As WedoitallVegas reported here over the weekend, it has recently been made public that ”durrrr” has officially signed up with FullTiltPoker.com. The online poker website has given the heads-up specialist a warm welcome with an Tom Dwan Website featuring a welcome video clip and other highlights from the career of Dwan.

One of the nicest parts of the ”durrrr” Website is the welcome video from Team FullTilt Poker members Howard Lederer, Andy Bloch, Jennifer Harman and others. The Tom Dwan video on FullTiltPoker.com also features an appearance from the legendary online poker player, Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

Dwan has been keeping himself very occupied as of late with a new Dwan blog, which will actually be authored from poker experiences of Tom Dwan himself. Without mentioning the durrrr Challenge which is on its 27,185th hand out of the scheduled 50,000 total hands.

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Full Tilt has just unveiled an innovative informative site involving all the excitement of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an incredible online heads up tournament presenting some of the finest big money online players competing against the online poker star Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The brand new section presents poker players and fanatics the opportunity to follow this incredible internet poker challenge and get timely statistical updates. With this innovative “durrrr Challenge” site players can track all the action and look at each poker hand played during the poker challenge, and get lots of statistics, including how many hands were played, session time, amount won, average won during each hand and lots more.

Around six months ago, the 23 year old internet poker professional issued a heads-up poker challenge open to any poker player with the money, time and ability to accept it. Any poker player entering the durrrr challenge has to put up $500,000 against Tom’s $1.5 million. Dwan’s challenge states that at least 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. Essentially if you enter the FullTilt.com durrrr challenge and win a dollar after the 50,000 poker hands, then you will take home durrrr’s $1.5 Million, but if he wins by a dollar then he will take home your $500,000.

So far, a number of poker players have agreed to to play the Full Tilt “durrrr challenge”, including WSOP Champ Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, yet, only Patrick Antonius has agreed to the challenge. Thus far, both poker stars have engaged in a total of 20,647 hands out of 50,000, with durrrr up by $726,546 total.

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

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Take a second to imagine if you were to have a chat with any typical person off the street about online poker, they most likely wouldn’t believe Texas Hold’em poker to be a game of tactics, preparation, or careful observation. Chances are when you mention poker with them, they would almost certainly picture some poker buddies sitting around their living room having conversations and smoking cigars. They also could consider online Texas Hold’em poker to be a game of fate as opposed to ability, closer to a game of blackjack compared to checkers, for example.

So the big question you might be asking yourself is: “Can I become rich playing poker?”. It may seem strange but, the answer to this question is a very strong “yes”. Some people not only make a profit by playing Texas Hold’em, but also make enough to live by playing poker. The main issue you need to remember about Texas Hold’em poker is that although you can play in a Las Vegas casino, close 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 poker competitors. Hence, in truth, you are risking your hard cash against other rivals in a competition of ability as opposed to a game of chance.

You may be thinking to yourself: “Doesn’t chance play a part?” The truth is in online Texas Hold’em poker, no one has any idea which poker cards will be dealt. That doesn’t suggest that you can’t play poker with a reliable amount of pre-game know-how. One major thing to remember in Texas Hold’em is that numbers are always truthful. Statistics plays a rather significant role in the game of online Texas Hold’em poker. Not to forget, that even if you become a bit lucky frequently the figures always seem to humble you.

Don’t forget that LV casino games similar to online Texas Hold’em poker where you are truly competing against other real-life players CAN be won. It is proven that the more you play the game of online Texas Hold’em, you will find out that it is more of game of skill and not only genuine fate.

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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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