The successful online poker site FullTiltPoker.com, has just announced that finally they will hold the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” a few weeks from now. This Texas Hold em poker tournament will launch with a $216 no-limit Texas Hold em tournament. There is also a guaranteed $15 million worth of prizes at stake. The FulltiltPoker.com tournament has a total of 25 events with the main event held on Sunday, November 16th which will award $2.5 million in prize money.

There is an option for any Texas Hold em player to participate in the poker tournament, by succeeding in as many satellite games as possible. Depending on how many satellite games you come first in, the more poker tournament money you will receive. If you end up winning more satellite events than the rest of the players, you will gain two more buy-ins for the tournaments. The satellite games are taking place at the moment, and are available for FullTiltPoker.com members.

The FullTiltPoker.com tournament was created in 2006 and it had 8 events and a $1 million prize pool. Since then, the FullTiltPoker.com tournament has become particularly famous, with the previous year’s tourney hosting 25 FTOPS events and a prize pool of more than $15 million. November’s poker tournament will present a Two-Day Event having buy-ins of $2500 to $5000. The original Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that Poker championship had a winner take home a prize pool of $400,000. This Two-Day event has a promised pot of a minimum $2 million. This FullTiltPoker.com Two-Day event will kick-off on November 15th.

No Comments »

A vital aspect in the game of Texas Hold em is deceiving your opponents by leading them to believe you have a superb poker hand, when in all honesty you could possibly you have the worst hand at the table. This is popularly known as “Poker face”, a straight expression to mislead your competitors into buying an idea that might be false.

Having a good hand is most likely going make you feel more anxious, could possibly make your hands shake, and your pulse race. These are pretty obvious signs that your opponents may see very quickly, especially if you have been playing with them for some time. Keep in mind not to look at the pot if you hold some decent poker cards. This is a tell-tale sign to the other players that you are, in your mind, counting how much you will possibly win.

In the situation where you have a terrible poker hand, try not to keep yourself from glancing at your poker buddies, keep your eyes up, and don’t hesitate when you place your bet. If you can persuade yourself that your hand is equal, or superior than your fellow poker players; you will have a better chance of misleading them. Keep in mind to make this seem as normal as possible. Your use of body language and motions might be saying one idea, while the things you are saying are making them believe something else.

One more crucial point of poker is to be aware of your poker buddies’ “poker tells”. A “tell” is a gesture or habit that could might give away information about their hand. One key rule to remember is when your poker buddy gives the appearance that he has a great Texas Hold Em hand; he, very likely, has a poor hand. From a different angle, if he acts as though his hand is poor, he very likely is holding a strong poker hand.

No Comments »

A monster prize pool was announced by Bodog Poker site, with the main poker tournament awarding $300,000 guaranteed. The total for the eight day poker event will be higher than $650,000, over the course of the fourteen tournament event. The Bodog Texas Hold em event will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues until Sunday, October 5th. The well-known Texas Hold em tournament website will also feature six “Bounty” eliminatories, where the challengers can win $109 in poker credits for each Team Bodog poker participant they eliminate from the poker eliminatories. The most famous poker celebs will be taking on all conteders in the event.

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

The first Bounty Tournament will be the first Texas Hold em game in the championship on Sunday. Any poker player is able to buy-In directly into this, and any of the other poker events with cash. Or another opportunity is to win their way into the Texas Hold em games through the satellites which are being played every night during the poker championship week. Bodoglife is going to hold six bounty tournaments and seven “Championship Events”, which will feature higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

Bodog’s tournament will have thirteen events which will lead up to the main poker contest on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the championship with a guaranteed $300,000 in cash, despite the number of poker players in the contest. All the poker challengers who decide to enter the main tournament will have to pay $500 for the buy-in and in return will obtain 10,000 in poker chips.

No Comments »