Harrah’s Enterprises, operator of the 2010 WSOP, has announced the official schedule for the 41st annual WSOP set to begin from May 27th, 2010 with the Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em, and final events on November 9th, 2010 with the Main Event Table.

The 2010 WSOP event list features a total of 57 bracelets events, including three brand new poker events ($50,000 Player’s Championship Event #2, $10,000 H.O.R.S.E Event #43, World Championship, $25,000 6-Handed No-Limit tournament Event #52). The 2010 WSOP event schedule mentions several alterations, for example, the $50.000 H.O.R.S.E event has been substituted with the $50,000 “Player’s Championship” (Event #2), featuring eight different games (Limit Hold’em, Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better, Seven Card Razz, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better, No-Limit Hold’em, Pot-Limit Omaha, 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball).

The opening 5 weekends of the poker series (May 29-30, June 5-6, June 12-13, June 19-20 and June 26-27) will include $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournaments with two starting flights. In addition, a sixth event schedule on July 1-2, will also offer the same event at the same buy-in level. The 41st annual World Series of Poker 2010 will close on Monday, July 5th with the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Championship Main Event. The Main Event will take a break on July 17th, and will continue on four months later with the “November Nine” final table running from November 6th-9th

Other changes announced for the WSOP 2010 comprise of a number of new rules that will normalize the amount of play on a daily basis, and the addition of more poker tables. According to the World Series of Poker site, the whole convention center of the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino will be commited to the World Series of Poker 2010, with tournament tables in the 58,000 square foot Pavilion and the 38,000 square foot Amazon Room.

The World Series of Poker 2010 is also giving poker players more than five months to register for the first event on the WSOP schedule. Pre-registration for the World Series of Poker is accessible at the Main Cage of the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino and online at the World 2010 WSOP site. Registration for all bracelet events will remain open until the start of the third level (approximately 2 hours, 20 minutes after start time) or until all seats are sold.

“Whatever your game and whatever your bankroll, the 2010 WSOP schedule offers something for everyone. We are planning for the largest WSOP ever and look forward to welcoming all players to the Rio in Las Vegas next summer.” said WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel.

WSOP 2010 event schedule

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Full Tilt has incorporated a new bonus awarding at least $100 in bonuses to its poker players simply for trying Full Tilt Poker’s New Client.

To apply this poker promo, Full Tilt players only need to earn one point from Full Tilt before the 28th of July. Poker players who don’t comply are not entitled for Full Tilt Biggest Bonus Ever offer. Players who meet the criteria of this offer will have until 23:59 ET on August 16th to obtain the Full Tilt bonus.

To receive the poker bonus, poker players will be required to open the Full Tilt Poker new client software, log in and click on the “Cashier” button in the game lobby, select the “My Promotions” box in the cashier, choose the Biggest Bonus Ever link in the ‘My Promotions” gateway; this will take them to a section clearing up the facts on how to get the poker bonus.

Once players accept their Biggest Bonus Ever offer, they will have 30 days to release the Full Tilt bonus 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 hands where they are dealt poker cards. Players can earn partial Full Tilt points if less than one dollar is raked, with a maximum of three Full Tilt points gained per poker hand.

Sit & Go poker players will earn seven Full Tilt Poker points for every dollar in poker tournament fees paid. There is no cap for the number of Full Tilt points you can earn for each poker tournament.

For more information on the 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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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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The hugely successful poker website FullTiltPoker.com is taking the coverage to the next level with the WSOP 2009 with their WSOP Coverage Page, a new portal built to inform poker players on everything related to the World Series of Poker 2009, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, minute to minute updates, poker stars’ blogs and more.

FullTilt.com WSOP Coverage Page is not the usual news portal like most of the other sites. Full Tilt WSOP News Site is divided into three sections, and includes a daily highlights area in where fans can get access to the 2009 WSOP events info, results, players and more in a series of articles written by the Full Tilt Poker staff member Roy Winston. Besides the same ol’ daily updates and results on each and every poker event, Full Tilt Poker.com World Series of Poker Coverage Page also highlights two blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights comments, poker news, insider info from FullTiltPoker.com star players, comments from Full Tilt’s fans and writers and guest posts from other poker bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which features commentaries from members of Team Full Tilt participating in the World Series of Poker 2009, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

Additionally, FullTiltPoker.com WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter section that gives round the clock updates and notes from several poker pros. Included in the Twitter area include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter area lets players to send short messages letting the world know what’s going on. These updates known as “tweets”, can be forwarded from all around the world through a cell phone or other hand-held device.

To see more information on Full Tilt’s new WSOP Coverage Page please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/series-coverage

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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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The two most well-known Texas Hold’em corporations out there are joining forces for the upcoming season in what is likely to be an extremely successful undertaking. The extremely well-liked online poker website FullTiltPoker.net has just announced that they are collaborating with World Poker Tour for the next W.P.T.E. season. FullTiltPoker.net is scheduled the main benefactor of the World W.P.T.E.’s seventh season, and the online Texas Hold’em site will be presented in each and every one of the shows which can be enjoyed on Fox Sports Net channel. Full Tilt Poker will secure all the control of the instructive pieces of the episodes.

Facts of this union have not been released as of yet, but the partnership is sure to be a hit. This merger will unite two particularly formidable Texas Hold’em poker names. W.P.T.E. which is an outstanding force on television through F.S.N. and Fulltiltpoker which has a gigantic online set of fans, and a Texas Hold’em poker team containing players who have accumulated a total of 10 W.P.T. trophies and thirty-five W.S.O.P. bracelets. Full Tilt also funds many other Texas Hold’em poker stars and now the Texas Hold’em webpage has begun presenting Texas Hold’em poker instruction as well.

This agreement is sure to gain a brand new following and is assured to comply with the latest fame which poker is breeding. This union hints at W.P.T.’s submission of the online poker room industry as W.P.T. will shortly close up their online poker page WPT online. The membership website ClubWPT.com will almost definitely maintain their site.

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The well-known online poker room FullTiltPoker.com, just publicized that for the tenth time they will hold the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” at the start of November. This poker championship will start out with a $216 Texas Hold em buy-in event. The Texas Hold em tournament will have a $15 million prize pool. The Texas Hold Em Poker tournament will have 25 poker games with the main poker tournament on Sunday, November 16th which has a $2.5 million prize pool.

There is a possibility for any player to take part in the FTOPS, by earning as many satellite wins as they are able to do. The more satellite games you win, the more FullTiltPoker.com chips you will receive. If you end up winning more satellite games than the other competitors, you will win the tournament equivalent of two more buy-ins. The satellite Texas Hold em games are are going on now, and are open for the Full Tilt website members.

The FTOPS Texas Hold Em tournament commenced in 2006 when it consisted of 8 events and gave out over $1 million. At the moment, the tournament has become very famous, with 2006’s FTOPS Tournament holding 25 poker events and prizes of over $15 million. This year’s tournament will present a Two-Day Event which has buy-ins from $2500 up to $5000. The first ever Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that year’s FTOPS had a prize pool that totaled over $400,000. FTOPS X’s Two-Day event has a definite poker pot of around $2 million. This poker tournament will open on the 15th of November.

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If you’re interested in competing at the 2008 World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas, it is very likely a good idea to begin working on your skills and improving your ability to compete so that you can stand a chance to emerge victorious at the multitudes of competitive events that are sponsored during the World Series of poker.

With all of the extraordinarily talented and skilled players who will be making the journey to the Las Vegas area to compete in this manner, it will be rather difficult for you or any other player who is less than extremely talented and able to compete on a professional level to emerge victorious at any event of any level. With all of these players focused on beating out the rest of the competition and making it to the top, it is a highly competitive event that leaves the less than skilled players with nothing. In the event that you intend to compete at the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas, the rule of thumb is to begin practicing and do not stop, competing in any event that you can come across in order to increase your ability to win on a consistent basis. Without this routine of constant activity and action, it is impossible to build up your skills enough to be the definitive player at the event. This is the critical nature of the players skills coming into consideration, as it is more important to win consistently and stay in the game to the final table than it is to win at any particular hand or event. This difference in strategy is what makes these types of poker tournaments such as the 2008 World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas different from the random cash games or other types of competitions that you may have participated in the past.

With the stiff level of competition that exists at the World Series of poker tournament, any player who has even the slightest notion of competing should do their best to ensure that they have done everything that they can to bring themselves up to the highest level of skill possible. Without this extraordinarily high requirement and standard, the player will very likely be defeated despite their best efforts due to the superior skills and competitive nature of their opponents who are more than happy to make every effort to emerge victorious in general. Unless your skills are highly polished, it is very likely that you have no chance at the World Series of poker tournament and that any attempt to compete there will be wasted. But for those who have a natural ability and have put in the effort to improve their abilities, it is not out of the question.

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Playing in online poker rooms and casinos such as Fulltiltpoker.com is a very popular activity and there are no end of players who are more than happy to sign up and play for high stakes on the Internet. With this focus on winning big against stiff competition on the web, very few players are likely to be excited about the concept of playing against professional Texas Hold’em poker tournament players such as Phil Ivey. While it might seem odd, websites such as Fulltiltpoker.com add professional poker players such as Phil Ivey and others to their ranks in order to generate more interest in the online poker rooms and casinos. When professional poker players receive the tremendous amount of exposure from events such as the World Series of poker in Las Vegas and other Texas Hold’em poker tournaments throughout the world, it is extremely beneficial to the online poker rooms and casinos that host these professional poker players throughout the year. For the online poker room and casinos, it is a tremendously successful method of bringing in new players and creating new action at the online poker tables.

But in the case of the online poker player, they may or may not be quite so ecstatic about playing against world-class professional Texas Hold’em poker tournament players who can literally wipe them out with in just a few short hands. Considering the amount of high limit and no limit Texas hold players, there is a strong market for these types of professional players and the challenge that they bring. But, in the case of many of the lower limit players, there is simply no reason to get excited over these types of celebrity players. Despite this fact, there is still good reason to host these types of professional players in an attempt to raise publicity and exposure for the online poker room and casino.

In the case of celebrities such as Michael Jordan, there is certainly no reason to think that a certain brand of underwear is better than another, simply because a famous basketball player wears them. Nonetheless, Michael Jordan will quickly tell you that Hanes are the best underwear that you can possibly by. While the question of Michael Jordan’s superior knowledge of underwear manufacturing might go unresolved, it is obvious that there are multitudes of fans that will simply rush out to buy this brand of underwear because Michael Jordan wears them.

This is the same concept at work with the Fulltiltpoker.com online poker room and casino and its utilization of world famous Texas Hold’em poker tournament players to bring a new players to online poker rooms and casinos.

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