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.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 benefit of celebrities joining in famous poker tournaments that are televised or otherwise publicized is tremendous to the poker room and casino that hosts the event as well as the television broadcasting station that is fortunate enough to be able to benefit from the broadcast material. Whenever celebrities participate in famous Texas Hold’em poker tournaments and other types of competitions, it is a great boost to publicity all-around, for the tournament, for the establishment that hosts the tournament, for the television station that broadcast the tournament and even for the celebrity player that participates in the tournament. In the case of the National Poker League, Jennifer Tilly, a World Series of poker tournament bracelet winner, is tearing up the felt and doing everything that she can to compete in the tournament in hopes of winning big at the final event. Featured in movies such as The Crew, Bound and Liar Liar, Jennifer Tilly is a famous movie star and actress that is known for her voluptuous figure and seductive voice and has appeared in a variety of movies and other works, from all manner of genres. Her interest in poker and competing in poker tournaments such as the World Series of poker in Las Vegas and the That the tournament has been well chronicled, and many of her fans are supportive of her role as a semi-professional player.
By participating in a National Poker League tournament as well as other types of events and activities on such a well-publicized scale, the well endowed film actress and international movie star enjoys a level of publicity that cannot be attained in any other way. With the focus on publicity and promotional efforts, the establishment itself could not ask for a better method of promotion, as the simple presence of such a high level celebrity makes all the difference in the promotional effort of the poker room and casino establishment and can bring a tremendous amount of additional revenue and attention which translates very well into revenue and liquid cash dollars in the community as well as in the pocket of establishment proprietors.
By simply participating in the National Poker League tournament, Jennifer Tilly can effectively increase the publicity for the tournament, the National Poker League itself and her own career in the long-term. With this win-win situation, it only makes sense for talented celebrities to compete in these types of poker tournaments.

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