Full Tilt Welcomes Dwan with Official Website

As was reported here over the weekend, it has now been made public knowledge that ”durrrr” has officially signed with FullTilt Poker. The online poker website has given the poker pro a warm welcome with an Tom Dwan Website featuring a welcome video and other details from the career of Tom "durrrr" Dwan.


One of the coolest features of the ”durrrr” Website is the welcome video from Team Full Tilt Poker poker players Howard Lederer, Andy Bloch, Jennifer Harman and others. The Tom Dwan video on Full Tilt Poker also features an appearance from the legendary online poker player, Tom "durrrr" Dwan.

”durrrr” has been keeping himself busy lately with a new Tom Dwan blog, which will actually be authored from poker experiences of Tom "durrrr" Dwan himself. Not to mention the durrrr Challenge which is on its 27,185th poker hand out of the projected 50,000 total poker hands.

durrrr Updates Page from Full Tilt Poker

FullTilt has just unveiled an original info site containing all the facts of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an incredible online heads up tournament highlighting some of the world’s best high stakes online players taking on the Heads Up Specialist Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The new website section gives internet poker players and fanatics the chance to track this historical Full Tilt Poker Challenge and check out regular statistical updates. With this fresh “durrrr Challenge” portal poker players can track all the action and look at each hand played during this poker challenge, and look at lots of statistical information, including how many hands were played, session time, amount won, average won during each hand and lots more.

Around six months ago, the twenty-three year old internet poker professional dealt out a heads-up poker challenge open to any poker player with the cash, time and capability to accept it. Any player entering the challenge has to wager $500,000 against Dwan’s $1.5 million. Dwan’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 poker player who has more money will secure the pool. In essence if you enter the challenge and win a dollar after the 50,000 poker hands, then you will secure durrrr’s $1.5 Million, but if he wins by $1 then he will earn your $500,000.

Up to now, some poker pros have accepted to play the “durrrr challenge”, including WSOP Champ Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, but, only Patrick Antonius has said yes to the poker challenge. Thus far, both players have engaged in a total of 20,647 poker hands out of 50,000, with Tom Dwan ahead $726,546 total.

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

WSOP 2009 News, Opinions, Blogs and Twitter from FullTiltPoker

Leading poker website FullTilt.com is upping the ante on the news from 2009 World Series of Poker with their WSOP Coverage Page, a new website dedicated to inform customers on everything related to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, updates, players’ blogs and more.

FullTiltPoker.com’s new 2009 WSOP Coverage Page is not the same ol’ news portal like hundreds of other sites. Full Tilt’s Site is separated into three areas, and includes a daily highlights part in where viewers can get access to the WSOP 2009 events info, results, players and more in a series of articles written by the Full Tilt Poker writers Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the same ol’ daily updates and results on each and every poker event, FullTilt.com’s 2009 WSOP News Page also highlights two in house blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights commentary, wsop news, inside info from FullTilt.com Pros, comments from FullTiltPoker.com’s readers and writers and guest posts from guest bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which features comments from members of Team Full Tilt playing in the WSOP 2009, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

Also, FullTiltPoker.com’s new World Series of Poker Coverage Page has a Twitter area that supplies round the clock updates and notes from various 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 lets players to create short messages permitting people from around the world to listen to them. These comments known as “tweets”, can be forwarded from all around the world through a cell phone or other hand-held device.

If you would like more info on FullTilt.com’s new World Series of Poker Coverage Page please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/series-coverage.

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

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

Dazzling New Encore Las Vegas, Nevada Hotel and Casino to Unveil

Las Vegas, Nevada magnate Steve Wynn without a doubt has something new to be anxious about this Christmas season. Already investing nearly $2.3 billion, the spectacular hotel and nightclub dubbed Encore will kick-off this week.

This plush hotel and casino is joined to the enormously popular Wynn Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip. As most Vegas casino-hotel investors are doing their best to find a direction to keep their hotels afloat, Wynn is having no problems with his $billion hotel investments.

The 2000 room hotel and casino is another incredible creation by Wynn. The main focus of this building will be the nightclub, called XS. Wynn has taken notice in the recent past that nightclubs are a huge attraction in Sin City, and not primarily the hotels and casinos like they used to be. Steve says that LV nightclubs as a rule produce more riches and are a massive draw for the young group.

Wynn has also created an over-the top steakhouse near the XS nightclub. Inspired by the famous Colombian painter, Fernando Botero this circular restaurant has a large Botero statue as the centerpiece. Not quite impressive as the nightclub which it is joined to; the Botero steakhouse is intended to match rather well with the ostentatious Sin City nightclub.
The inspiration behind XS and Botero is a type of St. Tropez feeling, where the celebration carries on without a break and the majority of the party scene takes place near a swimming pool or beach setting. Things are not the same in Las Vegas, where many people fancy parties to casinos at the present time.

Evel Knievel’s Son to Fly Over Mirage Hotel’s Resurrected Volcano

After close to 1 full year of no activity, the Mirage Megaresort’s famous volcano will be reborn bigger and more stunning than it has ever been. The famous LV casino-hotel is trying really hard to draw as many vacationers as feasible to enjoy their transformation.

This upcoming New Year’s Eve, the daredevil and stuntman Robbie Knievel will attempt a motorcycle jump over the Mirage Hotel and Casino’s artificial volcano. This jump will celebrate the ending of a three-year transformation of the LV casino and hotel. Over the course of this period, the Las Vegas hotel has shelled-out more than $110 million enhancing their accommodations and suites.

The upcoming New Year’s Eve stunt is said to be Knievel’s final feat in the United States. The presentation will go on for 5 mins. and present fireworks and a high-tech music recording. The music for the soundtrack has been recorded 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 Sin City Mirage was developed in 1989 by Las Vegas tycoon Steve Wynn and was considered Las Vegas, Nevada’s first megaresort. This improvement is one of a large group of hotels on the Vegas Strip recently. This hotel-casino anticipates that this stunt will pull a great number of visitors to the LV hotel. The plan behind the upgrade is to compete with other popular LV hotel and casinos like the Bellagio hotel and casino.

Oscar De La Hoya against Manny Pacquiao Considered to be the Biggest Vegas event of the year

The Las Vegas, Nevada event most boxing fanatics have been waiting forever to see is finally taking place this week. Oscar De La Hoya will fight one of the sport’s present greatest boxers, Pacquiao. This contest is taking place on the 6th of December in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

No doubt that there has been much conversation in LV regarding this match. The Golden Boy has cut his weight down to 147 lbs. to participate as a welterweight, and some folks say that De La Hoya could not be as strong since the weight drop. Manny Pacquiao has already contended on one occasion as a lightweight and wants to compete now the welterweight category. Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao is also the current lightweight champion , and is judged by many professionals to be the best boxer at the moment.

This is Oscar De La Hoya’s first journey back to Sin City for a match since he fought Floyd Mayweather Jr. in May of last year. This match is certain to be a sell-out for the MGM Arena Las Vegas. Vacationers to Las Vegas have dwindled in the past few months, but Las Vegas events like this competition really have a way of bringing folks to Vegas.

This bout will unquestionably be one to remember as it consists of the two finest boxers of our time in a 12 round welterweight bout. Oscar De La Hoya and ”Pac-Man” Pacquiao tickets are available to buy. If you were to check out only one Sin City event in 2008, this is certainly the LV Event to check out.