Full Tilt Welcomes ”durrrr” with Tom Dwan Website

As we reported here over the weekend, it has recently been made public knowledge that Tom "durrrr" Dwan has officially signed with Full Tilt. The online poker room has given the poker star a warm welcome with an ”durrrr” Website featuring a welcome video clip and other details from the career of Tom Dwan.


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

Tom "durrrr" Dwan has been keeping himself quite busy lately with a new Dwan blog, which will actually be written from poker experiences of Dwan himself. Without mentioning the durrrr Challenge which is on its 27,185th poker hand out of the projected 50,000 total poker hands.

Full Tilt's durrrr Poker Challenge is a Huge Success

FullTilt has recently opened a new info site containing all the action of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an amazing online heads up poker tournament featuring some of the finest big money online players competing against the online poker phenom Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The innovative new site gives online poker players and fans the opportunity to stay on top of this incredible online poker challenge and receive timely statistical updates. With this fresh “durrrr Challenge” website players can view all the poker action and review each poker hand played during durrrr Challenge, and get tons of stats, 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 phenom handed out a heads-up poker challenge open to any player with the loot, time and talent to accept it. Any poker player entering the durrrr challenge has to wager $500,000 against Dwan’s $1.5 million. Tom’s challenge states that at least 50,000 hands need to be played simultaneously at four or more poker tables of no-limit Hold’em or pot-limit Omaha. At the end of the challenge, the player who has more money will take home the pool. Basically if you enter the durrrr challenge and win $1 after the 50,000 poker hands, then you will take home durrrr’s $1.5 Million, but if he wins by a dollar then he will take home your $500,000.

So far, several professional poker players have agreed to to play the “durrrr challenge”, including WSOP Champ Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, but, only Patrick Antonius has consented to the poker challenge. At this point, both players have participated in a total of 20,647 hands out of 50,000, with Tom durrrr Dwan leading the count $726,546 total.

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

Poker Blogs, Poker Tweets and WSOP 2009 News from Full Tilt

The biggest poker site Full Tilt Poker is upping the ante on the news from 2009 WSOP with their 2009 WSOP News Page, a new website built to inform customers on everything related to the WSOP 2009, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, updates, poker players’ blogs and more.

FullTiltPoker.com’s new 2009 WSOP Coverage Page is not the run of the mill information site offered by hundreds of other sites. The website is separated into three parts, and includes a daily highlights area in where fans can get access to the 2009 WSOP events info, results, players and more in an articles series written by the FullTiltPoker.com writers Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the same ol’ daily updates and results on each and every poker event, Full Tilt Poker’s WSOP Coverage Page also highlights two poker blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights comments, poker news, inside info from FullTilt.com Pros, opinions from Full Tilt’s viewers and writers and guest posts from other poker bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which highlights posts from members of Team Full Tilt participating in the 2009 WSOP, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

Additionally, FullTiltPoker.com’s new WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter area that supplies immediate updates and comments from several poker players. Poker players involved in the Twitter section include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter area allows players to send short messages permitting people from around the world to listen to them. These updates known as “tweets”, can be transmitted 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!

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 Hotel and Nightclub to Open Soon

Vegas hotel tycoon Steve Wynn unquestionably has something to be eager about this holiday season. With an investment of about $2.3 billion, the spectacular casino-hotel called Encore will open this week.

This deluxe casino and hotel is connected to the tremendously trendy Wynn Vegas on the Las Vegas, Nevada Strip. Whereas many Vegas casino-hotel owners are trying to come across a manner to keep their hotel-casinos afloat, Wynn is doing pretty well with his $billion investments.

This 2000 room hotel and casino is another incredible creation by Wynn. The centerpiece of this hotel and casino will be the nightclub, named XS. Wynn has seen in the last few years that nightclubs are the biggest draw in LV, and not predominantly the casinos as they were years ago. Steve states that Sin City nightclubs for the most part produce more money and are a huge magnet for the young and hip set.

Steve Wynn has also constructed a luxurious eatery connected to the XS nightclub. Named after the well-known Colombian painter, Fernando Botero this circular steakhouse has a massive Botero carving as the main focus point. Although not dramatic as the nightclub which it is connected to; the Botero steakhouse is planned to harmonize pretty well with the flashy LV nightclub.
The design pertaining to XS and Botero is a kind of St. Tropez vibe, where the bash carries on without a break and most of the partying goes down near a swimming pool or ocean area. Times have definitely changed in Sin City, where folks prefer drinking and parties to slot machines right now.

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

Following close to one whole year of no activity, the Mirage Megaresort’s well-known volcano will be brought to life larger and more magnificent than in the past. The famous Las Vegas, Nevada hotel-casino is bringing out their best to interest as many vacationers as they can to explore their renovations.

This New Year’s Eve, the daredevil and stuntman Robbie Knievel will take a stab at a motorbike jump over the Mirage Hotel and Casino’s artificial volcano. This stunt will commemorate the ending of a three-year renovation of the Las Vegas hotel. During this period, the Las Vegas, Nevada hotel has shelled-out more than $110 million enhancing their accommodations and suites.

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

The Vegas Mirage was built in 1989 by Sin City tycoon Steve Wynn and was deemed as Las Vegas’ 1st megaresort. This overhaul is one of a large cluster on the LV Strip recently. This megaresort anticipates that this spectacle will invite a great number of vacationers to the Las Vegas, Nevada casino-hotel. The idea behind the reconstruction is to beat other famous Sin City hotel and casinos like the Bellagio resort.

The Golden Boy versus ”Pac-Man” Pacquiao Bout is Definitely Worth Checking Out

The Sin City event many boxing fans have been waiting forever to see is right around the corner. Oscar De La Hoya will match wits against one of boxing’s current finest fighters, Pacquiao. This competition is scheduled for Sat. December 6th in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in LV.

Surely there has been many rumors in Sin City regarding this contest. De La Hoya has dropped down to 147 lbs. to battle as a welterweight, and people say that De La Hoya could not be as strong since the weight loss. Manny Pacquiao has in the past contended on one occasion as a lightweight and has a desire to continue in the welterweight group. ”Pac-Man” Pacquiao is also the current lightweight category champ , and is regarded by many authorities to be the best fighter of these times.

This is Oscar De La Hoya’s first excursion back to Sin City for a fight ever since he clashed with Floyd Mayweather Jr. last year. This boxing match is certain to be a sell-out for the MGM Vegas. Tourists to Las Vegas have reduced in recent times, but Las Vegas events like this one really have a way of attracting people to Las Vegas.

This fight will surely be one people will be talking about for years to come as it matches the power of the two best fighters of the moment in a twelve round welterweight contest. Oscar “Golden Boy” De La Hoya and ”Pac-Man” Pacquiao tickets are selling out fast. If you see only one Las Vegas event all year, this is definitely the LV Event to enjoy.