If you are a reasonably skilled online poker player, you will probably face a mix of opponents, some less skilled than you, some perhaps a bit more. However, circumstances may arise when you are facing much tougher opposition than you are used to facing. This may be because you have decided to move up in limits at your preferred poker sites or because the only table that is available happens to be one filled with pros that you recognize. Either way, you may want to adjust your strategy when this happen

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FullTiltPoker is revolutionizing the online poker world with the introduction of Rush Poker, a brand new and original poker format designed to offer the ultimate high-speed poker experience and lessen the wait time between poker hands.

This extremely quick and intense poker action gives poker players the opportunity to move through different poker tables, play different challengers in every poker hand and select the type of game (Hold’em, No Limit, etc) and set the stakes they want to play. Rush Poker players will also be able to organize the game list by other classes such as number of players, average pot or number of hands per hour.

Once you select the Rush Poker game you would like to play, all you need to do is double click on that game to enter the Rush Poker lobby. Players are also able access a Rush Poker game by using the “Rush Poker Lobby Widgets” accessible in Standard View.

Rush Poker is the world’s fastest poker game and can only be found at Full Tilt Poker. Check it out today for the most intense poker action in the world.

For more details, please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/rush-poker/details

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Harrah’s Enterprises, operator of the WSOP, has unveiled the official events list for the 41st annual WSOP set to begin from May 27th, 2010 with the Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em, and closing events on November 9th, 2010 with the Main Event final table.

The WSOP 2010 schedule names a total of 57 bracelets events, including three brand new poker events ($50,000 Player’s Championship Event #2, $10,000 H.O.R.S.E Event #43, World Championship, $25,000 6-Handed No-Limit tournament Event #52). The 2010 WSOP schedule refers to several alterations, for example, the $50.000 H.O.R.S.E event has been replaced with the $50,000 “Player’s Championship” (Event #2), featuring eight distinctive poker games (Limit Hold’em, Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better, Seven Card Razz, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better, No-Limit Hold’em, Pot-Limit Omaha, 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball).

The initial 5 weekends of the series (May 29-30, June 5-6, June 12-13, June 19-20 and June 26-27) will feature $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournaments with two starting flights. In addition, a sixth schedule of events on July 1-2, will also present the same event at the same buy-in level. The 41st annual World Series of Poker 2010 will close on Monday, July 5th with the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Championship Main Event. The Main Event will take some time off on July 17th, and will resume on four months later with the “November Nine” final table playing from November 6th-9th

Other modifications slated for the 2010 WSOP comprise of several new rules that will normalize the daily amount of play, and the addition of more poker tables. According to the 2010 World Series of Poker site, the entire convention center of the Rio Hotel and Casino Las Vegas will be devoted to the 2010 World Series of Poker, with tournament tables in the 58,000 square foot Pavilion and the 38,000 square foot Amazon Room.

The WSOP is also giving participants over five months to register for the first event on the 2010 World Series of Poker schedule. Pre-registration for the World Series of Poker is available at the Main Cage of the Rio Hotel and Casino Las Vegas and on the internet at the World WSOP 2010 website. Registration for all bracelet poker events will stay open until the start of the third level (approximately 2 hours, 20 minutes after start time) or until all seats are sold.

“Whatever your game and whatever your bankroll, the 2010 WSOP schedule offers something for everyone. We are planning for the largest WSOP ever and look forward to welcoming all players to the Rio in Las Vegas next summer.” said WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel.

World Series of Poker event list

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As WedoitallVegas reported here over the weekend, it has now been made public knowledge that ”durrrr” has officially signed with FullTiltPoker.com. The online poker site has given the heads-up specialist a warm welcome with an Official Website featuring a welcome video and other highlights from the career of Tom Dwan.

One of the best areas of the Official “durrrr” Prosite is the welcome video from Team Full Tilt members Howard Lederer, Andy Bloch, Jennifer Harman and others. The Tom “durrrr” Dwan video on FullTiltPoker.com also features an appearance from the legendary online poker player, Dwan.

Dwan has been keeping himself quite occupied as of late with a new Dwan blog, which will actually be authored from events of Tom “durrrr” Dwan himself. And let’s not forget the durrrr Challenge which is on its 27,185th poker hand out of the projected 50,000 total hands.

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FullTiltPoker has integrated a new poker bonus rewarding a minimum of $100 in bonus money to its online poker players simply for testing Full Tilt new client.

To apply this poker promo, players only need to earn one point from Full Tilt before July 28th. Poker players who don’t fulfill the terms are not qualified for the Biggest Bonus Ever offer. Poker players who qualify for this offer will have until 23:59 ET on August 16th to obtain the poker bonus.

To obtain the bonus, poker players will be required to open the Full Tilt Poker software, log in and click on the “Cashier” option in the game lobby, choose the “My Promotions” box in the cashier, choose the Biggest Bonus Ever link in the ‘My Promotions” gateway; this will take them to a section amplifying the details on how to get the Full Tilt Poker bonus.

Once players agree to their Biggest Bonus Ever offer, they will have 30 days to release the bonus money only by earning Full Tilt points in any real money poker games on the site.

Players of ring games will gain one Full Tilt point for each dollar raked from the pot in hands where they are dealt poker cards. Players can gain partial Full Tilt points if less than one dollar is raked, with a limit of three Full Tilt points gained per hand.

Sit & Go players will gain seven FullTiltPoker.com points for each dollar in tournament fees they pay. There is no cap for the number of Full Tilt points you can earn for each poker tournament.

For more information on Full Tilt Biggest Bonus Ever, please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/biggest-bonus-ever/overview?ck=ftp472930110217469.

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Full Tilt Poker will attempt to stamp its name on the Guinness Records and to do so; the site has announced that it will try to set a new record for the Largest Online Poker Tournament. Full Tilt’s Record Breaker tournament was unveiled as the finale to FIVE, a week of events and promotions created exclusively to celebrate the site’s 5^th anniversary. The tournament will take place on July 19th at 15:05ET, players can buy in for this event for only $5 or 1000 Full Tilt Points and compete for a share of a $250,000 guaranteed with $250,000 added prize pool. Players can also get entries to this event by playing the online satellites available on the site and starting for as little as 30 cents or 50 Full Tilt Points.

Team Full Tilt pros and WSOP bracelet winners Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson and Phil Ivey have already confirmed they will take part in the event, offering players the chance to sit down at this historic tournament and play with some of the best high stakes and tournament pros in the world.

“By extending the limits of what is possible in online poker tournaments, Full Tilt Poker will allow players to compete for a big payout without the big buy-in,” said Team Full Tilt member Howard Lederer.

Putting together a poker tournament of this magnitude would be nearly impossible for any brick and mortar casino or poker room. The current record for the largest “live” poker tournament was set at the 2006 WSOP Main Event with 8,772 players. To break the current Guinness Record set by PokeStars.com in December, 2008, Full Tilt Poker will need to attract over 35.000 players. If successful, this tournament will establish Full Tilt Poker as World Record holder and cement its reputation as a world leader in online poker industry.

For more information on Full Tilt’s Record Breaker tournament, please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/the-record-breaker.

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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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