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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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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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 Biggest cash prize yet was announced by Bodog Poker site, with the main poker tournament awarding $300,000. The total for the eight day poker tournament will be more than $650,000, over the course of the weeklong Texas hold em tournament. The Bodog Texas Hold em event will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues until Sunday, October 5th. The well-known Texas Hold em tournament website will also feature six “Bounty” games, where the contestants can win $109 in poker credits for each Team Bodog poker player they eliminate from the poker contest. David Williams, Jean-Robert Bellande, Evelyn Ng and Justin Bonomo are just a small number of the Bodog poker pros challenging all rivals in the poker tournament.

Team Bodog star, Justin Bonomo, is indisputably energized about the poker championship. Throughout his poker career, the 23 year old has won over $1.4 million. He says that if you thought the first poker contest was a good one, you will definitely be stunned with this year’s poker contest and the prizes involved. He also challenges anyone that has the courage to knock him out of the Texas hold em tournament to come forward.

The initial Bounty Tournament is going to be the first event in the championship on Sunday. Any poker competitor is able to buy-In right into this, and any of the other poker events with cash. Or another option is to win their way into the poker events through the satellites which are held every night during the Texas Hold em contest week. There will be six bounty events and seven “Championship Events”, which will feature higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

There are thirteen games which will lead up to the main Texas Hold em contest Texas Hold em event on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the grand prize event with a guaranteed $300,000 in cash, regardless of the number of poker players in the championship. All the poker challengers who decide to enter the main Texas Hold em contest Texas Hold em event will have to pay $500 for the buy-in and in return will collect 10,000 in poker chips.

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Shortly after the beginning of last week’s charity celebrity poker game to aid the Paralyzed Veterans of America, Ben Affleck goes all-in with a flop of Ace-Nine-King and two diamonds. He winces when two of his opponents call the bet. He yells “Re-buy”, but the turn is a seven of hearts. Affleck is disappointed when a jack of diamonds is dealt on the river. He took the hand seriously even though there was no real cash at stake. This is just the kind of thing that Affleck and several other poker enthusiasts are petitioning for.

Over $100,000 was raised for the paralyzed victims, but this was not the only purpose of the poker tournament held in Coors Field. Members of the Poker Players Alliance are working very hard to legalize online poker in the United States. As part of their agenda, they are pushing to repeal the 2006 legislation Congress passed which bans U.S. Banks and credit card companies from processing transactions related to online gaming websites.

John Pappas, executive director of the Poker Players Alliance, is optimistic about the direction that the new congress will lead this decision. Pappas says that the alliance is pushing for a licensed industry, just for internet poker, and not for all online gaming. Pappas is interested in having a safe, regulated industry that all Americans can enjoy. The group is fighting for the rights of people and the privacy they deserve in their own home.

“There are misconceptions about poker and about online poker,” poker pro Andy Bloch said in between hands during the charity poker event. “Some people think that online poker is gambling like a slot machine, and it’s not.”

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Can you imagine walking into a popular Las Vegas, Nevada casino and seeing no poker dealers, chips, or cards? Well if this seems hard to believe, you may be in for a big surprise. The Vegas based casino Excalibur is now testing with this new ground-breaking idea of automating everything from the dealers, to the actual poker tables. Owners from the casino are going to equip the areas with 12 digital machines for a six-month trial period.
The North-Carolina based industry PokerTek is in charge of the electronic machines, which are revolutionizing the way poker will be played in Sin City. The business already has 230 machines around the world, with the biggest located in Casino du Montreal (a total of 25 machines were installed in this Canadian casino hotel).
So what are the negatives of this makeover? For starters, about 40 Excalibur poker dealers will be searching for new places to work. Some of these dealers have been working at the casino hotel since its opening in 1990. Todd DeRemer, Excalibur’s Vice President of Casino Operations, says that the poker dealers will be offered other dealer careers in the same casino.
According to DeRemer, the alteration is being made to give rookie players a chance to play this popular game without feeling intimidated. He had already played these new machines before deciding upon the renovation. “It’s not intimidating”, he says, “We think that aspect will bring back the business”.
The better machines will allow the players to play Texas hold’em, seven card stud and Omaha. 40-inch flat screen televisions, which are located in the core of the table, will illustrate each table’s community cards, gambler’s stakes and the pot.

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