The wildly successful online poker website FullTiltPoker.com, just let everyone know that finally they will have the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” at the beginning of next month. The popular event will get going with a $216 no-limit Texas Hold em tourney. There is also a guaranteed $15 million worth of prizes at stake. The Fulltilt Poker tournament will have 25 poker games leading up to the main event on Sunday, November 16th which has a $2.5 million prize pool.

There is an option for any player to play in the Texas Hold em tournament, by earning as many satellite wins as possible. Depending on how many satellite games you come first in, the more tournament chips you will receive. If you end up winning more satellite events than the other competitors, you will get two more buy-ins for the FTOPS. The satellite Texas Hold em games are being played at the moment, and are open to any fulltiltpoker.com member.

The FTOPS Texas Hold Em tournament started in 2006 with eight events and a $1 million prize pool. At the moment, the tournament has become tremendously well-known, with last year’s Texas Hold Em tournament hosting 25 events and giving away over $15 million. FTOPS X will present a Two-Day Event with buy-ins ranging from $2500 to $5000. The first two-day event was FTOPS V, that tournament had a winner take home a prize pool of $400,000. This year’s Two-Day event has a assured pool of over $2 million. This FullTiltPoker.com Two-Day event will launch on the 15th of November.

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An important facet in poker is tricking your opponents by making them think you actually have a good hand, when in all honesty it is possible you have the worst hand at the table. This is what people call “Poker face”, a straight expression for fooling your poker buddies into trusting in an idea that might be false.

If you have a good hand it is most likely going make you feel more anxious, could possibly cause your hands to shake, and your pulse rise. The previous symptoms are signs that your opponents may notice very fast, especially if they know you well. Try not to peer over at the pot if you are holding a strong hand. This is a tell-tale sign to your competitors that you are, in your head, counting how much you will possibly win.

In the condition where you have a horrible poker hand, try not to dodge your competitors eyes, keep your eyes up, and don’t be indecisive about your bet. In the event that you can prove to yourself that your hand is just as good, or better than your competitors; you will have a better chance of misleading them. Keep in mind to keep this as natural-looking as possible. Your use of body language and motions might be saying one idea, while your words and the way you say them are giving them a whole different idea.

One more crucial point of poker is to be able to read your opponents “poker tells”. A “tell” is a look or appearance that may give you an idea of the type of Texas Hold Em hand they are holding. One critical point to remember is when your opponent gives the appearance that he has a great Texas Hold Em hand; he, very likely, has a poor hand. On the other side of the coin, if he acts as though his hand is poor, he very likely is holding a strong poker hand.

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The largest prize pool ever was announced by Bodog Poker site, with the main event awarding $300,000. The total prizes for the eight day Texas holdem tournament will be higher than $650,000, over the course of the fourteen tournament event. The Bodog Poker event will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues until Sunday, October 5th. The popular poker website will also feature six “Bounty” events, where the challengers can win $109 in Texas Hold em credits for each Team Bodog poker competitor they knock out of the poker eliminatories. The biggest poker celebs will be challenging all conteders in the poker tournament.

Team Bodog champ, Justin Bonomo, is definitely thrilled about the poker championship. Throughout his poker career, the 23 year old has brought home over $1.4 million. He says that if you had the idea that the first poker championship was huge, you will definitely be surprised with this year’s tournament and the prize money involved. He also challenges anyone that has the courage to eliminate him from the poker tournament to step forward.

The initial Bounty Tournament is going to be the first event in the championship on Sunday. Any player is able to buy-In straight, and any of the other poker games with cash. Or another choice is to win their way into the events through the satellites which are being played every night during the tournament week. There will be six bounty tournaments and seven “Championship Events”, that will have higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

There are thirteen games which will lead up to the main tournament on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the championship with a guaranteed $300,000 in prize money, despite the total number of Texas Hold em players in the Bodog Open. All the competitors who want to enter the main poker event will have to shell out $500 for the buy-in and in return will collect 10,000 in tournament chips.

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