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 game of poker used to be accessible only in casino hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada or from electronic poker machines, but now it is more widespread than ever in Sin City thanks to the internet and TV.

The well-known Venetian Hotel and Casino, is now betting on this new trend with its new audience-participation show called “The Real Deal!” in its showroom located in the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino, debuting in October.

This new idea will join comedy and game show elements to entertain its live audience. The audience will also be able to join in the popular game of Texas Holdem’ alongside the world’s best poker players. There will be prizes for the audience including a chance to win 1$ million.

In “The Real Deal!” the audience members will play with players like Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu. Around 10 of the World’s most famous poker players have already signed up for the show. The audience will be able to play along with the 90 minute game thanks to handheld, wireless, touch screen devices located on each seat.

“People who take a vacation in Las Vegas want to play poker games,” Negreanu says, “but obviously they can’t play in a big poker tournament with the players such as Doyle or Phil Hellmuth. But, in this show, they actually can.” At the beginning of each show, six audience members will be chosen to sit at the poker table on stage with two professional players. Each audience member is then involved in the action by being dealt a unique poker hand on their devices. Everyone in the showroom is then involved in the action with big-screen monitors located on stage.

The show’s producers say that you don’t have to be a poker player to join in the poker game. There are other ways to add to your point total, that doesn’t involve the game of poker necessarily. Betting on the suit of the next poker card or trying to guess which state a particular audience member is from, are just some of the ways to come out a champ in this game.

Creators of the show are also betting on the great personalities of the professional poker players to create some interesting moments. Someone like Scotty Nguyen, the flamboyant five-time World Series of Poker winner, definitely definitely knows how to entertain the audience and will provide some great entertainment in this revolutionary poker game show .

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