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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A vital aspect in the game of poker is conning your opponents by making them think you actually have a good hand, when the truth is it is possible your poker hand is horrible. You may have heard this referred to as “Poker face”, an expressionless face for tricking your competition into believing an idea that might be false.

Having a good poker hand is most likely going to make you more nervous, could possibly cause your hands to shake, and your heartbeat race. These are signs that your poker competition may see very quickly, especially if they are old friends. Be careful not to glimpse at the pot if you have a good poker hand. This is a tell-tale sign to your poker buddies that you are, in your head, adding up what you might win.

In the condition where you have a dreadful poker hand, try not to keep yourself from glancing at your poker buddies, keep your eyes up, and don’t be indecisive about your bet. When you can prove to yourself that your poker hand is just as good, or better than your poker buddies; you will possibly convince them of this as well. Keep in mind to make this seem as natural as possible. Your gestures and motions may be saying one point, while what you are saying are giving them a whole different idea.

Another key to Texas Hold Em is to be attentive to your opponent’s “poker tells”. A “tell” is any kind of expression, physical gesture, or habit that could might tell you something about their poker hand. One basic rule to keep in mind is when your poker buddy is acting as though he has a strong hand; he, in all probability, has a weak Texas Hold Em hand. On the other hand, if he behaves as though he has a weak hand, he in all probability has an excellent Texas Hold Em hand.

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The Biggest cash prize yet was announced by Bodog Poker site, with the main Texas hold em tournament giving away $300,000. The total prizes for the eight day poker event will be more than $650,000, throughout the fourteen tournament event. The Bodog Poker tournament will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues until Sunday, October 5th. The popular sportsbetting website will also feature six “Bounty” tournaments, where the participants can win $109 in Texas Hold em credits for each Team Bodog poker participant they knock out of the poker contest. The most famous poker celebs will be playing all contestants in the Texas Hold em tournament.

Team Bodog pro, Justin Bonomo, is definitely energized about the Texas Hold em championship. Throughout his poker career, the 23 year old has made over $1.4 million. He says that if you had the idea that the first poker championship was big, you will definitely be surprised with this year’s Texas Hold em Tournament and the prize money involved. He also challenges anyone that has the courage to eliminate him from the poker tournament to step forward.

The first Bounty Tournament will be the first poker match in the championship on Sunday. Any poker competitor has the ability to buy-In straight, and any of the other events with cash. Or another alternative is to win their way into the Texas Hold em games through the satellites which are held every night during the poker championship week. Bodog will have six bounty events and seven “Championship Events”, that will have higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

There are thirteen tournaments which will lead up to the main poker tournament on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the championship with a guaranteed $300,000 in cash, despite the amount of players in the contest. All the players who decide to enter the main poker event will have to pay $500 for the buy-in and in exchange will accept 10,000 in Bodog poker chips.

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