Full Tilt Poker Greets Tom Dwan with Official “durrrr” Prosite

As was reported here over the weekend, it has now been made public that Tom "durrrr" Dwan has officially signed with FullTiltPoker.com. The online poker site has given the poker celebrity a warm welcome with an Tom Dwan Website featuring a welcome video and other interesting tidbits from the career of Tom Dwan.


One of the most interesting parts 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 ”durrrr” video on FullTilt Poker also features an appearance from the legendary online poker player, Tom "durrrr" Dwan.

Tom Dwan has been keeping himself very busy recently with a new Tom "durrrr" Dwan blog, which will actually be posted from events of ”durrrr” himself. And let’s not forget the durrrr Challenge which is on its 27,185th poker hand out of the projected 50,000 total poker hands.

durrrr Challenge at Full Tilt Poker

Full Tilt Poker has just opened an innovative informative section covering all the details of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an amazing online heads up tourney presenting some of the finest high stakes poker players challenging the Heads Up Specialist Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The innovative new website gives internet poker players and fanatics the opportunity to stay on top of this incredible online poker challenge and check out frequent challenge details. With this new “durrrr Challenge” website players can track all the action and look at each hand played during this poker challenge, and check out tons of statistical information, including how many hands were played, time of session, amount won, average won during each hand and much more.

Around six months ago, the 23 year old internet poker pro delivered a heads-up challenge open to any player with the loot, time and ability to accept it. Any poker player entering the poker challenge has to bet $500,000 against Tom’s $1.5 million. Tom’s challenge specifies that at least 50,000 online poker hands need to be played at the same time at 4 or more poker tables of no-limit Hold’em or pot-limit Omaha. At the end of the poker challenge, the player who has more cash will take home the pool. In essence if you enter the Full Tilt Challenge and win $1 after the 50,000 hands, then you will get durrrr’s $1.5 Million, but if he succeeds by $1 then he will earn your $500,000.

To date, several professional poker players have consented to play the “durrrr challenge”, including Full Tilt Poker Star Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, but, only Patrick Antonius has accepted the challenge. At this point, both poker pros have completed in a total of 20,647 hands out of 50,000, with Tom durrrr Dwan up by $726,546 total.

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

2009 WSOP Coverage from Full Tilt Poker

The most popular online poker website Full Tilt Poker is upping the ante on the news from 2009 WSOP with their 2009 WSOP News Page, a new portal created to inform players on everything related to the World Series of Poker 2009, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, updates, poker stars’ blogs and more.

Full Tilt Poker’s new 2009 WSOP Coverage Page is not the typical information site offered by hundreds of other sites. The site is broken down into three areas, and includes a daily highlights part in where viewers can get access to the 2009 WSOP events info, results, players and more in a series of articles written by the FullTilt.com writers Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Aside from the run of the mill daily updates and results on every poker event, Full Tilt Poker’s 2009 WSOP News Page also highlights two poker player blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights commentary, poker news, insider info from FullTilt.com stars, comments from Full Tilt Poker’s fans and writers and guest posts from guest bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which highlights posts from members of Team Full Tilt playing in the 2009 WSOP, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

In addition, FullTiltPoker.com’s new 2009 WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter area that supplies immediate updates and commentary from various poker pros. Included in the Twitter area include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter area lets players to send short messages permitting people from around the world to listen to them. These comments known as “tweets”, can be transmitted from anywhere through a cellular phone or other hand-held device.

To view more info on FullTiltPoker.com’s new 2009 WSOP Coverage Page please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/series-coverage.

2ND CHANCE TO WIN 1 OF 6 2009 WSOP SEATS!

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

Stunning New Encore Las Vegas, Nevada Hotel to Open Soon

Sin City magnate Steve Wynn unquestionably has something new to be thrilled about this holiday season. Already investing nearly $2.3 billion, the dazzling hotel named Encore will open this coming week.

This lavish casino-hotel is joined to the enormously popular Wynn Las Vegas on the Sin City Strip. Whereas lots of Las Vegas, Nevada casino-hotel owners are doing their best to discover a manner to keep their hotel-casinos afloat, Wynn is doing extremely well with his $billion hotel-casino investments.

This 2,000 room tower is an incredible creation. The centerpiece of this hotel will be the nightclub, named XS. Steve has noticed lately that nightclubs are a huge attraction in Sin City, and not primarily the hotels and casinos like they were in the past. Steve thinks that Las Vegas nightclubs typically make more money and are a massive magnet for the young bunch.

Steve Wynn has also built a luxurious steakhouse joined to the XS nightclub. Named after the popular Colombian painter, Fernando Botero this restaurant in the form of a circle has a large Botero sculpture as the main focus point. Eventhough it is not as impressive as the nightclub which it is joined to; the Botero steakhouse is created to match pretty well with the flashy Vegas nightclub.
The idea pertaining to XS and Botero is a kind of St. Tropez feel, where the bash chugs along nonstop and a big part of the partying takes place near a swimming pool or beach setting. Things are not the same in Las Vegas, Nevada, where most people would rather social gatherings to casinos right now.

Robbie Knievel to Fly Over Mirage Hotel and Casino’s Famous Volcano

After close to a year of resting, the Mirage Casino and Hotel’s well-known volcano will be reborn bigger and more impressive than ever before. The well-known Vegas casino-hotel is pulling out all the stops to interest as many visitors as feasible to take a look at their redecoration.

This upcoming New Year’s Eve, the daredevil and stuntman Robbie Knievel will attempt a motorbike leap over the Mirage Casino-Hotel’s manmade volcano. This jump will celebrate the end of a three-year redecoration of the Las Vegas, Nevada hotel. During this period, the Vegas megaresort has spent more than $110 million improving their rooms and suites.

The upcoming New Year’s Eve stunt is said to be Knievel’s final stunt in the United States. The presentation will carry on for 5 mins. and present explosives and a modern music soundtrack. The music for the presentation has been performed by Mickey Hart formerly of the Grateful Dead. Robbie Knievel is the son of the late Evil Knievel-one of the world’s first and most renowned daredevils.

The Las Vegas Mirage was built in 1989 by Las Vegas, Nevada industrialist Steve Wynn and was regarded as Las Vegas’ 1st megaresort. This reconstruction is one of a huge number on the Las Vegas, Nevada Strip recently. This casino and hotel hopes that this stunt will pull a great amount of sightseers to the Vegas casino. The idea behind the improvement is to outshine other iconic Sin City destinations like the Bellagio casino-hotel.

Oscar “Golden Boy” De La Hoya v. Pacquiao is a Fight Definitely Worth Checking Out

The Vegas event many boxing fans have been waiting for is happening this week. De La Hoya will match wits against one of boxing’s current greatest fighters, Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao. This boxing match is on schedule for Sat. December 6th in the MGM Garden Arena in Sin City.

Undoubtedly there has been much talk in Las Vegas, Nevada regarding this bout. De La Hoya has cut his weight down to 147 lbs. to compete as a welterweight, and people say that Oscar De La Hoya could not be as stout since the drop in weight. Pacquiao has already boxed on one occasion as a lightweight and is now heading up to the welterweight category. Pacquiao is also the current lightweight title-holder , and is deemed by many boxing experts to be the best boxer at the moment.

This is De La Hoya’s first visit back to Las Vegas for a bout ever since he competed against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in May of 2007. This boxing match is no doubt a sold out event for the MGM Vegas. Vacationers to Sin City have decreased in the past few months, but Vegas events like this match seem to have a way of bringing fans to Las Vegas.

This bout will surely be one that everyone should enjoy as it brings together the two top boxers of these past few years in a 12 round welterweight match. The Golden Boy v. Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao tickets are still available for purchase. If you were to attend only one Las Vegas event during this year, this is definitely the Las Vegas, Nevada event to see.