Full Tilt Poker is taking the online poker action to the next level with the introduction of Rush Poker, a brand new and ground-breaking poker format built to provide the ultimate high-speed poker experience and minimize the wait time between poker hands.

This tremendously fast paced and extreme poker action gives poker players the chance to move through different poker tables, play different challengers in every poker hand and choose the type of game (Hold’em, No Limit, etc) and set the stakes they want to play. Players will also be able to sort the game list by other groups such as number of poker players, average pot or number of hands per hour.

Once you decide upon the Rush Poker game you wish to play, all you need to do is double click on that game to enter the Rush Poker lobby. Players are also able access a Rush Poker game by using the “Rush Poker Lobby Widgets” offered in Standard View.

Rush Poker is the world’s quickest poker game and can only be played at Full Tilt Poker. Give it a try today for the most extreme poker action on the planet.

For more details, please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/rush-poker/details

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Harrahs, operator of the World Series of Poker 2010, has released the official events list for the 41st annual WSOP set to start from May 27th, 2010 with the Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em, and final events on November 9th, 2010 with the Main Event Table.

The WSOP event schedule features a total of 57 bracelets events, including three brand new poker events ($50,000 Player’s Championship Event #2, $10,000 H.O.R.S.E Event #43, World Championship, $25,000 6-Handed No-Limit tournament Event #52). The 2010 WSOP schedule of events includes a few alterations, for example, the $50.000 H.O.R.S.E event has been substituted with the $50,000 “Player’s Championship” (Event #2), featuring eight different poker games (Limit Hold’em, Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better, Seven Card Razz, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better, No-Limit Hold’em, Pot-Limit Omaha, 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball).

The opening 5 weekends of the series (May 29-30, June 5-6, June 12-13, June 19-20 and June 26-27) will highlight $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournaments with two initial flights. In addition, a sixth event schedule on July 1-2, will also offer the same event at the same buy-in level. The 41st annual WSOP 2010 will finalize on Monday, July 5th with the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Championship Main Event. The Main Event will be interrupted on July 17th, and will continue on four months later with the “November Nine” final table playing from November 6th-9th

Other variations slated for the World Series of Poker consist of a number of new regulations that will control the daily amount of play, and the addition of more poker tables. According to the WSOP official site, the whole convention center of the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino will be commited to the World Series of Poker 2010, with tournament tables in the 58,000 square foot Pavilion and the 38,000 square foot Amazon Room.

The WSOP 2010 is also giving players over five months to register for the first event on the WSOP 2010 schedule. Pre-registration for the WSOP is offered at the Main Cage of the Rio and online at the World World Series of Poker 2010 site. Sign-up for all bracelet poker events will remain open until the start of the third level (approximately 2 hours, 20 minutes after start time) or until all seats are sold.

“Whatever your game and whatever your bankroll, the 2010 WSOP schedule offers something for everyone. We are planning for the largest WSOP ever and look forward to welcoming all players to the Rio in Las Vegas next summer.” said WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel.

WSOP 2010 event list

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As was posted here over the weekend, it has now been made public knowledge that Tom Dwan has officially signed with Full Tilt Poker. The online poker website has given the poker celebrity a warm welcome with an ”durrrr” Website featuring a welcome video clip and other interesting tidbits from the career of Dwan.

One of the most interesting areas of the ”durrrr” Website is the welcome video from Team Full Tilt Poker poker players Howard Lederer, Andy Bloch, Jennifer Harman and others. The Tom “durrrr” Dwan video on Full Tilt Poker also features an appearance from the legendary online poker player, Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

Dwan has been keeping himself quite occupied as of late with a new Dwan blog, which will actually be authored from poker experiences of Tom “durrrr” Dwan himself. Without mentioning the durrrr Challenge which is on its 27,185th hand out of the projected 50,000 total poker hands.

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WDIAV, the best Las Vegas, poker, and gambling information website, is granting poker players a chance to earn some major cash with their $1500 monthly poker tournaments and Free $100 Bankrolls on Full Tilt. WedoitallVegas, also has various WDIAV Forum Free Rolls and poker tournaments going on around the clock, that give forum members an excellent opportunity to earn even more cash just by joining.

First off is the special Free $100 Poker Bankroll at Full Tilt, which awards $100 to new sign ups on Full Tilt. The only requirements to receive your Free $100 Bankroll is that you must be a NEW player on Full Tilt and meet the country requirements. You will then get $50 in your new Full Tilt player account and the additional $50 when you meet the point requirements. Please read the full terms and conditions before joining.

The other contest at WedoitallVegas, is their new $1500 Poker Free Roll, this poker tournament is for all the players who joined to the Free $100 Cash Bankroll promotion. To play in the monthly $1500 Poker Freeroll you will need to have received the Free $100 at Full Tilt Poker, or in the case that you are a member to the affiliate program, have at least referred one player to the Free Poker Cash promotion on Full Tilt Poker. Once you have reached these requirements, you will get a personal invite to be a part of the $1500 Monthly Poker Freerolls.

WDIAV Forum members have been earning tons of money lately in the WDIAV Monthly $1000 Freeroll. To qualify for the Monthly $1000 Freeroll, you will need to  meet a certain blog and forum posting requirements put in place by WeDoItAllVegas.com. Read through the requirements on the WDIAV forum to see if you qualify. Their WDIAV  Freeroll is hosted on Full Tilt, one of the best online poker sites in the world.

WedoitallVegas, offers members incredible promotions, useful info and entertaining content. Stop by WedoitallVegas, today and discover how awesome it can be to win money without risking a dime.

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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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Holiday cheer has come to a good number of the most popular online Texas Hold’em sites this year, and they have become very kind with their specials. Taking into account what kind of online poker room promotion you are looking for; there has to be one for you. Looking at the top online Texas Hold’em Poker rooms, these were the best promotions in the business.

Starting things off with the always popular online No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker website Full Tilt, this site has “The Holiday $100k”. The poker website is granting all their poker players a chance to take home $100k, by cashing in only 2000 points. This Texas Hold’em Poker tournament will start on Dec. 27th and a 2nd chance on Dec. the 28th. Full Tilt is also allowing players an opportunity to win an entry into one of the promotions by playing in a Freeroll.

The second poker website we visited was Ultimatebet.com poker, they are having promotions each day throughout December. Already this month they have given away IPods, a $1000 New depositer Freeroll, and on the 19th you could qualify to take home a flat screen TV. The poker website will have their “Days of Deals” special running for the duration of this month.

Last of all, PartyPoker.com has “The Great Gift Giveaway”. The way it works is by working your way up levels and the more points you win, the higher the gifts you will be able to take home. There are many prizes available to win like entries into prize tournaments or cash payments. Additionally if you would like to play on the poker website on December 25th, PartyPoker.com will duplicate the points you accumulate on the real money poker tables.

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The benefits of online Texas Holdem versus actual poker rooms are countless, but with these rewards there are also some disadvantages. Internet poker lets non-professional Texas Hold em players the ability to play in pro Texas Hold em Tournaments with pro Texas Hold em players, but these at-home players must avoid any distractions that could possibly hurt their opportunities to become a poker champ.

Many online Texas Holdem poker players become diverted by what is happening around them, or perhaps by the online poker site they are competing on. These interruptions can in truth cost them great hands and most likely their well-deserved Texas Holdem Poker chips. The game of poker is a game of proficiency and also total awareness, no matter if you are competing at online Texas Holdem, or in a real poker room.

Perhaps, the greatest slip-up that Full Tilt Poker players commit is by being involved in more than one table simultaneously. The better part of amateur Full Tilt Poker players will think that this is a good idea, but at the end of the day it could possibly workout to be a harm. This method of playing a number of Texas Hold em poker tables simultaneously will impair your focus and ultimately cost you money. Always remember that even the best Texas Holdem poker players out there will make harmful miscalculations while concentrating their mind on a number of online poker tables at the same time.

Any particular internet poker player, may at any instant, find themselves playing several Full Tilt Poker tables at one time, at the same time as they are watching TV, reading their favorite poker blogs, text messaging friends etc. This is a situation which must be avoided if you aspire to win poker games and make the grade for big Full Tilt Poker tournaments. Remember to direct your mind on the other internet poker player’s bets, their actions, and your own online Texas Holdem hands if you desire to be the best Texas Hold em player.

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A key part in the game of poker is conning your opponents by leading them to believe you have a superb poker hand, when the truth is you could possibly you have the worst hand at the table. You may have heard this referred to as “Poker face”, an expressionless face for fooling your competitors into trusting in an idea that may not be true.

Holding a good poker hand is most likely going make you feel more anxious, could possibly make your hands shake, and your pulse rise. These are tell-tale signs that your competitors may pick up on very quickly, especially if you have been playing with them for some time. Keep in mind not to peer over at the pot if you hold some decent poker cards. This is a tell-tale sign to your competitors that you are, in your mind, adding up how many poker chips are in the pot.

In the condition where you have a horrible poker hand, try not to keep yourself from glancing at your poker buddies, keep your head high, and try not to be uncertain about your bet. If you can prove to yourself that your hand is equal, or better than your competitors; you will possibly convince them of this as well. Try not to forget to keep this as natural-looking as possible. Your use of body language and actions might be saying one idea, while the things you are talking about are making them believe something entirely different.

Another significant aspect of Texas Hold Em is to be able to read your opponents “poker tells”. A “tell” is a look or appearance that may give away information about their hand. One key rule to remember is when your competition appears as if he has a good poker hand; he, in all probability, has a weak Texas Hold Em hand. From a different angle, if he is acting as if he’s holding a weak hand, he probably has a pretty decent hand.

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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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