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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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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A very important characteristic in the game of Texas Hold em is conning your opponents by leading them to believe you have a superb poker hand, when in all honesty you could possibly you have the worst hand at the table. You may have heard this referred to as “Poker face”, an unreadable expression to trick your competitors into supposing something that might not be true.

Having a good hand is most likely going make you feel more anxious, could possibly cause your hands to shake, and your pulse race. These are tell-tale signs that your poker competition may notice very fast, especially if they know you well. Take care not to look at the pot if you have a good poker hand. This is an obvious gesture for your poker buddies that you are, in your head, adding up how many poker chips are in the pot.

In the situation where you have a mediocre or dreadful hand, try not to keep yourself from glancing at your poker buddies, don’t lower your head, and don’t act reluctant about your bet. In the event that you can convince yourself that your hand is just as good, or better than your fellow poker players; you will possibly fool them into believing this as well. Try to remember to make this seem as normal as possible. Your gestures and actions could be saying one thing, while the things you are talking about are making them believe something else.

Another important aspect of this game is to be conscious of the competition’s “poker tells”. A “tell” is a look or appearance that could might tell you what kind of poker hand they have. One important aspect to keep in mind is when your opponent is acting as though he has a strong hand; he, very likely, has a poor hand. On the contrary, if he is acting as if he’s holding a weak hand, he very likely is holding a strong poker hand.

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The Biggest cash prize yet was announced by Bodoglife, with the main Texas hold em event giving away $300,000. The total for the eight day event will be over $650,000, throughout the weeklong poker tournament. The Bodog Texas Hold em event will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues through Sunday, October 5th. The popular sportsbetting website will also feature six “Bounty” games, where the participants can win $109 in tournament credits for each Team Bodog poker participant they eliminate from the poker match. The hottest poker players will be playing all rivals in the Texas Hold em tournament.

Team Bodog star, Justin Bonomo, is undeniably thrilled about the Texas Hold em contest. Throughout his poker career, the 23 year old has brought home more than $1.4 million. He says that if you thought the first poker contest was huge, you will definitely be stunned with this year’s Texas Hold em Tournament and the prizes involved. He also challenges anyone that dares to eliminate him from the Texas hold em tournament to step forward.

The initial Bounty Tournament is going to be the first event in the contest on Sunday. Any poker competitor is able to buy-In directly into this, and any of the other poker events with cash. Or another alternative is to win their way into the poker events through the satellites which are held every night during the poker contest week. Bodog will have six bounty tournaments and seven “Championship Events”, that will have higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

Bodog’s event will have thirteen events which will lead up to the main poker event on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the championship with a guaranteed $300,000 in cold hard cash, despite the number of poker players in the contest. All the players who wish to enter the main contest will have to shell out $500 for the buy-in and in turn will obtain 10,000 in tournament chips.

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