Full Tilt is taking online poker to a new level with the unveiling of Rush Poker, a new and ground-breaking poker game built to provide the latest in high-speed online poker experience and reduce the wait time between hands.

This extremely fast and extreme poker action gives players the opportunity to move through different tables, play different challengers in every poker hand and choose the type of game (Hold’em, No Limit, etc) and fix the stakes they want to play. Rush Poker players will also be able to organize the game list by other classes such as number of players, average pot or number of hands per hour.

Once you choose the Rush Poker game you wish 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” offered in Standard View.

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

For more details, please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/rush-poker/details

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As we reported here over the weekend, it has recently been made public that Dwan has officially signed up with Full Tilt. The online poker room has given the poker celebrity a warm welcome with an Tom Dwan Website featuring a welcome video clip and other interesting tidbits from the career of ”durrrr”.

One of the most interesting parts of the ”durrrr” Website is the welcome video from Team FullTiltPoker.com members Howard Lederer, Andy Bloch, Jennifer Harman and others. The Tom “durrrr” Dwan video on FullTilt Poker also features an appearance from the legendary online poker player, ”durrrr”.

Tom “durrrr” Dwan has been keeping himself busy as of late with a new Tom Dwan blog, which will actually be published from events of Tom “durrrr” Dwan himself. Without mentioning the durrrr Challenge which is on its 27,185th hand out of the projected 50,000 total hands.

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The best internet poker room FullTilt.com is unveiling a revolutionary new poker client that includes brand new aspects on both the front end and backend and makes navigating easy.

The first thing poker players will observe is a new welcome screen boasting a fresh restored appearance as well as a few innovative elements including a list of various security tips shown on the bottom of the page. FullTiltPoker.com’s updated client provides players 3 separate lobby views: Basic, Standard and Classic View.

The Basic View gives beginner players the opportunity of catching up with the new poker client and viewing the poker tables without the stress of playing. The Basic View offers step by step reports on all the existing games, and gives poker players the opportunity to choose their currency, game type, Game (Hold’em, Omaha Hi or HL, Stud and Mixed Games), Limit (Fixed, Pot or No Limit), and Stake. Also poker players can now observe the action before going in to a poker table with the brand new “Observe Table” option or click on “Browse Table to view the list of accessible tables.

The Standard View provides info about all the existing games and lets players to tailor the list of games and poker tables to show only the poker games of their choice. This alternative also gives poker players the prospect of picking the table by type, game, stake and check the poker tables before taking part in the poker action.

Players can also decide on the Classic view and stay with FullTilt’s initial lobby, however, this preference will be accessible for a short time only and will be withdrawn in a short while.

Both the Basic and Standard views also bring in innovative new aspects for example new turning graphic screen placed on the left that gives customers straight entry to Full Tilt’s promos and poker events for example the FTOPS, Iron Man, Play with the Pros, Full Tilt Poker Academy, Full Tilt Bonuses, and many other poker promotions and poker tournaments, as well as an option for video that permits players to watch videos right from the new poker client.

Full Tilt new poker client from is offered for Mac and Windows OS. To download Full Tilt Poker new poker client visit Full Tilt Poker Website or click here.

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Full Tilt Poker has incorporated a brand new bonus awarding a minimum of $100 in bonus money to its poker players simply for testing Full Tilt Poker’s new client software.

To apply this poker promotion, players only need to get one Full Tilt point before the 28th of July. Players who don’t fulfill the terms are not qualified for the Biggest Bonus Ever offer. Players who meet the requirements of this offer will have until 23:59 ET on August 16th to accept the poker bonus.

To get the poker bonus, poker players will need to open the Full Tilt Poker software, log in and click on the “Cashier” button in the client lobby, choose the “My Promotions” box in the cashier, choose the Biggest Bonus Ever link in the ‘My Promotions” area; this will take them to a section amplifying the details on how to receive the Full Tilt Poker bonus.

Once players agree to their Biggest Bonus Ever offer, they will have 30 days to release the bonus money simply by earning Full Tilt points in any real money games at Full Tilt Poker.

Players of ring games will earn one Full Tilt point for each dollar raked from the pot in poker hands where they are dealt poker cards. Poker players can earn partial Full Tilt points if less than a dollar is raked, with a limit of three points earned per poker hand.

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

To receive more information on Full Tilt 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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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 Christmas spirit has come to most of the top online Texas Hold’em sites this year, and they are super charitable with their bonuses. Whatever sort of internet poker site special you are searching for; there is one out there for you. Looking at the biggest internet No-Limit Poker websites, we discovered these promotions.

Beginning with the very well-known internet Texas Hold’em Poker site Full Tilt Poker, they are offering “The Holiday $100k”. The site is giving all their poker members a break to take home $100,000, by investing just 2000 points. This No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker tournament will commence on Dec. 27th and a second tournament on December the 28th. Full Tilt Poker is also allowing members an opportunity to gain entry into one of the promotions by competing in a Freeroll.

The next poker website we visited was Ultimatebet.com poker, they are holding bonuses every day throughout this month. Already they have awarded IPods, a $1000 New depositer Freeroll, and on the 19th it is possible to take home a flat screen TV. They have their their “Days of Deals” special running throughout this month.

Finally, Party Poker is presenting “The Great Gift Giveaway”. The way you can win is by working your way up levels and the more points you collect, the better the prizes you will be able to take home. There are many prizes available to win for example access into prize tournaments or cash prizes. Additionally if you play on the No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker website on December 25th, PartyPoker.com will double the points you gain on the real money Texas Hold’em Poker tables.

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On Sunday, November 30th the CBS network will present their documentary “How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters”. This documentary was shot after a sixteen week research into the online Texas Hold’em industry and specifically a cheating scandal concerning the online poker webpage Absolute Poker.

This Texas Hold’em poker site was examined after some of the Texas Hold’em poker players on the website alleged that someone was unfairly winning an incredible amount of money. Todd Witteles was a vital witness in this research, according to Witteles; he was losing great amounts of money to the very same Texas Hold’em poker player. Witteles alleges that this player was raising against extremely good poker hands, most people would have thought he was basically giving his money to the other players, but he was in reality winning quite often.

Witteles was in the right with his suppositions, it was later exposed that a person on the inside was able to watch anyone’s poker hole cards. At first, Absolute Poker claimed that there was no wrongdoing with the website or the Texas Hold’em poker player. After numerous players stepped up with allegations, the Texas Hold’em site examined deeper into the problem and uncovered the mystery.

By January of 2008, the Kahnawake Gaming Commision came across what the Texas Hold’em competitors and the Texas Hold’em poker website had supposed all along. As it turns out, there was an employee who had invaded the Texas Hold’em page’s security system and was competing unlawfully for more or less six weeks. The investigation verified that the poker room had not gained from the dishonest behavior at all, and was definitely not implicated.

These scams are further proof that there should be more rules in regards to online Texas hold’em pages. The U.S. government ought to authorize and control the internet gambling industry to look after these upright consumers. These regulations would also police the access to these sites by kids, which tends to be another concern recently.

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The rewards of online Texas Holdem versus real poker rooms are infinite, but with these rewards there are also a few troubles. Online Texas Holdem allows regular amateur players the possibility to try their luck in real poker tournaments with pro Texas Hold em players, but these beginner players must avoid any disturbances that could harm their opportunities to win lots of poker chips.

The majority of online Texas Holdem players become preoccupied by their surroundings, or possibly by the internet poker webpage they are playing on. These disturbances can actually cost them great hands and probably their well-deserved Texas Hold em chips. The game of Texas Holdem is a game of talent as well as total attention, no matter if you are playing at home, or in an actual brick and mortar casino.

Perhaps, the greatest error that internet poker players commit is by competing in more than one online poker table simultaneously. The better part of amateur internet poker players will feel that this is a good thought, but at the end of the day it could possibly workout to be a loss. This scheme of playing several online poker tables in sequence will divert your focus and ultimately cost you money. Remember that even the most skilled Texas Holdem players out there can commit harmful errors when directing their attention on a few Full Tilt Poker tables at once.

Any given online Texas Holdem poker player, may at any instant, discover themselves playing various internet poker tables at once, at the same time as they are watching the news, reading their favorite poker blogs, talking on the phone to friends etc. This is a state which should be avoided if you long to win poker games and meet the requirements for big Full Tilt Poker tournaments. Never forget to direct your attention on the other online poker player’s wagers, their actions, and your own online Texas Holdem poker hands if you want to be the best poker player.

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The hugely popular online poker site FullTiltPoker.com, just revealed that finally they will feature the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” in the first week of November. The popular event will start off with a $216 no-limit Texas Hold em tournament. The Texas Hold em poker tournament will feature a guaranteed $15 million worth of prizes at stake. The Fulltilt Poker tournament will have 25 poker games leading up to the main event on Sunday, November 16th which will offer a $2.5 million prize pool.

There is a possibility for any FullTiltPoker.com player to play in the poker tournament, by coming first in as many satellite games as they can. Judging by how many satellite games you win, the more tournament money you will receive. If you are successful in winning more satellite games than the other players, you will gain the tournament equivalent of two more FTOPS buy-ins. The satellite games are being played at the moment, and are open to any fulltiltpoker.com member.

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series started in 2006 when it consisted of 8 events and gave away one million dollars in prize money. Since then, the FTOPS has become particularly famous, with FTOPS IX holding 25 poker events and giving away over $15 million. November’s poker tournament will highlight a Two-Day Event with buy-ins ranging from $2500 to $5000. The original Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that FTOPS tournament had a prize pool of $400,000. This year’s Two-Day event has a guaranteed prize pool of around $2 million. This Two-Day event will kick-off on Sat., Nov. 15th.

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