Full Tilt Poker is taking the online poker action to the next level with the debut of Rush Poker, a new and innovative poker type created to provide the ultimate high-speed online poker playing and reduce the wait time between hands.

This tremendously fast and intense poker action gives players the chance to move through different poker tables, play different opponents in every poker hand and select the type of game (Hold’em, No Limit, etc) and decide upon the stakes they want to play. Players will also be able to classify the game list by other categories such as number of players, average pot or number of poker hands per hour.

Once you decide upon the Rush Poker game you want to play, all you need to do is double click on that game to enter the Rush Poker lobby. Players are also able access a Rush Poker game by using the “Rush Poker Lobby Widgets” accessible in Standard View.

Rush Poker is the world’s quickest poker game and can only be found at FullTiltPoker. Check it out today for the most intense poker action on the planet.

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Harrahs, owner and operator of the 2010 World Series of Poker, has released the official schedule of events for the 41st annual World Series of Poker set to kick off from May 27th, 2010 with the Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em, and final events on November 9th, 2010 with the Main Event final table.

The WSOP 2010 event list names a total of 57 bracelets poker events, including three brand new poker events ($50,000 Player’s Championship Event #2, $10,000 H.O.R.S.E Event #43, World Championship, $25,000 6-Handed No-Limit tournament Event #52). The WSOP 2010 schedule refers to several changes, for example, the $50.000 H.O.R.S.E event has been replaced with the $50,000 “Player’s Championship” (Event #2), featuring eight different games (Limit Hold’em, Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better, Seven Card Razz, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better, No-Limit Hold’em, Pot-Limit Omaha, 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball).

The first 5 weekends of the poker series (May 29-30, June 5-6, June 12-13, June 19-20 and June 26-27) will include $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournaments with two opening flights. Additionally, a sixth event schedule on July 1-2, will also feature the same event at the same buy-in level. The 41st annual 2010 WSOP will close on Monday, July 5th with the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Championship Main Event. The Main Event will take a break on July 17th, and will resume on four months later with the “November Nine” final table running from November 6th-9th

Other variations announced for the WSOP include a number of new rules that will control the daily amount of play, and the addition of more poker tables. According to the 2010 World Series of Poker official site, the entire convention center of the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino will be commited to the WSOP 2010, with tournament tables in the 58,000 square foot Pavilion and the 38,000 square foot Amazon Room.

The 2010 World Series of Poker is also giving poker players over five months to sign-up for the first event on the WSOP 2010 schedule. Pre-registration for the World Series of Poker 2010 is offered at the Main Cage of the Rio Hotel and Casino Las Vegas and on the internet at the World World Series of Poker 2010 site. Sign-up for all bracelet poker events will remain open until the start of the third level (approximately 2 hours, 20 minutes after start time) or until all seats are sold.

“Whatever your game and whatever your bankroll, the 2010 WSOP schedule offers something for everyone. We are planning for the largest WSOP ever and look forward to welcoming all players to the Rio in Las Vegas next summer.” said WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel.

World Series of Poker schedule

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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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Can you envision walking into a well known Las Vegas, Nevada casino hotel and seeing no dealers, chips, or cards? Well if this seems difficult to believe, you may be in for a big shock. The Las Vegas based hotel Excalibur is now experimenting with this new ground-breaking idea of automating everything from the dealers, to the actual poker tables. Chairmen from the casino hotel are going to equip the poker rooms with 12 automated machines for a six-month trial period.
The North-Carolina based industry PokerTek is in charge of the automated machines, which are reinventing the way poker will be played in Las Vegas. The enterprise already has 230 computers around the world, with the largest located in Casino du Montreal (a total of 25 computers were installed in this Canadian casino hotel).
So what are the downsides of this alteration? For starters, about 40 Excalibur poker dealers will be searching for new jobs. Some of these dealers have been functioning at the hotel since its opening in 1990. Todd DeRemer, Excalibur’s Vice President of Casino Operations, says that the poker dealers will be offered other dealer jobs in the same casino hotel.
According to DeRemer, the makeover is being made to give rookie gamblers a chance to play this popular game without feeling intimidated. He had already played these new machines before deciding upon the transformation. “It’s not overwhelming”, he says, “We think that portion will bring back the poker players”.
The improved computers will allow the business to play Texas hold’em, seven card stud and Omaha. 40-inch flat screen televisions, which are located in the hub of the table, will show each table’s community cards, gambler’s stakes and the pot.

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It’s been a weird and long year for the world of poker including online poker, the year started out with nothing but bad news as many people worried about the future of the online poker industry after the UIGEA. With he processing companies not dealing with American customers have raised many questions about how exactly people would be getting money online now, and what it would do to the online poker industry.
And after everything that has happened in 2007, PokerStars broke an online poker traffic record yesterday, becoming the first online poker site to reach 20,000 simultaneous real money ring game players. According to the site, Party Poker record was 16,960 players in 2006, right before they quit taking action from U.S players.

When you consider all of the scandals of the past 12 months that have tarnished online poker’s reputation, this number is all the more impressive. You had Absolute Poker, “TheV0id”, more cheating scandals and a dud of a 2007 WSOP Champion, and Poker Stars was still able to set a traffic record in the same year that all of this happened? That speaks volumes about the resiliency and rock-solid strength of the online poker industry.

The UIGEA benefited not only PokerStars expansion but the entire market seems to be growing outside the U.S. The industry moved forward and adapted, with Pokerstars leading the charge. I mean, I remember in early 2007 reading some of the blogs of the biggest online poker players, and some of them were talking about quitting online poker and going back to school because it was nearly impossible to get money online. Times have changed. If you want to get money online now, you can.

The future of online poker still uncertain and it is had to imagine that we will have to deal with anything close to the amount of bad news that we had in ‘07. But no matter what happens, the online poker industry will continue to adapt and thrive, and there is nothing that anyone in Washington can do about that.

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Over the years, the competition from different types of overseas casinos and poker rooms has begun to put a dent into the profits that are generated in the Las Vegas area as they effectively siphon off more and more tourist dollars from the gambling capital. With this increased level of competition, the ubiquitous Texas Hold’em poker tournaments and other types of poker tournaments that are held in Las Vegas have begun to see less and less attention from the media and from gamers and gamblers in general. With this tendency to gravitate towards the newer and suddenly more popular poker rooms and casinos in recent years in overseas locations, Las Vegas and has seen a reduction in the type of income that it has come to depend upon in the past from incoming travelers and the tourist dollars that they bring with them to spend in the Las Vegas area, due largely to this heightened level of competition from around the world. With this reduction in income to the Las Vegas area, it is critical for local establishment proprietors to seek out new methods of generating this type of revenue and keep players coming into the Las Vegas hotels and casinos that are so dependent on this type of incoming tourist dollars.

As the popularity of Las Vegas as the Texas Hold’em poker tournament capital begins to diminish, areas around the world that are famous for entering into the poker tournament market in recent years begin to see more and more popularity with players from around the world who are more than happy to compete at these types of poker tournaments. As more and more tournaments are held in these overseas locations, there is less emphasis on the traditional Las Vegas area as the progenitor of these types of tournaments and more emphasis on cheaper, easier locations around the world that are oriented towards attracting this type of traffic. With all of the popularity of the Texas Hold’em poker tournament in recent years, it is not surprising to see so many competing areas around the world try to jump on the bandwagon and make the most of the revenue that is generated by these types of events. Taking back the title of Texas Hold’em poker tournament capital of the world is critical to Las Vegas in order to remain competitive with these Johnny-come-lately areas from around the world who have effectively begun to compete for the Las Vegas crown of gambling capital.

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The World Series of poker tournament that is held annually in Las Vegas is one of the most popular activities that are held in the area, drawing players and participants from around the world. With all of these highly skilled players working for the title of world champion, it can be extraordinarily difficult to rise above this high level of competition and perform at the player’s top capacity. With such an extreme level of competition, only the best poker players in the world have any reasonable chance at victory at these types of events. Despite the extraordinarily high odds, thousands upon thousands of players try their luck every year.

With this tremendous level of drawing power and popularity, the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas is almost its own marketing machine, generating a tremendous level of buzz and excitement that translates into massive amounts of tourist revenue pouring into the Las Vegas area. With this high level of popularity, players and spectators alike have found every reason in the world to gravitate to the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas year after year to enjoy the wealth of excitement and multitude of cash prizes that are doled out to the winners. With rank upon rank of different winnings and levels of earnings, even those players who do not come out on top are still very likely to earn plenty of cash and make the trip to Las Vegas worth their while. With this multitier method of awarding prizes, the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas provides many prizes for many different players who compete and play their best at the World Series of poker tournament and create such a high level of competition for everyone involved.

With the levels of competition that are sparked by all the advertising and promotion that is put forth for the Las Vegas based World Series of poker tournaments, it is no surprise that there are players and participants that come from all around the world to enjoy the extreme levels of competition and fierce devotion to the craft that is evident in these types of events that are so tremendously popular around the world and bring so many players to the world-famous poker tournament that is held any Las Vegas gaming and gambling capital on an annual basis every year.

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