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The biggest online poker site FullTiltPoker.com is taking the coverage to the next level with the WSOP 2009 with their 2009 WSOP News Page, a new portal built to provide customers on everything related to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, timely updates, players’ blogs and more.

FullTiltPoker.com 2009 WSOP Coverage Page is not the same ol’ news section like many other sites. Full Tilt’s Site is separated into three parts, and includes a daily highlights part in where viewers can get access to the WSOP 2009 events info, results, players and more in an articles series written by the Full Tilt Poker staff members Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Aside from the same ol’ daily updates and results on all of the poker event, Full Tilt’s 2009 World Series of Poker Coverage Page also features two poker player blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights comments, covering news, insider info from Full Tilt Poker star players, comments from FullTilt.com’s viewers and writers and guest posts from guest bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which highlights posts from members of Team Full Tilt playing in the World Series of Poker 2009, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

Also, Full Tilt World Series of Poker Coverage Page has a Twitter section that gives live updates and comments from different poker professionals. Poker players involved in the Twitter portion include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter section allows poker players to send short messages permitting people from around the world to listen to them. These comments known as “tweets”, can be forwarded from all around the world through a cellular phone or other portable device.

To see more information on Full Tilt WSOP News 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 Christmas spirit has struck most of the top online Texas Hold’em Poker sites this year, and they have been quite generous with their specials. Taking into account what kind of internet No-Limit Poker website bonus you are looking for; there is a perfect one for you. Visiting the top online No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker websites, we found these Christmas specials.

Beginning with the ever popular online poker website Full Tilt Poker, they are promoting “The Holiday $100k”. The site is granting all their poker members a break to win $100k, by investing just 2000 points. This No-Limit Texas Hold’em promotion will start on Dec. 27th and there will be a second game on December the 28th. FullTiltPoker.com is also allowing members a chance to win an entry into one of the promotions by playing in a Freeroll on the website.

The next Texas Hold’em site we looked at was Ultimatebet.com poker, they are holding bonuses each day all the way through the month of December. Already this month they have awarded IPods, a $1000 New depositer Freeroll, and on the 19th there is a chance to take home a flat screen TV. They have their their “Days of Deals” promotion continuing throughout December.

Finally, Party Poker has “The Great Gift Giveaway”. The way you can win is by winning your way up various levels and the more points you collect, the higher the prizes you can take home. There are many prizes to be had to win for example access into prize tournaments or cash. Furthermore if you would like to play on the Texas Hold’em site on Christmas Day, PartyPoker.com will duplicate the points you gain on the real money Texas Hold’em tables.

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Without a doubt the most insufferable players at the poker table most every time will at all times be the boaster. You have an idea of the one I’m telling you about. He’s the guy that finds a seat at the no-limit Texas Hold’em table and makes evident you’re conscious that he wants to take all of your poker chips; exiting the Texas Hold’em table with the exact same position that he arrived with. Even if the guy gets shut down, he has the thought that he is the best Texas Hold’em Poker player in the world.

As the bulk of poker players would preferably keep away from rivals of this category, there exist other poker players who might say that bragging may have its compensation. So, the big question is: Is there truly something like an expert Texas Hold’em boaster or unfair Texas Hold’em boaster? Shooting off their mouths about how skilled you are in Texas Hold’em is in essence just like affirming: “I am the best no-limit Texas Hold’em player on the planet, be sure to play your best game while you’re competing in a Texas Hold’em game against me!” Almost definitely the nastiest vibe to give out playing no limit Texas Hold’em poker. In addition, sharing too much info. about your poker playing techniques can be quite detrimental to your poker game. You undeniably do not want these folks to find out how you play specified Texas Hold’em Poker hands.

Furthermore there are those poker players who could make use of showing-off as a type of Texas Hold’em technique, or bluff. Showing-off when you get a certain Texas Hold’em hand might bewilder your opponents and stump them about your no-limit Texas Hold’em playing style. There are those who may think that this tactic a bit deceitful, but it is important to bear in mind that there are not too tons of rules against it in poker. No-limit Texas Hold’em is all about making the most of what you’re dealt and taking advantage of it to the fullest.

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On Sunday, November 30th CBS will show their investigation special “How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters”. This documentary was produced after a 4 month inquiry into the online Texas Hold’em poker industry and exclusively a cheating scandal in relation to the online Texas Hold’em page Absolute Poker.

This Texas Hold’em room was examined after several of the Texas Hold’em poker players on the website said that a player was unjustly winning a great amount of cash. Todd Witteles was a key witness in this investigation, according to him; he was losing large amounts of poker chips to the exact same Texas Hold’em player. Witteles claimed that this gambler was raising against incredibly good hands, the majority of people would have assumed he was basically giving his money to the other players, but he was in reality earning tons of chips.

Witteles was correct about his suppositions, much later it was discovered that someone on the inside was able to watch anyone’s poker hole cards. At first look, Absolute Poker said that there was no wrongdoing with the site or the poker player. After lots more players presented the site with accusations, the poker webpage studied deeper into the cheating problem and discovered wrongdoing.

In Jan. of this year, the gaming commission exposed what the poker competitors and the Texas Hold’em room had suspected all the time. As it turns out, there was a worker who had broken through the poker webpage’s security system and was competing illegitimately for approximately six weeks. The inquiry showed that the Texas Hold’em poker webpage had not benefited from the unlawful activities in any way, and was not implicated.

These crimes are further proof that there should be more guidelines in regards to Texas Hold’em poker sites. The United States government needs to license and regulate the internet Texas Hold’em industry to defend these honorable clients. These regulations would also police the entry to these pages by children, which is turning into another issue these days.

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If you were to have a conversation with any typical guy or girl off the street about Texas Hold’em poker, they most likely wouldn’t consider poker to be a game of practice, planning, or close examination. Most likely when you mention Texas Hold’em with them, they would almost certainly picture some friends sitting around their living room chatting and smoking cigars. They also may consider Texas Hold’em to be a game of pure luck rather than ability, more like a game of roulette compared to a skill game, for instance.

So the big doubt is: “Is it possible to make a profit by playing poker?”. Believe it or not, you can actually make money this way. Some individuals not just rake in some cash by playing Texas Hold’em, but also become very wealthy by playing poker. The most important thing you have to remember about poker is that while you can play in a Las Vegas casino, beside craps tables and slot machines; in poker you are not playing against the house but against other online Texas Hold’em poker competitors. Therefore, in reality, you are putting up your money against other rivals in a competition of expertise unlike a game of luck.

You might be saying to yourself: “Isn’t being lucky a big part as well?” The truth is in online poker, no one knows which hands will be dealt out. That doesn’t necessarily suggest that one cannot play with a reliable quantity of pre-tournament data. One thing that is important to not forget in Texas Hold’em poker is that numbers will be your best friend. Math plays a rather essential part in the game of poker. Not forgetting, that even if you get rather fortunate regularly the statistics always have a way of bringing you back to reality.

Try to remember that Las Vegas casino games such as Texas Hold’em where you are really contending against other actual competitors CAN be won. One will find that the more you play the game of Texas Hold’em poker, you will find out that it is more of game of ability and not just pure luck.

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The two most popular poker companies out there are merging in a TV deal shortly in what is likely to be an extremely successful gamble. The extremely well-liked online poker room Full Tilt Poker has recently stated that they will be joining with World Poker Tour Enterprises for the following World Poker Tour Enterprises season. Full Tilt Poker will be the main supporter of the World World Poker Tour’s TV season, and the Texas Hold’em website is going to be featured in every single one of the installments which are aired on Fox Sports Net channel. FullTiltPoker.net will obtain all the control of the learning segments of the installments.

Particulars of this union have not been made known so far, but the accord will definitely be a sensation. This union will unite two particularly formidable Texas Hold’em poker brands. W.P.T.E. which is a famous force on TV due to Fox Sports Net and FullTiltPoker.com which has a massive online following, and a Texas Hold’em lineup containing players who have amassed a total of 10 World Poker Tour Enterprises titles and thirty-five World Series of Poker bracelets. Fulltiltpoker also backs many other Texas Hold’em poker stars and now the Texas Hold’em webpage has started offering Texas Hold’em poker teaching also.

This partnership is certain to gain a new following and is certain to meet with the fresh notoriety which Texas Hold’em poker is breeding. This partnership signifies W.P.T.E.’s forfeit of the online poker room market as W.P.T. will soon end their Texas Hold’em page WPT online. Their subscription webpage ClubWPT.com will probably stay open.

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The advantages of Full Tilt Poker versus brick and mortar casinos are countless, but in addition to these rewards there are also a few difficulties. Full Tilt Poker lets regular amateur players the possibility to try their luck in actual tournaments with professional players, but these at-home players must steer clear of any disruptions that may hurt their prospects to come out ahead.

Most online Texas Holdem poker players become too distracted by their environment, or probably by the Full Tilt Poker room they are competing on. These disturbances can truly cost them great hands and quite possibly their well-merited poker chips. The game of poker is a game of expertise and also complete focus, no matter if you are playing Texas Holdem at home, or in a real-life poker room.

Probably, the principal mistake that online poker players commit is by competing in more than one poker table at the same time. The better part of amateur online poker players will assume that this is a good plan, but at the end of it all it might workout to be a drawback. This scheme of playing different online poker tables at the same time will hurt your focus and at the end of it all cost you Texas Holdem chips. Always remember that even the greatest poker players around can make harmful blunders while directing their attention on different online poker tables at once.

Any given online Texas Holdem poker player, maybe at some point, find themselves playing diverse online Texas Holdem tables at once, while watching the news, reading their favorite websites, text messaging friends etc. This is a state that ought to be shunned if you expect to win Texas Holdem games and be eligible for big online Texas Holdem tournaments. Never forget to focus your mind on the other Full Tilt Poker player’s bets, their intentions, and your own Full Tilt Poker hands if you wish to succeed in poker.

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The wildly successful online poker room FullTiltPoker.com, has just announced that for the tenth time they will present the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” at the start of November. This poker championship will start off with a $216 Texas Hold em buy-in tourney. There is also a guaranteed $15 million worth of prizes at stake. The FulltiltPoker.com tournament will have 25 poker games leading up to the main event on Sunday, November 16th which will offer a $2.5 million prize pool.

There is a possibility for any player to join in the Texas Hold em tournament, by coming first in as many satellite games as possible. The more satellite games you succeed in, the more tournament money you will receive. If you happen to win more satellite Texas Hold em games than the other players, you will gain two more buy-ins for the tournaments. The satellite games are are going on now, and anyone who is a member of FullTiltPoker.com can participate.

The FTOPS tournament commenced in 2006 with a total of 8 events and awarded over $1 million in prize money. At the moment, the Full Tilt Poker Tournament has become enormous, with last year’s tournament holding 25 poker events and prizes of over $15 million. The FTOPS X poker tournament will include a Two-Day Event which will have buy-ins of $2500 to $5000. The Initial Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that Full Tilt Poker Championship had a prize pool of $400,000. FTOPS X’s Two-Day event has a promised pot of at least $2 million. This Texas Hold em Two-Day event will start on the 15th of November.

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The well-known online poker room FullTiltPoker.com, just let everyone know that once again they will present the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” at the start of November. This Texas Hold em poker tournament will begin with a no-limit Texas Hold em with a $216 buy-in game. The Texas Hold em poker tournament will feature a prize pool of more than $15 million guaranteed. The FulltiltPoker.com tournament has a total of 25 events with the main Texas Hold em event on Sunday, November 16th which will award a $2.5 million prize pool.

There is a possibility for any Texas Hold em poker player to show their skills in the poker tournament, by winning as many satellite games as they can. The more satellite games you come first in, the more FTOPS chips you will receive. If you are successful in winning more satellite Texas Hold em games than the competition, you will win two more buy-ins for the FTOPS. The satellite games are being played at the moment, and are open for members of Full Tilt Poker.

The Full Tilt Texas Hold Em Tournament launched in 2006 with eight events and awarded $1 million in prizes. At this point, the FullTiltPoker.com tournament has become particularly famous, with last years poker event holding 25 poker events and a prize pool of more than $15 million. The FTOPS X poker tournament will feature a Two-Day Event with unprecedented buy-ins of $2500-$5000. The Initial Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that Full Tilt Poker Championship had a winner of $400,000 in prize money. FTOPS X’s Two-Day event has a assured pot of over $2 million. This event will start on Saturday, November 15th.

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