FullTiltPoker.net has recently introduced an original informative section involving all the information of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an incredible online heads up challenge featuring some of the world’s best big money poker players competing against the Heads Up Specialist Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The new website presents poker players and followers the opportunity to stay on top of this amazing durrrr challenge and receive timely updates. With this brand new “durrrr Challenge” section fans can follow all the details and check out each poker hand played during the challenge, and look at lots of stats, including how many hands were played, time of session, cash won, average won during each hand and much more.

Close to six months ago, the twenty-three year old online poker player dealt out a heads-up poker challenge open to any poker player with the cash, time and talent to accept it. Any poker pro entering the durrrr challenge has to bet $500,000 against durrrr’s $1.5 million. durrrr’s challenge specifies that a minimum 50,000 online poker hands need to be played simultaneously at 4 or more poker tables of no-limit Hold’em or pot-limit Omaha. At the end of the poker challenge, the poker player who has more money will win the pool. Essentially if you enter the challenge and win $1 after the 50,000 poker hands, then you will take home durrrr’s $1.5 Million, but if he succeeds by a dollar then he will take your $500,000.

To date, a number of professional poker players have accepted to play the “durrrr challenge”, including WSOP Champ Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, however, only Patrick Antonius has said yes to the durrrr challenge. At this point, both poker pros have taken part in a total of 20,647 hands out of 50,000, with Tom durrrr Dwan up by $726,546 total.

For more information on the Full Tilt Poker durrrr Challenge and Tom durrrr Dwan vs. Patrick Antonius, please stop by http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

The most popular online poker website FullTilt.com is upping the ante on the news from 2009 World Series of Poker with their 2009 World Series of Poker Coverage Page, a new site dedicated to provide customers on everything related to the WSOP 2009, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, round the clock news, poker players’ blogs and more.

FullTiltPoker.com’s new WSOP Coverage Page is not the usual news website like most of the other sites. The website is broken down into three parts, and includes a daily highlights piece in where fans can get access to the World Series of Poker 2009 events info, results, players and more in a series of articles written by the FullTiltPoker.com staff members Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the run of the mill daily updates and results on every poker event, FullTilt.com’s 2009 WSOP News Page also features two blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights comments, wsop news, insider info from FullTiltPoker.com Professionals, opinions from FullTilt.com’s fans and authors and guest posts from special guest bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which highlights posts from members of Team Full Tilt participating in the WSOP 2009, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

Additionally, FullTiltPoker.com’s new WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter area that supplies live updates and notes from different poker pros. Included in the Twitter section include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter portion permits these players to transmit short messages permitting people from around the world to listen to them. These updates known as “tweets”, can be transmitted from all over through a mobile phone or other hand-held device.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Vegas billionaire Steve Wynn definitely has something new to be keyed up about this holiday time. Investing close to $2.3 billion, the stunning new hotel called Encore will inaugurate this week.

This plush casino-hotel is joined to the extremely fashionable Wynn Vegas on the Vegas Strip. While tons of Las Vegas hotel and casino proprietors are doing their best to come across a way to keep their hotels open, Wynn is flying high with his billion dollar hotel investments.

This 2,000 room hotel-casino is another incredible creation by Wynn. The centerpiece of this building will be the nightclub, named XS. Wynn has taken notice lately that nightclubs are the biggest draw in Las Vegas, Nevada, and not necessarily the hotels like they were in the past. He thinks that LV nightclubs for the most part generate more hard cash and are a huge hotspot for the young and hip bunch.

Wynn has also put up a lavish steakhouse connected to the XS nightclub. The inspiration for the restaurant is the well-known Colombian artist, Fernando Botero this circular restaurant has a large Botero carving as the centerpiece. Although not quite as spectacular as the nightclub which it is adjacent to; the Botero steakhouse is designed to complement rather well with the loud LV nightclub.
The thought behind XS and Botero is a type of St. Tropez feeling, where the party goes on 24 hours a day and a big part of the party occurs next to a swimming pool or beach-type setting. Things are not the same in LV, where most people would rather partying to slot machines at the present time.

After just about one entire year of no activity, the Mirage Hotel and Casino’s famous volcano will be restored bigger and more amazing than ever before. The well-known Vegas hotel-casino is pulling out all the stops to draw as many sightseers as possible to examine their transformation.

This upcoming New Year’s Eve, the stuntman Robbie Knievel will attempt a motorcycle jump over the Mirage Hotel and Casino’s synthetic volcano. This act will mark the ending of a 3-year restoration of the Las Vegas, Nevada hotel-casino. During this period, the Vegas hotel and casino has shelled-out over $110 million renovating their accommodations and suites.

This New Year’s Eve feat is said to be Knievel’s final stunt in the U.S.. The presentation will continue for 5 mins. and feature fireworks and a modern soundtrack. The music for the presentation has been recorded by former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. Robbie Knievel is the son of the deceased Evil Knievel-one of the world’s first and most celebrated daredevils.

The Sin City Mirage was developed in 1989 by Vegas tycoon Steve Wynn and was deemed as LV’s first megaresort. This upgrade is one of many on the Vegas Strip as of late. This megaresort has hopes that this act will draw a large amount of tourists to the Sin City hotel-casino. The plan behind the renovation is to beat other well-known LV megaresorts like the Bellagio megaresort.

The Las Vegas event the majority of boxing fans have been waiting forever to see is just around the corner. Oscar De La Hoya will box one of boxing’s present top fighters, Manny Pacquiao. This fight is listed to take place on Saturday, December 6th in the MGM Arena in Las Vegas.

Surely there has been many rumors in Las Vegas regarding this match. The Golden Boy has dropped down to 147 lbs. to compete as a welterweight, and some agree that Oscar “Golden Boy” De La Hoya might not be as sturdy since the weight loss. ”Pac-Man” Pacquiao has already competed on one occasion as a lightweight and wants to compete from now on in the welterweight group. Manny Pacquiao is also the current lightweight champion , and is thought of by many experts to be one of the best boxers of the moment.

This is The Golden Boy’s first trip back to Las Vegas for a boxing match since he took on Floyd Mayweather Jr. in May of 2007. This match is scheduled to be a sold out event for the MGM Arena Las Vegas. Sightseers to Las Vegas have dwindled in recent times, but Sin City events like this match really have a way of bringing fans to Las Vegas.

This match will unquestionably be one to remember as it puts together the two top boxers of our time in a twelve round welterweight bout. Oscar De La Hoya versus Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao tickets are being sold right now. If you check out only one LV event during this year, this is without a doubt the LV Event to attend.

Fans of next January’s C.E.S. Sin City could be in for a pleasant surprise. Regularly, about this time it is close to unheard of to discover a vacant LV hotel resort anywhere near Vegas, but the next Consumer Electronics Show Vegas is shaping up to be a standout Las Vegas event. The majority of the most popular hotel resorts on the Las Vegas Strip have astonishingly slashed their hotel rates at a maximum of 20%.

Just about 100,000 travelers occupy LV every year to take a look at the revolutionary technology displayed by the C.E.A.. The Sin City event is on display from Jan. 8-11 with the majority of the events on display in the Venetian Hotel and Resort and the Sands Las Vegas. This proves to be a time when locating a decent hotel rate becomes practically an impossible job.

The C.E.A. revealed some time back that many of the Las Vegas, Nevada Strip hotel resorts have cut their room rates, the majority of them by quite a large percentage. If you already have your reservation ready, it might be a good idea to recheck prices on Las Vegas hotel rooms. For example: the Tropicana Las Vegas has reduced their per night room by about 17%. Most of the Las Vegas, Nevada hotel resorts in use near the C.E.S., have begun offering individual C.E.S. rates to the visitors of the Las Vegas event.

Some analysts state that this decrease in Sin City hotel prices is due to the fact that a lot of the electronics businesses have had to reduce the number of staff they are sending to the convention. This obliges the LV hotel resorts to decrease their prices to invite more vacationers to their hotels during this convention. Others imply that it has more to do with the present absence of tourists to Vegas in contrast to the past few years.

Vegas is showing many contradictions of late. For the regular Las Vegas vacationer, their cash will last a lot longer than earlier in the year. On the other hand for the Las Vegas native, times are a little more complex.

The LV sightseers will be very happy with the cheap costs of Las Vegas, Nevada hotel rooms, even on the Vegas Strip. Without bringing up the number of budget LV show tickets, Sin City coupons, and even LV food credits. This is certainly a great time to go to Vegas for the budget sightseer. Not surprisingly the economic situation does shape some aspects of LV for the travelers. For example, a few shows are required to close down or look for new theaters. “Stomp Out Loud” is the most obvious example of this modification, they are moving out of their Planet Hollywood casino resort theater in January.

To see of how the nation’s financial state is affecting the Las Vegas, Nevada residents, you can take a look at the same Las Vegas, Nevada casinos, Las Vegas resort hotels, and Las Vegas restaurants that offer these reduced rates and Sin City coupons. For the past months LV has become aware of the amount of tourists reduce, this in turn negatively affects the standard server, bellboy, or casino dealer. A large amount of the principal Las Vegas Strip resort hotels have been forced to lay off workers because to this situation.

If there is one positive element of this state; the prospect is very encouraging for Las Vegas visitors. You unquestionably able to get some incredible Vegas sales, and with the price of gasoline going down these are wonderful days to sightsee in Vegas.

Many folks may imagine that a dramatic blend of Criss Angel and Cirque du Soleil might be a union created in heaven, or in Criss Angel’s case, hell.

If you had the chance to be one of the numerous followers who have experienced this brand new Las Vegas, Nevada performance, titled Criss Angel BeLIEve featured at the Luxor Hotel, then you may have a distinct attitude about this newest performance. This innovative LV event is essentially Cirque du Soleil’s sixth event to operate on the LV Strip.

The show commences very alike Angel’s standard magic events, with a trace of “Cirque”. Then all of a sudden a botched magic feat carries Criss Angel to a Wizard of Oz-like fantasyland. You can even see weird rabbits scurrying on all sides of the theater, alongside Criss Angel’s standard stunts and illusions combined with Cirque’s powerful fascination. The presentation peaks with the illusionist basically ripping himself in half, in all probability the high point of this performance.

One of the concerns, that nearly all of the showgoers have come across with the production, is the fact that Criss Angel has several spoken pieces in the performance. Criss Angel’s drama skills aren’t actually his area, and this is not customary in any of Cirque’s other trendy LV shows.

All is not lost, though, in this mix of Angel with Cirque. There are lots of spectacular magic tricks featured in the show, and integrated with Cirque du Soleil’s flair, the production does have its unforgettable and out of this world moments. The sales of tickets do not lie, as this presentation is looking to be one of largest performances that Cirque has had in Las Vegas.

Cirque du Soleil which was created in Montreal, Canada combines this latest initiative to their calendar of Las Vegas presentations. Cirque’s other shows are: “O” in the Bellagio Hotel Casino Las Vegas, Zumanity in the Zumanity Theater at the New York-New York hotel and casino, LOVE at The Mirage Casino, Ka in the Ka Theater at the MGM Grand Casino Hotel, and Mystere in the Treasure Island Casino Hotel.

Even if you are on a tight budget, Vegas can be a cheap getaway if you plan ahead and do some searching. One good tip is to have a clear picture of what you want to see, how long you will stay in Las Vegas, and which hotel you are going to stay at. As long as you have a clear idea of these questions, then your vacation to Sin City will certainly be one to remember always.

When it comes to choosing a flight, this may take up most of your time to find the cheapest flight. Many airline companies are cutting back flights, due in part to the financial and fuel condition in the United States. Something to think about is to compare travel packages from a few different companies; one example of these sort of packages could be hotel + flight + car rental for a specific price. Depending on the time of year, you may see that it is cheaper to purchase these separately. The price difference you may find could be big.

One suggestion that you may find valuable is to sign up for e-mail notifications from the Sin City hotels and airlines you are interested in. They will forward you an e-mail when their best Las Vegas hotel deals are available usually two months before your trip. Also make sure that if you have already booked a Sin City hotel room, continue to check the prices that they are publishing up till the day of your trip. The costs may drop so if you see a price less expensive than the one you reserved, try to speak with the manager of the hotel about dropping the cost.

Try to remember that the amount of visitors in Las Vegas is down at the moment, Las Vegas hotels and resorts are looking for your business. Right now is a perfect moment to book a flight to Las Vegas.