Writing by admin on Tuesday, 10 of November , 2009 at 2:11 pm
As was posted here over the weekend, it has now been made public that Dwan has officially signed up with FullTiltPoker.com. The online poker website has given the poker professional a warm welcome with an Official “durrrr” Prosite featuring a welcome video clip and other interesting tidbits from the career of Tom “durrrr” Dwan.
One of the best areas of the Official “durrrr” Prosite is the welcome video from Team FullTiltPoker.com members Howard Lederer, Andy Bloch, Jennifer Harman and a few others. The Tom Dwan video on Full Tilt Poker also features an appearance from the legendary online poker player, Tom Dwan.
Dwan has been keeping himself quite busy lately with a new Tom “durrrr” Dwan blog, which will actually be authored from experiences of ”durrrr” himself. And let’s not forget the durrrr Challenge which is on its 27,185th hand out of the projected 50,000 total poker hands.
Writing by admin on Thursday, 30 of July , 2009 at 9:04 pm
FullTilt.com is introducing 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 customers will see is a new 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 gives new 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 players with information about all the available 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.
Customers 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 features a series of pioneering 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.
Writing by admin on Thursday, 30 of July , 2009 at 9:02 pm
Leading online poker site FullTiltPoker.com has launched a new bonus giving a minimum of $100 in bonus money to its online poker players just for trying the Full Tilt new poker client.
To access this new bonus, Full Tilt players just need to earn one point from Full Tilt before July 28th. Players who don’t fulfill the terms are not entitled for the Biggest Bonus Ever offer. Poker players who meet the criteria of this offer will have until 23:59 ET on August 16th to obtain the bonus.
To trigger the bonus, players will be required to open the Full Tilt software, log in and click on the “Cashier” tab in the game lobby, choose the “My Promotions” box in the cashier, choose the Biggest Bonus Ever link in the ‘My Promotions” gateway; this will lead them to a section amplifying the details on how to accept the poker bonus from Full Tilt.
Once Full Tilt players activate their Biggest Bonus Ever, they will have 30 days to liberate the poker bonus merely by earning Full Tilt points in any real money poker games on the site.
Ring game players will earn one Full Tilt point for each dollar raked from the pot in poker hands where they are dealt cards. Players can gain partial Full Tilt points if less than one dollar is raked, with a max of three Full Tilt points earned per poker hand.
Sit and Go poker players will earn 7 Full Tilt Poker points for each dollar in tournament fees paid. A cap does not exist for the amount of Full Tilt points you can gain in each tournament.
Writing by admin on Thursday, 16 of July , 2009 at 6:33 pm
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 5th 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.
The biggest online poker site FullTiltPoker.com is taking the coverage to the next level with the WSOP 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.
Writing by admin on Friday, 10 of April , 2009 at 5:32 pm
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Writing by admin on Wednesday, 17 of December , 2008 at 9:42 pm
Certainly the most despised characters at the Texas Hold’em table time and time again will continually be the bragger. You recognize the one I’m talking about. He’s the person that pulls up a chair at the no-limit Texas Hold’em table and makes sure you’re aware that he wants all of your Texas Hold’em chips; exiting the no limit Texas Hold’em poker table with the exact same posture that he turned up with. Even if this guy is defeated, he has in his mind that he is the top Texas Hold’em Poker player on the planet.
Whilst the majority of poker players would preferably steer clear of competition of this variety, there exist other players who could say that showing-off could have its advantages. So, the big question is: Is there in all reality a good poker boaster or a bad Texas Hold’em attention-seeker? Boasting about how skilled you are in Texas Hold’em is mostly just like stating: “I am the best Texas Hold’em player on the planet, keep in mind to play the best you can while you’re competing in a no limit Texas Hold’em poker tournament against me!” Almost definitely the most awful vibe to give off playing Texas Hold’em. Also, sharing too much information about your Texas Hold’em Poker playing method can be quite harmful to your Texas Hold’em Poker game. You most certainly do not want these individuals to get a clue about how you bet on specified no-limit Texas Hold’em hands.
Additionally there are those Texas Hold’em Poker players who could make use of show-boating as a style of Texas Hold’em technique, or bluff. Show-boating when you are dealt a certain Texas Hold’em Poker hand could possibly fool your opponents and puzzle them about your no limit Texas Hold’em poker playing approach. You will come across people who may think that this plan a bit devious, but it is key to not forget that there aren’t tons of rules against it in poker. Texas Hold’em Poker is all about making a dollar out of fifteen cents and utilizing it to the max.
Writing by admin on Wednesday, 12 of November , 2008 at 2:36 am
The two most prominent Texas Hold’em companies around are joining forces very soon in what is predicted to be an extraordinarily profitable merger. The hugely popular online Texas Hold’em site Fulltiltpoker has recently publicized that they are going to be working with W.P.T.E. for the approaching World Poker Tour Enterprises season. Full Tilt Poker is on tap to be the primary benefactor of the World W.P.T.’s seventh season, and the poker website is going to be presented in all of the episodes which are seen on Fox Sports Net channel. FullTiltPoker.com will acquire all the control of the learning parts of the shows.
Particulars of this contract have not been revealed so far, but the contract will definitely be a winner. This contract will combine two extremely strong poker brands. WPT which is a renowned powerhouse on television by means of F.S.N. and FullTiltPoker.com which has a massive online fan base, and a Texas Hold’em poker lineup containing players who have amassed a total of 10 WPT awards and 35 World Series of Poker bracelets. Full Tilt Poker also sponsors many other Texas Hold’em players and now the Texas Hold’em poker website has begun presenting Texas Hold’em lessons as well.
This contract is assured to gain a brand new following and is guaranteed to fit the new notoriety which Texas Hold’em poker is causing. This union shows W.P.T.E.’s surrender of the Texas Hold’em poker room industry as W.P.T.E. will most likely shut their online poker site World Poker Tour Enterprises online. The pay site ClubWPT.com will more than likely maintain their site.
Writing by admin on Thursday, 11 of September , 2008 at 2:35 pm
Texas Holdem’ used to be a game available only in Sin City Hotels or from electronic poker machines, but now it is more in style than ever in Vegas thanks to the internet and TV.
The famous Venetian Casino, is now betting 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 join comedy and game show elements to entertain its live audience. The audience will also be able to join in the popular game of Texas Holdem’ alongside the best poker players in the world. The show has many prizes for the audience including a chance to win 1$ million.
In “The Real Deal!” the audience will play with players like Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu. Around 10 professional players have already signed up for the game show about poker. 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 come to Vegas casinos want to play poker games,” Negreanu says, “but obviously they can’t play in a top poker tournament with the people like Doyle or Phil Hellmuth. But, in this show, they actually can.” At the beginning of each show, 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 set of poker cards 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 poker player to join in the poker game. There are other ways to increase 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 winner in this game.
Creators of the show are also placing bets on the personalities of the professional poker players to create some exciting moments. Someone like Scotty Nguyen, the flamboyant five-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, definitely can keep an audience entertained and will provide some great entertainment in this new idea for poker .
Writing by admin on Thursday, 7 of February , 2008 at 8:53 pm
If I told you every tough decision in poker was actually an easy decision would you believe me? Probably not, but if you believe in your intuition and have inner balance and control then you can hear and listen to your gut feeling and follow through with your gut feeling. Your gut feeling or intuition can be your best friend if you know it is right in it, trust it and listen to it. Your gut feeling is that first feeling you get, the majority of people never believe or trust in there inner self and dismiss the feeling as just a thought and then think more and end up with no real confident answer or decision.
Everyone knows that one guy that seems to just seems to float through life and always gets so lucky, well that guy probably listens to his intuition. He’s probably laid back, never really worried or never panics just always seems so sure.
Your intuition isn’t the solution to all your problems and your gut feeling isn’t always right, just because your gut feeling isn’t always right it’s not correct to stop listening to it, you need to understand that your gut feeling is the best tool that will help your more times then not, so listen to it unconditionally.
You have most likely heard the miracle stories about animals sensing stuff before it happens, or animals acting weird or behaving weird before major events happen. This is because animals rely on 6th sense, they trust and rely on instinct for survival. They don’t have time to thoroughly think things through or contemplate, they feel there gut trust it and react on it.
This is not to say that you shouldn’t think about decisions or problems and should just do what your first intuition is, because evaluation is an important and critical part of the decision making process. Going over all the variables presented to you to come up with a conclusion. So evaluation is important and should be done, but you should be able to feel your first natural instinct and let it play a major role in your decision making process. You should give your gut feeling the top value on the list of variables that you consider when making a decision.
For the majority of people they will never be able to tap into there inner self or will never be able to know when they hear it or feel it, this is because in order to hear and listen your gut feeling you need to have balance in your mind and body, you need to have emotional control over yourself, you need to be in touch with your feelings. Everyone has instinct and gut feeling so if you don’t know what your gut feeling is it’s probably because your mind is clouded and cannot clearly identify when your gut feeling kicks in and talks to you.
Being able to hear and listen to your gut feeling can become a very powerful tool in your Hold’em playing, you have to listen to your gut though, the first instinct or thought you have is usually always the correct decision. Your mind is a powerful database more powerful then any computer and has a hard drive that stores every hand you play, every bet that people make, every situation that happens. So your gut feeling is usually what the mind feels based on your database of similar online poker situations.
So practice listening to your self, identify when your gut tells you something and believe in it and use it in life, use it on the rakeback tables. Hopefully this will help you improve your Hold’em poker game and make you a better player
