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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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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A monster prize pool was announced by Bodog’s website, with the main tournament giving away $300,000. The total for the eight day tournament will be more than $650,000, over the course of the weeklong Texas hold em tournament. The Bodog Texas Hold em tournament will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues through Sunday, October 5th. The popular sportsbetting website will also feature six “Bounty” eliminatories, where the contestants can win $109 in poker credits for each Team Bodog poker player they eliminate from the poker event. David Williams, Jean-Robert Bellande, Evelyn Ng and Justin Bonomo are just a small number of the Bodog Texas Hold em pros challenging all participators in the poker contest.

Team Bodog professional, Justin Bonomo, is definitely energized about the Texas Hold em championship. Throughout his poker career, the 23 year old has made about $1.4 million. He says that if you thought the first poker championship was great, you will definitely be amazed with this year’s poker open and the prizes involved. He also challenges anyone that has the courage to knock him out of the poker tournament to come forward.

The first Bounty Tournament is going to be the first event in the championship on Sunday. Any player is able to buy-In right into this, and any of the other poker games with cash. Or another alternative is to win their way into the events through the satellites which are presented every night during the Texas Hold em contest week. Bodog will have six bounty events and seven “Championship Events”, that will have higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

There are thirteen games which will lead up to the main event on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the championship with a guaranteed $300,000 in cash, regardless of the amount of players in the Bodog Open. All the players who wish to enter the main poker tournament will have to pay $500 for the buy-in and in exchange will accept 10,000 in Texas Hold em chips.

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Is it more effective to play a tight game or a loose poker tournament?

You will undeniably hear two sides of this argument from your fellow poker players or perhaps the so-called poker authorities. Let’s take a look first at the tight players. Everyone including yourself will find it hard winning, if the entire table is playing a tight game. Probably what will occur if you have a poker table full of tight Texas holdem’players is the poker players will wind up trading the smaller pots back and forth to each other. All the while the poker room is raking in loads of your hard-earned poker money, and that of your competition. So now you could think, is it better to play loose? Well, in this situation the better poker players are going to lose a smaller number of hands, but at the end of it all nobody is going to succeed.

How can I perfect my Texas holdem’ playing in the long run?

The answer to this question is as straightforward as a piece of paper and a pen. A great approach to find out a lot about your playing style and tactic, is to keep track of your Texas holdem’ playing. You could write down this information during the poker game, and then pass it to a database on your home computer. This can also help you learn about your competitor’s playing style, and what is the best strategy to defeat them.

Should I use the same strategy for every Texas holdem’ game?

If you think that being predictable is a winning tactic for playing poker, then you should consider changing your poker tactic. The poker pros have the same opinion that varying your Texas holdem’ playing method is the best way to confuse and baffle your poker opponents. You should try a handful of methods, discover the ones that work for you and alter them for each poker game.

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PKR.com, the world’s fastest growing online poker room has upped the ante yet again with the introduction of the ‘PKR Masters’ $75,000 guaranteed tournament.

The PKR Masters tournament will feature the biggest prize pool ever seen on PKR.com - with a minimum first prize of at least $18,000. The move further establishes PKR as the home of tournament poker and a force to be reckoned with in the online poker space.

The PKR Poker Masters are running on the last Saturday of every month at 20:00 GMT. With a deep starting stack of 5,000 chips, a 20-minute clock and broader blind structures, the tournament offers the playability that the best internet poker tournament competitors demand. Buy-in is $250 with daily satellites starting at just $1.28.

“The PKR Masters offers players an exciting new prize pool to aim for in a highly playable format that allows the cream to rise to the top. We’re really excited about this and are looking forward to offering players ever increasing guaranteed prize pools as PKR’s player base continues to grow” said Cardroom Manager Neil Wright .

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Competing in the professional level Texas Hold’em poker tournaments that are so popular around the world takes an extreme level of skill and experience that many individuals simply do not have. In the case of many players, while they might enjoy competing in these types of casinos and poker rooms that host the world famous professional poker tournaments, accumulating the skills and building the abilities necessary to compete on this level can sometimes be beyond even the most talented of amateur players. But for those who have a good helping of natural talent and the ability to learn, there are other alternatives than practicing for decades to become talented. With the multitude of informational products available on the web, the professional level Texas Hold’em poker tournament player can increase their abilities almost overnight at the poker tables and give themselves a strong chance of winning in general. First and foremost, utilizing the books on how to win at professional level Texas Hold’em poker tournament events to narrow down the basic information such as rank of hands and the odds of each particular hand is a strong step in the right direction. By learning this information, players can continue to increase their ability to compete against highly skilled professional level opponents.

While it is a good idea to learn the basics of Texas Hold’em poker, it is more important to master the art of Texas Hold’em poker tournament competition through repeated study of multiple sources and then utilizing this information to win in the Texas Hold’em poker tournament competitions. This increased level of advanced information will only be found in repeated readings of multiple instructional level informational products. From instructional poker DVDs to audiotapes on how to win at professional level Texas Hold’em, there are so many products available that can assist the player in elevating their game that there is no need to grind away indefinitely attempting to build up the skills necessary to elevate the player to professional status. By utilizing the multitude of books in a tremendous amount of different formats based on how to play some variation of poker including Texas Hold’em and Omaha, the player can tip the odds in their favor and jumpstart their professional Texas Hold’em poker tournament career. Considering that most of these materials cost less than $10 and are easy to order on the Internet, there is no reason not to utilize them to become the best possible poker player that you can be.

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