FullTiltPoker.com is taking online poker to a new level with the introduction of Rush Poker, a new and innovative poker type built to provide the ultimate high-speed poker playing and decrease the wait time between poker hands.

This tremendously fast paced and intense poker action gives poker players the opportunity to move through different poker tables, play different challengers in every hand and choose the type of game (Hold’em, No Limit, etc) and decide upon the stakes they want to play. Rush Poker players will also be able to classify the game list by other classes such as number of players, average pot or number of hands per hour.

Once you fix the Rush Poker game you wish to play, all you have to do is double click on that poker game to enter the Rush Poker lobby. Rush Poker players are also able to get into a Rush Poker game by utilizing the “Rush Poker Lobby Widgets” available in Standard View.

Rush Poker is the world’s fastest poker game and can only be played at Full Tilt. Give it a try today for the most extreme poker action on the planet.

For more information, please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/rush-poker/details

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Full Tilt Poker will attempt to stamp its name on the Guinness Records and to do so; the site has announced that it will try to set a new record for the Largest Online Poker Tournament. Full Tilt’s Record Breaker tournament was unveiled as the finale to FIVE, a week of events and promotions created exclusively to celebrate the site’s 5^th anniversary. The tournament will take place on July 19th at 15:05ET, players can buy in for this event for only $5 or 1000 Full Tilt Points and compete for a share of a $250,000 guaranteed with $250,000 added prize pool. Players can also get entries to this event by playing the online satellites available on the site and starting for as little as 30 cents or 50 Full Tilt Points.

Team Full Tilt pros and WSOP bracelet winners Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson and Phil Ivey have already confirmed they will take part in the event, offering players the chance to sit down at this historic tournament and play with some of the best high stakes and tournament pros in the world.

“By extending the limits of what is possible in online poker tournaments, Full Tilt Poker will allow players to compete for a big payout without the big buy-in,” said Team Full Tilt member Howard Lederer.

Putting together a poker tournament of this magnitude would be nearly impossible for any brick and mortar casino or poker room. The current record for the largest “live” poker tournament was set at the 2006 WSOP Main Event with 8,772 players. To break the current Guinness Record set by PokeStars.com in December, 2008, Full Tilt Poker will need to attract over 35.000 players. If successful, this tournament will establish Full Tilt Poker as World Record holder and cement its reputation as a world leader in online poker industry.

For more information on Full Tilt’s Record Breaker tournament, please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/the-record-breaker.

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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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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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