Full Tilt has just introduced a new info section covering all the excitement of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an amazing online heads up challenge involving some of the world’s best high stakes poker players taking on the poker sensation Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The new section offers poker players and fans the chance to follow this amazing internet poker challenge and receive regular updates. With this innovative Full Tilt durrrr Challenge. portal poker players can follow all the details and review each hand played during the poker challenge, and check out tons of statistical information, including how many hands were played, session time, cash won, average won during each hand and much more.

Around six months ago, the 23 year old online poker player dealt out a heads-up challenge open to any player with the money, time and talent to accept it. Any poker pro entering the poker challenge has to bet $500,000 against Dwan’s $1.5 million. Dwan’s challenge states that at least 50,000 hands need to be played simultaneously at four or more 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. Essentially if you enter the challenge and win a dollar after the 50,000 hands, then you will secure Tom’s $1.5 Million, but if he succeeds by $1 then he will earn your $500,000.

To date, several poker pros have consented to play the “durrrr challenge”, including seven-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, however, only Patrick Antonius has said yes to the durrrr challenge. Until now, both poker players have engaged in a total of 20,647 hands out of 50,000, with Tom durrrr Dwan leading the count $726,546 total.

For more info on the durrrr poker 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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The Christmas spirit has come to nearly all of the biggest internet Texas Hold’em sites this Christmas season, and they are very generous with their specials. Depending on what kind of online No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker website promotion you are looking for; there has to be one for you. Looking at the most well-known online poker websites, we found these Christmas specials.

Opening up with the ever popular online No-Limit Poker site FullTiltPoker, this site has “The Holiday $100k”. The poker website is giving all their Texas Hold’em members an opportunity to take home $100,000, by cashing in only 2000 points. This No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker tournament will begin on Dec. 27th and a second chance on December the 28th. Full Tilt is also offering players an opportunity to gain entry into one of the tournaments by participating in a Freeroll.

The 2nd Texas Hold’em Poker website we visited was Ultimate Bet poker, they are holding 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 poker site has their “Days of Deals” promotion going on throughout this month.

Last but not least, PartyPoker.com is running “The Great Gift Giveaway”. The way it works is by winning your way up the ladder and the more points you accumulate, the bigger the rewards you can win. There are scores of prizes on hand to win such as entrances into prize tournaments or cash payments. In addition if you would like to play on the poker room on Christmas Day, PartyPoker.com will duplicate the points you accumulate on the cash Texas Hold’em Poker tables.

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No doubt the most detested personalities at the Texas Hold’em table the majority of times will at all times be the bragger. You know the person I’m speaking of. He’s the player that finds a place at the poker table and makes clear you’re conscious that he wants to take all of your poker chips; leaving the no limit Texas Hold’em poker table with the very same posture that he turned up with. Even if this guy gets shut down, he has in his mind that he is the finest poker player hands down.

As the greater part poker players would prefer to steer clear of challengers of this type, there are other people who might say that shooting off their mouths may have its rewards. So, the question that everyone is asking is: Is there in all reality an expert poker boaster or a bad Texas Hold’em Poker show-off? Show-boating about how competent you are in Texas Hold’em is basically just like stating: “I am the finest Texas Hold’em player in the world, don’t forget to play the best you can while you’re competing in a no-limit Texas Hold’em game against me!” That’s about the worst vibe you are going to want to give off playing Texas Hold’em. Furthermore, spilling too much info. about your no-limit Texas Hold’em playing approach can be quite harmful to your Texas Hold’em Poker game. You definitely do not want these players to find out how you play specific Texas Hold’em hands.

Moreover there are those Texas Hold’em opponents who might exploit bragging as a kind of poker trick, or bluff. Showing-off when you are dealt a specific no limit Texas Hold’em poker hand might possibly fool your opponents and stump them about your no limit Texas Hold’em poker playing approach. There are a few people who may believe that this tactic a bit tricky, but it is significant to remember that there aren’t many rules against it in poker. Texas Hold’em Poker is all about doing the best with what you’re dealt and taking advantage of it to the maximum.

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This Sunday, November 30th the CBS network will air their special program “How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters”. This investigation special was produced after a four-month research into the online Texas Hold’em business and exclusively a deceitful scandal with the online Texas Hold’em poker site Absolute Poker.

This Texas Hold’em site was investigated after several of the Texas Hold’em players on the webpage stated that a player was unlawfully winning a great amount of cash. Todd Witteles was a key player in this research, according to him; he was losing large amounts of cash to the exact same poker player. Witteles claimed that this gambler was raising against very good hands, the majority of people would have believed he was just giving out his money, but he was unbelievably winning money.

Witteles was in the right with his statements, following this it was discovered that someone possibly working for the company was able to spy on anyone’s poker hole cards. At first look, Absolute Poker claimed that there were no faults with the room or the Texas Hold’em poker player. After numerous players presented the site with accusations, the poker website examined further into the cheating problem and uncovered the scam.

Around Jan. of this year, the KGC came across what the Texas Hold’em competitors and the poker webpage had suspected all the time. As it turns out, there was a staff member who had attacked the Texas Hold’em poker room’s security system and was playing dishonestly for close to six weeks. The examination verified that the Texas Hold’em poker room had not benefited from the illegal transactions whatsoever, and was in no way, shape or form involved.

These illegal activities are further confirmation that there should be more control in regards to poker sites. The U.S. government ought to license and regulate the online Texas Hold’em industry to shield these honorable customers. These guidelines would also regulate the access to these webpages by children, which is becoming another issue lately.

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Take a minute to imagine if you were to talk to any random guy or girl off the street about online poker, they almost certainly wouldn’t consider Texas Hold’em to be a game of practice, plans, or careful observation. More than likely when you mention online poker with them, they would probably picture some guys sitting around their kitchen table having conversations and drinking beer. They also may believe online Texas Hold’em poker to be a game of fate and not ability, more similar to a game of blackjack and not a skill game, for example.

So the big question is: “Can I become rich playing poker?”. You may have your doubts but, the answer to this question is a definite “yes”. Some people not only make some money by playing online Texas Hold’em poker, but also earn some big bucks by playing online poker. The main issue you have to remember about online poker is that even if you can play in a Las Vegas casino, close to craps tables and slot machines; in online poker you are not competing against the house but against other online Texas Hold’em poker competitors. Hence, in all reality, you are gambling your cash against other competitors in a game of talent rather than a game of fate.

You could be thinking to yourself: “Doesn’t luck play a part?” Of course in poker, nobody knows which cards will be dealt. That doesn’t indicate that one can’t play Texas Hold’em with a reliable amount of pre-tournament information. One main issue to not forget in poker is that numbers will be your best friend. Math has a rather essential role in the game of poker. So much so, that even if you get rather fortunate frequently the numbers always have a way of bringing you back to reality.

Keep in mind that Las Vegas casino table games like online Texas Hold’em where you are truly contending vs. other actual poker players CAN be won. One will find that the more you play the game of Texas Hold’em, you will discover that it is more of game of ability as opposed to genuine luck.

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The advantages of online Texas Holdem opposed to real-life casinos are vast, but with these benefits there are also a number of troubles. Online Texas Holdem poker permits at-home players the possibility to contend in real poker tournaments with professional players, but these regular amateur players must avoid any distractions that might destroy their opportunities to win big money.

The majority of internet poker players become too distracted by home distractions, or even by the Full Tilt Poker webpage they are playing on. These disturbances can certainly cost them good Texas Hold em hands and even their well-deserved Texas Hold em chips. The game of poker is a game of expertise as well as total attention, no matter if you are playing online Texas Hold em, or in a real-life poker room.

Possibly, the greatest error that online Texas Holdem players commit is by being involved in more than one online Texas Holdem poker room at once. The greater part of amateur Full Tilt Poker players will believe that this is a good plan, but at the end of the day it may workout to be a detriment. This scheme of playing numerous Texas Hold em tables simultaneously will impair your awareness and in the end cost you money. Always remember that even the most famous Texas Holdem players around will make costly errors when concentrating their mind on several online poker tables simultaneously.

Any particular online Texas Holdem poker player, may at any time, discover themselves playing several Full Tilt Poker tables at the same time, at the same time as they are watching television, reading their preferred website, text messaging friends etc. This is a state which ought to be shunned if you aspire to win satellite games and make the grade for big online Texas Holdem poker tournaments. Always remember to center your thoughts on the other online Texas Holdem player’s bets, their motives, and your own internet poker hands if you want to be the best poker player.

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The popular online poker website FullTiltPoker.com, has just announced that finally they will have the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” at the start of November. This Full Tilt Poker Championship will commence with a no-limit Texas Hold em with a $216 buy-in event. The Texas Hold em tournament will have a $15 million prize pool. The FulltiltPoker.com tournament has 25 poker events with the main Texas Hold em event on Sunday, November 16th which has a $2.5 million prize pool.

There is an opportunity for any Texas Hold em poker player to participate in the poker tournament, by earning as many satellite wins as possible. Depending on how many satellite games you take first place in, the more tournament money you will receive. If you are successful in winning more satellite events than the other competitors, you will win two more buy-ins for the FTOPS. The satellite poker games are are being held right now, and anyone who is a member of FullTiltPoker.com can participate.

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series commenced in 2006 with a total of 8 events and awarded $1 million in prizes. Now, the FTOPS has become enormous, with last years poker event hosting 25 FTOPS events and prizes of over $15 million. November’s poker tournament will highlight a Two-Day Event with buy-ins ranging from $2500 to $5000. The first ever Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that tournament had a prize pool that totaled over $400,000. November’s Two-Day event has a assured pool of at least $2 million. This Two-Day event will launch on the 15th of November.

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A significant point in poker is misleading your competitors by making them think you actually have a good hand, when in all honesty it is possible you have a terrible hand. This is what people call “Poker face”, a straight expression to trick your competition into supposing an idea that may not be true.

If you happen to have a good poker hand it is most likely going to make you feel nervous, could possibly make your hands shake, and your heartbeat race. These are signs that your opponents may notice very fast, especially if they are old friends. Keep in mind not to peer over at the pot if you have some good poker cards in your hands. This is an obvious gesture for the other players that you are, in your mind, adding up how many poker chips are in the pot.

In the situation where you have a god-awful poker hand, try not to dodge your competitors eyes, don’t lower your head, and don’t be indecisive about your bet. If you can prove to yourself that your hand is just as good, or better than your competition; you will have a better chance of making them think this as well. Keep in mind to make this seem as normal as possible. Your gestures and actions could be saying one point, while the things you are talking about are making them believe something entirely different.

Another significant aspect of Texas Hold Em is to be aware of your poker buddies’ “poker tells”. A “tell” is a look or appearance that could might tell you something about their poker hand. One basic rule to keep in mind is when your opponent appears as if he has a good poker hand; he, very likely, has a poor hand. On the other side of the coin, if he behaves in a way that seem like he has a poor poker hand, he probably has a pretty decent hand.

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