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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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 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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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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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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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 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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