaway”. The way it works is by climbing your way up the ladder and the more points you collect, the better the rewards you can win. There are scores of prizes open to win such as entries into prize tournaments or cash payments. In addition if you happen to play on the Texas Hold’em Poker room on Christmas Day, PartyPoker.com will duplicate your points on the cash poker tables.

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The most insufferable characters at the Texas Hold’em table the majority of times will always be the show-off. You recognize the guy I’m talking of. He’s the guy that sits down at the Texas Hold’em Poker table and makes certain you’re aware that he wants to win all of your no limit Texas Hold’em poker chips; exiting the no limit Texas Hold’em poker table with the very same outlook that he showed-up with. Even if this guy gets killed, he has in his mind that he is the finest no limit Texas Hold’em poker player on the planet.

Though the majority of poker players would preferably keep away from competition of this class, there are those who might argue that shooting off their mouths might have its good points. So, the big question is: Is there really a skillful Texas Hold’em Poker attention-seeker or dishonest poker attention-seeker? Boasting about how skillful you are in poker is basically just like stating: “I’m the best poker player around, always remember to stay on top of things while you’re sitting in a no-limit Texas Hold’em game against me!” Most certainly that is the most terrible vibe to give out playing poker. What’s more, spilling too much information about your no-limit Texas Hold’em playing approach can be unfavorable to your poker game. You positively do not want these individuals to have an idea about how you bet on specific Texas Hold’em hands.

Furthermore there are those Texas Hold’em Poker competitors who might utilize bragging as a style of Texas Hold’em Poker trick, or bluff. Shooting off your mouth when you get a certain poker hand could possibly fool your opponents and baffle them about your poker playing style. There are those who might think that this plan somewhat deceitful, but it is key to not forget that there aren’t any regulations against it in no-limit Texas Hold’em. Poker is all about making use of what you have and utilizing it to the end.

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This Sunday, November 30th the CBS network will show their special program “How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters”. This investigation special was created after a sixteen week study into the online Texas Hold’em poker industry and particularly a scandal in relation to the online poker website Absolute Poker.

This Texas Hold’em poker webpage was studied after some of the Texas Hold’em poker players on the webpage stated that some person was unlawfully winning an incredible amount of poker hands. Todd Witteles was a major witness in this inquiry, according to Witteles; he was losing huge amounts of money to the exact same Texas Hold’em poker player. Witteles declared that this poker player was raising against awfully good cards, most players would have assumed he was simply giving his money to the other players, but he was incredibly earning tons of chips.

Witteles was pretty accurate with his assumptions, it was later discovered that a poker player who knew about the site was able to view any player’s poker hole cards. With the first look, Absolute Poker proclaimed that there were no issues with the website or the Texas Hold’em competitor. After a great deal of players presented the site with charges of fraud, the Texas Hold’em webpage looked deeper into the cheating problem and made the discovery.

By Jan. of this year, the KGC exposed what the Texas Hold’em poker competitors and the Texas Hold’em poker website had suspected all the time. It turned out that, there was an employee who had attacked the poker room’s security and was competing unlawfully for around a month and a half. The inquiry showed that the poker site had not benefited from the illegal transactions in any way, and was positively not implicated.

These situations are further evidence that there must be more laws regarding online Texas hold’em websites. The U.S. government should authorize and legalize the online Texas Hold’em poker industry to defend these decent customers. These guidelines would also regulate the entry to these websites by kids, which is turning into another fear nowadays.

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If you were to talk to any ordinary guy or girl off the street about online poker, they most likely wouldn’t deem Texas Hold’em poker to be a game of tactics, plans, or study. More than likely when you point out online Texas Hold’em poker with them, they would in all probability visualize some friends sitting around their living room having conversations and smoking cigars. They also could believe online poker to be a game of pure luck as opposed to skill, closer to a game of blackjack rather than chess, for instance.

So the big doubt is: “Would it be possible for me to make money by playing in poker tournaments?”. You may have your doubts but, the answer to this question is a very strong “yes”. Numerous folks not only make some money by playing online Texas Hold’em, but also become very rich by playing poker tournaments. The key point you need to remember about online Texas Hold’em is that although you can play in a Las Vegas, Nevada casino, close to roulette tables and slots; in Texas Hold’em you are not competing against the house but against other Texas Hold’em poker competitors. Therefore, in truth, you are gambling your money against other contenders in a match of aptitude as opposed to a game of chance.

You might be saying to yourself: “Isn’t being lucky a big part as well?” Of course in online Texas Hold’em poker, not a soul knows which hands will be dealt out. That doesn’t indicate that you can’t play poker with a dependable quantity of pre-game know-how. One key point to keep in mind in Texas Hold’em is that numbers do not lie. Statistics has a rather significant role in the game of poker. Not to mention, that even if you get a little lucky frequently the statistics always seem to humble you.

Don’t forget that Las Vegas, Nevada casino table games similar to Texas Hold’em poker where you are really competing versus other real-life contenders CAN be won. The more you play the game of online Texas Hold’em, you will notice that it is more of game of expertise and not just pure luck.

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The most important online poker businesses out there are integrating for the upcoming season in what is anticipated to be an enormously successful project. The extremely well-liked Texas Hold’em website Full Tilt Poker has recently stated that they are going to be joining with World Poker Tour for the following WPT season. Full Tilt Poker is scheduled the primary backer of the World World Poker Tour Enterprises’ television season, and the Texas Hold’em website is scheduled to be featured in every one of the shows which can be enjoyed on F.S.N.. Fulltiltpoker will obtain all the control of the educational segments of the episodes.

Particulars of this union have not been released thus far, but the pact is sure to be a great achievement. This union will fuse two enormously strong Texas Hold’em companies. W.P.T. which is a renowned name on television due to F.S.N. and FullTiltPoker.net which has an enormous online poker set of fans, as well as a Texas Hold’em poker lineup containing players who have accumulated a total of 10 World Poker Tour awards and thirty-five WSOP bracelets. FullTiltPoker.net also backs many other Texas Hold’em poker players and now the online poker site has begun providing Texas Hold’em poker lessons also.

This contract is sure to gain a whole new set of fans and is assured to suit the latest distinction which Texas Hold’em is creating. This agreement is a sign of W.P.T.’s forfeit of the online poker room enterprise as they will quickly close up their Texas Hold’em site World Poker Tour Enterprises online. Their membership site ClubWPT.com will most likely continue to operate.

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The advantages of Full Tilt Poker compared to real-life casinos are vast, but along with these benefits there are also a few troubles. Online poker lets at-home players the probability to try their luck in actual tournaments with pro Texas Hold em players, but these beginner players must shun away any interruptions that might impair their chances to come out ahead.

Most online poker players become too distracted by home distractions, or even by the online poker room they are playing on. These interruptions can in reality cost them great hands and even their well-deserved poker chips. The game of Texas Hold em poker is a game of talent not to mention complete concentration, no matter if you are playing at home, or in a real poker room.

Most likely, the most prevalent error that internet poker players commit is by competing in more than one online Texas Holdem poker room at the same time. The majority of amateur online poker players will imagine that this is a good scheme, but ultimately it may turn out to be a drawback. This system of playing several tables at once will damage your concentration and ultimately cost you Texas Holdem chips. Keep in mind that even the expert Texas Holdem poker players around can commit costly mistakes when directing their attention on different online poker tables at the same time.

Any particular Full Tilt Poker player, might at some moment, discover themselves playing different online Texas Holdem poker tables at one time, while watching television, reading their favorite poker blogs, talking on the phone to friends etc. This is a situation that must be avoided if you desire to win online poker games and succeed for big internet poker tournaments. Keep in mind to center your thoughts on the other online Texas Holdem poker player’s wagers, their actions, and your own online poker hands if you wish to become the best online poker player.

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The successful Texas Hold em website FullTiltPoker.com, just publicized that for the 10th consecutive time they will hold the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” at the beginning of November. This Full Tilt Poker Championship will start off with a $216 Texas Hold em buy-in tourney. The Texas Hold em tournament will have a guaranteed $15 million worth of prizes at stake. The Texas Hold Em championship has a total of 25 events leading up to the main event on Sunday, November 16th which has a prize pool consisting of $2.5 million.

There is a possibility for any FullTiltPoker.com player to join in the FTOPS, by earning as many satellite wins as they are able to do. Judging by how many satellite games you come first in, the more FTOPS cash you will receive. If by chance you win more satellite Texas Hold em games than the rest of the players, you will gain two more buy-ins for the tournaments. The satellite Texas Hold em games are being played at the moment, and are open for members of Full Tilt Poker.

The FTOPS tournament launched in 2006 and it had 8 events and a $1 million prize pool. Now, the tournament has become enormous, with the previous year’s tourney hosting 25 Texas Hold em events and giving away over $15 million. Next month’s tournament will present a Two-Day Event which will have buy-ins of $2500 to $5000. The first ever Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that year’s FTOPS had a winner take home a prize pool of $400,000. November’s Two-Day event has a assured pot of around $2 million. This event will launch on the 15th of November.

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