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.

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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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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 most important online poker businesses out there are integrating for the upcoming season in what is anticipated to be an enormously successful project. The extremely well-liked Texas Hold’em website Full Tilt Poker has recently stated that they are going to be joining with World Poker Tour for the following WPT season. Full Tilt Poker is scheduled the primary backer of the World World Poker Tour Enterprises’ television season, and the Texas Hold’em website is scheduled to be featured in every one of the shows which can be enjoyed on F.S.N.. Fulltiltpoker will obtain all the control of the educational segments of the episodes.

Particulars of this union have not been released thus far, but the pact is sure to be a great achievement. This union will fuse two enormously strong Texas Hold’em companies. W.P.T. which is a renowned name on television due to F.S.N. and FullTiltPoker.net which has an enormous online poker set of fans, as well as a Texas Hold’em poker lineup containing players who have accumulated a total of 10 World Poker Tour awards and thirty-five WSOP bracelets. FullTiltPoker.net also backs many other Texas Hold’em poker players and now the online poker site has begun providing Texas Hold’em poker lessons also.

This contract is sure to gain a whole new set of fans and is assured to suit the latest distinction which Texas Hold’em is creating. This agreement is a sign of W.P.T.’s forfeit of the online poker room enterprise as they will quickly close up their Texas Hold’em site World Poker Tour Enterprises online. Their membership site ClubWPT.com will most likely continue to operate.

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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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With the popularity of the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas, it is standard practice to see the overwhelming multitude of tremendously talented professional level poker tournament players coming out of the woodwork to make their mark on the extraordinarily popular event year after year. As the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas serves more and more as a way for all of the best players from around the world both professional and amateur to go head-to-head, there is no end of interest in the event from both players and proprietors as well as advertisers and promoters and on down the incredibly long list of people and players who have their hands in the pot. With so many people involved in boosting the popularity of the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas and making it happen, there is an imperative need to profit from this type of venture in general. With this critical nature of the revenue that makes it to the World Series of poker tournament proprietors and organizers it is extraordinarily imperative to keep a high level of advertising and promotion and bring in all of the pros that are so good at spreading publicity and exposure for these types of events.

With this focus on providing the World Series of poker tournament with a tremendous level of advertising and marketing materials and pushing the information out in front of the specific audience, there is no end of marketing and advertising effort put into staying afloat and staying on top of the revenue generating cash cow that is the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas. As long as the tournament draws this extremely high level of popularity and attention from players around the world, it will very likely continue to be a critical part of the revenue stream that Las Vegas is comprised of. In the future, it will very likely depend on these types of extremely popular events for Las Vegas to continue generating revenue and enjoying the income that has been seen on a consistent basis annually from the World Series of poker tournaments that is held there. By attracting so many professional players as well as amateurs and spectators, the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas is a critical part of the revenue generating system and depends on the overwhelming amount of publicity and attention that the tournament brings in order to fuel the local economy and generate the revenue that is required to keep the system rolling and provide tremendous amounts of revenue for the proprietors and organizers that put so much effort into gearing up the advertising and marketing machine in Las Vegas in order to hype the World Series of poker tournament to begin with.

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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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Looking around at the next Las Vegas Texas Hold’em poker tournament that you have a chance to attend, it is easy to see that Asian players enjoy a far lower level of endorsements than their American counterparts, despite being strong winners or flamboyant players. With the seemingly unbalanced method of awarding endorsements to players, it is easy to see how Asian players could be upset and feel that they have been slighted when so few have been offered endorsement deals while lesser, non-Asian players are fielding offers from all manner of corporations such as Nike and other, unnamed textile clothing companies. Although there are many thousands of dollars that flow to the Texas Hold’em professional tournament players hands every year, in the case of the Asian players, no matter how successful they are, it is usually far more difficult to secure the type of endorsement deals that are hoped for by these types of players, looking for additional earnings to supplement their winnings. With the wildly popular method of endorsing professional Texas Hold’em poker tournament players and increasing the level of exposure for corporations endorsement package plans, Asian players go a long way towards keeping the sport alive. By slighting these players and not offering them the same endorsement package deals that are offered to other players, organizers and planners indicate their willingness to allow this type of insult to exist.

As Asian players and professional Texas Hold’em poker tournament organizers and planners grow increasingly more at odds with the other, it is seemingly unlikely that endorsement offers will come out of the woodwork overnight for these types of players. Whether based on ethnicity or culture, it is hard to tell what type of discrimination is occurring, but it does seem apparent that there is some type of discrimination against Asian players, seeing as how so many of them are so successful and yet still have no endorsement deals to choose from.

Endorsement deals for online poker room and casino players as well as their brick-and-mortar, traditional Texas Hold’em poker tournament player counterparts can be quite lucrative and it is easy to understand how Asian players can be upset that they have been passed over for these types of sharing plans again and again. Considering that some Asian players who successfully do well on a consistent basis see less promotional endorsement offers than even the lowest ranked native Caucasian player, it is easy to understand how these players can feel that they have been singled out and discriminated against.

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