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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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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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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A monster prize pool was announced by Bodog Poker site, with the main poker tournament awarding $300,000 guaranteed. The total prizes for the eight day Texas holdem tournament will be more than $650,000, throughout the weeklong poker tournament. The Bodog Poker Open II will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues through Sunday, October 5th. The well-known Texas Hold em tournament website will also feature six “Bounty” tournaments, where the contestants can win $109 in poker credits for each Team Bodog poker contestant they eliminate from the poker eliminatories. David Williams, Jean-Robert Bellande, Evelyn Ng and Justin Bonomo are just some of the Bodog Texas Hold em pros challenging all contestants in the poker tournament.

Team Bodog pro, Justin Bonomo, is undeniably psyched about the Texas Hold em contest. Over the course of his poker playing career, the 23 year old has won about $1.4 million. He says that if you had the idea that the first poker championship was a good one, you will definitely be stunned with this year’s tournament and the prize money involved. He also challenges anyone that has the courage to eliminate him from the Bounty Tournament to step forward.

The Kick off Bounty Tournament is going to be the first Texas Hold em game in the contest on Sunday. Any poker challenger has the ability to buy-In directly into this, and any of the other Texas Hold em games with cash. Or another alternative is to win their way into the poker events through the satellites which are held every night during the tournament week. There will be six bounty eliminatories and seven “Championship Events”, which have higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

In the tournament will be thirteen games which will lead up to the main event on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the championship with a guaranteed $300,000 in cold hard cash, regardless of the number of players in the Bodog Open. All the competors who decide to enter the main poker event will have to shell out $500 for the buy-in and in turn will collect 10,000 in Bodog poker chips.

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Is it more effective to play a tight poker game or loose?

You will undoubtedly hear two theories from your fellow poker players or possibly the so-called poker professionals. Let’s look first at the tight Texas holdem’ players. Each player including yourself will find it difficult winning, if the entire table is playing a tight poker game. Most likely if you have a poker table full of tight poker players what may happen is the poker players will wind up exchanging the smaller pots back and forth to each other. All the while the casino is raking in tons of your hard-earned poker money, and that of your competition. So now you might think, is it better to play loose? Well, in this situation the better Texas holdem’ players are going to lose a smaller number of hands, but at the end of it all nobody is going to come out on top.

How can I perfect my Texas holdem’ playing in the long run?

The answer to this question is as easy as a piece of paper and a pen. A good tactic to learn a lot about your playing style and tactic, is to keep some sort of record of your Texas holdem’ playing. It’s possible to write down this information during the poker game, and then transfer it to a database on your home computer. This can also help you learn about your competitor’s playing style, and what is the best strategy to conquer them.

Is it a good idea to use the same tactics for every poker game?

If you consider that playing predictable poker is a winning strategy for playing poker, then you should consider varying your Texas holdem’ tactic. The Texas holdem’ pros agree that changing your Texas holdem’ playing method is the best way to confuse and puzzle your poker competition. You should test a number of tactics, find the best ones for each situation and alter them for each Texas holdem’ game.

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According to the 2006 WSOP bracelet winner, Jamie Gold, he would be pleased to be celebrated as the all time best bluffer in the world of poker. But if his last tournament is any clue, his wish may not be granted any time soon.

The location is the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic held at the Vegas Bellagio in 2007. Featuring $50 - $100 blinds and a $15,000 buy-in, Darrell Dicken is just barely holding on. The seat 4 player has just raised his wager to $300, a pretty small raise with only one player taking the bait. “I put him as being weak,” Jamie said, “I was thinking about raising, but instead I just called with a 10-3 of hearts to see what would happen.”

Jamie was thinking that Brad Booth would make a move, which he did. He re-raised to $1600 from the big blind. Gold had the idea that Booth had a passable hand, but he was in a great position to make a move taking into account the quantity of dead money in the pot. Dicken ended up folding, and the unknown in Seat 4 called Booth’s raise.

Now there was more than $4000 in the pot, so Jamie raised the wager by $4000. His thought was, only if someone else had aces or kings there would be no way they would make that call. Jamie’s strategy was to make a sizeable move on the flop, as long as no ace was dealt. The second part of his plan was to get Booth to fold, which he did. Booth folded with pocket queens.

On the flop there was an ace of ace-6-5, two clubs. The player in seat 4 checked and Jamie bet $2000. Jamie’s initial thought was to make him think that he had clubs. Seat 4 threw out a $10,000 chip, but didn’t say anything thus changing his raise into a call. Jamie’s thought was that seat 4 definitely had an ace, but you have to shield it in case he hits his set on the upcoming card.

A 2 of hearts came out on the turn, and Jamie quickly folded to what he thought was a top pair kicker. Seat 4 showed a king-jack off suit. Seat 4 fooled Gold by bluffing with a better hand, he forced a terrific poker play and kept the bluff going to the end of the Texas Holdem’ tournament.

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The game of poker used to be a game accessible only in Las Vegas casinos or from video poker machines, but now it is more popular than ever in Las Vegas thanks to the the internet.

The well-known Venetian, is now banking on this popularity with its new audience-participation show called “The Real Deal!” in its showroom located in the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino, beginning in October.

This new idea will merge comedy and game show elements to entertain its live audience. The audience will also be able to participate in the popular game of Texas Holdem’ alongside the world’s best poker players. Many prizes are available for the audience including a chance to win 1$ million.

In “The Real Deal!” the audience members will play with players like Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu. Around 10 of the world’s best poker players have already signed up for the show. The audience will be able to play along with the 90 minute game thanks to handheld, wireless, touch screen devices located on each seat.

“People who take a vacation in Sin City casinos want to play poker games,” Negreanu says, “but obviously they can’t play in a world poker tournament with the likes of Doyle or Phil Hellmuth. But, in this show, they actually can.” When the show begins, six audience members will be chosen to sit at the poker table on stage with two professional players. Each audience member is then involved in the action by being dealt a unique poker hand on their devices. Everyone in the showroom is then involved in the action with big-screen monitors located on stage.

The show’s producers say that you don’t have to be a pro poker player to participate in the poker tv show. There are other ways to build your point total, that doesn’t involve playing poker necessarily. Betting on the suit of the next poker card or trying to guess which state a particular audience member is from, are just some of the ways to come out a big poker winner in this game.

The shows producers are also betting on the great personalities of the professional poker stars to create some interesting moments. Poker players such as Scotty Nguyen, the flamboyant five-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, definitely can keep an audience entertained and is a sure bet for some great TV moments in this revolutionary poker game show .

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Playing poker tournaments can be a great and amusing experience for any poker player. But moving on to the internet poker world can be rather hard, as there is no physical interaction between the players.

This situation difficult the process of learning from your opponents tells and being aware of their physical behavior and much of the advantages that the traditional poker player has tend to vanish. Playing in online poker tournaments also means altering the style of play and working harder to understand what your opponent has in mind.

With the online Texas Hold’em poker tournament, there is no way to conclude whether your opponent might be chewing his nails, blinking or playing with a beer in his hand. Without an indication of the emotional state of your opponent, many players who have dedicated their lives to developing the ability to detect tells find them without any method of gaining an advantage in the online Texas Hold’em poker tournament. Poker tournament player can effectively double or even triple their gambling income through these types of games and events and activities.

In online poker, players have to concentrate in playing the cards that the player is dealt and playing the strongest and most aggressive game that they can play, players can compete in online Texas Hold’em poker tournaments just as effectively as they have traditionally competed in the brick and mortar off-line casino establishments. It can be very tricky to adapt to this type of play for many poker players, it is critical to the online Texas Hold’em poker player’s success to understand the basic differences in playing in online poker tournaments versus their off-line poker tournament counterparts in the traditional casinos and poker rooms.

Having in mind that the action is much faster in online poker sites than their traditional Texas Hold’em poker tournament can help you to increase your bankroll, but that basically depends on your game level and experience.

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Brett Parise, a student from the University of California studying economics and political science, beat out over 200 other competitors to win the first leg of the famous Poker Stars Poker Tour Monday in Manila. Gambling for high stakes for three straight days, the 22-year-old student managed to take the win after much difficulty and extended play. Aggressively beating out his opponents, Brett managed to come out ahead and take the $180,000 prize as well as a seat in the Sydney final game. Parise has been a successful poker player since the age of 18 and won a seat in the Poker Stars tournament via a competition hosted for free online. The poker tournament has drawn attention from all over the world and players have traveled from all around to compete against each other for the $500,000 prize that is shared between the nine finalists. This attention is considered to be healthy for the sport, as the more exposure that poker receives from the media, the more new players tend to start playing for the first time. Encouraging new players to join and begin playing poker is a highly beneficial side effect of hosting such lucrative poker tournaments, both for the player and for the establishment.

With young players such as Brett Parise winning and garnering attention from the public, poker can continue to draw younger and younger sponsors to the unique entertainment offering that poker represents. With the success of the World Series of Poker Tournament in Las Vegas, the National Poker League and the Asia-Pacific Poker Tour as well as the multitude of other poker championships and poker tournaments, it is easy to see that the popularity of poker is far more than just a passing phase and that the emphasis on playing games and skills such as poker has become more and more popular as time goes by. With the wealth of televised events and media fascination with young new players such as Brett, the exposure of poker to the mainstream can only continue to blossom.

Brett’s mother was quoted as saying that she had no idea he had won the seat in the poker tournament, commenting that his father would have to accompany him to Sydney, Australia. Brett said he enjoyed playing poker but it would very likely not be his full-time occupation, considering it would not be in line with his education and degree.

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Anyone who has ever seen a movie or television program covering the lives of professional poker players might be under the impression that these players lead glamorous lives of excess and luxury on the level of royalty. Hollywood and the television industry go out of their way to depict these players as some type of international playboy, living the good life and enjoying all the finer things. The truth about the professional poker player is far different, as poker players have to put up with all kinds of inhospitable conditions as well as deal with multiple difficulties in building and maintaining their career as well as continuing to make it to the table on a regular basis.

The difficulties begin as soon as the poker player begins building a bankroll. The difficulty in building a strong bankroll cannot be overstated, as during the process of building this bankroll you will no doubt be brought back to square one on several occasions. While this process is normal, it can be very frustrating for the professional poker player. Being under this pressure to succeed, knowing that you have no safety net should you manage to burn through your bankroll, is devastating to the poker player. Walking a thin line between being on top and being on the bottom, the professional poker player has little other choice but to stay in the game, not necessarily because they might want to, but because they have no other choice. Once locked into the professional poker player lifestyle, there is very little chance of leaving it for any other type of income. Players get locked into the lifestyle that allows the poker player to become completely encompassed in poker, which can come with all manner of bad habits, which makes them even more dependent on the poker player lifestyle to make ends meet.

Once the poker player has committed to the professional lifestyle, it is very difficult indeed to maintain his existence, as there is never a break from the nonstop poker game that the professional must participate in to remain on top. The never ending stream of competitors, money and the drain on the players resources from staying in hotels and other locations while gaming and gambling can very quickly lead the poker playing professional to become burned out.

While this information likely would not be scary to anybody who intends to become a professional poker player, it is important to know that the professional poker player lifestyle is nowhere near as glamorous as many have been led to believe.

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