durrrr is Challenging all Full Tilt Poker Pros

FullTilt has recently unveiled a new informative section containing all the excitement of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an amazing online heads up tourney involving some of the world’s best big money online poker players competing against the online poker star Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The brand new section offers online poker players and followers the chance to stay on top of this incredible online poker challenge and receive timely challenge details. With this innovative “durrrr Challenge” portal fans can view all the details and look at each hand played during this poker challenge, and check out tons of statistical information, including number of hands played, time of session, amount won, average won during each hand and tons more.

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

To date, a number of poker pros have consented to play the “durrrr challenge”, including Full Tilt Poker Star Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, though, only Patrick Antonius has agreed to the durrrr challenge. Thus far, both players have engaged in a total of 20,647 hands out of 50,000, with Tom Dwan up by $726,546 total.

For more info on the “durrrr” Challenge and Tom durrrr Dwan vs. Patrick Antonius, please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

WSOP 2009 Coverage from FullTiltPoker

Leading poker website FullTilt.com is upping the ante on the news from 2009 World Series of Poker with their WSOP Coverage Page, a new portal built to inform poker players on everything related to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, updates, poker players’ blogs and more.

Full Tilt Poker’s new World Series of Poker Coverage Page is not the usual news portal like most of the other sites. The website is broken down into three areas, and includes a daily highlights area in where readers can get access to the WSOP 2009 events info, results, players and more in an articles series written by the Full Tilt poker experts Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the same ol’ daily updates and results on each and every poker event, FullTiltPoker.com’s 2009 WSOP News Page also features two poker player blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights comments, poker news, insider info from FullTilt.com stars, opinions from FullTiltPoker.com’s fans and authors and guest posts from other poker bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which highlights commentaries from members of Team Full Tilt participating in the 2009 WSOP, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

Also, Full Tilt Poker’s new 2009 WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter portion that gives live updates and commentary from various poker pros. 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 players to create short messages allowing people from around the world to stay informed. These updates known as “tweets”, can be transmitted from any place in the world through a cellular phone or other hand-held device.

To see more information on FullTiltPoker.com’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, Many Holiday Promotions are available by the biggest Online Poker Rooms

Holiday cheer has come to some of the top online No-Limit Texas Hold’em rooms this year, and they have become rather giving with their bonuses. Whatever kind of internet No-Limit Poker site special you are hunting for; there is one that you will like. Visiting the biggest internet No-Limit Poker websites, we found these Christmas specials.

Starting things off with the very famous online Texas Hold’em room Full Tilt Poker, their promotion is called “The Holiday $100k”. The poker site is giving all their No-Limit Texas Hold’em players a break to win $100k, for buying-in with only 2000 points. This No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker tournament will kick off on Dec. 27th and then they are offering you a 2nd chance on Dec. the 28th. Full Tilt Poker is also giving players an opportunity to gain entry into one of the tournaments by playing in a Freeroll.

The 2nd No-Limit Texas Hold’em room we checked out was Ultimatebet.com poker, they are holding specials every day all the way through the month of December. They have already awarded IPods, a $1000 New depositer Freeroll, and on the 19th there is a chance to take home a flat screen TV. They have their their “Days of Deals” promotion going on during December.

Last of all, Party Poker is running “The Great Gift Giveaway”. The way you can win is by winning your way up the ladder and the more points you accumulate, the higher the rewards you will be able to take home. There are many prizes to be had to win such as entrances into prize tournaments or cash prizes. Additionally if you happen to play on the poker website on December 25th, PartyPoker.com will double the points you gain on the cash Texas Hold’em Poker tables.

Online Texas Hold’em Scandal will be shown on 60 Minutes

On Sun., Nov. 30th the CBS network will premiere their investigation special “How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters”. This documentary was filmed after a 4 month inquiry into the online poker business and in particular a cheating scandal in relation to the online poker site Absolute Poker.

This Texas Hold’em room was probed after a number of the Texas Hold’em poker players on the site said that some person was dishonestly winning a huge amount of cash. Todd Witteles was a crucial player in this examination, according to him; he was losing large amounts of poker hands to the very same poker player. Witteles alleges that this man was raising against very good hands, the majority of people would have guessed he was simply handing over his money, but he was incredibly winning poker chips.

Witteles was correct with his statements, much later it was shown that a poker player who knew about the site was able to view everyone´s poker hole cards. With the first look, Absolute Poker stated that there were no problems with the page or the poker competitor. After numerous players showed up with allegations, the Texas Hold’em poker website studied further into the issue and made the discovery.

Around Jan. of 2008, the KGC exposed what the poker players and the poker webpage had assumed all along. The result of the investigation was that, there was a worker who had hacked the poker page’s security system and was competing unlawfully for close to six weeks. The investigation showed that the poker webpage had not gained from the unlawful activities whatsoever, and was positively not implicated.

These scams are further testimony that there ought to be more control regarding Texas Hold’em poker pages. The United States government should authorize and control the internet Texas Hold’em business to defend these upright consumers. These guidelines would also regulate the admission to these pages by young children, which is turning into another fear lately.

Could I really make money in the Game of Poker Tournaments?

Imagine if you were to have a chat with any ordinary guy or girl off the street about online Texas Hold’em poker, they possibly wouldn’t consider online Texas Hold’em poker to be a game of tactics, plans, or study. More than likely when you point out online poker with them, they would almost certainly picture some acquaintances lounging around their living room table talking and smoking cigarettes. They also might consider Texas Hold’em to be a game of fate as opposed to skill, closer to a game of craps rather than checkers, for example.

So the big question is: “Could I become a millionaire playing poker?”. You may have your doubts but, the answer to this question is a very strong “yes”. Numerous folks not just make a profit by playing Texas Hold’em poker, but also earn some big bucks by playing the game. The most important thing you have to remember about online Texas Hold’em is that while you can play in a Las Vegas casino, next to blackjack tables and slot machines; in poker you are not working against the house but against other poker competitors. So, in all reality, you are gambling your poker chips against other players in a match of aptitude as opposed to a game of luck.

You might be thinking to yourself: “What about the luck factor?” Of course in Texas Hold’em, no one really knows which poker cards will be dealt out. That doesn’t indicate that you cannot play poker with a clear amount of pre-game knowledge. One main issue to remember in Texas Hold’em poker is that numbers can be your best friend. Statistics plays a very significant role in the game of Texas Hold’em poker. Not forgetting, that even if you get fairly fortunate every once in while the figures always seem to bring you back down to earth.

Try to remember that LV casino games comparable to poker where you are in fact competing versus other actual competitors CAN be won. The more you play the game of online poker, you will find out that it is more of game of expertise as opposed to just genuine chance.

FullTiltPoker and World Poker Tour Enterprises Take a Gamble

The two biggest Texas Hold’em industries out there are integrating presently in what is probably going to be a very profitable venture. The very famous poker site Fulltiltpoker has recently publicized that they are working with WPT for the upcoming W.P.T.E. season. FullTiltPoker.com will be the prime backer of the World W.P.T.’s 7th, and the poker site is going to be presented in every single one of the shows which are seen on Fox Sports Net channel. FullTiltPoker.net will obtain all the rights to the learning segments of the episodes.

Detailed information of this union have not been revealed yet, but the deal is sure to be a hit. This pact will fuse two enormously prominent Texas Hold’em poker brands. W.P.T. which is a prominent brand on television due to Fox Sports Net channel and Fulltiltpoker which has a gigantic online fan base, and a Texas Hold’em poker lineup containing players who have accumulated a total of 10 World Poker Tour trophies and 35 W.S.O.P. bracelets. Fulltiltpoker also funds many other Texas Hold’em players and now the Texas Hold’em website has started giving poker teaching also.

This union is certain to attract a whole new following and is certain to satisfy the latest fame which Texas Hold’em is generating. This accord shows W.P.T.’s forfeit of the online poker room enterprise as W.P.T.E. will most likely end their Texas Hold’em poker page W.P.T.E. online. Their pay to play site ClubWPT.com will almost definitely continue to run.