FullTiltPoker.com has recently unveiled an innovative informative site involving all the details of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an amazing online heads up challenge presenting some of the world’s best high stakes online players competing against the Heads Up Specialist Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The brand new site presents online poker players and followers the opportunity to monitor this incredible Full Tilt Poker Challenge and check out regular statistical updates. With this new “durrrr Challenge” site fans can track all the action and look at each hand played during durrrr Challenge, and get lots of statistical information, including number of hands played, session time, amount won, average won during each hand and tons more.

About six months ago, the twenty-three year old online poker pro issued a heads-up challenge for any poker player with the money, time and capability to accept it. Any poker star entering the challenge has to bet $500,000 against Tom’s $1.5 million. Tom’s challenge specifies that a minimum 50,000 poker hands need to be played at the same time at four or more poker tables of no-limit Hold’em or pot-limit Omaha. At the end of the challenge, the poker player who has more cash will earn the pool. In essence if you enter the poker challenge and win $1 after the 50,000 hands, then you will take home Dwan’s $1.5 Million, but if he wins by a dollar then he will win your $500,000.

Up to now, some poker players have accepted to play the “durrrr challenge”, including seven-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, but, only Patrick Antonius has accepted the poker challenge. Until now, both poker players have engaged in a total of 20,647 poker hands out of 50,000, with Tom Dwan up by $726,546 total.

If you would like to see more details on the Full Tilt Poker durrrr Challenge and Tom durrrr Dwan vs. Patrick Antonius, please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

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The hugely successful poker website FullTilt.com is taking the coverage to the next level with the 2009 WSOP with their 2009 WSOP News Page, a new website dedicated to inform customers on everything related to the 2009 WSOP, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, minute to minute updates, poker celebrities’ blogs and more.

FullTilt.com’s new 2009 WSOP Coverage Page is not the same ol’ news portal provided by most of the other sites. The website is divided into three areas, and includes a daily highlights section in where readers can get access to the 2009 WSOP events info, results, players and more in an articles series written by the FullTiltPoker.com writers Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the usual daily updates and results on all of the poker event, Full Tilt Poker’s 2009 WSOP News Page also features two poker blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which features comments, wsop news, insider info from Full Tilt star players, opinions from Full Tilt’s readers and writers and guest posts from other poker bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which features comments from members of Team Full Tilt participating in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

In addition, FullTiltPoker.com’s new WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter section that gives round the clock updates and commentary from different poker pros. Some of the players that participate in the Twitter area include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter section lets players to create short messages allowing people from around the world to stay informed. These comments known as “tweets”, can be forwarded from all over through a mobile phone or other portable device.

To see more information on  Full Tilt Poker’s new WSOP Coverage Page please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/series-coverage.

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Open to ALL WDIAV Forum Members

This is your LAST BEST CHANCE to win one of SIX $1,500 2009 World Series of Poker event tickets in Las Vegas!

May 17th, 9 pm EST - Put it on your calendar! $500 Freeroll PLUS a chance to win a ticket to our WSOP Step 4 final where we are giving away 6 WSOP seats. Top 18 placers in the event will win a Step 4 ticket.

Terms and conditions:

1. You MUST be a registered WDIAV Forum member. This Freeroll will be by pre-registration ONLY. No password.

2. You MUST have a minimum of 50 valid (i.e. non-spam or redundant) posts to the forum threads.

3. You must have a minimum of 50 forum points available to enter. You can still earn points under the CURRENT point system (more about that below) by making posts to the forum and by posting your avatar. When you enter this final freeroll tournament, you will be redeeming ALL of your current forum points for this last chance to win.

4. All Step 4 Tickets are transferable to another forum member or WDIAV Player. Anyone found selling tickets will be immediately disqualified and their forum account will be cancelled. All tickets have no cash value.

5. WSOP seat(s) are non-transferable and have no cash value. You must be present at the RIO with your Harrah’s players card to obtain your WSOP seat.

6. You MUST be 21 years old at the time you present your ticket in Las Vegas for your $1,500 event #7 seat. This event will be played on June 2nd, 2009 at 12 noon.

7. Winners are responsible for any and all taxes, travel, expenses and any other costs incurred in this promotion. Winners of WSOP seats agree to wear the shirt and hat of our choice while playing in the event. Winners agree to hold WDIAV harmless for any occurrence as a result of this promotion. Void where prohibited or restricted by law.

8. The final date to earn forum points and to make 50 posts to the forum is May 15th, 2009. After that date, forum members who try to enter this tournament by completing their posts and points will not be allowed to play in this tournament!

If you haven’t had time to earn points and post into the forum or you’re a new forum member, here’s your chance to get into a really GREAT DEAL! Get your points and posts into the WDIAV forum by NO LATER than May 12th, 2009.

ANNOUNCEMENT - WDIAV POINTS WILL BE CHANGING

We’ve been working hard to try to create a point system that rewards forum members who contribute to our forum and who make it a fun and interesting place to visit. The DAY AFTER this special tournament, we will be announcing our new forum point system. At that time, all old WDIAV points will be come invalid.

Some of the new features:

* Automatic point calculation

* Automatic point redemption for passwords to tournaments

* Point rewards for all parts of the forum - threads, posts, photos, videos, referrals, blogs, comments, adding events to the calendar and much more.

* Redeem points for cash and gift certificates

Once again, we want to say thanks to all our members who have made our forum the success it is. Now we want to take it to the next step in enjoyment.

Regards, WDIAV Team

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Christmas cheer has struck a good number of the biggest online No-Limit Texas Hold’em websites this holiday season, and they are very kind with their bonuses. Depending on what sort of online Texas Hold’em Poker site special you are looking for; there is one out there that can help you out. Checking out the best internet Texas Hold’em websites, these were the best promotions in the business.

Opening up with the excellent internet poker site Full Tilt, their promotion is called “The Holiday $100k”. The poker site is giving all their No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker players an opportunity to take home $100k, by investing just 2000 points. This poker tournament will kick off on Dec. 27th and a second game on Dec. the 28th. Full Tilt Poker is also allowing players a chance to win their way into one of the games by participating in a Freeroll on the website.

The next Texas Hold’em website we visited was Ultimate Bet poker, they are running promotions every day during December. They have already given away IPods, a $1000 New depositer Freeroll, and on the 19th there is a chance to take home a flat screen TV. They have their their “Days of Deals” special running for the duration of December.

Lastly, PartyPoker.com is running “The Great Gift Giveaway”. The way to win is by climbing your way up the ladder and the more points you accumulate, the better the rewards you can win. There are lots of prizes offered to win such as admissions into prize tournaments or cash prizes. Additionally if you would like to play on the Texas Hold’em site on December 25th, PartyPoker.com will double up the points you make on their real money Texas Hold’em tables.

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The most detested individuals at the Texas Hold’em Poker table the majority of times will at all times be the attention-seeker. You have an idea of the one I’m telling you about. He’s the guy that pulls up a chair at the no-limit Texas Hold’em table and makes sure you’re conscious that he wants to take all of your Texas Hold’em Poker chips; exiting the no limit Texas Hold’em poker table with the very same mind-set that he showed-up with. Even if this guy loses, he has the idea that he is the best poker player on the globe.

Though the bulk of Texas Hold’em players would prefer to escape from competition of this sort, there exist other people who might argue that shooting off their mouths might have its rewards. So, the doubt that everyone has about this is: Is there such a thing as a clever no limit Texas Hold’em poker boaster or false no-limit Texas Hold’em boaster? Bragging about how clever you are in poker is really just like stating: “I am the most skilled Texas Hold’em player on earth, keep in mind to be on the ball while you’re playing a no limit Texas Hold’em poker game against me!” That is almost certain to be the nastiest vibe to give out playing Texas Hold’em. Plus, spilling too much information about your Texas Hold’em Poker playing approach can be damaging to your no-limit Texas Hold’em game. You unquestionably do not want these players to know how you play certain poker hands.

Also there are those no-limit Texas Hold’em opponents who might utilize show-boating as a sort of Texas Hold’em strategy, or bluff. Showing-off when you get a specific Texas Hold’em hand could possibly fool your opponents and leave them pretty confused about your no-limit Texas Hold’em playing method. Some people could believe that this technique somewhat tricky, but it is vital to consider that there are not too any rules against it in Texas Hold’em. Poker is all about doing the best with what you’re dealt and exploiting it to the utmost.

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This Sunday, November 30th CBS will air their special investigation show “How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters”. This special program was produced after a 4 month investigation into the online Texas Hold’em poker business and in particular a cheating scandal concerning the online Texas Hold’em page Absolute Poker.

This Texas Hold’em website was investigated after several of the poker players on the website declared that a player was unduly winning a great amount of poker hands. Todd Witteles was a key witness in this research, according to him; he was losing great amounts of poker chips to the exact same Texas Hold’em player. Witteles says that this gambler was raising against very good cards, most people would have presumed he was basically giving out his money, but he was essentially winning poker chips.

Witteles was quite correct in his assumptions, following this it was shown that a player with knowledge of the site was able to see any poker player’s poker hole cards. At first, Absolute Poker proclaimed that there was no wrongdoing with the room or the poker player. After many more players came forward with charges of fraud, the Texas Hold’em poker page examined deeper into the problem and made the discovery.

By January of 2008, the gaming commission unearthed what the poker competitors and the Texas Hold’em page had assumed all along. The investigation proved that, there was a worker who had invaded the poker room’s protection and was playing dishonestly for close to a month and a half. The inquiry confirmed that the Texas Hold’em website had not gained from the illegal actions in any way, and was definitely not implicated.

These scams are further testimony that there ought to be more control in regards to Texas Hold’em poker pages. The US government should authorize and control the online Texas Hold’em business to look after these decent consumers. These rules would also police the admission to these webpages by children, which is becoming another problem these days.

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Take a second to imagine if you were to have a chat with any normal guy or girl off the street about Texas Hold’em, they in all probability wouldn’t believe online Texas Hold’em poker to be a game of practice, planning, or observation. Chances are when you point out poker with them, they would probably envision some acquaintances sitting around their TV room having conversations and drinking beer. They also might believe online poker to be a game of pure luck and not ability, closer to a game of blackjack rather than a skill game, for instance.

So the big question is: “Could I become a millionaire playing poker?”. You may have your doubts but, you can actually make money this way. More than a few folks not just make some money by playing online Texas Hold’em poker, but also make a lot of money by playing the game. The key point you should keep in mind about online Texas Hold’em poker is that even though you can play in a Sin City casino, alongside roulette tables and slots; in online Texas Hold’em you are not competing against the house but against other online Texas Hold’em poker players. Therefore, in reality, you are risking your poker chips against other contenders in a match of talent unlike a game of luck.

You might be saying to yourself: “Isn’t being lucky a big part as well?” The truth is in Texas Hold’em poker, no one is aware which poker cards will be dealt out. That doesn’t mean that one can’t play poker games with a reliable amount of pre-tournament information. One major thing to remember in Texas Hold’em is that numbers will be your best friend. Math plays a very important part in the game of poker. Not forgetting, that even if you become a bit lucky regularly the numbers always seem to bring you back down to earth.

Keep in mind that Las Vegas casino games like poker where you are essentially competing versus other real-life poker players CAN be won. You will find that the more you play the game of poker, you will discover that it is more of game of talent and not just pure luck.

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The two most famous poker corporations around are joining forces before long in what is anticipated to be an extraordinarily profitable undertaking. The incredibly successful poker website FullTiltPoker.net has recently stated that they will be collaborating with World Poker Tour for the approaching W.P.T.E. season. FullTiltPoker.net is scheduled the chief benefactor of the World World Poker Tour’s 7th, and the online poker room is going to be featured in each and every one of the episodes which are shown on Fox Sports Net channel. Full Tilt Poker will secure all the rights to the instructive segments of the episodes.

Details of this merger have not been released as of yet, but the deal will definitely be a winner. This union will fuse two extremely formidable poker companies. W.P.T. which is a well-known brand on television through Fox Sports Net channel and Fulltiltpoker which has a gigantic online poker following, not to mention a poker lineup consisting of players who have collected a total of 10 W.P.T.E. awards and thirty-five WSOP bracelets. Fulltiltpoker also supports many other poker stars and now the online poker site has begun offering Texas Hold’em poker instruction as well.

This accord is certain to lure a brand new fan base and is certain to meet with the newfound fame which Texas Hold’em is spawning. This accord denotes World Poker Tour Enterprises’ submission of the Texas Hold’em room business as W.P.T.E. will more than likely close their Texas Hold’em poker page WPT online. The pay to play page ClubWPT.com will most likely carry on as usual.

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The advantages of online poker opposed to real Texas Holdem casinos are never-ending, but in addition to these advantages there are also several hindrances. Full Tilt Poker allows beginner players the chance to play in actual tournaments with poker champs, but these beginner players ought to avoid any disruptions that could harm their opportunities to gain an advantage.

Lots of online Texas Holdem poker players become sidetracked by what is happening around them, or even by the Full Tilt Poker room they are playing on. These disturbances can actually cost them excellent poker hands and probably their well-merited Texas Holdem Poker chips. The game of Texas Hold em poker is a game of proficiency as well as full awareness, no matter if you are playing online Texas Hold em, or in a real poker room.

Probably, the greatest mistake that online poker players commit is by playing at more than one poker table at the same time. The greater part of amateur internet poker players will think that this is a good plan, but at the end of the day it may workout to be a loss. This technique of playing different poker tables in sequence will impair your focus and ultimately cost you Texas Holdem chips. Remember that even the greatest Texas Holdem poker players out there can commit costly errors while focusing their mind on numerous internet poker tables simultaneously.

Any given Full Tilt Poker player, might at any time, find themselves playing diverse Full Tilt Poker tables at once, while watching their favorite TV show, reading their favorite websites, talking to friends etc. This is a state that must be avoided if you long to win Texas Holdem games and meet the requirements for big internet poker tournaments. Keep in mind to focus your thoughts on the other Full Tilt Poker player’s bets, their actions, and your own online Texas Holdem hands if you really wish to beat your poker competitors.

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The wildly successful online poker website FullTiltPoker.com, just publicized that for the tenth time they will run the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” in the first week of November. This poker championship will start out with a $216 no-limit Texas Hold em championship. The Texas Hold em tournament will have a guaranteed $15 million worth of prizes at stake. The Texas Hold Em championship has 25 Texas Hold Em events leading up to the main event on Sunday, November 16th which will offer a $2.5 million prize pool.

There is an opportunity for any poker player to play in the poker tournament, by earning as many satellite wins as possible. Taking into account how many satellite games you win, the more FTOPS chips you will receive. If you are successful in winning more satellite events than the competition, you will win two more buy-ins for the FTOPS. The satellite poker games are taking place at the moment, and anyone who is a member of FullTiltPoker.com can participate.

The Full Tilt Texas Hold Em Tournament was created in 2006 and it had 8 events and awarded $1 million in prizes. Since then, the The Full Tilt Texas Hold Em tournament has become particularly famous, with the previous year’s poker tournament hosting 25 events and a prize pool of more than $15 million. The FTOPS X poker tournament will present a Two-Day Event with unprecedented buy-ins of $2500-$5000. The Initial Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that Full Tilt Poker Championship had a prize pool that totaled over $400,000. This Two-Day event has a promised poker pot of around $2 million. This Texas Hold Em tournament will start on Sat., Nov. 15th.

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