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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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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Take a second to imagine if you were to talk to any normal person off the street about online Texas Hold’em poker, they almost certainly wouldn’t deem Texas Hold’em to be a game of tactics, preparation, or close examination. Most likely when you talk about Texas Hold’em with them, they would possibly picture some guys lounging around their kitchen table having conversations and smoking cigarettes. They also might consider Texas Hold’em poker to be a game of luck and not skill, more like a game of blackjack and not checkers, for instance.

So the big doubt is: “Could I become a millionaire playing poker?”. It may come as a surprise to you but, the answer to this question is a very strong “yes”. Quite a few people not just win money by playing online poker, but also earn a living by competing in texas Hold’em poker. The main issue you have to remember about poker is that even though you can play in a Sin City casino, alongside roulette tables and slot machines; in Texas Hold’em poker you are not playing against the house but against other Texas Hold’em competitors. So, in all reality, you are betting your cash against other contenders in a contest of aptitude as opposed to a game of luck.

You might be saying to yourself: “What about the luck factor?” Of course in poker, no one knows which poker cards will be dealt out. That doesn’t imply that you cannot play with a reliable amount of pre-tournament knowledge. One major thing to keep in mind in online poker is that numbers never lie. Mathematics performs a very essential part in the game of Texas Hold’em. So much so, that even if you become rather lucky regularly the stats always have a way of bringing you back down to earth.

Remember that Las Vegas casino games like online Texas Hold’em where you are in fact contending vs. other real-life poker players CAN be won. The more you play the game of Texas Hold’em, you will learn that it is more of game of aptitude and not only natural chance.

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The successful online poker site FullTiltPoker.com, just publicized that once again they will present the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” at the beginning of November. The popular event will begin with a no-limit Texas Hold em with a $216 buy-in tourney. The Texas Hold em tournament will have a $15 million prize pool. The FulltiltPoker.com tournament will have 25 poker games with the main Texas Hold em event on Sunday, November 16th which has a prize pool consisting of $2.5 million.

There is a chance for any poker player to join in the Texas Hold em Poker tournament, by winning as many satellite games as they are able to do. Judging by how many satellite games you win, the more FTOPS cash you will receive. If you end up winning more satellite poker games than the other players, you will gain two more buy-ins for the tournaments. The satellite Texas Hold em games are are being held right now, and are open for the Full Tilt website members.

The FullTiltPoker.com tournament commenced in 2006 and it had 8 events and a $1 million prize pool. Now, the tournament has become hugely popular, with last year’s tournament holding 25 FTOPS events and giving away over $15 million. November’s poker tournament will highlight a Two-Day Event which will have buy-ins of $2500 to $5000. The first two-day event was FTOPS V, that Texas Hold Em tournament had a grand prize of $400,000. This Two-Day event has a promised poker pot of around $2 million. This Two-Day event will begin on November 15th.

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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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The concept of sharing in the rake back that is collected at every online poker room casino is not new by any means, as players have been signing up for these types of promotional offers and programs since the earliest days of these types of poker rooms and casinos on the Internet.  As more and more players flock to online poker rooms and casinos to take advantage of the promotional offers such as the poker rake back sharing affiliate program that is so popular with so many players, it becomes readily apparent that there is a huge market for these types of residual profit sharing programs that do such a fantastic job of bringing in new players to the online poker room and casinos in hopes of generating profit and earning a loyal customer.

Playing in online poker rooms and internet casinos has become such an extremely popular pastime on the web that it is almost more popular than any other form of gaming or wagering on the Internet.  With the incredible draw and attraction of the online poker rooms and casinos on players from around the world, it is interesting to point out some of the differences between online poker room and casino promotional programs, such as the rakeback program that is so popular with new players.

First and foremost, the player actually has to be active at the online poker room and casino.  The more games the player participates in, the more online poker rakeback is accumulated from the hands that are played in the pots that are won, making for a larger payout for the player.  Without this constant playing and constant activity, the player will never earn anything significant from the rakeback sharing affiliate program.

While this might seem obvious to the online poker room and online casino player, for many, the rakeback sharing affiliate program is mysterious and unfathomable, wrapped up in an enigma and the tremendous amounts of formulas and calculations that are nearly impossible for the casual player to keep track of.

But when dealing with the rakeback sharing affiliate program, it becomes interesting to note that very few of the online poker room and casino players actually partake in this type of poker rakeback sharing affiliate program.  In some cases, players are simply unaware that this program exists or are afraid to make the effort to understand how the rakeback is calculated.  In other cases, players are simply so profitable they do not care.  But for those who sign up for the rakeback affiliate program, there are some points to understand before the first dollar is ever paid out

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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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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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