As WedoitallVegas published here over the weekend, it has recently been made public knowledge that Tom Dwan has officially signed with FullTilt Poker. The online poker website has given the poker celebrity a warm welcome with an Tom Dwan Website featuring a welcome video clip and other highlights from the career of ”durrrr”.

One of the best areas of the ”durrrr” Website is the welcome video from Team Full Tilt Poker members Howard Lederer, Andy Bloch, Jennifer Harman and a few others. The Tom Dwan video on Full Tilt also features an appearance from the legendary online poker player, Tom Dwan.

Dwan has been keeping himself very busy lately with a new Tom Dwan blog, which will actually be authored from experiences of Dwan himself. Not to mention the durrrr Challenge which is on its 27,185th hand out of the scheduled 50,000 total hands.

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Full Tilt Poker will attempt to stamp its name on the Guinness Records and to do so; the site has announced that it will try to set a new record for the Largest Online Poker Tournament. Full Tilt’s Record Breaker tournament was unveiled as the finale to FIVE, a week of events and promotions created exclusively to celebrate the site’s 5^th anniversary. The tournament will take place on July 19th at 15:05ET, players can buy in for this event for only $5 or 1000 Full Tilt Points and compete for a share of a $250,000 guaranteed with $250,000 added prize pool. Players can also get entries to this event by playing the online satellites available on the site and starting for as little as 30 cents or 50 Full Tilt Points.

Team Full Tilt pros and WSOP bracelet winners Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson and Phil Ivey have already confirmed they will take part in the event, offering players the chance to sit down at this historic tournament and play with some of the best high stakes and tournament pros in the world.

“By extending the limits of what is possible in online poker tournaments, Full Tilt Poker will allow players to compete for a big payout without the big buy-in,” said Team Full Tilt member Howard Lederer.

Putting together a poker tournament of this magnitude would be nearly impossible for any brick and mortar casino or poker room. The current record for the largest “live” poker tournament was set at the 2006 WSOP Main Event with 8,772 players. To break the current Guinness Record set by PokeStars.com in December, 2008, Full Tilt Poker will need to attract over 35.000 players. If successful, this tournament will establish Full Tilt Poker as World Record holder and cement its reputation as a world leader in online poker industry.

For more information on Full Tilt’s Record Breaker tournament, please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/the-record-breaker.

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Online poker site Full Tilt Poker has just unveiled an innovative informative section involving all the facts of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an amazing online heads up poker tournament presenting some of the most talented big money online players challenging the poker sensation Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The innovative new website offers online poker players and followers the opportunity to follow this amazing internet poker challenge and receive frequent statistical updates. With this new “durrrr Challenge” section poker players can view all the details and review each hand played during durrrr Challenge, and check out lots of statistics, including how many hands were played, session time, amount won, average won during each hand and lots more.

Close to six months ago, the 23 year old online poker professional dealt out a heads-up poker challenge open to any player with the cash, time and ability to accept it. Any player entering the Full Tilt durrrr challenge has to put up $500,000 against Tom’s $1.5 million. Dwan’s challenge specifies that at least 50,000 poker 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 heads up challenge, the player who has more cash will win the pool. Essentially if you enter the durrrr challenge and win $1 after the 50,000 hands, then you will take home Tom’s $1.5 Million, but if he wins by $1 then he will take your $500,000.

So far, a few poker players have consented to play the “durrrr challenge”, including WSOP Champ Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, yet, only Patrick Antonius has said yes to the durrrr challenge. At this point, both players have participated in a total of 20,647 poker hands out of 50,000, with durrrr up by $726,546 total.

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

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World leading online poker website Full Tilt is upping the ante on the news from 2009 WSOP in Vegas with their 2009 World Series of Poker Informative Page, a informative site created exclusively to keep players informed on every detail related to the 2009 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, timely updates, players’ blogs and more.

Full Tilt 2009 WSOP News Page is not the same ol’ news portal like hundreds of other sites. The website is separated into three areas, and includes a daily highlights area in where viewers can get access to the World Series of Poker 2009 events info, results, players and more in an articles series written by the Full Tilt writers Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the usual daily updates and results on all of the event, Full Tilt WSOP Coverage Page also highlights two poker blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights comments, poker news, insider info from Full Tilt Poker Professionals, comments from Full Tilt Poker’s viewers and authors and guest posts from special 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 WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter section that supplies live updates and notes from several poker pros. Poker players involved in the Twitter section include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter feed permits these players to send short messages letting the world know what’s going on. These messages known as “tweets”, can be transmitted from any place in the world through a cell phone or other hand-held device.

To see more information on the new 2009 World Series of Poker News Page please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/series-coverage

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If you were to have a conversation with any ordinary guy or girl off the street about Texas Hold’em poker, they almost certainly wouldn’t consider Texas Hold’em poker to be a game of tactics, careful planning, or observation. Most likely when you point out poker with them, they would perhaps picture some friends lounging around their kitchen table chatting and smoking cigars. They also could believe Texas Hold’em to be a game of fate as opposed to ability, closer to a game of blackjack and not a game of skill, for example.

So the big issue you may have is: “Can I make money playing Texas Hold’em?”. It may come as a surprise to you but, people actually do earn a living by playing poker. More than a few people not just make a profit by playing online Texas Hold’em, but also make a lot of money by competing in Texas Hold’em. The main issue you need to remember about Texas Hold’em poker is that while you can play in a Vegas casino, close to roulette tables and casino slots; in poker you are not contending against the house but against other online Texas Hold’em rivals. So, in truth, you are betting your poker chips against other competitors in a game of aptitude as opposed to a game of fate.

You could be thinking to yourself: “Isn’t the game of poker about luck too?” Of course in poker, nobody knows which hands will be dealt. That doesn’t imply that one cannot play Texas Hold’em poker with a clear quantity of pre-tournament knowledge. One major thing to remember in online poker is that numbers can be your best friend. Math has a vital role in the game of Texas Hold’em poker. Not forgetting, that even if you get a little fortunate time and again the numbers always seem to bring you back down to earth.

Don’t forget that LV casino table games such as poker where you are essentially playing against other actual competitors CAN be won. One will find that the more you play the game of online Texas Hold’em, you will realize that it is more of game of talent and not just natural luck.

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The well-known Texas Hold em website FullTiltPoker.com, just let everyone know that for the 10th consecutive time they will feature the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” in the first week of November. This poker championship will get started with a no-limit Texas Hold em with a $216 buy-in championship. There is also a guaranteed prize pool of $15 million. This tournament has 25 Texas Hold Em events with the main Texas Hold em tournament on Sunday, November 16th which will award a $2.5 million prize pool.

There is a possibility for any player to take part in the FTOPS, by winning as many satellite games as they are able to do. Depending on how many satellite games you win, the more tournament money you will receive. If you end up winning more satellite games than the other players, you will win two more 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 launched in 2006 and it had 8 events and gave out over $1 million. At the moment, the tournament has become highly regarded, with last year’s Texas Hold Em tournament holding 25 events and awarding over $15 million. This year’s tournament will present a Two-Day Event with unprecedented buy-ins of $2500-$5000. The original Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that poker tournament had a prize pool of $400,000. Next month’s Two-Day event has a assured prize pool of at least $2 million. This event will kick-off on November 15th.

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One of the most important aspects in poker championships is misleading your Texas Hold Em competitors by persuading them into thinking you have a good poker hand, when in reality you could possibly you have a terrible hand. You may have heard this referred to as “Poker face”, a straight expression for tricking your competitors into supposing something that could be a lie.

If you happen to have a good poker hand it is most likely going to make you more nervous, could possibly make your hands shake, and your heartbeat race. These are signs that your poker competition may notice very fast, especially if they know you well. Be careful not to peer over at the pot if you have some good poker cards in your hands. This is an obvious gesture for your competition that you are, in your head, adding up how many poker chips are in the pot.

In the situation where you have a dreadful poker hand, try not to avoid looking at your opponents, don’t lower your head, and don’t act reluctant about your bet. In the event that you can convince yourself that your set of cards is equal, or superior than your poker buddies; you will possibly fool them into believing this as well. Try to remember to make this seem as normal as possible. Your signals and actions could be saying one thing, while your words and the way you say them are making them believe something entirely different.

Another key to Texas Hold Em is to be conscious of the competition’s “poker tells”. A “tell” is a habit or facial gesture that could might give away information about their hand. One key rule to remember is when your opponent behaves as though he has a good Texas Hold Em hand; he, very likely, has a poor hand. On the other hand, if he behaves in a way that seem like he has a poor poker hand, he in all probability has an excellent Texas Hold Em hand.

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The largest prize pool ever was announced by Bodog Poker site, with the main event awarding $300,000. The total prizes for the eight day Texas holdem tournament will be higher than $650,000, over the course of the fourteen tournament event. The Bodog Poker event will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues until Sunday, October 5th. The popular poker website will also feature six “Bounty” events, where the challengers can win $109 in Texas Hold em credits for each Team Bodog poker competitor they knock out of the poker eliminatories. The biggest poker celebs will be challenging all contenders in the poker tournament.

Team Bodog champ, Justin Bonomo, is definitely thrilled about the poker championship. Throughout his poker career, the 23 year old has brought home over $1.4 million. He says that if you had the idea that the first poker championship was huge, you will definitely be surprised with this year’s tournament and the prize money involved. He also challenges anyone that has the courage to eliminate him from the poker tournament to step forward.

The initial Bounty Tournament is going to be the first event in the championship on Sunday. Any player is able to buy-In straight, and any of the other poker games with cash. Or another choice is to win their way into the events through the satellites which are being played every night during the tournament week. There will be six bounty tournaments and seven “Championship Events”, that will have higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

There are thirteen games which will lead up to the main tournament on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the championship with a guaranteed $300,000 in prize money, despite the total number of Texas Hold em players in the Bodog Open. All the competitors who want to enter the main poker event will have to shell out $500 for the buy-in and in return will collect 10,000 in tournament chips.

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Can I win more by playing a tight game or loose?

You will undeniably hear two theories from your poker buddies or possibly the so-called poker experts. Let’s take a look first at the tight poker players. All players including yourself will have a hard time winning, if the entire table is playing a tight game. What may occur if you have a poker table full of tight poker players is the players will end up swapping the smaller pots back and forth to each other. All the while the poker lounge is raking in heaps of your hard-earned money, and that of your competition. So now you could say, is it better to play loose? Well, in this situation the better Texas holdem’ players are going to lose fewer hands, but at the end of it all nobody is going to succeed.

How can I enhance my Texas holdem’ playing in the long run?

The answer to this question is as easy as a piece of paper and a pen. A great approach to find out a lot about your playing method and strategy, is to keep some sort of record of your poker playing. You could write down this information during the poker game, and then transfer it to a database on your home computer. This can also help you learn about your opponents playing style, and what is the best strategy to conquer them.

Is it a good idea to use the same strategy for every poker tournament?

If you think that being predictable is a winning tactic for playing poker, then you should consider varying your Texas holdem’ tactic. The poker pros have the same opinion that adjusting your poker playing method is the best way to confuse and bewilder your poker opponents. You should analyze a handful of methods, discover the best ones for each situation and vary them for every poker tournament.

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According to the 2006 World Series of Poker champ, Jamie Gold, he would be pleased to be branded as the finest bluffer in the world. But if his last poker tournament is any sign, his wish may not be granted ever.

The site is the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic held at the Sin City Bellagio in 2007. Featuring $50 - $100 blinds and a $15,000 buy-in, Darrell Dicken is hanging on in the tournament for dear life. The seat 4 player has just raised his wager to $300, a pretty small raise with only one player biting the line. “I put him as being weak,” Jamie said, “I was thinking about raising, but instead I just called with a 10-3 of hearts to see what would happen.”

Jamie thought that Brad Booth would make some kind of move, which he did. He re-raised to $1600 from the big blind. Gold was thinking that Booth had a good hand, but he was in an excellent position to make a move considering the quantity of dead money in the pot. Dicken ended up folding, and the unknown in Seat 4 called Booth’s raise.

Now there was more than $4000 in the pot, so Jamie raised the wager by $4000. He was thinking, only if someone else had aces or kings there would be no possibility they would make that call. Jamie’s strategy was to make a considerable move on the flop, as long as no ace was dealt. The second part of his plan was to get Booth to fold, which he did. Booth folded with pocket queens.

On the flop there was an ace of ace-6-5, two clubs. The player in seat 4 checked and Jamie bet $2000. Jamie’s initial thought was to make him think that he had clubs. Seat 4 tossed out a $10,000 poker chip, but didn’t say anything thus turning his raise into a call. Jamie’s thought was that seat 4 most likely had an ace, but you have to shield it in case he hits his set on the following card.

A 2 of hearts showed up on the turn, and Jamie folded to what he was thinking was a top pair kicker. Seat 4 displayed a king-jack off suit. Seat 4 beat Gold by bluffing with a superb hand, he made a magnificent poker play and kept the bluff going to the end of the poker tournament.

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