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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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 Christmas spirit has struck the majority of the biggest online poker websites this holiday season, and they are very generous with their specials. Taking into account what sort of online poker site promotion you are hunting for; there is one out there that can help you out. Checking out the best internet No-Limit Poker websites, here is what we found.

Starting off with the very famous online No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker site FullTiltPoker, this site has “The Holiday $100k”. The poker website is giving all their Texas Hold’em members a chance to take home $100,000, for buying-in with only 2000 points. This No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker promotion will commence on Dec. 27th and then a 2nd tournament on Dec. the 28th. Full Tilt Poker is also allowing players a chance to win an entry into one of the promotions by participating in a Freeroll.

The 2nd poker website we looked at was Ultimate Bet poker, they are running bonuses every day all through this month. Already they have given away IPods, a $1000 New depositer Freeroll, and on the 19th you could qualify to win a flat screen TV. The poker site has their “Days of Deals” promotion running all through December.

Lastly, PartyPoker.com is promoting “The Great Gift Giveaway”. The way to win is by climbing your way up the ladder and the more points you win, the better the gifts you will be able to take home. There are countless prizes available to win for example entrances into prize tournaments or cash payments. Furthermore if you happen to play on the Texas Hold’em website on Xmas Day, Party Poker will double the points you accumulate on the real money No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker tables.

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On Sun., Nov. 30th the CBS network will show their documentary “How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters”. This special was filmed after a four-month investigation into the online poker business and specifically a cheating scandal in relation to the online Texas Hold’em poker webpage Absolute Poker.

This Texas Hold’em poker website was inspected after a few of the poker players on the website alleged that someone was dishonestly winning a great amount of poker chips. Todd Witteles was a key witness in this research, according to him; he was losing large amounts of poker hands to the exact same Texas Hold’em poker player. Witteles declared that this poker player was raising against extremely good poker hands, the majority of people would have thought he was just giving his money away, but he was in reality winning quite often.

Witteles was pretty accurate with his theories, later on it was uncovered that someone on the inside was able to see anyone’s hole cards. At first glance, Absolute Poker stated that there were no problems with the website or the Texas Hold’em poker player. After numerous players presented the site with allegations, the Texas Hold’em poker website investigated further into the problem and discovered wrongdoing.

Around Jan. of this year, the Kahnawake Gaming Commision unearthed what the Texas Hold’em players and the Texas Hold’em page had supposed all along. The result of the investigation was that, there was a staff member who had invaded the Texas Hold’em page’s security and was competing dishonestly for approximately a month and a half. The investigation verified that the Texas Hold’em website had not gained from the dishonest transactions in any way, and was not engaged in the activities.

These circumstances are further testimony that there ought to be more regulation regarding gambling pages. The United States government needs to authorize and regulate the online Texas Hold’em poker business to look after these honest customers. These laws would also control the admission to these pages by kids, which is becoming another problem issue lately.

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Take a minute to imagine if you were to talk to any average person off the street about poker, they most likely wouldn’t deem Texas Hold’em poker to be a game of tactics, preparation, or close examination. Possibly when you mention online Texas Hold’em with them, they would possibly imagine some friends lounging around their living room having conversations and drinking beer. They also might consider Texas Hold’em poker to be a game of chance and not ability, more like a game of craps and not a skill game, for instance.

So the big question you might be asking yourself is: “Could I become rich by playing in poker tournaments?”. You might not believe it but, the answer to this question is a very strong “yes”. Numerous folks not only win money by playing Texas Hold’em, but also make enough to live by playing the game. The key point you need to remember about online poker is that while you can play in a Sin City casino, alongside craps tables and slots; in online Texas Hold’em you are not contending against the house but against other Texas Hold’em rivals. So, in all reality, you are risking your money against other rivals in a competition of ability unlike a game of fate.

You could be saying to yourself: “What about the luck factor?” Obviously in poker, no one knows which hands will be dealt. That doesn’t indicate that you cannot play Texas Hold’em with a certain amount of pre-tournament information. One crucial point to remember in poker is that numbers can be your best friend. Mathematics performs a vital role in the game of online poker. So much so, that even if you become a bit lucky regularly the figures always have a way of humbling a poker player.

Remember that Las Vegas, Nevada casino table games similar to online Texas Hold’em poker where you are in fact playing versus other actual competitors CAN be won. The more you play the game of Texas Hold’em poker, you will notice that it is more of game of talent and not just natural fate.

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The most important online poker enterprises around are merging in a TV deal very soon in what is projected to be an extremely successful endeavor. The enormously successful online poker room Fulltiltpoker has recently stated that they are going to be collaborating with W.P.T. for the following World Poker Tour Enterprises season. FullTiltPoker.com is going to be the main promoter of the World W.P.T.’s seventh season, and the online poker website is going to be presented in all of the installments which are seen on F.S.N.. FullTiltPoker.net will obtain all the rights to the learning pieces of the installments.

Particulars of this accord have not been given away yet, but the partnership will definitely be a hit. This merger will bring together two very strong Texas Hold’em poker companies. W.P.T. which is a well-known powerhouse on television via F.S.N. and Fulltiltpoker which has a vast Texas Hold’em following, and a poker lineup including players who have amassed a total of 10 W.P.T.E. awards and thirty-five World Series of Poker bracelets. Fulltiltpoker also funds many other poker stars and now the Texas Hold’em poker website has started presenting Texas Hold’em poker lessons as well.

This agreement is sure to draw in a fresh set of fans and is assured to meet with the latest popularity which Texas Hold’em is causing. This accord indicates W.P.T.E.’s yield of the Texas Hold’em poker room business as WPT will shortly close up their online poker site World Poker Tour online. The subscription website ClubWPT.com will probably continue to operate.

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The benefits of online Texas Holdem opposed to real poker rooms are unlimited, but along with these benefits there are also various inconveniences. Online Texas Holdem poker lets beginner players the probability to play in professional poker tournaments with expert Texas Hold em players, but these regular amateur players should shun away any diversions that could possibly harm their opportunities to become a poker champ.

Lots of online poker players become preoccupied by home distractions, or even by the internet poker room they are competing on. These distractions can actually cost them great poker hands and most likely their well-deserved Texas Hold em chips. The game of Texas Hold em poker is a game of skillfulness and also total focus, no matter if you are playing online poker, or in an actual brick and mortar casino.

Almost certainly, the most prevalent blunder that online Texas Holdem players commit is by being involved in more than one poker table at a time. The greater part of amateur internet poker players will imagine that this is a good scheme, but ultimately it could end up to be a harm. This method of playing numerous Texas Hold em tables all together will hurt your attention and at the end of it all cost you poker money. Don’t forget that even the expert Texas Holdem poker players out there will make harmful mistakes while concentrating their mind on different online poker tables at once.

Any given online Texas Holdem poker player, may at some moment, find themselves playing various online Texas Holdem tables at the same time, at the same time as they are watching their favorite TV show, reading their preferred blog, talking on the phone to friends etc. This is a circumstance which ought to be shunned if you desire to win Texas Holdem poker games and meet the requirements for big online poker tournaments. Never forget to focus your thoughts on the other online Texas Holdem poker player’s wagers, their intentions, and your own internet poker hands if you wish to succeed in poker.

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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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