durrrr Poker Challenge Page from Full Tilt Poker

Full Tilt has just unveiled a brand new informative site covering all the details of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an exciting online heads up challenge involving some of the finest big money poker players competing against the online poker phenom Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The new website section offers poker players and fanatics the chance to follow this amazing online poker challenge and get timely updates. With this innovative “durrrr Challenge” site poker players can follow all the poker action and look at each poker hand played during this poker challenge, and look at lots of statistics, including how many hands were played, session time, cash won, average won during each hand and lots more.

Close to six months ago, the 23 year old online poker phenom delivered a heads-up poker challenge open to any player with the loot, time and capability to accept it. Any poker player entering the poker challenge has to wager $500,000 against durrrr’s $1.5 million. Tom’s challenge states that a minimum 50,000 hands need to be played simultaneously at 4 or more poker tables of no-limit Hold’em or pot-limit Omaha. At the end of the poker challenge, the player who has more money will secure the pool. Basically if you enter the challenge and win a dollar after the 50,000 poker hands, then you will earn durrrr’s $1.5 Million, but if he succeeds by $1 then he will take your $500,000.

So far, some poker pros have accepted to play the “durrrr challenge”, including seven-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, however, only Patrick Antonius has accepted the durrrr challenge. Until now, both poker stars have participated in a total of 20,647 hands out of 50,000, with Dwan ahead $726,546 total.

For more information on the durrrr poker challenge and Tom durrrr Dwan vs. Patrick Antonius, please check out http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

Full Tilt Bets on New WSOP 2009 Coverage

The most popular poker website FullTilt.com is taking the coverage to the next level with the 2009 World Series of Poker with their 2009 WSOP News Page, a new platform created to inform players on everything related to the 2009 WSOP, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, timely updates, players’ blogs and more.

FullTiltPoker.com’s new 2009 WSOP Coverage Page is not the usual news website offered by tons of other sites. The site is broken down into three areas, and includes a daily highlights part in where fans can get access to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas events info, results, players and more in an articles series written by the FullTilt.com staff members Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the typical daily updates and results on each and every poker event, Full Tilt Poker’s 2009 WSOP News Page also features two poker blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights commentary, wsop news, inside info from FullTiltPoker.com star players, opinions from FullTilt.com’s players and authors and guest posts from guest bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which highlights commentaries from members of Team Full Tilt playing 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 supplies immediate updates and info from various poker players. Poker players involved in the Twitter portion include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter section permits these players to create short messages letting the world know whats going on. These comments known as “tweets”, can be forwarded from anywhere through a cellular phone or other portable device.

To view more info on Full Tilt Poker’s new World Series of Poker 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 Top Online Poker Rooms

The Christmas spirit has hit some of the best internet No-Limit Texas Hold’em websites this year, and they are quite giving with their specials. Taking into account what kind of online Texas Hold’em Poker website promotion you are hunting for; there is one out there that can help you out. Visiting the biggest internet No-Limit Poker websites, the following promotions were some of the best around.

Beginning with the ever popular internet No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker website Full Tilt, their promotion is called “The Holiday $100k”. The online poker site is giving all their No-Limit Texas Hold’em members a break to win $100,000, for buying-in with only 2000 points. This poker game will start on December 27th and there will be a second tournament on Dec. the 28th. Full Tilt is also giving players an opportunity to win their way into one of the games by playing in a Freeroll on the website.

The 2nd poker site we looked at was Ultimatebet.com poker, they are running bonuses each day all through the month of December. They have already given away IPods, a $1000 New depositer Freeroll, and on the 19th it is possible to take home a flat screen TV. They have their their “Days of Deals” special going on during the month of December.

To finish, Party Poker has “The Great Gift Giveaway”. The way you can win is by winning your way up levels and the more points you accumulate, the higher the gifts you can win. There are countless prizes available to win for example entrances into prize tournaments or cash payments. Furthermore if you play on the Texas Hold’em Poker room on December 25th, Party Poker will double your points on their real money Texas Hold’em Poker tables.

Online Poker Scandal will be featured on Television

This Sunday evening CBS will premiere their special “How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters”. This special program was created after a 16-week research into the online Texas Hold’em poker business and particularly a con with the online poker website Absolute Poker.

This Texas Hold’em page was inspected after a number of the poker players on the site claimed that someone was unjustly winning an incredible amount of cash. Todd Witteles was a major player in this research, according to Witteles; he was losing huge amounts of money to the exact same poker player. Witteles alleges that this player was raising against awfully good cards, the majority of people would have presumed he was just giving his money to the other players, but he was in reality winning many poker hands.

Witteles was correct about his suppositions, it was later shown that a poker player possibly working for the company was able to spy on any poker player’s poker hole cards. At first, Absolute Poker stated that nothing was wrong with the site or the Texas Hold’em competitor. After several players moved forward with accusations, the poker site studied deeper into the cheating problem and found the problem.

In January of this year, the Kahnawake Gaming Commision came across what the Texas Hold’em poker players and the Texas Hold’em website had suspected all along. The investigation proved that, there was an employee who had hacked the Texas Hold’em poker room’s security and was competing unlawfully for more or less six weeks. The investigation proved that the Texas Hold’em room had not benefited from the illegal transactions whatsoever, and was definitely not implicated.

These scams are further testimony that there needs to be more guidelines in regards to poker pages. The United States government needs to license and control the online gaming business to look after these upright clients. These control measures would also control the admission to these webpages by children, which is turning into another concern these days.

Is it Possible to Make a Living by Playing Poker?

Take a minute to imagine if you were to have a conversation with any ordinary guy or girl off the street about online Texas Hold’em, they most likely wouldn’t believe online Texas Hold’em to be a game of practice, plans, or careful observation. Possibly when you refer to online Texas Hold’em poker with them, they would perhaps visualize some acquaintances lounging around their living room table having conversations and drinking alcohol. They also may consider Texas Hold’em to be a game of fate rather than skill, more similar to a game of craps compared to chess, for example.

So the big question mark there is: “Could I possibly make a living by playing poker?”. Believe it or not, there are folks who actually earn a living this way. A number of folks not just make a profit by playing online poker, but also earn some big bucks by playing poker. The first thing you have to remember about online poker is that while you can play in a LV casino, beside craps tables and slot machines; in online poker you are not contending against the house but against other online Texas Hold’em poker rivals. Hence, in all reality, you are gambling your poker chips against other contenders in a competition of expertise unlike a game of luck.

You could be saying to yourself: “Doesn’t luck play a part?” Naturally in online poker, nobody has any idea which poker cards will be dealt out. That doesn’t suggest that one cannot play Texas Hold’em poker with a dependable quantity of pre-game knowledge. One main issue to remember in Texas Hold’em poker is that numbers do not lie. Mathematics performs a very essential role in the game of Texas Hold’em. So much so, that even if you become fairly fortunate ever so often the numbers always seem to humble you.

Always remember that LV casino table games comparable to Texas Hold’em poker where you are really contending against other actual competitors CAN be won. You will find that the more you play the game of online Texas Hold’em, you will learn that it is more of game of talent as opposed to natural fate.

Full Tilt Online Poker Site and World Poker Tour Announce Sponsorship Venture

The two most well-known online poker industries out there are becoming partners before long in what is projected to be an extremely successful project. The massive online poker room Fulltiltpoker has recently stated that they are going to be collaborating with WPT for the upcoming WPT season. FullTiltPoker.net is scheduled the prime supporter of the World World Poker Tour’s 7th, and the poker website is going to be featured in every one of the installments which can be seen on Fox Sports Net channel. Fulltiltpoker will gain all the rights to the instructive segments of the episodes.

Details of this contract have not been publicized thus far, but the pact will definitely be a success. This union will join two particularly prominent Texas Hold’em poker brands. World Poker Tour which is a well-known brand on television by way of FSN and FullTiltPoker.com which has a gigantic online fan base, as well as a Texas Hold’em poker lineup containing players who have accumulated a total of ten W.P.T.E. titles and thirty-five W.S.O.P. bracelets. Fulltiltpoker also funds many other Texas Hold’em poker players and now the online poker website has started providing Texas Hold’em poker lessons as well.

This contract is sure to pull in a fresh set of fans and is guaranteed to fit the fresh popularity which Texas Hold’em is spawning. This pact indicates W.P.T.’s submission of the online poker room business as World Poker Tour Enterprises will most likely shut their Texas Hold’em poker website World Poker Tour Enterprises online. Their pay webpage ClubWPT.com will more than likely continue to run.