FullTiltPoker.net has recently launched an original informative site containing all the action of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an intense online heads up poker tournament highlighting some of the greatest high stakes poker players challenging the Heads Up Specialist Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The brand new section offers online poker players and fans the opportunity to stay on top of this historical internet poker challenge and check out timely statistical updates. With this innovative “durrrr Challenge” section fans can follow all the poker action and review each hand played during this poker challenge, and look at tons of statistics, including how many hands were played, session time, cash won, average won during each hand and lots more.

Around six months ago, the twenty-three year old internet poker pro handed out a heads-up poker challenge open to any poker player with the loot, time and ability to accept it. Any poker star entering the durrrr challenge has to wager $500,000 against durrrr’s $1.5 million. Dwan’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 challenge, the poker player who has more money will take home the pool. Basically if you enter the challenge and win a dollar after the 50,000 poker hands, then you will get Tom’s $1.5 Million, but if he succeeds by $1 then he will take home your $500,000.

Thus far, a number of professional poker players have accepted to play the “durrrr challenge”, including WSOP Champ Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, however, only Patrick Antonius has said yes to the Full Tilt Poker Challenge. Until now, both poker pros have taken part in a total of 20,647 hands out of 50,000, with Tom leading the count $726,546 total.

For more info on the Full Tilt Poker durrrr Challenge and Tom durrrr Dwan vs. Patrick Antonius, please go to http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

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The most popular poker website FullTilt.com is taking the coverage to the next level with the WSOP 2009 with their 2009 World Series of Poker Coverage Page, a new portal built to give poker players on everything related to the WSOP 2009, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, timely updates, poker players’ blogs and more.

Full Tilt Poker’s new World Series of Poker Coverage Page is not the typical news portal provided by many other sites. Full Tilt’s Site is broken down into three areas, and includes a daily highlights area in where readers can get access to the 2009 WSOP events info, results, players and more in a series of articles written by the Full Tilt staff members Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Aside from the same ol’ daily updates and results on each and every event, FullTilt.com’s WSOP Coverage Page also highlights two in house blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights comments, covering news, insider info from Full Tilt Poker stars, opinions from FullTilt.com’s readers and writers and guest posts from other poker bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which features posts from members of Team Full Tilt participating in the World Series of Poker 2009, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

Additionally, FullTiltPoker.com’s new 2009 WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter section that gives immediate updates and notes from various poker players. 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 allows players to transmit short messages allowing people from around the world to stay informed. These messages known as “tweets”, can be transmitted from anywhere through a cellular phone or other portable device.

To view more info on  Full Tilt’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 hit the majority of the best internet Texas Hold’em sites this holiday season, and they have been quite kind with their promotions. Whatever kind of online No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker site special you are looking for; there is a perfect one for you. After visiting the biggest internet No-Limit Poker rooms, we found the following promotions.

Opening up with the always popular internet Texas Hold’em room FullTiltPoker, they are offering “The Holiday $100k”. The online poker site is granting all their Texas Hold’em players a chance to take home $100k, by cashing in only 2000 points. This Texas Hold’em Poker tournament will commence on December 27th and then a 2nd tournament on December the 28th. Full Tilt Poker is also offering members a chance to win an entry into one of the games by participating in a Freeroll on the website.

The second Texas Hold’em website we looked at was Ultimatebet.com poker, they are running specials every day during this month. They have already given away IPods, a $1000 New depositer Freeroll, and on the 19th you have an opportunity to win a flat screen TV. The popular website has their “Days of Deals” promotion running all through the month of December.

Lastly, Party Poker has “The Great Gift Giveaway”. The way you can win is by climbing your way up different levels and the more points you accumulate, the bigger the prizes you can win. There are countless prizes to be had to win like entries into prize tournaments or cash prizes. Plus if you would like to play on the Texas Hold’em room on December 25th, PartyPoker.com will double the points you gain on the real money No-Limit Texas Hold’em tables.

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Certainly the most despised players at the poker table time and time again will at all times be the boaster. You are familiar with the player I’m talking about. He’s the one that sits down at the poker table and makes sure you’re aware that he wants to win all of your no-limit Texas Hold’em chips; leaving the Texas Hold’em Poker table with the exact same posture that he turned up with. Even if this guy gets killed, he has in his mind that he is the finest no limit Texas Hold’em poker player in the world.

Whereas the majority of poker players would sooner keep away from rivals of this type, there exist other people who argue that showing-off might have its positive side. So, the question that everyone is asking is: Is there in all reality a good Texas Hold’em bragger or unfair Texas Hold’em boaster? Shooting off their mouths about how skilled you are in no-limit Texas Hold’em is really just like stating: “I’m the greatest Texas Hold’em player on the planet, always remember to be on the ball while you’re playing a Texas Hold’em Poker game against me!” Most certainly that is the worst vibe you are going to want to give off playing Texas Hold’em Poker. Also, giving away too much about your Texas Hold’em Poker playing manner can be harmful to your poker game. You most certainly do not want these guys to know how you play certain no limit Texas Hold’em poker hands.

Additionally there are those Texas Hold’em competitors who might make use of show-boating as a type of Texas Hold’em technique, or bluff. Show-boating when you are dealt a particular poker hand might fool your opponents and confuse them about your no-limit Texas Hold’em playing style. You will come across people who may consider this strategy a bit tricky, but it is important to remember that there are not too tons of rules against it in Texas Hold’em Poker. No-limit Texas Hold’em is all about working with what you got and taking advantage of it to the fullest.

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This Sunday, November 30th the CBS network will show their investigation special “How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters”. This special was shot after a 16-week inquiry into the online poker business and in particular a scam in relation to the online Texas Hold’em webpage Absolute Poker.

This poker site was inspected after a few of the Texas Hold’em players on the webpage said that someone was unduly winning an incredible amount of cash. Todd Witteles was a major player in this research, according to him; he was losing huge amounts of poker chips to the exact same Texas Hold’em player. Witteles stated that this man was raising against incredibly good poker hands, most players would have thought he was simply giving his money to the other players, but he was actually earning a great deal of cash.

Witteles was correct with his assumptions, following this it was uncovered that a person on the inside was able to see any poker player’s hole cards. At first look, Absolute Poker stated that there were no problems with the webpage or the poker player. After a great deal of players came forward with accusations, the Texas Hold’em poker website looked further into the situation and made the discovery.

Around Jan. of 2008, the KGC exposed what the Texas Hold’em poker competitors and the poker website had assumed all the time. As it turns out, there was an employee who had broken through the poker site´s security and was playing poker illegitimately for close to a month and a half. The examination established that the Texas Hold’em website had not profited from the unlawful activities at all, and was in no way, shape or form implicated.

These circumstances are further evidence that there must be more rules regarding Texas Hold’em poker websites. The US government needs to authorize and control the online poker business to defend these upright customers. These rules would also regulate the access to these sites by children, which tends to be another issue lately.

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If you were to have a chat with any ordinary person off the street about online poker, they probably wouldn’t believe online poker to be a game of strategy, careful planning, or close examination. Probably when you mention online poker with them, they would more than likely picture some poker buddies lounging around their living room table having conversations and smoking cigarettes. They also may believe poker to be a game of luck and not ability, more similar to a game of craps compared to checkers, for instance.

So the big issue you may have is: “Could I become a millionaire playing poker?”. Believe it or not, there are folks who actually earn a living this way. Numerous people not just come out on top by playing online poker, but also become very rich by competing in texas Hold’em poker. The main thing you need to remember about online Texas Hold’em poker is that although you can play in a Sin City casino, beside blackjack tables and casino slots; in online Texas Hold’em poker you are not competing against the house but against other online Texas Hold’em poker contestants. So, in truth, you are gambling your poker chips against other contenders in a contest of expertise unlike a game of chance.

You may be thinking to yourself: “Doesn’t it pay to be lucky?” Naturally in Texas Hold’em poker, no one really knows which poker cards will be dealt. That doesn’t automatically indicate that one cannot play Texas Hold’em poker with a dependable amount of pre-tournament know-how. One major thing to not forget in Texas Hold’em is that numbers can be your best friend. Math has a rather essential role in the game of Texas Hold’em. So much so, that even if you get somewhat fortunate ever so often the stats always have a way of bringing you back down to earth.

Try to remember that Las Vegas, Nevada casino games like poker where you are in reality playing vs. other actual contenders CAN be won. The more you play the game of Texas Hold’em poker, you will realize that it is more of game of knack and not just genuine chance.

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The most well-known online Texas Hold’em businesses out there are merging in a TV deal presently in what is predicted to be a very popular undertaking. The extremely well-liked poker website FullTiltPoker.com has recently publicized that they are going to be joining with World Poker Tour Enterprises for the following W.P.T.E. season. FullTiltPoker.com will be the chief supporter of the World W.P.T.E.’s seventh season, and the poker site is scheduled to be featured in every single one of the episodes which are aired on Fox Sports Net channel. Fulltiltpoker will gain all the control of the learning aspects of the episodes.

Detailed information of this accord have not been given away yet, but the merger will definitely be a breakthrough. This accord will join two enormously strong Texas Hold’em companies. World Poker Tour Enterprises which is an important brand on television via FSN and Full Tilt Poker which has a massive online poker fan base, and a Texas Hold’em poker lineup containing players who have amassed a total of ten W.P.T.E. awards and 35 WSOP bracelets. FullTiltPoker.com also supports many other Texas Hold’em players and now the online poker site has started presenting Texas Hold’em lessons as well.

This contract is assured to draw in a whole new fan base and is assured to suit the newfound distinction which Texas Hold’em is creating. This contract implies W.P.T.’s yield of the online poker room market as W.P.T. will before long close their Texas Hold’em poker webpage W.P.T.E. online. Their pay page ClubWPT.com will almost definitely maintain their site.

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The benefits of Full Tilt Poker compared to actual poker rooms are endless, but besides these advantages there are also a number of troubles. Internet poker allows recreational poker players the opportunity to play in pro Texas Hold em Tournaments with pro Texas Hold em players, but these non-professional Texas Hold em players ought to avoid any disruptions that could hurt their chances to win big money.

Many online Texas Holdem players become sidetracked by their environment, or probably by the internet poker webpage they are playing on. These interruptions can in truth cost them great hands and quite possibly their well-deserved Texas Holdem Poker chips. The game of poker is a game of expertise as well as absolute attentiveness, no matter if you are playing at home, or in a brick and mortar poker room.

Most likely, the biggest blunder that online Texas Holdem poker players commit is by competing in more than one table at once. The better part of amateur Full Tilt Poker players will assume that this is a good scheme, but at the end of the day it could prove to be a harm. This scheme of playing different Texas Hold em tables simultaneously will damage your concentration and at the end of the day cost you big. Don’t forget that even the best Texas Holdem players in the world can commit damaging blunders while concentrating their attention on a number of internet poker tables simultaneously.

Any given online Texas Holdem poker player, may at some point, find themselves playing several Full Tilt Poker tables at the same time, while watching a movie, reading their favorite poker blogs, talking on the phone to friends etc. This is a scenario that should be avoided if you desire to win online Texas Holdem games and make the grade for big internet poker tournaments. Remember to concentrate your attention on the other internet poker player’s wagers, their intentions, and your own online Texas Holdem hands if you desire to be the best Texas Hold em player.

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The hugely popular Texas Hold em website FullTiltPoker.com, just revealed that for the tenth time they will present the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” at the start of November. This well-known tournament will get started with a $216 no-limit Texas Hold em game. The Texas Hold em poker tournament will feature a guaranteed $15 million worth of prizes at stake. The Texas Hold Em championship will have 25 poker games leading up to the main event on Sunday, November 16th which has a prize pool consisting of $2.5 million.

There is an opportunity for any poker player to take part in the FullTiltPoker.com tournament, by coming first in as many satellite games as possible. Taking into account how many satellite games you succeed in, the more tournament chips you will receive. If you happen to win more satellite games than the other players, you will gain two extra buy-ins for the FTOPS. The satellite poker games are open right now, and are open for the Full Tilt website members.

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series began in 2006 with a total of 8 events and awarded over $1 million in prize money. Since then, the FTOPS has become enormous, with 2006’s FTOPS Tournament holding 25 FTOPS events and prizes of over $15 million. Next month’s tournament will feature a Two-Day Event having buy-ins of $2500 to $5000. The Initial Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that Texas Hold Em tournament had a prize pool that totaled over $400,000. Next month’s Two-Day event has a definite poker pot of over $2 million. This Two-Day Texas Hold Em tournament will begin on Saturday, November 15th.

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