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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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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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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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 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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An important facet in poker tournaments is tricking your opponents by leading them to believe you have a superb poker hand, when in reality you could possibly you have a terrible hand. You may have heard this referred to as “Poker face”, an expressionless face to mislead your opponents into trusting in an idea that may not be true.

If you happen to have a good poker hand it is most likely going to make you feel nervous, could possibly make your hands shake, and your pulse rise. These are signs that your competitors may pick up on very quickly, especially if they are good friends of yours. Try not to glance at the pot if you have some good poker cards in your hands. This is an obvious gesture for your competition that you are, in your mind, adding up what you might win.

In the situation where you have a horrible poker hand, try not to keep yourself from glancing at your poker buddies, keep your eyes up, and don’t hesitate when you place your bet. When you can prove to yourself that your poker hand is equal, or better than your competition; you will possibly fool them into believing this as well. Keep in mind to make this seem as natural as possible. Your signals and actions may be saying one thing, while what you are saying are giving them a whole different idea.

Another significant aspect of Texas Hold Em is to be able to read your opponents “poker tells”. A “tell” is a gesture or habit that may give away information about their hand. One important aspect to keep in mind is when your competitor is acting as though he has a strong hand; he, very likely, has a poor hand. On the contrary, if he is acting as if he’s holding a weak hand, he probably has a pretty decent hand.

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With so many people involved in boosting the popularity of the World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas and making it happen, there is an imperative need to profit from this type of venture in general.

By attracting so many professional players as well as amateurs and spectators, the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas is a critical part of the revenue generating system and depends on the overwhelming amount of publicity and attention that the tournament brings in order to fuel the local economy and generate the revenue that is required to keep the system rolling and provide tremendous amounts of revenue for the proprietors and organizers that put so much effort into gearing up the advertising and marketing machine in Las Vegas in order to hype the World Series of poker tournament to begin with. With this focus on providing the World Series of poker tournament with a tremendous level of advertising and marketing materials and pushing the information out in front of the specific audience, there is no end of marketing and advertising effort put into staying afloat and staying on top of the revenue generating cash cow that is the World Series of Poker tournament in the Bellagio Hotel and Casino.

With this critical nature of the revenue that makes it to the World Series of poker tournament proprietors and organizers it is extraordinarily imperative to keep a high level of advertising and promotion and bring in all of the pros that are so good at spreading publicity and exposure for these types of events. As the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas serves more and more as a way for all of the best players from around the world both professional and amateur to go head-to-head, there is no end of interest in the event from both players and proprietors as well as advertisers and promoters and on down the incredibly long list of people and players who have their hands in the pot.

As long as the tournament draws this extremely high level of popularity and attention from players around the world, it will very likely continue to be a critical part of the revenue stream that Las Vegas is comprised of. In the future, it will very likely depend on these types of extremely popular events for Las Vegas to continue generating revenue and enjoying the income that has been seen on a consistent basis annually from the World Series of poker tournaments that is held at the Bellagio. With the popularity of the WSOP in Sin City, it is standard practice to see the overwhelming multitude of tremendously talented professional level poker tournament players coming out of the woodwork to make their mark on the extraordinarily popular event year after year.

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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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Competing at the multitude of free roll tournaments that are available on the Internet can be a highly profitable and extremely cheap way to generate revenue on the Web. By competing in these types of free roll tournaments, the player can effectively compete without having to put out any money for themselves. This is a truly effective method of generating income without having to put any money on the line. For many players who are extremely talented at this type of game, the free roll tournaments can be the be all end all of their existence, allowing them to compete for free and generate massive amounts of income. This is a sound strategy and one that many have adopted on the Internet, frequenting the online poker rooms and casinos that offer these freeroll poker tournaments to their players. With this never ending loop of free roll poker tournaments, players get a chance to generate income for free, a very powerful marketing tool in the online poker promotion industry. Once players get used to competing in these types of free roll poker tournaments, the online poker rooms and casinos can benefit from their increased loyalty and participation at the Internet based poker room of their choice. In the case of online poker networks, the freeroll poker tournaments available in some hosted poker rooms can be credited towards others, allowing a modicum of flexibility for this type of opportunity.

By focusing on fixing all of the poker free roll tournaments that are being hosted through the use of poker listings or keeping up with your favorite poker information websites, the serious player can make sure that they never miss a game and that they are consistently earning on the web without having to break the bank on buy ins. These types of freeroll poker tournaments are extraordinarily popular as a method of promoting online poker rooms, along with other types of online poker promotions such as the rakeback sharing affiliate program and the poker bonus deposit matching program. When comparing all of these different types of bonus programs, it is interesting to note that none are as popular as the rakeback sharing program, but very few are as lucrative as the poker free roll tournaments that are in existence all over the Internet for players to make use of.

As the popularity of these types of poker freeroll tournaments increase, it is not surprising to see player after player signing up and joining in to the online poker rooms that offer these types of online poker promotions for their patrons.

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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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