World leading online poker website Full Tilt is upping the ante on the news from 2009 WSOP in Vegas with their 2009 World Series of Poker Informative 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, Full Tilt 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 the new 2009 World Series of Poker News Page please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/series-coverage

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Open to ALL WDIAV Forum Members

This is your LAST BEST CHANCE to win one of SIX $1,500 2009 World Series of Poker event tickets in Las Vegas!

May 17th, 9 pm EST - Put it on your calendar! $500 Freeroll PLUS a chance to win a ticket to our WSOP Step 4 final where we are giving away 6 WSOP seats. Top 18 placers in the event will win a Step 4 ticket.

Terms and conditions:

1. You MUST be a registered WDIAV Forum member. This Freeroll will be by pre-registration ONLY. No password.

2. You MUST have a minimum of 50 valid (i.e. non-spam or redundant) posts to the forum threads.

3. You must have a minimum of 50 forum points available to enter. You can still earn points under the CURRENT point system (more about that below) by making posts to the forum and by posting your avatar. When you enter this final freeroll tournament, you will be redeeming ALL of your current forum points for this last chance to win.

4. All Step 4 Tickets are transferable to another forum member or WDIAV Player. Anyone found selling tickets will be immediately disqualified and their forum account will be cancelled. All tickets have no cash value.

5. WSOP seat(s) are non-transferable and have no cash value. You must be present at the RIO with your Harrah’s players card to obtain your WSOP seat.

6. You MUST be 21 years old at the time you present your ticket in Las Vegas for your $1,500 event #7 seat. This event will be played on June 2nd, 2009 at 12 noon.

7. Winners are responsible for any and all taxes, travel, expenses and any other costs incurred in this promotion. Winners of WSOP seats agree to wear the shirt and hat of our choice while playing in the event. Winners agree to hold WDIAV harmless for any occurrence as a result of this promotion. Void where prohibited or restricted by law.

8. The final date to earn forum points and to make 50 posts to the forum is May 15th, 2009. After that date, forum members who try to enter this tournament by completing their posts and points will not be allowed to play in this tournament!

If you haven’t had time to earn points and post into the forum or you’re a new forum member, here’s your chance to get into a really GREAT DEAL! Get your points and posts into the WDIAV forum by NO LATER than May 12th, 2009.

ANNOUNCEMENT - WDIAV POINTS WILL BE CHANGING

We’ve been working hard to try to create a point system that rewards forum members who contribute to our forum and who make it a fun and interesting place to visit. The DAY AFTER this special tournament, we will be announcing our new forum point system. At that time, all old WDIAV points will be come invalid.

Some of the new features:

* Automatic point calculation

* Automatic point redemption for passwords to tournaments

* Point rewards for all parts of the forum - threads, posts, photos, videos, referrals, blogs, comments, adding events to the calendar and much more.

* Redeem points for cash and gift certificates

Once again, we want to say thanks to all our members who have made our forum the success it is. Now we want to take it to the next step in enjoyment.

Regards, WDIAV Team

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If you were to have a chat with any random guy or girl off the street about poker, they possibly wouldn’t believe online Texas Hold’em to be a game of strategy, preparation, or study. Most likely when you refer to online Texas Hold’em with them, they would perhaps imagine some poker buddies sitting around their living room table talking and smoking cigars. They also might believe Texas Hold’em poker to be a game of chance as opposed to skill, closer to a game of craps and not a skill game, for example.

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You could be saying to yourself: “What about the luck factor?” Of course in Texas Hold’em poker, nobody is aware which cards will be dealt out. That doesn’t indicate that one can’t play Texas Hold’em poker with a certain amount of pre-tournament know-how. One major thing to keep in mind in Texas Hold’em poker is that numbers can be your best friend. Statistics performs a very important part in the game of online poker. Not forgetting, that even if you become rather fortunate time and again the stats always seem to humble you.

Try to remember that LV casino table games comparable to Texas Hold’em poker where you are actually competing versus other real-life competitors CAN be won. You will find that the more you play the game of online Texas Hold’em poker, you will find out that it is more of game of expertise as opposed to pure luck.

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