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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A monster prize pool was announced by Bodog, with the main Texas hold em tournament giving away $300,000. Total cash for the eight day poker event will be more than $650,000, over the course of the weeklong poker tournament. The Bodog Poker Open II will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues until Sunday, October 5th. The well-known poker website will also feature six “Bounty” games, where the competitors can win $109 in tournament credits for each Team Bodog poker participant they eliminate from the poker match. The biggest poker celebs will be taking on all competitors in the Texas Hold em tournament.

Team Bodog star, Justin Bonomo, is undeniably thrilled about the poker championship. Throughout his poker career, the 23 year old has brought home over $1.4 million. He says that if you considered that the first Texas Hold em tournament was huge, you will definitely be amazed with this year’s tournament and the cash involved. He also challenges anyone that dares to knock him out of the Bounty Tournament to come forward.

The opening Bounty Tournament is going to be the first poker contest in the tournament on Sunday. Any poker challenger has the ability to buy-In right into this, and any of the other poker events with cash. Or another alternative is to win their way into the events through the satellites which are held every night during the poker championship week. Bodoglife is going to hold six bounty tournaments and seven “Championship Events”, that will have higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

There are thirteen contests which will lead up to the main tournament on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the championship with a guaranteed $300,000 in hard cash, regardless of the quantity of Texas Hold em players in the championship. All the poker challengers who want to enter the main poker event will have to shell out $500 for the buy-in and in return will be given 10,000 in Bodog poker chips.

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