The biggest online poker room FullTilt.com is releasing a new and innovative poker interface that includes innovative new elements on both the front end and backend and creates an easier poker experience.

The first thing poker players will notice is a fresh welcome page boasting a brand new modern appearance as well as a few brand new aspects such as a list of random security guidelines displayed on the bottom of the screen. Full Tilt new client software gives players 3 distinct lobby views: Basic, Standard and Classic View.

The Basic View offers novice poker players the opportunity of catching up with the new poker client and viewing the games without the demands of participating. The Basic View provides step by step reports on all the existing poker games, and gives players the ability to decide on their currency, type of game, Game (Hold’em, Omaha Hi or HL, Stud and Mixed Games), Limit (Fixed, Pot or No Limit), and Stake. In addition poker players can now check the action before joining a poker table with the new “Observe Table” choice or click on “Browse Table to view the list of open tables.

The Standard View provides information about all the existing poker games and allows poker players to modify the list of poker games and tables to present only the poker games of their preference. This option also offers players the possibility of choosing the type of table, poker game, stake and view the tables before jumping in the poker action.

Poker players can also select the Classic view and stay with Full Tilt Poker’s initial lobby, however, this choice will be accessible for a limited time only and will be terminated shortly.

Both the Basic and Standard views also include innovative new characteristics such as new revolving graphic screen located on the left that provides customers direct entry to FullTiltPoker’s promos and events including the FTOPS, Iron Man, Play with the Pros, Full Tilt Poker Academy, Poker Deposit Bonuses, and many other poker promotions and Full Tilt Poker Tournaments, as well as an option for video that allows players to view videos directly from the Full Tilt Poker client.

Full Tilt new poker client is available for Mac and Windows OS. To download Full Tilt’s new poker client visit FullTiltPoker.com or click here.

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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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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 poker 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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The popular poker website FullTiltPoker.com, just publicized that once again they will have the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” in the first week of November. This Texas Hold em event will open with a $216 Texas Hold em buy-in game. The Texas Hold em tournament will have a prize pool of more than $15 million guaranteed. This tournament has 25 poker events with the main Texas Hold em tournament on Sunday, November 16th which will award $2.5 million in prize money.

There is a chance for any FullTiltPoker.com player to show their skills in the Texas Hold em tournament, by coming first in as many satellite games as possible. Taking into account how many satellite games you come first in, the more FullTiltPoker.com chips you will receive. If by chance you win more satellite games than the competition, you will win two extra buy-ins for the FTOPS. The satellite poker games are are being held right now, and are available for FullTiltPoker.com members.

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series started in 2006 when it consisted of 8 events and awarded $1 million in prizes. At the moment, the poker tournament has become highly regarded, with the previous year’s poker tournament running 25 poker events and giving away prizes of over $15 million. Next month’s tournament will present a Two-Day Event which will have buy-ins of $2500 to $5000. The first two-day event was FTOPS V, that Texas Hold Em tournament had a grand prize of $400,000. This year’s Two-Day event has a assured poker pot of over $2 million. This Texas Hold Em tournament will begin on November 15th.

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Online poker rooms and casinos such as Fulltiltpoker.com have become extremely popular in recent years, prompting all manner of legislation and regulation that stems from the government in order to shut down the world popular and extremely famous online poker rooms and casinos. With this effort to crack down on the widely popular online poker rooms and online casinos, the United States government has had all manner of success, regulating players abilities to generate revenue through these types of online poker rooms and casinos. With so much emphasis on creating these types of difficulties, it is easy to overlook the current efforts by many government lobbyists who have done everything that they can to create all manner of positive environments for the earning and generating of revenue on the Internet. With this new focus on alleviating some of these types of regulations, it is very likely that the future might hold good news for online poker rooms and casinos who have been afflicted with the difficult government regulations that make it so hard to compete on the Internet due to the strict regulations involved and difficulty of players to sign up and compete at their favorite online poker rooms and casinos on the Internet such as Full Tilt Poker. With the government crackdown, only time will tell how the whole thing will turn out.

As more and more players flock to the Internet to compete at these poker rooms and casinos on the web, it is clear that online poker has become an extremely popular pastime and that many players from around the world enjoy competing against real-life human beings over the Internet. With all this focus on Internet based poker and casino competition, it is hardly surprising that the government would want to try to generate some type of revenue through this exchange. Unfortunately, with the nearsighted effect that the government has had in the past, they have left themselves minimal methods of generating revenue, predicating the revalidation of these types of laws that are considered to be somewhat unnecessary as well as harsh and draconian in nature. By repealing some of these laws, online poker players will be able to compete at their favorite game online as well as generate revenue through the world famous online poker rooms and casinos while providing plenty of taxable revenue for the United States government to take advantage of as well. With this win-win situation, the only question is why the arrangements that online poker rooms and casinos have in foreign countries have taken so long to catch on in the United States.

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With so many competition on the Internet between online poker rooms and casinos, it is not hardly surprising to see all the different types of online poker promotions that have been pushed to the forefront and made available to the online poker room and casino players who make such a habit of competing at these types of online poker rooms and casinos in general. With so much attention being focused on the popularity of these types of gaming establishments, it is easy to overlook the tremendous levels of competition that exist between these types of online poker rooms and casinos and their efforts to take control of the market. With so many players making so much of an effort to gain the upper hand, it is easy to see that there is no end of revenue to be generated through the operation of these types of online poker rooms and casinos and the extraordinarily popular gaming and gambling establishments on the Internet. With this fierce level of competition, online poker room and casino players have their work cut out for them as they compete against each other on the web. In the same fashion, online poker rooms and casinos and their establishment proprietors compete against each other for market share, trying to monopolize as many players as possible from the local market. With so much attention being paid to the extraordinarily popular online poker rooms and online casinos and the tremendous levels of popularity that they receive on the web, it is not surprising to see these fierce levels of competition and the effort between the online poker rooms and casinos to make the most of the available revenue generated on the web. With so many different types of extremely popular online poker promotions and different types of incentives for players to join up including the rakeback sharing affiliate program, the poker bonus deposit matching program and the extremely popular online poker free roll tournaments, the online poker rooms and casinos go out of their way to make every effort to load players down with effective special treatment that allows them to receive additional funds and money for simply competing at the world-famous poker room and casino on the Internet and doing their best to succeed. With all of the different online poker rooms and casino promotional offers, it is easy to see that every necessary step is being taken to provide each and every online poker rooms casino with the strongest level of market share possible.

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With all the difficulties in the past between online poker rooms and casinos and the United States government, it only makes sense that establishment proprietors would begin to look overseas into areas such as Europe to base their online poker rooms and casinos, rather than deal with the difficult and treacherous waters of the United States government and their overzealous crackdown on poker rooms on the Internet. As more and more online poker rooms and casinos target the foreign market, the United States government is increasingly clueless and continues to squander a veritable fortune in available revenue.

The economic outlook in the European market seems so positive in fact that even the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, traditionally an off-line, brick and mortar establishment, has set their sights on the European market as an untapped gold mine of potentially profitable new online poker room and casino players in the European market. With the Las Vegas Sands Corporation and its attempt to reach out to international markets to prop up the incoming revenue stream for the ubiquitous Las Vegas hotels and casinos throughout the world, it is fairly obvious that many traditionally domestically based gambling and gaming institutions have begun to doubt the domestic markets ability to effectively recuperate from the latest economic downturn as quickly as it has in the past. With all the discussion of limited revenue and minimal forecasted returns in the near future, it is not surprising that so many of these traditionally United States-based industries have begun to look to overseas economies and developing nations for incoming revenue. With the vacuum created by the slumping domestic market, organizations such as the Las Vegas Sands Corporation have had little choice but to look beyond the local horizons and utilize the international community and the global market in an attempt to recover from the reduced the amount of revenue generated in the domestic market.

Fortunately for establishment proprietors, the returns from the European market for online poker rooms such have been overwhelmingly successful, as more and more European players log onto the Internet to take part in the gambling and gaming that occurs in the world-famous poker rooms and casinos on the web. As the game of online poker becomes more and more popular in the international community, it is very likely that many of these online poker rooms and casinos will begin to switch their focus to this new emerging market.

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