Harrah’s Enterprises, operator of the World Series of Poker, has revealed the official schedule of events for the 41st annual WSOP set to kick off 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 2010 World Series of Poker schedule features a total of 57 bracelets poker events, including three brand new 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 WSOP 2010 schedule of events refers to a few changes, 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 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 first 5 weekends of the poker series (May 29-30, June 5-6, June 12-13, June 19-20 and June 26-27) will include $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournaments with two preliminary flights. Additionally, a sixth schedule of events on July 1-2, will also offer the same event at the same buy-in level. The 41st annual World Series of Poker will finish 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 running from November 6th-9th

Other variations slated for the WSOP 2010 include a number of new rules that will normalize the daily amount of play, and the addition of more poker tables. According to the WSOP 2010 official site, the entire convention center of the Rio Las Vegas will be commited to the 2010 World Series of Poker, with tournament tables in the 58,000 square foot Pavilion and the 38,000 square foot Amazon Room.

The 2010 World Series of Poker is also giving poker players more than five months to sign-up for the first event on the World Series of Poker 2010 schedule. Pre-registration for the WSOP is offered at the Main Cage of the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino and online at the World 2010 WSOP official 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.

World Series of Poker 2010 event schedule

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WeDoItAllVegas.com, the best Vegas, poker and gambling information website, is giving poker players a chance to win some major money with their $1500 monthly poker tournaments and Free $100 Bankrolls on Full Tilt. WedoitallVegas, also has various WeDoItAllVegas.com Forum Free Rolls and poker tournaments going on around the clock, that grant forum members an great chance to earn even more money just by taking part.

First is the special Free $100 Poker Bankroll at Full Tilt, which awards $100 to new sign ups at 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 receive $50 in your new Full Tilt player account and the other $50 when you make the bonus requirements. Please read the full terms and conditions before joining.

The next contest at WDIAV,  is their new $1500 Poker Free Roll, this poker tournament is for all the players who signed up with the Free $100 Cash Bankroll promotion. To qualify for the $1500 Freeroll you will need to have received the Free $100 at Full Tilt Poker, or in the event that you are a member to the affiliate program, have at least brought one person to the Free Poker Cash promotion at Full Tilt. Once you have met these requirements, you will get a personal invitation to join the Monthly Poker Freerolls.

WDIAV Forum members have been winning loads of money lately in the $1000 WDIAV Monthly Freeroll. To qualify for the Monthly $1000 Freeroll, you will need to meet a certain forum and blog post requirements set up by WeDoItAllVegas.com. Read through the requirements on the WedoitallVegas forum to see if you qualify. The WedoitallVegas  Freeroll is hosted by Full Tilt, one of the best online poker rooms in the world.

WeDoItAllVegas.com, offers members unbeatable promotions, useful information and entertaining content. Stop by WeDoItAllVegas.com, anytime and discover how great it could be to win cash without risking a dime.

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FullTilt.com has recently launched a new info site containing all the details of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an incredible online heads up tournament presenting some of the most talented high stakes online players taking on the online poker phenom Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The innovative new site presents online poker players and fans the chance to track this amazing durrrr challenge and receive regular updates. With this innovative “durrrr Challenge” portal players can track all the poker action and check out each hand played during this poker challenge, and check out lots of stats, including number of hands played, time of session, amount won, average won during each hand and much more.

Around six months ago, the twenty-three year old online poker pro issued a heads-up challenge for any player with the money, time and talent to accept it. Any poker player entering the poker challenge has to wager $500,000 against Tom’s $1.5 million. Tom’s challenge specifies that a minimum 50,000 hands need to be played at the same time at four or more poker tables of no-limit Hold’em or pot-limit Omaha. At the end of the durrrr challenge, the player who has more money will win the pool. Essentially if you enter the Full Tilt Durrrr Challenge and win a dollar after the 50,000 hands, then you will secure durrrr’s $1.5 Million, but if he wins by a dollar then he will win your $500,000.

To date, a few poker players have accepted to play the “durrrr challenge”, including WSOP Champ Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, however, only Patrick Antonius has consented to the Full Tilt Poker Challenge. Until now, both poker pros have taken part in a total of 20,647 poker hands out of 50,000, with Dwan ahead $726,546 total.

For more information on the “durrrr” Challenge and durrrr vs. Antonius, please go to http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

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World leading online poker website Full Tilt is upping the ante on the news from 2009 WSOP in Vegas with their Full Tilt World Series of Poker Coverage Page, a informative site created exclusively to keep players informed on every detail related to the 2009 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, timely updates, players’ blogs and more.

Full Tilt 2009 WSOP News Page is not the same ol’ news portal like hundreds of other sites. The website is separated into three areas, and includes a daily highlights area in where viewers can get access to the World Series of Poker 2009 events info, results, players and more in an articles series written by the Full Tilt writers Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the usual daily updates and results on all of the event, WSOP Coverage Page also highlights two poker blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights comments, poker news, insider info from Full Tilt Poker Professionals, comments from Full Tilt Poker’s viewers and authors and guest posts from special guest bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which features posts from members of Team Full Tilt participating in the 2009 WSOP, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

Additionally, Full Tilt’s new WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter section that supplies live updates and notes from several poker pros. Poker players involved in the Twitter section include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter feed permits these players to send short messages letting the world know what’s going on. These messages known as “tweets”, can be transmitted from any place in the world through a cell phone or other hand-held device.

To see more information on WSOP Coverage Page please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/series-coverage

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Holiday cheer has struck most of the top internet Texas Hold’em websites this year, and they have become rather charitable with their specials. Taking into account what style of online No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker room promotion you are hunting for; there has to be one for you. Visiting the best internet poker websites, the following promotions were some of the best around.

Starting off with the very well-known online No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker website FullTiltPoker, they have available the “The Holiday $100k”. The poker website is granting all their poker members a break to take home $100,000, for buying-in with only 2000 points. This poker game will kick off on Dec. 27th and then a 2nd tournament on December the 28th. Full Tilt is also offering players a chance to gain entry into one of the promotions by participating in a Freeroll.

The second Texas Hold’em site we visited was Ultimate Bet poker, they have had promotions every day during this month. They have already given away IPods, a $1000 New depositer Freeroll, and on the 19th there is a chance to win a flat screen TV. The poker site has their “Days of Deals” promotion running all through the month of December.

Last but not least, PartyPoker.com is running “The Great Gift Giveaway”. The way to win is by climbing your way up various levels and the more points you win, the better the rewards you can take home. There are scores of prizes to be had to win such as entries into prize tournaments or cash prizes. In addition if you play on the No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker room on Xmas Day, Party Poker will double up the points you make on the cash No-Limit Texas Hold’em tables.

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The most hated individuals at the Texas Hold’em Poker table the majority of times will forever be the attention-seeker. You know the person I’m telling you about. He’s the poker player that pulls up a chair at the poker table and makes clear you’re mindful that he desires all of your poker chips; exiting the Texas Hold’em Poker table with the very same posture that he showed-up with. Even if this guy loses, he has the idea that he is the greatest no-limit Texas Hold’em player hands down.

Whilst the bulk of no-limit Texas Hold’em players would preferably avoid rivals of this category, there exist other poker players who could say that bragging could have its advantages. So, the question is: Is there in all reality a clever Texas Hold’em show-off or a bad poker bragger? Show-boating about how accomplished you are in poker is basically just like stating: “I am the greatest Texas Hold’em player on the planet, always remember to be on the ball while you’re competing in a poker game against me!” That’s about the most awful vibe to send out playing no limit Texas Hold’em poker. Furthermore, giving away too much about your Texas Hold’em Poker playing method can be negative to your Texas Hold’em Poker game. You undeniably do not want these individuals to have an idea about how you play specific poker hands.

Also there are those Texas Hold’em Poker competitors who might utilize bragging as a manner of Texas Hold’em technique, or bluff. Shooting off your mouth when you get a certain no limit Texas Hold’em poker hand might possibly throw your opponents for a loop and puzzle them about your no limit Texas Hold’em poker playing technique. There are a few people who might think that this technique a bit deceitful, but it is significant to bear in mind that there aren’t tons of rules against it in no limit Texas Hold’em poker. Texas Hold’em is all about making a dollar out of fifteen cents and exploiting it to the end.

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Two of the biggest online poker corporations out there are signing a sponsorship deal soon in what is expected to be an extraordinarily profitable gamble. The incredibly popular poker website FullTiltPoker.net has recently stated that they are joining with World Poker Tour Enterprises for the approaching World Poker Tour Enterprises season. Fulltiltpoker will be the prime promoter of the World World Poker Tour’s seventh season, and the poker site will be presented in every single one of the shows which can be enjoyed on FSN. Fulltiltpoker will gain all the rights to the educational portion of the installments.

Particulars of this union have not been released thus far, but the agreement is certain be a breakthrough. This pact will combine two enormously strong Texas Hold’em poker names. W.P.T.E. which is a well-known powerhouse on television through Fox Sports Net channel and Full Tilt Poker which has a vast Texas Hold’em following, and a Texas Hold’em poker team containing players who have won a total of 10 W.P.T.E. titles and thirty-five W.S.O.P. bracelets. FullTiltPoker.com also supports many other poker players and now the Texas Hold’em webpage has started offering poker coaching also.

This pact is sure to bring in a fresh fan base and is guaranteed to satisfy the recent popularity which Texas Hold’em is producing. This partnership is a sign of W.P.T.’s submission of the online poker room business as World Poker Tour will soon shut their Texas Hold’em site W.P.T. online. The pay to play webpage ClubWPT.com will more than likely stay open.

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The advantages of internet poker opposed to real Texas Holdem casinos are unlimited, but along with these benefits there are also various drawbacks. Online Texas Holdem permits non-professional Texas Hold em players the ability to contend in professional poker tournaments with skilled poker players, but these non-professional Texas Hold em players should prevent any distractions that could impair their prospects to win big money.

Lots of online Texas Holdem poker players become sidetracked by household distractions, or possibly by the online poker site they are competing on. These interruptions can truly cost them great hands and most likely their well-merited Texas Holdem Poker chips. The game of poker is a game of skillfulness and also complete attentiveness, no matter if you are playing Texas Holdem at home, or in a real poker room.

In all probability, the principal error that Full Tilt Poker players commit is by being involved in more than one table at once. The majority of amateur online poker players will assume that this is a good scheme, but ultimately it could prove to be a harm. This mode of playing numerous poker tables in sequence will harm your concentration and at the end of the day cost you poker money. Don’t forget that even the most famous Texas Holdem poker players in the world will make harmful slip-ups when directing their mind on a few online poker tables at the same time.

Any particular online poker player, maybe at some time, find themselves playing various Full Tilt Poker tables at the same time, at the same time as they are watching TV, reading their preferred website, text messaging friends etc. This is a circumstance which should be shunned if you aspire to win poker games and succeed for big online poker tournaments. Remember to focus your mind on the other internet poker player’s wagers, their actions, and your own online Texas Holdem poker hands if you desire to be the best Texas Hold em player.

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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.

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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 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.

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