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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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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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.

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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

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* 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 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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Playing in online poker rooms and online casinos such as Party Poker, UltimateBet and Fulltiltpoker.com is more than simply an amusing pastime, it is also a way of living and make money. With the incredible variety of games, tournaments and events available, it can be hard to focus on the priority, which is increasing your online bankroll as much as possible. The range of online poker sites is almost never-ending, same as the amount of players that flock to the Internet to play in all manner of limit, no limit and multiple varieties of poker including Texas Hold’em, Omaha and Stud poker.

While it seems an easy task to maintain a modicum of discipline at the online poker room and casino of your choice, the truth is, when players get excited they tend to wager too much and get too far into the hands and lose the pot. This is purely fantasy, as strength at the poker table almost always relies on a strong bankroll, more so than the players abilities and skills.

Many specialists believe that players should gamble with no more than 1% to 2% of their bankroll at any given time, as this reduces risk to the player overall and gives them an insulation against the possibility that they might overspend and wager too much and lose it all. It is easy to think that, just because you have some skill at the game of poker that you can immediately begin to wipe out tables in online poker rooms and casinos such as Fulltilt.com.

Being too tight and obsessive with your bankroll can decrease your chances of having a successful Texas Hold’em poker career , this can provide a future for a player who might only have mediocre skills at the poker table, while ensuring that experienced players don’t go under too fast, before they can make their bankroll strong. Playing in online poker rooms and casinos such as can be devastating to the online poker room players bankroll if they are not extremely careful with their wagering

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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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