Patrik Antonius vs durrrr in a Full Tilt Poker Challenge

FullTiltPoker.net has just launched an innovative informative section containing all the action of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an amazing online heads up tournament featuring some of the finest big money online poker players challenging the online poker phenom Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The brand new site gives poker players and fans the opportunity to monitor this historical internet poker challenge and check out timely statistical updates. With this brand new “durrrr Challenge” section poker players can follow all the poker action and look at each poker hand played during durrrr Challenge, and check out lots of stats, including how many hands were played, session time, cash won, average won during each hand and tons more.

Around six months ago, the 23 year old internet poker professional delivered a heads-up challenge for any player with the loot, time and talent to accept it. Any player entering the durrrr challenge has to wager $500,000 against durrrr’s $1.5 million. Tom’s challenge specifies that at least 50,000 online poker hands need to be played at the same time at 4 or more tables of no-limit Hold’em or pot-limit Omaha. At the end of the challenge, the player who has more money will take home the pool. Essentially if you enter the durrrr challenge and win a dollar after the 50,000 hands, then you will earn Tom’s $1.5 Million, but if he wins by a dollar then he will take home your $500,000.

Thus far, a few professional poker players have accepted to play the “durrrr challenge”, including seven-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, though, only Patrick Antonius has consented to the poker challenge. At this point, both players have participated in a total of 20,647 hands out of 50,000, with Tom durrrr Dwan ahead $726,546 total.

If you would like more information on the “durrrr” Challenge and durrrr vs. Antonius, please stop by http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

WSOP 2009 News, Blogs and Twitter from FullTiltPoker

The most popular online poker site FullTilt.com is taking the coverage to the next level with the 2009 WSOP in Vegas with their 2009 WSOP News Page, a new portal created to give 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 2009 WSOP Coverage Page is not the same ol’ information site provided by many other sites. The website is divided into three sections, and includes a daily highlights part in where players can get access to the WSOP 2009 events info, results, players and more in an articles series written by the FullTilt.com staff members Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the run of the mill daily updates and results on every poker event, FullTiltPoker.com’s WSOP Coverage Page also highlights two poker player blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights commentary, poker news, inside info from Full Tilt Poker stars, comments from Full Tilt Poker’s fans and writers and guest posts from special guest bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which features posts from members of Team Full Tilt participating in the WSOP 2009, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

Also, FullTilt.com’s new World Series of Poker Coverage Page has a Twitter portion that provides live updates and notes from several poker players. Some of the players that participate in the Twitter portion include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter area allows poker players to send short messages permitting people from around the world to listen to them. These updates known as “tweets”, can be sent from any place in the world through a cellular phone or other hand-held device.

If you would like more info on Full Tilt’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

Many Holiday Promotions are being applied by the Top Online Poker Rooms

Christmas cheer has struck the majority of the most popular online poker rooms this Christmas season, and they have become extremely kind with their specials. Depending on what type of internet poker room special you are looking for; there is definitely one to suit your needs. Visiting the most well-known online poker sites, we found these Christmas specials.

Opening up with the always popular internet No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker site Full Tilt Poker, they have available the “The Holiday $100k”. The online poker room is giving all their No-Limit Texas Hold’em members a break to take home $100,000, for buying-in with only 2000 points. This Texas Hold’em game will commence on Dec. 27th and there will be a second tournament on Dec. the 28th. Full Tilt is also offering players an opportunity to win their way into one of the promotions by playing in a Freeroll.

The next No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker website we looked at was Ultimatebet.com poker, they have had promotions each day during this month. Already this month they have awarded IPods, a $1000 New depositer Freeroll, and on the 19th it is possible to take home a flat screen TV. The poker site has their “Days of Deals” special going on all through the month of December.

Last but not least, Party Poker is promoting “The Great Gift Giveaway”. The way to win is by working your way up the ladder and the more points you win, the higher the prizes you will be able to take home. There are loads of prizes on hand to win for example admissions into prize tournaments or cash. Moreover if you play on the Texas Hold’em website on December 25th, PartyPoker.com will double up the points you gain on the cash Texas Hold’em tables.

Online Texas Hold’em Special Program will be presented on CBS’ 60 Minutes

This Sunday evening CBS will present their special program “How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters”. This investigation special was filmed after a 4 month research into the online poker industry and purposely a scam with the online poker website Absolute Poker.

This Texas Hold’em poker website was examined after a few of the poker players on the webpage alleged that a player was dishonestly winning a large amount of poker hands. Todd Witteles was a key player in this examination, according to Witteles; he was losing large amounts of money to the exact same Texas Hold’em player. Witteles claimed that this gambler was raising against incredibly good poker hands, the majority of people would have presumed he was simply giving his money to the other players, but he was in reality winning quite often.

Witteles was in the right with his assumptions, following this it was discovered that a person possibly working for the company was able to spy on anyone’s hole cards. With the first look, Absolute Poker claimed that there were no faults with the page or the Texas Hold’em poker player. After several players stepped up with claims, the Texas Hold’em site looked deeper into the problem and found the problem.

By January of 2008, the KGC exposed what the poker competitors and the Texas Hold’em poker website had assumed all along. It turned out that, there was an employee who had hacked the Texas Hold’em page’s security and was playing poker illegitimately for around a month and a half. The investigation verified that the poker website had not benefited from the illicit transactions whatsoever, and was in no way, shape or form involved.

These circumstances are further confirmation that there ought to be more rules in regards to gambling websites. The United States government should license and regulate the internet Texas Hold’em poker business to look after these honest clients. These guidelines would also police the access to these websites by kids, which is turning into another issue lately.

Can I Actually Make Money by Playing the Game of Poker?

Imagine if you were to talk to any random guy or girl off the street about poker, they possibly wouldn’t believe online Texas Hold’em poker to be a game of strategy, planning, or close examination. Most likely when you mention Texas Hold’em poker with them, they would perhaps envision some acquaintances lounging around their living room table having conversations and smoking cigars. They also might consider online poker to be a game of chance and not skill, more similar to a game of craps and not checkers, for example.

So the big question is: “Can I become rich playing poker?”. It may seem strange but, you can actually make money this way. Quite a few people not just win money by playing online Texas Hold’em poker, but also make enough to live by playing in tournaments. The first thing you have to remember about poker is that even though you can play in a Las Vegas, Nevada casino, beside blackjack tables and slot machines; in Texas Hold’em poker you are not playing against the house but against other online Texas Hold’em poker players. Therefore, in all reality, you are putting up your cash against other players in a competition of expertise as opposed to a game of luck.

You might be saying to yourself: “Isn’t being lucky a big part as well?” The truth is in online Texas Hold’em, nobody is aware which hands will be dealt. That doesn’t necessarily suggest that you can’t play Texas Hold’em poker with a reliable quantity of pre-game data. One main issue to not forget in online Texas Hold’em is that numbers can be your best friend. Math plays a very significant role in the game of online Texas Hold’em. Not to forget, that even if you get rather lucky frequently the statistics always seem to humble you.

Keep in mind that LV casino games like online poker where you are truly playing against other real-life players CAN be won. The more you play the game of Texas Hold’em poker, you will realize that it is more of game of ability as opposed to pure luck.

FullTiltPoker.net and WPT Announce Joint Venture

The most well-known Texas Hold’em companies out there are joining forces on TV shortly in what is expected to be an incredibly lucrative gamble. The incredibly successful poker website FullTiltPoker.net has recently publicized that they are joining with World Poker Tour Enterprises for the next WPT season. FullTiltPoker.net is on tap to be the primary backer of the World W.P.T.’s seventh season, and the poker site is going to be featured in all of the episodes which are aired on F.S.N.. Fulltiltpoker will gain all the rights to the instructive parts of the shows.

Particulars of this accord have not been given away so far, but the merger is guaranteed to be a breakthrough. This deal will bring together two particularly prominent Texas Hold’em businesses. World Poker Tour Enterprises which is a leading brand on TV by means of F.S.N. and FullTiltPoker.com which has a gigantic online following, not to mention a Texas Hold’em team including players who have accumulated a total of ten WPT titles and thirty-five WSOP bracelets. Fulltiltpoker also backs many other poker players and now the Texas Hold’em poker webpage has begun presenting Texas Hold’em poker training as well.

This pact is guaranteed to bring in a brand new following and is guaranteed to comply with the recent distinction which Texas Hold’em is producing. This partnership indicates WPT’s yield of the Texas Hold’em poker room business as they will shortly close up their Texas Hold’em page W.P.T. online. Their pay to play page ClubWPT.com will more than likely continue to operate.

Avoiding Disturbances when you are playing Texas Holdem Poker

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 feature the 10th edition of the FTOPS

The well-known online poker website FullTiltPoker.com, just publicized that once again they will feature the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” at the beginning of November. This well-known tournament will open with a no-limit Texas Hold em with a $216 buy-in championship. There is also a $15 million prize pool. This tournament will have 25 poker games leading up to the main event on Sunday, November 16th which will offer a $2.5 million prize pool.

There is a possibility for any Texas Hold em player to show their skills in the tournament, by winning as many satellite games as possible. The more satellite games you come first in, the more tournament money you will receive. If you end up winning more satellite tournaments than the rest of the players, you will win two extra buy-ins for the FTOPS. The satellite Texas Hold em games are open right now, and are available for FullTiltPoker.com members.

The Full Tilt Texas Hold Em Tournament commenced in 2006 when it consisted of 8 events and a $1 million prize pool. At the moment, the FullTiltPoker.com tournament has become very famous, with last year’s tournament holding 25 FTOPS events and prizes of over $15 million. FTOPS X will feature a Two-Day Event with unprecedented buy-ins of $2500-$5000. The first ever Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that Full Tilt Poker Championship had a winner take home a prize pool of $400,000. This year’s Two-Day event has a assured pot of a minimum $2 million. This Texas Hold Em tournament will begin on the 15th of November.

New Poker Show Places Everyday People Alongside Professional Poker Players

Poker was a game accessible only in casino hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada or from electronic poker machines, but now it is more widespread than ever in Las Vegas, Nevada thanks to the the internet.

The famous Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino, is now banking on this popularity with its new audience-participation show called “The Real Deal!” in its Venetian Showroom, debuting in October.

This new idea will merge comedy and game show elements to entertain its live audience. The audience will also be able to join in the popular game of Texas Holdem’ alongside the world’s best poker players. There will be prizes for the audience including a chance to win 1$ million.

In “The Real Deal!” the audience will play with players like Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu. Around 10 professional players have already signed up for the poker game show. The audience will be able to play along with the 90 minute game thanks to handheld, wireless, touch screen devices located on each seat.

"People who come to Vegas casinos want to play poker,” Negreanu says, "but obviously they can't play in a big game with the players such as Doyle or Phil Hellmuth. But, in this show, they actually can.” At the beginning of each show, six audience members will be chosen to sit at the poker table on stage with two pros. Each audience member is then involved in the action by being dealt a unique hand on their devices. Everyone in the showroom is then involved in the action with big-screen monitors located on stage.

The show’s creators say that you don’t have to be a pro poker player to take part in the poker game. There are other ways to increase your point total, that doesn’t involve poker necessarily. Betting on the suit of the next poker card or trying to guess which state a particular audience member is from, are just some of the ways to come out a poker champion in this game.

The shows producers are also placing bets on the personalities of the pro poker players to create some interesting moments. People like Scotty Nguyen, the flamboyant five-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, definitely has an idea how to entertain the crowd and will provide some great entertainment in this TV poker game show .