Full Tilt Poker has just opened an original info section containing all the information of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an amazing online heads up tournament highlighting some of the best big money online poker players competing against the online poker phenom Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The innovative new website offers online poker players and fans the opportunity to monitor this amazing durrrr challenge and receive frequent challenge details. With this fresh “durrrr Challenge” site fans can track all the poker action and check out each poker hand played during the poker challenge, and check out lots of statistics, including number of hands played, session time, amount won, average won during each hand and much more.

Around six months ago, the 23 year old internet poker professional issued a heads-up challenge open to any player with the cash, time and capability to accept it. Any player entering the poker challenge has to bet $500,000 against durrrr’s $1.5 million. Tom’s challenge states that a minimum 50,000 poker 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 durrrr challenge, the player who has more money will secure the pool. Basically if you enter the Full Tilt Challenge and win $1 after the 50,000 hands, then you will take home Tom’s $1.5 Million, but if he triumphs by a dollar then he will win your $500,000.

Up to now, some poker pros have agreed to to play the “durrrr challenge”, including seven-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, yet, only Patrick Antonius has consented to the durrrr challenge. Thus far, both poker players have completed in a total of 20,647 poker hands out of 50,000, with Tom ahead $726,546 total.

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

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World leading online poker website Full Tilt is upping the ante on the news from 2009 WSOP in Vegas with their 2009 World Series of Poker Informative Page, a informative site created exclusively to keep players informed on every detail related to the 2009 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, timely updates, players’ blogs and more.

Full Tilt 2009 WSOP News 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 WSOP Coverage 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 the new 2009 World Series of Poker News 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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Holiday cheer has hit a good number of the most popular internet No-Limit Texas Hold’em sites this Christmas season, and they have been extremely generous with their promotions. Depending on what kind of online Texas Hold’em Poker site promotion you are looking for; there is one that you will like. Looking at the top internet poker rooms, we discovered these promotions.

Starting off with the always popular online No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker room Full Tilt, they are offering “The Holiday $100k”. The poker site is giving all their No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker players a chance to take home $100k, by investing just 2000 points. This Texas Hold’em game will commence on December 27th and there will be a 2nd game on December the 28th. Full Tilt Poker is also allowing members an opportunity to gain entry into one of the promotions by playing in a Freeroll.

The next Texas Hold’em Poker room we looked at was Ultimate Bet poker, they are running promotions each day all through December. Already they have awarded IPods, a $1000 New depositer Freeroll, and on the 19th you could qualify to take home a flat screen TV. The poker site has their “Days of Deals” promotion continuing during the month of December.

To finish things off, PartyPoker.com is running “The Great Gift Giveaway”. The way you can win is by winning your way up various levels and the more points you win, the better the gifts you will be able to take home. There are countless prizes open to win such as entries into prize tournaments or cash payments. Furthermore if you happen to play on the poker site on Xmas Day, PartyPoker.com will duplicate your points on their real money poker tables.

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Certainly the most detested players at the poker table time and time again will continually be the bragger. You recognize the player I’m talking about. He’s the one that finds a chair at the Texas Hold’em Poker table and makes evident you’re aware that he wants all of your Texas Hold’em Poker chips; parting the Texas Hold’em table with the very same mind-set that he arrived with. Even if he gets killed, he has the thought that he is the finest Texas Hold’em Poker player on the globe.

Though the bulk of poker players would preferably escape from rivals of this sort, there are those who could say that shooting off their mouths might have its good points. So, the big doubt is: Is there honestly such a thing as a clever no-limit Texas Hold’em attention-seeker or a deceitful Texas Hold’em Poker attention-seeker? Showing-off about how accomplished you are in no limit Texas Hold’em poker is mainly just like stating: “I am the most skilled Texas Hold’em player in the world, keep in mind to play the best you can while you’re playing a Texas Hold’em tournament against me!” Most certainly that is the most terrible vibe to send out playing no-limit Texas Hold’em. What’s more, sharing too much information about your no limit Texas Hold’em poker playing method can be quite detrimental to your poker game. You undeniably do not want these guys to know how you play particular no limit Texas Hold’em poker hands.

In addition there are those poker players who may make use of bragging as a kind of Texas Hold’em trick, or bluff. Show-boating when you have a specific no-limit Texas Hold’em hand might fool your opponents and stump them about your no-limit Texas Hold’em playing method. Some people may think that this tactic a bit sneaky, but it is vital to bear in mind that there aren’t any rules against it in Texas Hold’em. Texas Hold’em Poker is all about making a dollar out of fifteen cents and taking advantage of it to the fullest.

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This Sunday, November 30th the CBS network will premiere their investigation special “How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters”. This special investigation show was filmed after a 4 month examination into the online Texas Hold’em poker industry and in particular a con concerning the online Texas Hold’em site Absolute Poker.

This Texas Hold’em poker page was probed after some of the Texas Hold’em poker players on the site stated that a player was illegally winning an incredible amount of money. Todd Witteles was a major witness in this study, according to him; he was losing huge amounts of cash to the very same Texas Hold’em poker player. Witteles says that this man was raising against awfully good poker hands, anyone would have believed he was simply handing over his money, but he was in fact winning poker chips.

Witteles was correct about his statements, later on it was discovered that a player who knew about the site was able to see any poker player’s hole cards. At first look, Absolute Poker stated that there were no issues with the page or the poker competitor. After numerous players came forward with accusations, the poker website investigated further into the situation and made the discovery.

In January of 2008, the KGC exposed what the Texas Hold’em players and the Texas Hold’em page had assumed all the time. The investigation proved that, there was an employee who had invaded the Texas Hold’em page’s security system and was competing dishonestly for approximately six weeks. The investigation proved that the Texas Hold’em room had not profited from the illicit behavior in any way, and was definitely not implicated.

These issues are further confirmation that there must be more control in regards to online poker pages. The US government needs to license and control the online gambling business to shield these upright consumers. These laws would also police the admission to these websites by children, which tends to be another issue nowadays.

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Take a second to imagine if you were to have a chat with any typical person off the street about online poker, they in all probability wouldn’t consider online Texas Hold’em poker to be a game of strategy, planning, or close examination. More than likely when you talk about Texas Hold’em poker with them, they would almost certainly imagine some guys sitting around their kitchen table having conversations and drinking beer. They also might consider Texas Hold’em to be a game of luck rather than ability, more similar to a game of roulette rather than checkers, for instance.

So the big doubt is: “Can I become rich playing poker?”. You may have your doubts but, the answer to this question is a very strong “yes”. Several people not just make a profit by playing online Texas Hold’em poker, but also become millionaires by competing in Texas Hold’em tournaments. The main issue you have to remember about online Texas Hold’em is that even though you can play in a Las Vegas casino, close to blackjack tables and slot machines; in online Texas Hold’em you are not working against the house but against other poker competitors. So, in reality, you are betting your hard cash against other players in a contest of ability as opposed to a game of fate.

You might be thinking to yourself: “What about the luck factor?” Obviously in online Texas Hold’em poker, not a soul has any idea which hands will be dealt. That doesn’t signify that you can’t play with a dependable amount of pre-tournament knowledge. One thing that is important to remember in online poker is that numbers never lie. Statistics has a rather essential role in the game of poker. Not forgetting, that even if you become rather lucky frequently the stats always seem to bring you back down to earth.

Try to remember that Sin City casino table games like online poker where you are essentially playing vs. other real-life poker players CAN be won. One will find that the more you play the game of Texas Hold’em, you will realize that it is more of game of skill as opposed to just pure chance.

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Two of the most important poker businesses around are signing a sponsorship deal presently in what is expected to be a very popular endeavor. The enormously successful poker site FullTiltPoker.com has recently publicized that they are going to be partnering with World Poker Tour for the approaching World Poker Tour season. Full Tilt Poker will be the chief backer of the World WPT’s seventh season, and the online poker website will be highlighted in every one of the shows which can be seen on FSN. FullTiltPoker.com will secure all the control of the learning portion of the shows.

Facts of this union have not been made known thus far, but the deal is certain be a sensation. This deal will bring together two very powerful Texas Hold’em poker brands. World Poker Tour which is a renowned brand on television due to F.S.N. and Fulltiltpoker which has a vast Texas Hold’em poker following, and a Texas Hold’em lineup including players who have won a total of 10 WPT titles and 35 W.S.O.P. bracelets. Full Tilt Poker also sponsors many other Texas Hold’em stars and now the online poker webpage has started presenting poker coaching also.

This partnership is certain to lure a new set of fans and is guaranteed to fill the new notoriety which Texas Hold’em is producing. This union implies World Poker Tour Enterprises’ forfeit of the Texas Hold’em poker room enterprise as WPT will shortly shut their online poker site World Poker Tour Enterprises online. Their pay page ClubWPT.com will almost certainly stay open.

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The advantages of internet poker vs. real-life casinos are vast, but besides these advantages there are also a few hindrances. Internet poker lets beginner players the prospect to try their luck in actual tournaments with expert Texas Hold em players, but these non-professional Texas Hold em players need to avoid any diversions that could impair their possibilities to come out ahead.

Lots of Full Tilt Poker players become diverted by their environment, or even by the Full Tilt Poker website they are playing on. These diversions can really cost them superb poker hands and probably their well-merited poker tournament chips. The game of poker is a game of proficiency not to mention full focus, no matter if you are playing online Texas Hold em, or in an actual brick and mortar casino.

Possibly, the biggest slip that online Texas Holdem poker players commit is by being involved in more than one poker table at the same time. The better part of amateur internet poker players will believe that this is a good scheme, but ultimately it may turn out to be a disadvantage. This way of playing different Texas Hold em poker tables simultaneously will hurt your concentration and in the end cost you money. Always remember that even the expert Texas Holdem players in the world can commit damaging errors when concentrating their attention on a few online poker tables at once.

Any given Full Tilt Poker player, maybe at some moment, find themselves playing different Full Tilt Poker tables at the same time, while watching their favorite TV show, reading their favorite poker blogs, talking on the phone to friends etc. This is a scenario which ought to be shunned if you aspire to win satellite games and succeed for big internet poker tournaments. Remember to focus your thoughts on the other online Texas Holdem player’s bets, their actions, and your own Full Tilt Poker hands if you want to be the best poker player.

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The successful online poker site FullTiltPoker.com, just let everyone know that for the 10th consecutive time they will run the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” in the first week of November. This well-known tournament will get started with a $216 no-limit Texas Hold em event. The Texas Hold em tournament will have a guaranteed prize pool of $15 million. The FulltiltPoker.com tournament has 25 poker events with the main poker tournament on Sunday, November 16th which has a prize pool consisting of $2.5 million.

There is a chance for any Texas Hold em poker player to play in the poker tournament, by coming first in as many satellite games as possible. Judging by how many satellite games you take first place in, the more tournament money you will receive. If by chance you win more satellite tournaments than the other players, you will gain the tournament equivalent of two more FTOPS buy-ins. The satellite games are are going on now, and are open for members of Full Tilt Poker.

The Full Tilt Poker Tournament started in 2006 with a total of 8 events and gave out over $1 million. At the present, the poker tournament has become hugely popular, with last year’s tournament holding 25 Texas Hold em events and awarding over $15 million. This year’s tournament will present a Two-Day Event which will have buy-ins of $2500 to $5000. The original Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that year’s FTOPS had a winner that was able to take $400,000 home with him. This year’s Two-Day event has a promised prize pool of at least $2 million. This Two-Day Texas Hold Em tournament will start on the 15th of November.

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