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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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Certainly the most loathed individuals at the no limit Texas Hold’em poker table the majority of times will constantly be the bragger. You know the person I’m speaking of. He’s the player that finds a seat at the poker table and makes clear you’re conscious that he desires all of your no-limit Texas Hold’em chips; parting the no limit Texas Hold’em poker table with the very same mind-set that he arrived with. Even if the guy gets killed, he has the idea that he is the best Texas Hold’em player in the world.

As the better part of Texas Hold’em players would preferably avoid opponents of this kind, there are other people who would argue that bragging may have its rewards. So, the big doubt is: Is there truly something like an accomplished poker attention-seeker or false Texas Hold’em bragger? Bragging about how skilled you are in no limit Texas Hold’em poker is essentially just like saying: “I’m the greatest Texas Hold’em player you’ll ever see, don’t forget to be on the ball while you’re sitting in a poker game against me!” That is almost certain to be the most awful vibe you are going to want to give off playing Texas Hold’em. What’s more, sharing too much about your Texas Hold’em playing manner can be unfavorable to your poker game. You definitely do not want these folks to get a clue about how you bet on certain no-limit Texas Hold’em hands.

What is more there are those Texas Hold’em Poker opponents who could exploit show-boating as a style of poker trick, or bluff. Bragging when you are dealt a specific no limit Texas Hold’em poker hand may throw your opponents for a loop and stump them about your no limit Texas Hold’em poker playing technique. There are a few people who might deem this tactic a bit sneaky, but it is important to not forget that there aren’t many regulations against it in poker. Texas Hold’em Poker is all about doing the best with what you’re dealt and exploiting it to the fullest.

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The largest online poker businesses around are becoming partners before long in what is anticipated to be an extremely successful venture. The massive online Texas Hold’em site Full Tilt Poker has just declared that they will be working with W.P.T.E. for the following World Poker Tour Enterprises season. Fulltiltpoker is going to be the major promoter of the World WPT’s television season, and the Texas Hold’em website is scheduled to be featured in all of the installments which can be seen on Fox Sports Net. FullTiltPoker.net will acquire all the control of the educational portion of the episodes.

Facts of this contract have not been publicized so far, but the merger is guaranteed to be a success. This partnership will join two particularly powerful poker businesses. World Poker Tour Enterprises which is a renowned name on television due to F.S.N. and FullTiltPoker.com which has a huge online poker following, and a poker lineup consisting of players who have amassed a total of 10 W.P.T.E. trophies and thirty-five WSOP bracelets. Fulltiltpoker also sponsors many other poker stars and now the online poker site has started providing Texas Hold’em instruction also.

This contract is assured to draw in a fresh fan base and is certain to fit the brand new fame which Texas Hold’em poker is creating. This partnership shows World Poker Tour’s submission of the Texas Hold’em room enterprise as W.P.T.E. will more than likely shut their Texas Hold’em poker webpage W.P.T. online. Their pay to play page ClubWPT.com will in all probability continue to run.

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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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Texas Holdem’ used to be accessible only in Las Vegas Casino Hotels or from video poker, but now it is more in style than ever in Las Vegas thanks to the the internet.

The popular Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino, is now betting on this popularity with its new audience-participation show called “The Real Deal!” in its showroom in the Venetian Hotel and Casino, beginning in October.

The new game show will unite comedy and game show elements to entertain its live audience. The audience will also be able to take part in the famous Texas-Holdem’ alongside the some famous poker stars. Many prizes are available 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 of the World’s most famous poker 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 visit Sin City casinos want to play poker games,” Negreanu says, “but obviously they can’t play in a big game with the players like Doyle or Phil Hellmuth. But, in this show, they actually can.” At the start of the show, six audience members will be chosen to sit at the poker table on stage with two professional players. Each audience member is then involved in the action by being dealt a unique set of poker cards on their devices. Everyone in the showroom is then involved in the action with big-screen monitors located on stage.

Creators of the show say that you don’t have to be a professional poker player to join in the game. There are other ways to add to 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 winner in this game.

Creators of the show are also betting on the charisma of the pro poker stars to create some interesting moments. Poker players like Scotty Nguyen, the flamboyant five-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, definitely knows how to work the crowd and should provide some memorable moments in this upcoming show .

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A new and very exciting tournament can be added to the long list of poker events organized for 2008. The 2008 Canadian Open Poker Championships will take place March 5-9, 2008 at the Deerfoot Inn and Casino in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The tournament will feature a series of 5 events with an estimated prize pool exceeding $1.3 million CDN.

Event 1 will be a charity event with 5% of the prize pool being donated to Breast Cancer Research. It will be a $500 buy in, freezeout tournament with capacity of up to 250 players.

Event 2 (the Main Event) will be a $5000 buy in, heads up tournament with a maximum of 128 players. A number of international poker pros and celebrities have already committed to attend and play in the event which will be televised in Canada and around the world.

Event 3 is a $1500 buy in, short handed (6 players/table) tournament with up to a 200 player capacity.

Event 4 is a $1000 buy in freezeout format and Event 5, a $500 buy in freezeout, both expected to attract up to 300 players. All events are subject to regulatory approval.

“We are excited to be hosting this event in Calgary at the Deerfoot Casino,” stated President and CEO Kelly B. Kellner. “Our last event attracted a world class field of competitors such as Antonio “The Magician” Esfandiari, Andy Bloch, Nenad Medic and Huck Seed, World Series of Poker Main Event winner from 1996, as well as Canadian pros Greg “FBT” Mueller and “Yukon” Brad Booth. We have a distinct advantage with international players as Canadian prize pools for poker tournaments are tax free and with US and Canadian dollar parity we expect a strong international turnout.”

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As more and more players prepare to compete at the 2008 World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas, there are tremendous amounts of emphasis on popularizing and publicizing the event. With all the advertising and exposure that the 2008 World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas will receive, there are those who feel that the event itself is completely unnecessary and even immoral. With these types of critics, the 2008 World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas has a small set of detractors that are extremely vocal about the World Series of poker tournament in general. With any type of event of this type of popularity and size, there will be those who insist that there is no need for it and that there is some reason for not having it around. With so many individuals in the world who take the time to voice their opinions, it is easy to see that even the World Series of poker tournament with all of its popularity can still have its detractors.

As critics wonder about the necessity of the 2008 World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas, more and more players flood into the city and make preparations to attempt to win big at the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas. With so many supporters of the event, it is hard to see how these few detractors can hope to derail such a popular occurrence. Despite this, these types of protesters and what can only be called dissenters have continuously made the attempt to derail the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas in any way possible. With all this emphasis on causing difficulties for the world-famous event, the 2008 World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas has a small set of determined critics. With all the attempts at doing away with gaming and gambling in general and these types of Texas Hold’em poker tournament events in particular, these types of morally upright individuals have caused all kinds of problems over the years for all manner of proprietors and establishments throughout the world. With these types of critics in place, the 2008 World Series of poker tournament has a vocal set of critics that continue to confound players and proprietors who simply want to participate at the 2008 World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas without event or difficulty. Unfortunately, these types of detractors make it difficult to focus on the event itself and the competition that exists there between players. As more and more emphasis is put on these types of detractors, it becomes a real annoyance to deal with for attendees of the world-famous event.

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With the phenomenal popularity of the Texas Hold’em poker tournament, it is a simple matter to see how the incredible attraction of these types of events can draw visitors from all over the nation as well as from around the world to compete in the fun and exciting Texas Hold’em poker tournaments that are so incredibly popular. The history of Texas Hold’em poker as a tournament has been a well chronicled draw on players from all around the world, as even in the earliest days of the sport of Texas Hold’em poker, players would travel for miles to compete in the gaming halls and betting parlors of the day. The nature of this Texas Hold’em poker and competition would eventually evolve into the Texas Hold’em poker tournament championships that are so familiar in the modern day. With these Texas Hold’em poker tournaments and the professional level poker tournament players that participate in them, it is easy to see how the tremendous amount of revenue can be generated through the endless streams of traffic that is generated from players who participate in the Texas Hold’em poker tournaments that are so popular around the world in the modern day.
With the incredible attraction and appeal of the Texas Hold’em poker tournaments on such a wide variety of people from all walks of life, it is easy to see how so much interest and so much attention can come to be focused on such a popular sporting event. As more and more players flock to the Texas Hold’em poker tournament events that are hosted around the world in all manner of locations such as Las Vegas and other gambling hotspots that feature all manner of poker tournament competitions, poker room and casino establishment proprietors begin to focus more and more on the international draw of these types of establishments. In the past, there has been significant competition for the tremendous amount of traffic that visits the world-famous poker rooms and casinos that offer such lucrative action in liberal amounts of loose players at the Texas Hold’em poker tournament tables.
By drawing in the international crowd and relying on a wealth of global income, local Texas Hold’em poker tournaments can depend on a diverse marketplace to provide tremendous gambling revenue on a consistent basis, more than enough to support establishment proprietors for the long-term.

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All over the Internet, there are all manner of strategy guides and endless amounts of blog posts detailing the apparently endless amounts of advice and tips on the most cutting-edge techniques involved in playing Texas Hold’em poker and tournament or cash play. At first glance, it would seem that the player could simply sign up at any online poker room and casino such as Fulltiltpoker.com or throw a suitcase into their car and head out to Las Vegas and begin winning a fortune in the same fashion as professional Texas Hold’em tournament poker players who have been portrayed as larger than life in a multitude of high budget Hollywood movies. But the truth is, most of the information that can be found on the Internet pertaining to the strategy of playing Texas Hold’em poker tournaments professionally is faulty, consisting of all manner of bizarre and less than effective advice that will simply lead the player down the path of destruction.

First and foremost, the concept of signing up in online poker rooms and casinos such as Fulltiltpoker.com and beginning to win massive amounts of money right away is simply not based in the realm of reality. Separating fantasy from the real world before beginning this type of endeavor is critical to the online poker room player, as maintaining a strong bankroll requires knowing the odds and relying on years of experience to understand how to play, what to play and win to take advantage of position. This type of information does not come from years of practice, despite what Texas Hold’em professional tournament poker players would have you believe. In fact, most of the highly skilled poker players that you may know were trained by someone else, mentored in their attempts to become high limit professional Texas Hold’em poker tournament players.

Since the only way to attain the necessary experience is through experience, the Texas Hold’em poker tournament player should rely on improving their skills by locating strategy and techniques that are truly effective and handed down by experienced professional Texas Hold’em poker tournament players. At poker supplies websites such as Fulltiltpoker.com, the Texas Hold’em poker tournament player can find the strategies and techniques that can help them win in the form of books on the subject of how to win at Texas Hold’em poker tournaments and instructional poker DVDs, authored by professional poker tournament players such as Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke.

With this focus on getting an additional leg up through correct and effective strategy, the Texas Hold’em poker tournament player can ensure that they are not flying blind and can reduce the amount of time required to become a consistent winner at Texas Hold’em.

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