Full Tilt has just opened an innovative info section covering all the action of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an incredible online heads up tournament highlighting some of the world’s best big money online poker players challenging the poker sensation Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The brand new section gives poker players and followers the chance to stay on top of this amazing durrrr challenge and receive frequent statistical updates. With this brand new “durrrr Challenge” website players can track all the action and look at each poker hand played during durrrr Challenge, and look at lots of stats, including number of hands played, session time, amount won, average won during each hand and much more.

Close to six months ago, the twenty-three year old online poker player issued a heads-up challenge for any poker player with the money, time and capability to accept it. Any player entering the challenge has to bet $500,000 against Tom’s $1.5 million. Tom’s challenge specifies that at least 50,000 online poker hands need to be played simultaneously at 4 or more tables of no-limit Hold’em or pot-limit Omaha. At the end of the durrrr challenge, the poker player who has more money will earn the pool. Basically if you enter the challenge and win $1 after the 50,000 poker hands, then you will get Tom’s $1.5 Million, but if he wins by $1 then he will take your $500,000.

To date, a number of poker players have consented to play the “durrrr challenge”, including WSOP Champ Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, yet, only Patrick Antonius has accepted the durrrr challenge. At this point, both poker stars have engaged in a total of 20,647 poker hands out of 50,000, with durrrr ahead $726,546 total.

For more info on the Full Tilt Poker durrrr Challenge and Tom durrrr Dwan vs. Patrick Antonius, please stop by http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

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Sunday night the CBS network will premiere their investigation special “How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters”. This investigation special was created after a sixteen week study into the online poker business and particularly a deceitful scandal involving the online poker website Absolute Poker.

This Texas Hold’em site was probed after a few of the poker players on the website stated that someone was illegally winning a great amount of poker chips. Todd Witteles was a key witness in this examination, according to Witteles; he was losing great amounts of money to the exact same Texas Hold’em poker player. Witteles declared that this man was raising against very good hands, most people would have assumed he was simply handing over his money, but he was unbelievably earning a great deal of cash.

Witteles was in the right with his assumptions, later on it was discovered that a person possibly working for the company was able to see any player’s hole cards. At first, Absolute Poker stated that there were no faults with the webpage or the Texas Hold’em poker competitor. After more and more players stepped up with allegations, the Texas Hold’em page investigated deeper into the matter and found the problem.

Around Jan. of 2008, the Kahnawake Gaming Commision discovered what the Texas Hold’em competitors and the poker page had assumed all the time. The investigation proved that, there was a staff member who had hacked the Texas Hold’em site´s security system and was playing dishonestly for around a month and a half. The investigation showed that the Texas Hold’em poker site had not profited from the illegal behavior at all, and was definitely not engaged in the activities.

These illegal activities are further confirmation that there ought to be more regulation regarding online gambling pages. The United States government ought to license and legalize the internet gaming business to defend these honest customers. These guidelines would also control the entry to these sites by children, which is turning into another problem recently.

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Take a second to imagine if you were to have a conversation with any ordinary guy or girl off the street about Texas Hold’em, they probably wouldn’t consider Texas Hold’em poker to be a game of tactics, careful planning, or close examination. Probably when you point out online Texas Hold’em poker with them, they would probably imagine some acquaintances lounging around their kitchen table talking and smoking cigarettes. They also may believe online Texas Hold’em poker to be a game of chance and not talent, closer to a game of roulette compared to chess, for instance.

So the big question mark there is: “Is it possible to make a profit by playing poker?”. It may come as a surprise to you but, the answer to this question is a very strong “yes”. More than a few folks not only make a profit by playing online Texas Hold’em, but also make a living by competing in poker tournaments. The first thing you have to remember about online poker is that while you can play in a Vegas casino, beside blackjack tables and slots; in Texas Hold’em you are not contending against the house but against other Texas Hold’em poker competitors. Therefore, in truth, you are putting up your hard cash against other players in a competition of expertise as opposed to a game of chance.

You might be thinking to yourself: “Doesn’t luck play a part?” Certainly in online Texas Hold’em, no one knows which hands will be dealt out. That doesn’t automatically indicate that one cannot play poker with a reliable amount of pre-tournament know-how. One key point to keep in mind in Texas Hold’em is that numbers never lie. Statistics performs a rather significant role in the game of online Texas Hold’em poker. So much so, that even if you get rather lucky ever so often the figures always have a way of bringing you back down to earth.

Remember that Sin City casino table games comparable to Texas Hold’em poker where you are essentially competing vs. other real-life contenders CAN be won. The more you play the game of online poker, you will learn that it is more of game of expertise rather than pure fate.

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The two most prominent Texas Hold’em enterprises around are signing a sponsorship deal before long in what is projected to be an enormously successful venture. The incredibly successful online Texas Hold’em poker room FullTiltPoker.com has recently stated that they are going to be collaborating with W.P.T.E. for the next World Poker Tour Enterprises season. FullTiltPoker.net is going to be the major promoter of the World World Poker Tour’s television season, and the online poker room is on tap to be highlighted in all of the episodes which are seen on Fox Sports Net channel. FullTiltPoker.com will acquire all the rights to the learning bits of the episodes.

Particulars of this pact have not been given away thus far, but the pact is sure to be a sensation. This pact will fuse two exceptionally powerful Texas Hold’em businesses. W.P.T.E. which is a famous name on TV via F.S.N. and FullTiltPoker.net which has an enormous Texas Hold’em following, not to mention a Texas Hold’em poker team consisting of players who have accumulated a total of ten W.P.T.E. awards and 35 WSOP bracelets. Full Tilt Poker also supports many other Texas Hold’em poker players and now the online poker site has begun offering poker instruction also.

This deal is assured to draw in a brand new following and is assured to suit the recent distinction which Texas Hold’em poker is generating. This accord suggests W.P.T.E.’s yield of the Texas Hold’em room industry as WPT will most likely shut their Texas Hold’em site World Poker Tour Enterprises online. The pay webpage ClubWPT.com will more than likely remain open.

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The wildly successful online poker room FullTiltPoker.com, just revealed that once again they will run the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” at the start of November. This Full Tilt Poker Championship will open with a $216 no-limit Texas Hold em game. There is also a $15 million prize pool. The Fulltilt Poker tournament has a total of 25 events with the main Texas Hold em event on Sunday, November 16th which will award $2.5 million in prize money.

There is a possibility for any player to take part in the poker tournament, by earning as many satellite wins as possible. Judging by how many satellite games you come first in, the more tournament chips you will receive. If you are successful in winning more satellite events than the rest of the players, you will get two more buy-ins for the tournaments. The satellite poker games are are going on now, and all registered users of Full Tilt Poker can play.

The FTOPS Texas Hold Em tournament launched in 2006 when it consisted of 8 events and awarded $1 million in prizes. At the present, the Texas Hold Em Tournament has become hugely popular, with last year’s Texas Hold Em tournament running 25 Texas Hold em events and prizes of over $15 million. Next month’s tournament will include a Two-Day Event having buy-ins of $2500 to $5000. The Initial Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that Texas Hold Em tournament had a winner take home a prize pool of $400,000. FTOPS X’s Two-Day event has a definite pool of over $2 million. This Texas Hold Em tournament will start on Sat., Nov. 15th.

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The Biggest cash prize yet was announced by Bodog’s website, with the main event giving away $300,000. Total cash for the eight day poker event will be more than $650,000, throughout the fourteen tournament event. The Bodog Texas Hold em tournament will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues through Sunday, October 5th. The famous poker tournament website will also feature six “Bounty” tournaments, where the challengers can win $109 in Texas Hold em credits for each Team Bodog poker player they eliminate from the tournament. The biggest poker stars will be competing against all competitors in the Texas Hold em tournament.

Team Bodog pro, Justin Bonomo, is indisputably energized about the Texas Hold em contest. Over the course of his poker playing career, the 23 year old has made over $1.4 million. He says that if you thought the first poker contest was great, you will definitely be astonished with this year’s poker contest and the awards involved. He also challenges anyone that has the courage to knock him out of the Texas hold em tournament to step forward.

The opening Bounty Tournament is going to be the first poker contest in the championship on Sunday. Any poker competitor has the ability to buy-In directly into this, and any of the other events with cash. Or another alternative is to win their way into the Texas Hold em games through the satellites which are held every night during the tournament week. Bodoglife is going to hold six bounty events and seven “Championship Events”, which will feature higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

Bodog’s tournament will have thirteen games which will lead up to the main contest on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the grand prize event with a guaranteed $300,000 in cold hard cash, despite the total number of players in the contest. All the poker challengers who wish to enter the main event will have to pay $500 for the buy-in and in turn will accept 10,000 in poker chips.

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