FullTilt has just introduced a brand new informative section comprising all the information of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an amazing online heads up challenge highlighting some of the finest big money online players challenging the online poker phenom Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The innovative new website section offers online poker players and fanatics the chance to stay on top of this amazing durrrr challenge and receive frequent updates. With this fresh “durrrr Challenge” portal poker players can track all the poker action and review each hand played during durrrr Challenge, and look at tons of statistics, including how many hands were played, time of session, amount won, average won during each hand and tons more.

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

Thus far, a few professional poker players have accepted to play the “durrrr challenge”, including Full Tilt Poker Star Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, however, only Patrick Antonius has said yes to the durrrr challenge. At this point, both players have taken part in a total of 20,647 poker hands out of 50,000, with Tom leading the count $726,546 total.

If you would like more information on the Full Tilt Poker durrrr Challenge and Tom durrrr Dwan vs. Patrick Antonius, please check out http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

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Leading poker website FullTilt.com is taking the coverage to the next level with the World Series of Poker with their 2009 WSOP News Page, a new platform dedicated to provide players on everything related to the World Series of Poker 2009, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, minute to minute updates, poker celebrities’ blogs and more.

FullTilt.com’s new World Series of Poker Coverage Page is not the typical news website like tons of other sites. The website is separated into three parts, and includes a daily highlights piece in where readers can get access to the 2009 WSOP events info, results, players and more in an articles series written by the FullTiltPoker.com writers Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the same ol’ daily updates and results on each and every poker event, FullTiltPoker.com’s WSOP Coverage Page also highlights two in house blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights commentary, covering news, insider info from Full Tilt Pros, comments from FullTilt.com’s readers and authors and guest posts from 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 World Series of Poker Coverage Page has a Twitter section that supplies live updates and comments from various 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 feed allows poker players to send short messages letting the world know whats going on. These comments known as “tweets”, can be transmitted from all over through a cell phone or other handheld.

If you would like more info on  FullTiltPoker.com’s new World Series of Poker Coverage Page please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/series-coverage.

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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 a good number of the biggest online Texas Hold’em Poker sites this holiday season, and they have become rather charitable with their specials. Whatever kind of internet poker room bonus you are hunting for; there is one out there that can help you out. Visiting the best internet No-Limit Poker websites, the following promotions were some of the best around.

Starting off with the excellent internet Texas Hold’em room Full Tilt Poker, they are offering “The Holiday $100k”. The site is giving all their Texas Hold’em players a chance to win $100k, by cashing in only 2000 points. This No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker promotion will kick off on Dec. 27th and there will be a 2nd tournament on Dec. the 28th. Full Tilt is also offering members a chance to gain entry into one of the tournaments by playing in a Freeroll on the website.

The next Texas Hold’em Poker website we looked at was Ultimatebet.com poker, they are running promotions every day during this month. They have already awarded IPods, a $1000 New depositer Freeroll, and on the 19th you have the chance to take home a flat screen TV. Ultimate Bet has the their “Days of Deals” promotion continuing during the month of December.

Finally, Party Poker has “The Great Gift Giveaway”. The way you can win is by working your way up levels and the more points you collect, the higher the prizes you can win. There are loads of prizes offered to win for example admissions into prize tournaments or cash. Additionally if you happen to play on the Texas Hold’em website on Xmas Day, Party Poker will duplicate the points you make on their real money Texas Hold’em Poker tables.

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The most detested players at the Texas Hold’em table most every time will constantly be the show-off. You know the player I’m speaking of. He’s the guy that finds a place at the Texas Hold’em table and makes certain you’re conscious that he wants all of your Texas Hold’em chips; leaving the no limit Texas Hold’em poker table with the exact same posture that he came with. Even if this guy loses, he has the thought that he is the finest no-limit Texas Hold’em player on the globe.

While the majority of no-limit Texas Hold’em players would sooner keep away from rivals of this class, there exist other players who might say that showing-off could have its rewards. So, the doubt you may have is: Is there in all reality a skillful no-limit Texas Hold’em show-off or unfair no limit Texas Hold’em poker attention-seeker? Bragging about how proficient you are in poker is really just like stating: “I am the finest no-limit Texas Hold’em player you’ll ever see, be sure to stay on your A-game while you’re sitting in a poker tournament against me!” No doubt, that is the most terrible vibe to give off playing Texas Hold’em Poker. Plus, giving away too much about your Texas Hold’em Poker playing style can be quite harmful to your Texas Hold’em game. You positively do not want these individuals to get a clue about how you bet on specific no limit Texas Hold’em poker hands.

In addition there are those no limit Texas Hold’em poker opponents who might exploit showing-off as a style of Texas Hold’em Poker trick, or bluff. Show-boating when you get a particular no-limit Texas Hold’em hand might possibly throw your opponents for a loop and baffle them about your no-limit Texas Hold’em playing style. There are a few people who could deem this technique somewhat unethical, but it is important to remember that there are not too tons of regulations against it in poker. Texas Hold’em is all about making use of what you have and taking advantage of it to the end.

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On Sun., Nov. 30th the CBS network will premiere their special investigation show “How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters”. This documentary was made after a four-month research into the online Texas Hold’em poker industry and in particular a cheating scandal involving the online poker site Absolute Poker.

This Texas Hold’em poker page was examined after a few of the Texas Hold’em poker players on the site stated that some person was unjustly winning an incredible amount of poker chips. Todd Witteles was a major witness in this research, according to Witteles; he was losing incredible amounts of money to the exact same poker player. Witteles says that this gambler was raising against awfully good hands, most players would have guessed he was just giving out his money, but he was incredibly winning poker chips.

Witteles was correct about his assumptions, much later it was exposed that a person possibly working for the company was able to watch any player’s poker hole cards. At first glance, Absolute Poker proclaimed that nothing was wrong with the site or the Texas Hold’em competitor. After numerous players showed up with accusations, the Texas Hold’em website studied deeper into the cheating problem and uncovered the mystery.

By Jan. of this year, the KGC uncovered what the poker players and the poker webpage had assumed all the time. It was eventually shown that, there was a worker who had hacked the Texas Hold’em page’s security system and was competing dishonestly for roughly a month and a half. The examination established that the Texas Hold’em poker website had not gained from the dishonest actions in any way, and was in no way, shape or form engaged in the activities.

These illegal activities are further evidence that there needs to be more rules regarding online Texas hold’em websites. The U.S. government needs to license and legalize the online poker business to defend these honorable consumers. These guidelines would also police the entry to these sites by young children, which tends to be another concern recently.

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If you were to have a chat with any typical guy or girl off the street about Texas Hold’em, they almost certainly wouldn’t believe poker to be a game of practice, plans, or close examination. More than likely when you talk about poker with them, they would perhaps imagine some guys lounging around their TV room having conversations and smoking cigars. They also could consider poker to be a game of luck as opposed to ability, more similar to a game of craps and not chess, for example.

So the big question you might be asking yourself is: “Can I actually make money by playing poker?”. It may come as a surprise to you but, it is possible to make a profit from poker. Quite a few people not only rake in some cash by playing online poker, but also make a lot of money by playing texas Hold’em poker. The most important thing you have to remember about online Texas Hold’em poker is that although you can play in a Sin City casino, next to craps tables and casino slots; in online Texas Hold’em you are not competing against the house but against other online Texas Hold’em contestants. Hence, in reality, you are betting your money against other competitors in a competition of ability rather than a game of fate.

You could be thinking to yourself: “Isn’t the game of poker about luck too?” Naturally in online Texas Hold’em poker, not a soul knows which poker cards will be dealt. That doesn’t necessarily mean that one cannot play with a certain amount of pre-game information. One crucial point to remember in Texas Hold’em is that numbers can be your best friend. Statistics plays a rather significant part in the game of Texas Hold’em poker. Not to forget, that even if you become rather lucky every once in while the figures always have a way of bringing you back down to earth.

Don’t forget that Sin City casino games like Texas Hold’em where you are essentially contending against other real-life competitors CAN be won. One will find that the more you play the game of online Texas Hold’em, you will notice that it is more of game of knack as opposed to natural luck.

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Two of the most important poker enterprises out there are integrating very soon in what is anticipated to be a very profitable project. The extremely well-liked online Texas Hold’em poker room Fulltiltpoker has recently publicized that they are going to be joining with World Poker Tour Enterprises for the upcoming WPT season. FullTiltPoker.net is on tap to be the major promoter of the World World Poker Tour’s TV season, and the online Texas Hold’em site is scheduled to be presented in each and every one of the episodes which are shown on FSN. Fulltiltpoker will acquire all the rights to the instructive portion of the episodes.

Particulars of this accord have not been exposed as of yet, but the accord is certain be a sensation. This deal will fuse two tremendously strong Texas Hold’em poker names. World Poker Tour Enterprises which is a major brand on television by means of FSN and Full Tilt which has a vast online following, and a poker lineup consisting of players who have accumulated a total of ten WPT titles and thirty-five WSOP bracelets. FullTiltPoker.com also sponsors many other Texas Hold’em poker players and now the Texas Hold’em poker webpage has started offering Texas Hold’em poker education also.

This deal is assured to gain a new following and is certain to comply with the new fame which Texas Hold’em is spawning. This partnership denotes W.P.T.E.’s yield of the online poker room industry as World Poker Tour will quickly shut their Texas Hold’em poker webpage World Poker Tour Enterprises online. Their pay website ClubWPT.com will in all probability continue to operate.

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The rewards of online poker compared to real Texas Holdem casinos are unlimited, but besides these rewards there are also several disadvantages. Online Texas Holdem poker lets beginner players the chance to play in real poker tournaments with expert Texas Hold em players, but these recreational poker players must avoid any disturbances that could destroy their possibilities to win big money.

The greater part of online poker players become preoccupied by household distractions, or possibly by the Full Tilt Poker room they are playing on. These disturbances can in fact cost them great hands and most likely their well-deserved Texas Holdem Poker chips. The game of Texas Hold em poker is a game of expertise and also complete focus, no matter if you are playing online poker, or in a brick and mortar poker room.

Probably, the most prevalent blunder that online Texas Holdem poker players commit is by playing at more than one online poker room at a time. The better part of amateur Full Tilt Poker players will imagine that this is a good plan, but finally it could possibly prove to be a harm. This scheme of playing several poker tables simultaneously will hurt your attention and ultimately cost you money. Don’t forget that even the expert Texas Holdem players around can commit costly blunders while concentrating their mind on numerous internet poker tables at once.

Any given online Texas Holdem player, could at some point, discover themselves playing diverse online Texas Holdem poker tables at the same time, at the same time as they are watching a movie, reading their preferred website, talking to friends etc. This is a circumstance that is supposed to be avoided if you expect to win Texas Holdem games and succeed for big Full Tilt Poker tournaments. Remember to direct your mind on the other internet poker player’s wagers, their intentions, and your own online Texas Holdem poker hands if you really want to become an expert poker player.

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The well-known online poker website FullTiltPoker.com, just let everyone know that for the tenth time they will present the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” a few weeks from now. This Texas Hold em event will open with a $216 Texas Hold em buy-in tourney. Fulltiltpoker.com will have a $15 million prize pool. The Texas Hold Em championship has 25 Texas Hold Em events with the main Texas Hold em tournament on Sunday, November 16th which will offer a $2.5 million prize pool.

There is an option for any Texas Hold em poker player to join in the Texas Hold em tournament, by coming first in as many satellite games as they are able to do. Judging by how many satellite games you succeed in, the more FTOPS cash you will receive. If you happen to win more satellite tournaments than the competition, you will win the tournament equivalent of two more buy-ins. The satellite Texas Hold em games are taking place at the moment, and all registered users of Full Tilt Poker can play.

The Full Tilt Texas Hold Em Tournament started in 2006 when it consisted of 8 events and awarded over $1 million in prize money. At the present, the poker tournament has become highly regarded, with the previous year’s tourney hosting 25 poker events and giving away prizes of over $15 million. Next month’s tournament will present a Two-Day Event with incredible buy-in amounts ranging from $2500 to $5000. The Initial Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that FullTiltPoker.com Tournament had a prize pool that totaled over $400,000. Next month’s Two-Day event has a guaranteed poker pot of around $2 million. This tournament will begin on Sat., Nov. 15th.

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