As was posted here over the weekend, it has recently been made public that ”durrrr” has officially signed with FullTilt Poker. The online poker site has given the poker star a warm welcome with an ”durrrr” Website featuring a welcome video and other highlights from the career of Tom Dwan.

One of the nicest features of the Official “durrrr” Prosite is the welcome video from Team Full Tilt members Howard Lederer, Andy Bloch, Jennifer Harman and others. The Dwan video on FullTiltPoker.com also features an appearance from the legendary online poker player, Dwan.

”durrrr” has been keeping himself very busy as of late with a new ”durrrr” blog, which will actually be published from poker experiences of ”durrrr” himself. Without mentioning the durrrr Challenge which is on its 27,185th hand out of the scheduled 50,000 total hands.

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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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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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