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durrrr Poker Challenge Offers $1.5 Million to Winner

Filed under: full tilt poker, poker, poker news — admin June 24, 2009 @ 6:58 pm

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

2009 WSOP Coverage and Blogs from Full Tilt Poker

Filed under: las vegas events, poker, poker news — admin June 8, 2009 @ 3:06 pm

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.