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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is it more effective to play a tight Texas holdem’ tournament or a loose Texas holdem’ tournament?

You will unquestionably hear two theories from your fellow poker players or perhaps the so-called poker professionals. Let’s look first at the tight poker players. Each player including yourself will find it hard winning, if the entire poker table is playing tight. Probably if you have a table full of tight players what may happen is the poker players will finish up trading the smaller pots back and forth to each other. All the while the casino is raking in loads of your hard-earned cash, and that of your competitors. So now you might think, is it better to play loose? Well, in this situation the better players are going to lose fewer hands, but at the end of it all nobody is going to prevail.

How can I better my Texas holdem’ playing in the long run?

The answer to this question is as simple as a piece of paper and a pen. A terrific plan to find out a lot about your playing method and tactic, is to keep some sort of record of your Texas holdem’ playing. It’s possible to write down this information during the Texas holdem’ game, and then transfer it to a database on your home computer. This can also help you learn about your challenger’s playing style, and what is the best tactic to overpower them.

Should I use the same strategy for every Texas holdem’ tournament?

If you think that being predictable is a winning tactic for playing Texas holdem’, then you should think about altering your poker strategy. The Texas holdem’ pros agree that modifying your Texas holdem’ playing method is the best way to confuse and puzzle your poker opponents. You should analyze a handful of tactics, find the ones that work for you and vary them for every Texas holdem’ game.

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According to the 2006 World Series of Poker champion, Jamie Gold, he wants to be celebrated as the greatest bluffer in the world. But if his last tournament is any clue, his wish may not come true any time soon.

The location is the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic held at the Las Vegas Bellagio Hotel and Casino in 2007. Featuring $50 - $100 blinds and a $15,000 buy-in, Darrell Dicken is hanging on in the tournament for dear life. The seat 4 player has just raised his wager to $300, a pretty small increase with only one player biting the line. “I put him as being weak,” Jamie said, “I was thinking about raising, but instead I just called with a 10-3 of hearts to see what would happen.”

Jamie thought that Brad Booth would make some kind of move, which he did. He re-raised to $1600 from the big blind. Gold was thinking that Booth had a decent hand, but he was in a good position to make a move taking into account the amount of dead money in the pot. Dicken ended up folding, and the unknown in Seat 4 called Booth’s raise.

At this point there was more than $4000 in the pot, so Jamie wagered another $4000. He was thinking, only if someone else had aces or kings there would be no way they would make that call. Jamie’s strategy was to make a huge move on the flop, as long as no ace came up. The second part of his strategy was to get Booth to fold, which he did. Booth folded with pocket queens.

Out of the flop there was an ace of ace-6-5, two clubs. The player in seat 4 checked and Jamie bet $2000. Jamie’s initial thought was to make him think that he had clubs. Seat 4 tossed out a $10,000 chip, but didn’t say anything thus converting his raise into a call. Jamie’s thought was that seat 4 definitely had an ace, but you have to protect it in case he hits his set on the following card.

A 2 of hearts appeared on the turn, and Jamie folded to what he was thinking was a top pair kicker. Seat 4 displayed a king-jack off suit. Seat 4 outplayed Gold by bluffing with a better hand, he created a great play and continued with the bluff straight to the end.

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