durrrr vs Antonius in the Full Tilt Poker Challenge

FullTiltPoker.net has just unveiled a new info section involving all the information of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an incredible online heads up poker tournament highlighting some of the greatest big money online players taking on the Heads Up Specialist Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The new section offers online poker players and followers the opportunity to follow this amazing durrrr challenge and check out timely challenge details. With this innovative “durrrr Challenge” portal poker players can follow all the action and check out each hand played during the poker challenge, and check out tons of statistics, including number of hands played, time of session, amount won, average won during each hand and tons more.

About six months ago, the twenty-three year old online poker pro handed out a heads-up challenge open to any poker player with the cash, time and capability to accept it. Any poker star entering the durrrr challenge has to bet $500,000 against durrrr’s $1.5 million. Tom’s challenge states that a minimum 50,000 hands need to be played at the same time at 4 or more poker tables of no-limit Hold’em or pot-limit Omaha. At the end of the durrrr challenge, the poker player who has more money will win the pool. Essentially if you enter the durrrr challenge and win $1 after the 50,000 hands, then you will get Tom’s $1.5 Million, but if he triumphs by a dollar then he will win your $500,000.

Thus far, several poker pros have accepted to play the “durrrr challenge”, including Full Tilt Poker Star Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, but, only Patrick Antonius has accepted the durrrr challenge. Thus far, both poker stars have engaged in a total of 20,647 poker hands out of 50,000, with Tom Dwan leading the count $726,546 total.

For more information on the “durrrr” Challenge and durrrr vs. Antonius, please go to http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

WSOP 2009 News Covered by FullTilt.com

The hugely successful online poker website FullTiltPoker.com is upping the ante on the news from World Series of Poker with their WSOP Coverage Page, a new platform dedicated to inform poker players on everything related to the WSOP 2009, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, updates, poker celebrities’ blogs and more.

FullTilt.com’s new World Series of Poker Coverage Page is not the usual news website offered by hundreds of other sites. Full Tilt’s Site is divided into three parts, and includes a daily highlights area in where players can get access to the 2009 WSOP events info, results, players and more in an articles series written by the Full Tilt writers Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Aside from the typical daily updates and results on each and every poker event, FullTiltPoker.com’s WSOP Coverage Page also highlights two poker blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights commentary, covering news, insider info from FullTiltPoker.com stars, opinions from FullTiltPoker.com’s fans and authors and guest posts from guest bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which highlights commentaries from members of Team Full Tilt participating in the WSOP 2009, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

Additionally, Full Tilt Poker’s new World Series of Poker Coverage Page has a Twitter section that supplies round the clock updates and commentary from different poker players. Some of the players that participate in the Twitter area include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter portion allows poker players to send short messages allowing people from around the world to stay informed. These messages known as “tweets”, can be sent from anywhere through a cellular phone or other handheld.

To view more info on Full Tilt Poker’s new WSOP Coverage Page please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/series-coverage.

2ND CHANCE TO WIN 1 OF 6 2009 WSOP SEATS!

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

Loads of Holiday Bonuses are being applied by the biggest Online Poker Rooms

The holiday spirit has struck a good number of the best internet No-Limit Texas Hold’em rooms this year, and they are rather charitable with their bonuses. Depending on what kind of online Texas Hold’em room promotion you are looking for; there is one that you will like. Checking out the best online poker sites, the following promotions were some of the best around.

Opening up with the very famous online poker room Full Tilt Poker, their promotion is called “The Holiday $100k”. The site is granting all their Texas Hold’em Poker players an opportunity to take home $100k, by cashing in only 2000 points. This Texas Hold’em Poker tournament will kick off on Dec. 27th and then a second tournament on Dec. the 28th. FullTiltPoker.com is also offering members a chance to win their way into one of the games by participating in a Freeroll.

The 2nd No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker website we looked at was Ultimate Bet poker, they have had promotions each day during this month. Already they have awarded IPods, a $1000 New depositer Freeroll, and on the 19th you have an opportunity to take home a flat screen TV. Ultimate Bet has the their “Days of Deals” special going on during December.

To finish things off, Party Poker is presenting “The Great Gift Giveaway”. The way you can win is by climbing your way up levels and the more points you win, the better the gifts you will be able to take home. There are tons of prizes available to win for example entries into prize tournaments or cash prizes. In addition if you happen to play on the Texas Hold’em Poker site on Xmas Day, Party Poker will duplicate the points you gain on the cash No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker tables.

Is Showing-Off in Poker Games a Smart Tactic or a Dumb Idea?

One of the most despicable personalities at the poker table time and time again will continually be the attention-seeker. You are familiar with the guy I’m speaking of. He’s the guy that finds a place at the Texas Hold’em Poker table and makes sure you’re aware that he wants to win all of your no limit Texas Hold’em poker chips; leaving the Texas Hold’em table with the very same mind-set that he rolled up with. Even if this guy gets killed, he has the idea that he is the greatest no-limit Texas Hold’em player around.

Whereas the majority of no-limit Texas Hold’em players would sooner shun poker opponents of this class, there are those who might argue that bragging might have its advantages. So, the doubt you may have is: Is there in all reality an expert no limit Texas Hold’em poker attention-seeker or unfair Texas Hold’em Poker show-off? Shooting off their mouths about how good you are in Texas Hold’em Poker is really just like admitting: “I am the greatest poker player in the world, always remember to play your best game while you’re playing a Texas Hold’em Poker game against me!” Most certainly that is the most terrible vibe to give out playing no-limit Texas Hold’em. In addition, spilling too much info. about your poker playing techniques can be damaging to your Texas Hold’em game. You almost definitely do not want these players to know how you bet on specified no-limit Texas Hold’em hands.

Moreover there are those no limit Texas Hold’em poker competitors who could utilize shooting off their mouths as a manner of Texas Hold’em strategy, or bluff. Show-boating when you have a certain poker hand could fool your opponents and baffle them about your Texas Hold’em Poker playing style. There are those who may think that this tactic a bit sneaky, but it is significant to bear in mind that there aren’t tons of rules against it in Texas Hold’em Poker. Texas Hold’em is all about making good use of what’s given to you and utilizing it to the maximum.

Poker Scandal will be featured on CBS

On Sun., Nov. 30th the CBS network will air their special “How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters”. This special investigation show was created after a 16-week research into the online Texas Hold’em industry and particularly a cheating scandal involving the online Texas Hold’em webpage Absolute Poker.

This Texas Hold’em poker webpage was inspected after some of the poker players on the webpage said that a poker player was unlawfully winning a large amount of cash. Todd Witteles was a key witness in this inquiry, according to him; he was losing incredibly large amounts of poker chips to the very same Texas Hold’em poker player. Witteles stated that this man was raising against awfully good cards, the majority of people would have presumed he was basically giving his money to the other players, but he was in reality winning many poker hands.

Witteles was quite correct in his assumptions, later on it was discovered that a poker player with knowledge of the site was able to see everyone´s hole cards. With the first look, Absolute Poker stated that there were no faults with the website or the poker player. After numerous players presented the site with accusations, the Texas Hold’em website looked further into the issue and discovered the cheater.

Around January of this year, the KGC discovered what the poker players and the Texas Hold’em poker site had supposed all along. It was eventually shown that, there was an employee who had attacked the Texas Hold’em webpage’s security and was playing poker illegitimately for approximately a month and a half. The examination proved that the poker webpage had not profited from the unlawful activities by any means, and was positively not implicated.

These issues are further testimony that there must be more rules regarding gambling pages. The U.S. government ought to authorize and control the online poker industry to defend these honorable customers. These rules would also regulate the admission to these sites by children, which is turning into another fear recently.

Could I really make money in the Game of Texas Hold’em Tournaments?

Take a second to imagine if you were to talk to any average person off the street about online Texas Hold’em poker, they probably wouldn’t deem online poker to be a game of strategy, preparation, or close examination. Possibly when you talk about online poker with them, they would more than likely envision some friends sitting around their living room table having conversations and smoking cigars. They also could consider Texas Hold’em to be a game of pure luck as opposed to ability, more similar to a game of roulette and not a skill game, for instance.

So the big issue you may have is: “Could I become a millionaire playing poker?”. It may come as a surprise to you but, the answer to this question is a definite “yes”. A number of folks not just make some money by playing online Texas Hold’em, but also make a lot of money by competing in poker tournaments. The key point you have to remember about poker is that while you can play in a Las Vegas casino, alongside craps tables and slot machines; in Texas Hold’em you are not contending against the house but against other online Texas Hold’em rivals. So, in truth, you are betting your money against other players in a game of expertise as opposed to a game of chance.

You might be thinking to yourself: “Isn’t the game of poker about luck too?” Certainly in online Texas Hold’em, not a soul knows which poker cards will be dealt. That doesn’t automatically imply that you can’t play with a certain quantity of pre-game data. One thing that is important to not forget in online Texas Hold’em is that numbers can be your best friend. Mathematics has a very essential part in the game of online poker. So much so, that even if you get somewhat lucky every once in while the stats always have a way of bringing you back to reality.

Always remember that Las Vegas, Nevada casino table games comparable to Texas Hold’em where you are in reality contending against other real-life poker players CAN be won. It is proven that the more you play the game of online Texas Hold’em poker, you will find that it is more of game of talent rather than natural fate.

FullTiltPoker.net and W.P.T. Sign Sponsorship Deal

Two of the biggest online poker enterprises around are signing a sponsorship deal for the upcoming season in what is predicted to be an incredibly lucrative venture. The incredibly successful poker site Fulltiltpoker has recently publicized that they will be joining with World Poker Tour for the following W.P.T. season. FullTiltPoker.com is scheduled the foremost promoter of the World WPT’s 7th, and the poker website is on tap to be highlighted in all of the episodes which are seen on FSN. Fulltiltpoker will gain all the rights to the educational bits of the installments.

Particulars of this accord have not been revealed as of yet, but the merger will definitely be a breakthrough. This merger will bring together two very prominent poker brands. World Poker Tour Enterprises which is an important brand on TV by means of FSN and FullTiltPoker.net which has an enormous Texas Hold’em poker fan base, not to mention a poker lineup consisting of players who have collected a total of 10 W.P.T.E. awards and thirty-five World Series of Poker bracelets. Full Tilt also funds many other poker stars and now the Texas Hold’em poker site has begun providing Texas Hold’em lessons also.

This union is certain to pull in a fresh following and should to satisfy the fresh status which Texas Hold’em is causing. This contract suggests World Poker Tour Enterprises’ surrender of the online poker room industry as World Poker Tour will soon end their Texas Hold’em poker webpage World Poker Tour online. Their membership site ClubWPT.com will almost certainly continue to run.

Preventing Distractions as you are playing Internet Texas Holdem

The benefits of Full Tilt Poker compared to actual poker rooms are endless, but besides these advantages there are also a number of troubles. Internet poker allows recreational poker players the opportunity to play in pro Texas Hold em Tournaments with pro Texas Hold em players, but these non-professional Texas Hold em players ought to avoid any disruptions that could hurt their chances to win big money.

Many online Texas Holdem players become sidetracked by their environment, or probably by the internet poker webpage they are playing on. These interruptions can in truth cost them great hands and quite possibly their well-deserved Texas Holdem Poker chips. The game of poker is a game of expertise as well as absolute attentiveness, no matter if you are playing at home, or in a brick and mortar poker room.

Most likely, the biggest blunder that online Texas Holdem poker players commit is by competing in more than one table at once. The better part of amateur Full Tilt Poker players will assume that this is a good scheme, but at the end of the day it could prove to be a harm. This scheme of playing different Texas Hold em tables simultaneously will damage your concentration and at the end of the day cost you big. Don’t forget that even the best Texas Holdem players in the world can commit damaging blunders while concentrating their attention on a number of internet poker tables simultaneously.

Any given online Texas Holdem poker player, may at some point, find themselves playing several Full Tilt Poker tables at the same time, while watching a movie, reading their favorite poker blogs, talking on the phone to friends etc. This is a scenario that should be avoided if you desire to win online Texas Holdem games and make the grade for big internet poker tournaments. Remember to concentrate your attention on the other internet poker player’s wagers, their intentions, and your own online Texas Holdem hands if you desire to be the best Texas Hold em player.

FullTiltPoker.com will host the 10th Full Tilt Online Poker Series

The hugely popular Texas Hold em website FullTiltPoker.com, has just announced that for the tenth time they will present the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” at the beginning of next month. This Texas Hold em poker tournament will start out with a $216 Texas Hold em buy-in event. The Texas Hold em tournament will have a guaranteed $15 million worth of prizes at stake. The Texas Hold Em championship has 25 Texas Hold Em events with the main poker tournament on Sunday, November 16th which has a $2.5 million prize pool.

There is a possibility for any FullTiltPoker.com player to show their skills in the tournament, by earning as many satellite wins as they can. Taking into account how many satellite games you succeed in, the more poker chips you will get. If you end up winning more satellite Texas Hold em games than the competition, you will get the tournament equivalent of two more FTOPS buy-ins. The satellite games are are going on now, and are available for FullTiltPoker.com members.

The FTOPS Texas Hold Em tournament started in 2006 when it consisted of 8 events and awarded $1 million in prizes. At the present, the Texas Hold Em Tournament has become incredibly well-known, with the previous year’s poker tournament hosting 25 poker events and a prize pool of more than $15 million. Next month’s tournament will feature a Two-Day Event with unprecedented buy-ins of $2500-$5000. The Initial Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that Full Tilt Poker Championship had a winner take home a prize pool of $400,000. This Two-Day event has a assured pot of around $2 million. This Texas Hold Em tournament will start on Saturday, November 15th.