As WedoitallVegas published here over the weekend, it has recently been made public that Dwan has officially signed with Full Tilt Poker. The online poker website has given the poker professional a warm welcome with an Official “durrrr” Prosite featuring a welcome video and other details from the career of ”durrrr”.

One of the most interesting areas of the Official Website is the welcome video from Team Full Tilt poker players Howard Lederer, Andy Bloch, Jennifer Harman and a few others. The ”durrrr” video on FullTiltPoker.com also features an appearance from the legendary online poker player, Dwan.

Tom “durrrr” Dwan has been keeping himself busy lately with a new Dwan blog, which will actually be written from events of Tom Dwan himself. Not to mention the durrrr Challenge which is on its 27,185th hand out of the projected 50,000 total hands.

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FullTiltPoker.com has recently launched a brand new informative section containing all the action of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an amazing online heads up poker tournament presenting some of the finest big money poker players challenging the online poker phenomenon Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The new website section presents poker players and fans the opportunity to stay on top of this amazing online poker challenge and receive regular statistical updates. With this fresh “durrrr Challenge” website players can track all the action and review each hand played during the challenge, and check out tons of stats, including number of hands played, time of session, amount won, average won during each hand and lots more.

About six months ago, the twenty-three year old internet poker pro handed out a heads-up challenge for any poker player with the money, time and talent to accept it. Any poker star entering the poker challenge has to put up $500,000 against durrrr’s $1.5 million. Full Tilt durrrr challenge specifies that a minimum 50,000 poker hands need to be played simultaneously at four or more poker tables of no-limit Hold’em or pot-limit Omaha. At the end of the challenge, the poker player who has more cash will win the pool. Essentially if you enter the durrrr challenge and win a dollar after the 50,000 poker hands, then you will earn Tom’s $1.5 Million, but if he triumphs by $1 then he will take home your $500,000.

So far, a few professional poker players have agreed to to play the “durrrr challenge”, including seven-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, but, only Patrick Antonius has agreed to the poker challenge. Thus far, both poker pros have taken part in a total of 20,647 poker hands out of 50,000, with Dwan up by $726,546 total.

For more info on the “durrrr” Challenge and Tom durrrr Dwan vs. Patrick Antonius, please check out http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

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A huge 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 poker tournament. The Bodog Texas Hold em event will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues through Sunday, October 5th. The well-known poker tournament website will also feature six “Bounty” eliminatories, where the challengers can win $109 in Texas Hold em credits for each Team Bodog poker contestant they eliminate from the tournament. David Williams, Jean-Robert Bellande, Evelyn Ng and Justin Bonomo are just some of the Bodog Texas Hold em pros challenging all competitors in the poker contest.

Team Bodog star, Justin Bonomo, is indisputably energized about the poker contest. Throughout his poker career, the 23 year old has won around $1.4 million. He says that if you had the idea that the first poker contest was a good one, you will definitely be amazed with this year’s Texas Hold em contest and the prize money involved. He also challenges anyone that dares to eliminate him from the Texas hold em tournament to step forward.

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

There are thirteen eliminatories which will lead up to the main poker event on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the championship with a guaranteed $300,000 in prize money, regardless of the quantity of Texas Hold em players in the contest. All the poker players who want to enter the main event will have to pay $500 for the buy-in and in turn will receive 10,000 in poker chips.

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Shortly after the beginning of last week’s charity poker game to aid the Paralyzed Veterans of America, Ben Affleck goes all-in with a flop of Ace-Nine-King and two diamonds. He cringes when two of his challengers call the bet. He yells “Re-buy”, but the turn is a seven of hearts. Affleck is upset when a jack of diamonds is dealt on the river. He took the hand seriously even though there was no actual cash at stake. This is just the kind of thing that Affleck and several other online poker enthusiasts are pushing for.

Over $100,000 was raised for the paralyzed victims, but this was not the only function of the poker event held in Coors Field. Members of the Poker Players Alliance are working very hard to legalize internet poker in the United States. As part of their agenda, they are pushing to repeal the 2006 legislation Congress passed which forbids U.S. Banks and credit card companies from processing transactions related to online poker websites.

John Pappas, executive director of the Poker Players Alliance, is optimistic about the direction that the new congress will lead this decision. Pappas says that the alliance is pushing for a licensed industry, just for online poker, and not for all internet gambling. Pappas is interested in having a safe, regulated industry that all Americans can enjoy. The group is fighting for the rights of people and the privacy they deserve in their own home.

“There are misconceptions about poker and about online poker,” poker pro Andy Bloch said in between hands during the charity poker game. “Some people think that online gambling is gambling like a slot machine, and it’s not.”

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