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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The two most important online Texas Hold’em corporations around are joining forces on TV shortly in what is predicted to be an extremely successful endeavor. The enormously successful online Texas Hold’em site Fulltiltpoker has just declared that they will be collaborating with WPT for the upcoming W.P.T. season. Fulltiltpoker is going to be the foremost benefactor of the World WPT’s seventh season, and the poker site is going to be presented in all of the shows which are aired on Fox Sports Net. Fulltiltpoker will secure all the rights to the instructive pieces of the episodes.

Detailed information of this agreement have not been revealed so far, but the partnership is guaranteed to be a sensation. This accord will join two tremendously prominent Texas Hold’em corporations. World Poker Tour Enterprises which is an outstanding powerhouse on television through F.S.N. and Fulltiltpoker which has a gigantic online poker fan base, not to mention a Texas Hold’em lineup consisting of players who have collected a total of ten World Poker Tour Enterprises trophies and 35 World Series of Poker bracelets. FullTiltPoker.com also backs many other Texas Hold’em players and now the online poker webpage has begun offering poker education as well.

This union is guaranteed to bring in a fresh following and is assured to comply with the recent status which Texas Hold’em poker is breeding. This pact is a sign of W.P.T.’s forfeit of the Texas Hold’em poker room industry as World Poker Tour will before long close up their Texas Hold’em poker page World Poker Tour online. Their pay to play webpage ClubWPT.com will most likely continue to operate.

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The successful online poker room FullTiltPoker.com, just revealed that once again they will hold the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” in the first week of November. The popular event will start out with a $216 no-limit Texas Hold em tournament. Fulltiltpoker.com will have a $15 million prize pool. The Texas Hold Em championship has 25 Texas Hold Em events with the main Texas Hold em event on Sunday, November 16th which will award a $2.5 million prize pool.

There is a possibility for any Texas Hold em player to participate in the tournament, by coming first in as many satellite games as they are able to do. Taking into account how many satellite games you win, the more FTOPS chips you will receive. If you happen to win more satellite tournaments than the other players, you will receive two more buy-ins for the FTOPS. The satellite Texas Hold em games are are going on now, and are open for members of Full Tilt Poker.

The FullTiltPoker.com tournament launched in 2006 when it consisted of 8 events and gave out over $1 million. At the present, the Texas Hold Em Tournament has become extremely popular, with last years poker event running 25 poker events and prizes of over $15 million. This year’s tournament will highlight a Two-Day Event with unprecedented buy-ins of $2500-$5000. The Initial Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that year’s FTOPS had a winner of $400,000 in prize money. This Two-Day event has a guaranteed poker pot of around $2 million. This Texas Hold Em tournament will open on November 15th.

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A very important characteristic in poker championships is tricking your opponents by making them think you actually have a good hand, when in all honesty it is most likely you have the worst hand at the table. This is called “Poker face”, a straight expression to trick your opponents into believing something that might not be true.

If you have a good hand it is most likely going to make you feel nervous, could possibly cause your hands to shake, and your heartbeat race. The previous symptoms are signs that your opponents may notice very fast, especially if they are old friends. Try not to peer over at the pot if you have some good poker cards in your hands. This will show your competition that you are, in your mind, adding up what you might win.

In the condition where you have a terrible poker hand, try not to avoid looking your opponents in the eyes, keep your head high, and don’t hesitate when you place your bet. When you can persuade yourself that your set of cards is equal, or superior than your fellow poker players; you will possibly fool them into believing this as well. Try not to forget to keep this as natural-looking as possible. Your use of body language and actions could be saying one idea, while what you are saying are giving them a whole different idea.

Another key to Texas Hold Em is to be aware of your poker buddies’ “poker tells”. A “tell” is any kind of expression, physical gesture, or habit that could might give you an idea of the type of Texas Hold Em hand they are holding. One critical point to remember is when your poker buddy appears as if he has a good poker hand; he, most likely, has a very weak hand. From a different angle, if he acts as though his hand is poor, he most likely has a very good hand.

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