As WedoitallVegas posted here over the weekend, it has recently been made public that Dwan has officially signed with Full Tilt Poker. The online poker website has given the poker professional a warm welcome with an Official “durrrr” Prosite featuring a welcome video and other interesting tidbits from the career of Tom Dwan.

One of the most interesting areas of the Official Website is the welcome video from Team Full Tilt Poker poker players Howard Lederer, Andy Bloch, Jennifer Harman and a few others. The ”durrrr” video on FullTiltPoker.com also features an appearance from the legendary online poker player, ”durrrr”.

”durrrr” has been keeping himself very busy as of late with a new Tom Dwan blog, which will actually be posted from experiences of Tom Dwan himself. And let’s not forget the durrrr Challenge which is on its 27,185th poker hand out of the projected 50,000 total poker hands.

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FullTiltPoker has added a brand new promo giving at least $100 in bonus money to its players simply for trying Full Tilt Poker new client software.

To receive this poker promotion, players only need to get one point from Full Tilt before the 28th of July. Players who don’t comply are not eligible for the Biggest Bonus Ever offer. Poker players who meet the criteria of this offer will have until 23:59 ET on August 16th to receive the bonus.

To get the poker bonus, poker players will need to open the Full Tilt Poker software, log in and click on the “Cashier” link in the client lobby, select the “My Promotions” box in the cashier, click the Biggest Bonus Ever link in the ‘My Promotions” window; this will take them to a section clearing up the facts on how to receive the poker bonus from Full Tilt.

Once players accept their Full Tilt Biggest Bonus Ever offer, they will have 30 days to free the Full Tilt bonus only by earning Full Tilt points in any Full Tilt real money games on the site.

Ring game players will earn one Full Tilt point for every dollar raked from the pot in hands where they are dealt poker cards. Poker players can gain partial Full Tilt points if less than one dollar is raked, with a maximum of three points gained per hand.

Sit and Go players will gain 7 Full Tilt points for each dollar in poker tournament fees paid. A cap does not exist for the number of points you can earn for each poker tournament.

For more info. on the Biggest Bonus Ever, please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/biggest-bonus-ever/overview?ck=ftp472930110217469.

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World leading internet poker room Full Tilt Poker is unveiling a brand new online poker client that includes innovative new features on both the front end and backend and makes navigating easy.

The first thing poker players will take notice of is a new start up page featuring a brand new revamped look as well as a couple brand new features including a series of various security tips displayed on the bottom of the page. FullTiltPoker.com’s updated client provides poker players three different lobby visualizations: Basic, Standard and Classic View.

The Basic View gives novice players the possibility of catching up with the new poker software and viewing the poker tables without the stress of playing poker. The Basic View provides step by step reports on all the available games of poker, and gives poker players the chance to pick their currency, type of game, Game (Hold’em, Omaha Hi or HL, Stud and Mixed Games), Limit (Fixed, Pot or No Limit), and Stake. Additionally Full Tilt Players can now observe the poker action before joining a table with the new “Observe Table” option or by clicking on “Browse Table to see the full list of existing tables.

The Standard View gives information about all the available poker games and permits players to tailor the list of games and tables to present only the games of their choice. This option also gives poker players the possibility of selecting the type of poker table, poker game, stake and observe the poker tables before joining the action.

Poker players can also choose the Classic view and keep FullTilt’s original lobby, however, this selection will be obtainable for a short time only and will be discontinued shortly.

Both the Basic and Standard views also contain inventive new features like new turning graphic screen placed on the left that presents customers straight entry to Full Tilt’s promotions and tournaments and events for example the FTOPS, Iron Man, Play with the Pros, Full Tilt Poker Academy, Deposit Bonuses, and many other poker promotions and poker tournaments, as well as a video option that lets Full Tilt Players to enjoy videos straight from the Full Tilt Poker client.

Full Tilt new poker client is offered for Mac and Windows Operating systems. To download Full Tilt Poker new poker client visit FullTiltPoker.com or click here.

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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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FullTilt.com has recently launched a new info site containing all the details of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an incredible online heads up tournament presenting some of the most talented high stakes online players taking on the online poker phenom Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The innovative new site presents online poker players and fans the chance to track this amazing durrrr challenge and receive regular updates. With this innovative “durrrr Challenge” portal players can track all the poker action and check out each hand played during this poker challenge, and check out lots of stats, including number of hands played, time of session, amount won, average won during each hand and much more.

Around six months ago, the twenty-three year old online poker pro issued a heads-up challenge for any player with the money, time and talent to accept it. Any poker player entering the poker challenge has to wager $500,000 against Tom’s $1.5 million. Tom’s challenge specifies that a minimum 50,000 hands need to be played at the same time at four or more poker tables of no-limit Hold’em or pot-limit Omaha. At the end of the durrrr challenge, the player who has more money will win the pool. Essentially if you enter the Full Tilt Durrrr Challenge and win a dollar after the 50,000 hands, then you will secure durrrr’s $1.5 Million, but if he wins by a dollar then he will win your $500,000.

To date, a few poker players have accepted to play the “durrrr challenge”, including WSOP Champ Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, however, only Patrick Antonius has consented to the Full Tilt Poker Challenge. Until now, both poker pros have taken part in a total of 20,647 poker hands out of 50,000, with Dwan ahead $726,546 total.

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

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Open to ALL WDIAV Forum Members

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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The Christmas spirit has struck nearly all of the most popular online poker websites this year, and they are extremely charitable with their specials. Depending on what sort of online poker site bonus you are hunting for; there is a perfect one for you. Checking out the biggest internet No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker sites, we discovered these promotions.

Starting things off with the always popular online Texas Hold’em Poker website FullTiltPoker, they are promoting “The Holiday $100k”. The poker site is giving all their Texas Hold’em members a chance to win $100,000, by buying-in with just 2000 points. This Texas Hold’em tournament will commence on December 27th and then a 2nd chance on Dec. the 28th. Full Tilt Poker is also giving members an opportunity to win their way into one of the promotions by playing in a Freeroll.

The second poker site we checked out was Ultimate Bet poker, they are running bonuses each day throughout this month. They have already given away IPods, a $1000 New depositer Freeroll, and on the 19th there is a chance to win a flat screen TV. Ultimate Bet has the their “Days of Deals” special going on all through December.

To finish things off, PartyPoker.com is promoting “The Great Gift Giveaway”. The way you can win is by working your way up different levels and the more points you win, the better the gifts you can take home. There are loads of prizes available to win for example entries into prize tournaments or cash prizes. Plus if you would like to play on the poker room on December 25th, Party Poker will double up the points you make on the real money poker tables.

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Sunday night the CBS network will present their documentary “How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters”. This special program was filmed after a 16-week examination into the online Texas Hold’em poker business and in particular a cheating scandal concerning the online poker page Absolute Poker.

This poker webpage was studied after a number of the poker players on the webpage stated that a poker player was dishonestly winning a great amount of poker chips. Todd Witteles was a crucial player in this study, according to him; he was losing great amounts of poker chips to the very same poker player. Witteles alleges that this player was raising against exceptionally good hands, the majority of people would have presumed he was simply giving his money to the other players, but he was unbelievably winning money.

Witteles was quite correct in his assumptions, later on it was exposed that a player with knowledge of the site was able to watch any poker player’s hole cards. At first glance, Absolute Poker proclaimed that there were no faults with the webpage or the Texas Hold’em competitor. After many more players stepped up with charges of fraud, the poker page investigated deeper into the cheating problem and discovered wrongdoing.

By Jan. of 2008, the Kahnawake Gaming Commision came across what the Texas Hold’em poker competitors and the Texas Hold’em poker webpage had assumed all the time. The result of the investigation was that, there was a worker who had hacked the Texas Hold’em poker webpage’s protection and was playing illegally for approximately a month and a half. The examination verified that the poker site had not gained from the unlawful behavior at all, and was in no way implicated.

These illegal activities are further confirmation that there needs to be more rules regarding online Texas hold’em sites. The U.S. government should license and legalize the online Texas Hold’em industry to shield these decent clients. These control measures would also police the access to these websites by young children, which is becoming another concern recently.

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The two most prominent online Texas Hold’em industries around are becoming partners presently in what is likely to be a very popular venture. The incredibly popular poker website Full Tilt Poker has just declared that they are going to be working with World Poker Tour Enterprises for the following W.P.T. season. Fulltiltpoker is on tap to be the key promoter of the World World Poker Tour Enterprises’ seventh season, and the Texas Hold’em website is going to be presented in each and every one of the shows which are seen on F.S.N.. FullTiltPoker.net will acquire all the rights to the educational aspects of the shows.

Details of this deal have not been given away yet, but the contract is certain be a winner. This accord will fuse two tremendously formidable poker companies. WPT which is a leading brand on TV by means of FSN and Full Tilt Poker which has an enormous Texas Hold’em poker following, and a Texas Hold’em poker lineup including players who have amassed a total of ten World Poker Tour Enterprises awards and 35 W.S.O.P. bracelets. Full Tilt Poker also sponsors many other Texas Hold’em players and now the Texas Hold’em site has begun providing poker lessons also.

This union is sure to attract a brand new following and is certain to satisfy the latest notoriety which Texas Hold’em is causing. This agreement signifies World Poker Tour Enterprises’ forfeit of the Texas Hold’em poker room enterprise as World Poker Tour will before long end their online poker site World Poker Tour Enterprises online. The pay to play webpage ClubWPT.com will in all probability continue to operate.

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The benefits of online Texas Holdem versus real-life casinos are unlimited, but besides these benefits there are also various drawbacks. Online Texas Holdem lets regular amateur players the opportunity to compete in actual tournaments with pro Texas Hold em players, but these beginner players ought to prevent any disruptions that may impair their chances to make lots of money.

The greater part of online Texas Holdem players become preoccupied by their environment, or maybe by the online poker webpage they are competing on. These distractions can in reality cost them excellent poker hands and most likely their well-merited Texas Hold em chips. The game of Texas Holdem is a game of ability and also absolute concentration, no matter if you are playing at home, or in an actual casino.

Perhaps, the most prevalent error that online poker players commit is by being involved in more than one poker table simultaneously. The better part of amateur Full Tilt Poker players will assume that this is a good idea, but finally it could prove to be a shortcoming. This scheme of playing a number of Texas Hold em tables at once will hurt your concentration and in the end cost you Texas Holdem chips. Always remember that even the greatest poker players around can make damaging blunders while concentrating their mind on a few online poker tables at the same time.

Any given internet poker player, could at any point, discover themselves playing different internet poker tables at one time, at the same time as they are watching television, reading their preferred website, text messaging friends etc. This is a state which is supposed to be shunned if you expect to win Texas Holdem poker games and qualify for big Full Tilt Poker tournaments. Never forget to center your mind on the other Full Tilt Poker player’s bets, their aim, and your own online Texas Holdem poker hands if you really want to become an expert poker player.

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