Full Tilt is innovating the online poker world with the introduction of Rush Poker, a new and ground-breaking poker type built to offer the ultimate high-speed poker playing and reduce the wait time between poker hands.

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

Once you fix the Rush Poker game you wish to play, all you have to do is double click on that poker game to enter the Rush Poker lobby. Rush Poker players are also able to get into a Rush Poker game by using the “Rush Poker Lobby Widgets” accessible in Standard View.

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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.

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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 holiday spirit has hit some of the best online poker rooms this year, and they have been super charitable with their bonuses. Depending on what sort of internet Texas Hold’em Poker site bonus you are hunting for; there is one out there that can help you out. Checking out the top internet Texas Hold’em Poker rooms, the following promotions were some of the best around.

Starting things off with the excellent online No-Limit Poker room Full Tilt, they have available the “The Holiday $100k”. The online poker room is giving all their poker members a break to take home $100k, by buying-in with just 2000 points. This poker game will start on December 27th and a 2nd tournament on December the 28th. FullTiltPoker.com is also giving members a chance to win an entry into one of the games by competing in a Freeroll on the website.

The next Texas Hold’em Poker website we visited was Ultimate Bet poker, they have had specials each day all through December. Already this month they have awarded IPods, a $1000 New depositer Freeroll, and on the 19th it is possible to take home a flat screen TV. The poker website will have their “Days of Deals” special continuing throughout this month.

Last of all, Party Poker is promoting “The Great Gift Giveaway”. The way it works is by winning your way up levels and the more points you accumulate, the bigger the rewards you can win. There are tons of prizes to be had to win such as admissions into prize tournaments or cash. Plus if you play on the No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker room on December 25th, Party Poker will double the points you accumulate on their cash Texas Hold’em tables.

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Sunday night CBS will show their special program “How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters”. This special was filmed after a four-month research into the online Texas Hold’em industry and specifically a con in relation to the online poker website Absolute Poker.

This poker page was inspected after a few of the poker players on the page alleged that a player was dishonestly winning a large amount of poker chips. Todd Witteles was a key player in this investigation, according to Witteles; he was losing huge amounts of money to the exact same Texas Hold’em poker player. Witteles declared that this gambler was raising against exceptionally good poker cards, most people would have believed he was simply handing over his money, but he was incredibly winning quite often.

Witteles was correct with his suppositions, following this it was uncovered that a poker player possibly working for the company was able to see everyone´s hole cards. At first look, Absolute Poker claimed that there were no problems with the room or the Texas Hold’em poker competitor. After many more players showed up with accusations, the poker page examined deeper into the situation and discovered wrongdoing.

In Jan. of 2008, the Kahnawake Gaming Commision revealed what the poker competitors and the Texas Hold’em poker site had supposed all along. The investigation proved that, there was a staff member who had broken through the poker room’s security and was playing poker unlawfully for around a month and a half. The research showed that the poker webpage had not benefited from the illicit activities at all, and was in no way, shape or form involved.

These issues are further testimony that there must be more control in regards to poker sites. The US government ought to authorize and regulate the online Texas Hold’em business to defend these honest customers. These rules would also regulate the entry to these websites by young children, which tends to be another problem issue lately.

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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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Are there more chances to win if I play a tight poker game or loose?

You will undoubtedly hear both sides of this argument from your fellow poker players or even the so-called poker experts. Let’s have a look first at the tight players. Everybody including yourself will find it difficult winning, if the whole poker table is playing tight. What will happen if you have a poker table full of tight poker players is the poker players will wind up swapping the smaller pots back and forth to each other. All the while the casino hotel is raking in tons of your hard-earned cash, and that of your competitors. So now you may say, is it better to play loose? Well, in this circumstance the better poker players are going to lose fewer hands, but at the end of it all nobody is going to come out on top.

How can I better my poker playing in the long run?

The answer to this question is as simple as a piece of paper and a pen. A great tactic to learn a lot about your playing method and tactic, is to keep track of your poker playing. You could write down this information during the poker game, and then transfer 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 tactic to defeat them.

Is it a good idea to use the same tactics for every poker game?

If you think that being predictable is a winning strategy for playing poker, then you should consider altering your Texas holdem’ tactic. The poker experts agree that varying your poker playing approach is the greatest way to confuse and bewilder your poker competitors. You should test a handful of strategies, discover the best ones for each situation and alter them for each poker tournament.

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According to the 2006 World Series of Poker winner, Jamie Gold, he wants to be celebrated as the finest bluffer in the world. But if his last tournament is any clue, his wish may not be granted any time soon.

The setting is the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic held at the Vegas Bellagio in 2007. Featuring $50 - $100 blinds and a $15,000 buy-in, Darrell Dicken is just barely holding on. The seat 4 player has just raised his bet to $300, a tiny increase with only one player biting the line. “I put him as being weak,” Jamie said, “I was thinking about raising, but instead I just called with a 10-3 of hearts to see what would happen.”

Jamie thought that Brad Booth would make some kind of move, which he did. He re-raised to $1600 from the big blind. Gold was thinking that Booth had a reasonable hand, but he was in a good position to make a move considering the amount of dead money in the pot. Dicken ended up folding, and the unknown in Seat 4 called Booth’s raise.

At this point there was more than $4000 in the pot, so Jamie raised the wager by $4000. His thought was, only if someone else had aces or kings there would be no chance they would make that call. Jamie’s plan was to make a sizeable move on the flop, as long as no ace came up. The second part of his plan was to get Booth to fold, which he did. Booth folded with pocket queens.

On the flop there was an ace of ace-6-5, two clubs. The player in seat 4 checked and Jamie bet $2000. Jamie’s primary thought was to make him think that he had clubs. Seat 4 laid down a $10,000 chip, but didn’t say anything thus converting his raise into a call. Jamie’s thought was that seat 4 in all likelihood had an ace, but you have to protect it in case he hits his set on the upcoming card.

A 2 of hearts showed up on the turn, and Jamie folded to what he thought was a top pair kicker. Seat 4 displayed a king-jack off suit. Seat 4 beat Gold by bluffing with a superior hand, he made a terrific play and took the bluff to the end of the poker tournament.

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Poker was a game available only in hotels in Vegas or from video poker machines, but now it is more widespread than ever in Vegas thanks to the TV and the internet.

The popular Venetian Hotel, is now betting on this popularity with its new audience-participation show called “The Real Deal!” in its showroom located in the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino, starting in October.

Their new show will combine comedy and game show elements to entertain its live audience. The audience will also be able to join in the well loved game of Texas Holdem’ alongside the world’s best poker players. Many prizes are available for the audience including a chance to win 1$ million.

In “The Real Deal!” the audience will play with players like Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu. Around 10 professional players have already signed up for the game show. The audience will be able to play along with the 90 minute game thanks to handheld, wireless, touch screen devices located on each seat.

“People who take a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada want to play poker games,” Negreanu says, “but obviously they can’t play in a top poker tournament with the likes of Doyle or Phil Hellmuth. But, in this show, they actually can.” At the start of the show, six audience members will be chosen to sit at the poker table on stage with two professional players. Each audience member is then involved in the action by being dealt a unique set of poker cards on their devices. Everyone in the showroom is then involved in the action with big-screen monitors located on stage.

Creators of the show say that you don’t have to be a pro poker player to take part in the poker tv show. There are other ways to boost your point total, that doesn’t involve the game of poker necessarily. Betting on the suit of the next poker card or trying to guess which state a particular audience member is from, are just some of the ways to come out a poker champion in this game.

The shows producers are also placing bets on the personalities of the pro poker players to create some great moments. Poker players like Scotty Nguyen, the flamboyant five-time winner of the World Series of Poker, definitely definitely knows how to entertain the audience and should provide some memorable moments in this TV poker game show .

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