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 is upping the ante on the news from 2009 WSOP in Vegas with their WSOP Coverage Page, a new platform created to provide players on everything related to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, timely updates, players’ blogs and more.

Full Tilt World Series of Poker Coverage Page is not the same ol’ news portal like hundreds of other sites. The website is separated into three areas, and includes a daily highlights area in where viewers can get access to the World Series of Poker 2009 events info, results, players and more in an articles series written by the Full Tilt writers Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the usual daily updates and results on all of the event, Full Tilt 2009 WSOP News Page also highlights two poker blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights comments, poker news, insider info from Full Tilt Poker Professionals, comments from Full Tilt Poker’s viewers and authors and guest posts from special guest bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which features posts from members of Team Full Tilt participating in the 2009 WSOP, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

Additionally, Full Tilt’s new WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter section that supplies live updates and notes from several poker pros. Poker players involved in the Twitter section include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter feed permits these players to send short messages letting the world know what’s going on. These messages known as “tweets”, can be transmitted from any place in the world through a cell phone or other hand-held device.

To see more information on Full Tilt Poker 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 hit nearly all of the top internet poker rooms this year, and they are very giving with their specials. Whatever sort of internet No-Limit Poker site special you are searching for; there is one that you will like. After looking at the biggest online poker websites, these were the best promotions in the business.

Beginning with the ever popular internet Texas Hold’em site FullTiltPoker, they have available the “The Holiday $100k”. The online poker room is giving all their Texas Hold’em members an opportunity to take home $100k, by buying-in with just 2000 points. This Texas Hold’em promotion will start on December 27th and then a 2nd chance on December the 28th. FullTiltPoker.com is also offering players a chance to gain entry into one of the games by participating in a Freeroll on the website.

The second No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker website we looked at was Ultimatebet.com poker, they are having specials each day all through this month. Already they have awarded IPods, a $1000 New depositer Freeroll, and on the 19th there is a chance to take home a flat screen TV. The popular website has their “Days of Deals” special continuing all through December.

Finally, Party Poker is announcing “The Great Gift Giveaway”. The way it works is by working your way up levels and the more points you accumulate, the higher the prizes you can win. There are loads of prizes on hand to win for example entries into prize tournaments or cash. Plus if you happen to play on the No-Limit Texas Hold’em website on Christmas Day, Party Poker will double up the points you gain on their cash No-Limit Texas Hold’em tables.

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Without a doubt the most despicable individuals at the Texas Hold’em Poker table the majority of times will continually be the show-off. You recognize the poker player I’m speaking of. He’s the one that sits down at the Texas Hold’em table and makes certain you’re conscious that he wants to win all of your Texas Hold’em chips; parting the no limit Texas Hold’em poker table with the exact same outlook that he came with. Even if the guy gets shut down, he has the idea that he is the best poker player around.

As most Texas Hold’em Poker players would rather steer clear of opponents of this class, there are other players who might say that show-boating may have its good points. So, the big doubt is: Is there in all reality a clever no limit Texas Hold’em poker show-off or false no limit Texas Hold’em poker bragger? Showing-off about how clever you are in no-limit Texas Hold’em is mostly just like admitting: “I am the most skilled no limit Texas Hold’em poker player in the world, don’t forget to stay on your A-game while you’re sitting in a no limit Texas Hold’em poker tournament against me!” Almost definitely the nastiest vibe to give off playing Texas Hold’em. Plus, spilling too much information about your poker playing techniques can be very damaging to your poker game. You most certainly do not want these guys to get a clue about how you play specific Texas Hold’em Poker hands.

What is more there are those no-limit Texas Hold’em opponents who could use showing-off as a kind of poker technique, or bluff. Boasting when you get a specific poker hand could possibly bewilder your opponents and puzzle them about your no-limit Texas Hold’em playing approach. Some people may deem this technique a bit devious, but it is significant to consider that there aren’t any regulations against it in no limit Texas Hold’em poker. Poker is all about making use of what you have and exploiting it to the fullest.

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On Sunday, November 30th the CBS network will show their special program “How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters”. This special was made after a 16-week study into the online poker business and in particular a deceitful scandal in relation to the online Texas Hold’em website Absolute Poker.

This Texas Hold’em room was examined after a number of the poker players on the site said that a player was unlawfully winning an incredible amount of cash. Todd Witteles was a major witness in this research, according to Witteles; he was losing incredible amounts of cash to the very same Texas Hold’em poker player. Witteles declared that this man was raising against extremely good cards, the majority of people would have guessed he was basically giving his money away, but he was incredibly winning money.

Witteles was correct with his suppositions, further down the line it was exposed that a player with knowledge of the site was able to spy on any player’s hole cards. At first glance, Absolute Poker claimed that nothing was wrong with the page or the Texas Hold’em poker player. After many more players showed up with charges of fraud, the poker website investigated further into the cheating problem and made the discovery.

In Jan. of this year, the KGC uncovered what the poker players and the poker website had supposed all along. As it turns out, there was a worker who had invaded the Texas Hold’em poker page’s protection and was competing illegally for more or less six weeks. The study proved that the Texas Hold’em webpage had not gained from the dishonest transactions by any means, and was in no way engaged in the activities.

These issues are further testimony that there should be more regulation regarding online gambling pages. The United States government should authorize and legalize the internet gambling industry to protect these upright clients. These laws would also control the admission to these sites by children, which is turning into another issue these days.

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If you were to talk to any ordinary person off the street about Texas Hold’em poker, they possibly wouldn’t believe poker to be a game of tactics, planning, or careful observation. Chances are when you refer to online poker with them, they would more than likely visualize some poker buddies sitting around their TV room talking and drinking beer. They also might believe online poker to be a game of chance rather than talent, more similar to a game of blackjack and not a skill game, for instance.

So the big question you might be asking yourself is: “Can I become rich playing poker?”. You might not believe it but, there are folks who actually earn a living this way. Several people not just rake in some cash by playing online poker, but also make a lot of money by playing poker. The first thing you have to remember about Texas Hold’em is that although you can play in a Sin City casino, close to blackjack tables and casino slots; in online Texas Hold’em poker you are not playing against the house but against other online poker competitors. So, in all reality, you are gambling your money against other players in a game of ability rather than a game of luck.

You may be thinking to yourself: “Doesn’t it pay to be lucky?” Naturally in Texas Hold’em poker, no one really knows which cards will be dealt out. That doesn’t necessarily mean that one cannot play Texas Hold’em poker with a dependable amount of pre-tournament know-how. One major thing to keep in mind in online poker is that numbers do not lie. Mathematics plays a very significant role in the game of Texas Hold’em poker. So much so, that even if you become somewhat fortunate frequently the statistics always have a way of humbling a poker player.

Always remember that Sin City casino games similar to online Texas Hold’em where you are in reality contending against other actual players CAN be won. The more you play the game of online poker, you will discover that it is more of game of expertise and not just genuine chance.

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Two of the most important online poker industries out there are joining forces for the upcoming season in what is anticipated to be an incredibly lucrative endeavor. The incredibly popular online poker website FullTiltPoker.net has recently publicized that they are going to be partnering with W.P.T.E. for the next W.P.T. season. Full Tilt Poker is scheduled the chief benefactor of the World World Poker Tour Enterprises’ TV season, and the poker site is scheduled to be highlighted in all of the installments which are aired on F.S.N.. FullTiltPoker.net will gain all the control of the instructive aspects of the installments.

Particulars of this merger have not been publicized thus far, but the merger is guaranteed to be a great achievement. This agreement will fuse two tremendously strong Texas Hold’em companies. World Poker Tour which is a famous name on TV via FSN and Fulltiltpoker which has a huge online fan base, as well as a poker team including players who have amassed a total of 10 W.P.T.E. titles and thirty-five W.S.O.P. bracelets. FullTiltPoker.com also sponsors many other Texas Hold’em stars and now the Texas Hold’em webpage has begun presenting poker coaching as well.

This union is guaranteed to bring in a fresh set of fans and is certain to fill the brand new status which Texas Hold’em poker is producing. This merger shows World Poker Tour’s forfeit of the Texas Hold’em room enterprise as World Poker Tour will more than likely close their Texas Hold’em website World Poker Tour online. Their pay to play webpage ClubWPT.com will almost certainly stay open.

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The rewards of online Texas Holdem poker versus real Texas Holdem casinos are infinite, but besides these advantages there are also a few drawbacks. Full Tilt Poker permits non-professional Texas Hold em players the option to try their luck in professional poker tournaments with professional players, but these beginner players should shun away any interruptions that could destroy their prospects to win lots of poker chips.

Lots of Full Tilt Poker players become preoccupied by what is happening around them, or perhaps by the Full Tilt Poker webpage they are playing on. These distractions can in fact cost them good Texas Hold em hands and quite possibly their well-merited poker chips. The game of poker is a game of skillfulness and also total awareness, no matter if you are competing at online Texas Holdem, or in a real-life poker room.

Most likely, the principal slip-up that Full Tilt Poker players commit is by being involved in more than one table at the same time. The majority of amateur Full Tilt Poker players will think that this is a good plan, but finally it could possibly prove to be a drawback. This way of playing several poker tables at the same time will damage your awareness and finally cost you money. Remember that even the expert poker players out there can make damaging miscalculations when focusing their mind on numerous online Texas Holdem tables simultaneously.

Any particular Full Tilt Poker player, might at any moment, find themselves playing different internet poker tables at the same time, at the same time as they are watching television, reading their favorite poker blogs, talking to friends etc. This is a situation that ought to be shunned if you aspire to win online Texas Holdem games and make the grade for big Full Tilt Poker tournaments. Never forget to focus your thoughts on the other online Texas Holdem poker player’s bets, their motives, and your own Full Tilt Poker hands if you want to be the best poker player.

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The wildly successful Texas Hold em website FullTiltPoker.com, just publicized that for the 10th consecutive time they will run the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” at the start of November. This Texas Hold em event will begin with a $216 no-limit Texas Hold em tourney. Fulltiltpoker.com will have a guaranteed prize pool of $15 million. The Texas Hold Em Poker tournament has a total of 25 events with the main poker tournament on Sunday, November 16th which will award $2.5 million in prize money.

There is an opportunity for any poker player to show their skills in the poker tournament, by succeeding in as many satellite games as they are able to do. Judging by how many satellite games you succeed in, the more FTOPS chips you will receive. If you happen to win more satellite poker games than the other players, you will win the tournament equivalent of two more FTOPS buy-ins. The satellite Texas Hold em games are open right now, and are open for the Full Tilt website members.

The Full Tilt Poker Tournament was created in 2006 with eight events and a $1 million prize pool. From then on, the FTOPS has become tremendously well-known, with the previous year’s poker tournament hosting 25 FTOPS events and prizes of over $15 million. FTOPS X will present a Two-Day Event with buy-ins ranging from $2500 to $5000. The original Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that Poker championship had a prize pool of $400,000. FTOPS X’s Two-Day event has a assured prize pool of a minimum $2 million. This FullTiltPoker.com Two-Day event will launch on Saturday, November 15th.

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