FullTiltPoker.net has just launched a brand new informative section covering all the action of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an intense online heads up poker tournament involving some of the most talented high stakes online poker players taking on the online poker star Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The innovative new section offers poker players and fans the chance to monitor this incredible internet poker challenge and get regular challenge details. With this innovative “durrrr Challenge” website poker players can track all the poker action and look at each hand played during durrrr Challenge, and look at tons of statistical information, including how many hands were played, session time, cash won, average won during each hand and much more.

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

Up to now, several 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 Full Tilt Poker Challenge. Until now, both players have taken part in a total of 20,647 hands out of 50,000, with Tom Dwan up by $726,546 total.

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

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

Full Tilt’s new World Series of Poker Coverage Page is not the run of the mill news website provided by tons of other sites. The website is divided into three areas, and includes a daily highlights piece in where players can get access to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas events info, results, players and more in a series of articles written by the Full Tilt Poker staff members Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the usual daily updates and results on every event, FullTilt.com’s WSOP Coverage Page also highlights two poker blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which features comments, wsop news, inside info from FullTiltPoker.com Pros, comments from FullTilt.com’s readers and writers and guest posts from other poker bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which features commentaries from members of Team Full Tilt participating in the 2009 WSOP, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

In addition, FullTiltPoker.com’s new WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter section that gives immediate updates and commentary from several poker players. Some of the players that participate in the Twitter area include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter area permits these 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 over through a cellular phone or other handheld.

To see more information on  FullTiltPoker.com’s new World Series of Poker Coverage Page please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/series-coverage.

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.

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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.

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.

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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:

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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.

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Las Vegas magnate Steve Wynn certainly has something to be thrilled about this holiday time. Investing close to $2.3 billion, the dazzling hotel and nightclub dubbed Encore will open this week.

This deluxe casino-hotel is attached to the very fashionable Wynn Vegas on the Sin City Strip. Whereas many Sin City casino-hotel investors are trying to find a direction to keep their hotel-casinos afloat, Wynn is flying high with his billion dollar hotel-casino investments.

The 2000 room hotel and casino has left nothing to the imagination. The big attraction of this hotel-casino will be the nightclub, XS. Steve has taken notice lately that nightclubs are hotspots in Vegas, and not necessarily the casinos like they have been in the past. Steve states that Las Vegas, Nevada nightclubs typically generate more riches and are a big attraction for the young and hip pack.

Wynn has also put up an over-the top steakhouse connected to the XS nightclub. The inspiration for the restaurant is the popular Colombian artist, Fernando Botero this circular steakhouse has a huge Botero figure as the main centerpiece. Not quite impressive as the nightclub which it is adjacent to; the Botero steakhouse is planned to match fairly well with the flamboyant Vegas nightclub.
The idea pertaining to XS and Botero is a sort of St. Tropez ambiance, where the partying goes on nonstop and the main part of the party goes down close to a swimming pool or beach-type setting. Times have definitely changed in Las Vegas, where many people fancy partying to slots right now.

After almost a entire year of no activity, the Mirage Hotel and Casino’s renowned volcano will be resurrected bigger and more extravagant than it has ever been. The legendary LV casino is trying really hard to invite as many sightseers as possible to take a look at their renovations.

This New Year’s Eve, the daredevil and stuntman Robbie Knievel will take a shot at a motorcycle leap over the Mirage Hotel’s artificial volcano. This feat will celebrate the conclusion of a 3-year restoration of the Las Vegas megaresort. Over this period, the Vegas hotel has spent about $110 million enhancing their rooms and suites.

The upcoming New Year’s Eve stunt is said to be Knievel’s last in the United States. The act will last for five mins. and include fireworks and a state of the art music recording. The music for the presentation has been composed 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 famous daredevils.

The Las Vegas Mirage was opened in 1989 by Vegas tycoon Steve Wynn and was regarded as Las Vegas, Nevada’s 1st megaresort. This renovation is one of a handful on the LV Strip recently. This megaresort has hopes that this spectacle will invite a great number of visitors to the Sin City casino. The thought behind the overhaul is to beat other famous Las Vegas hotel and casinos like the Bellagio hotel.

The Las Vegas, Nevada event the majority of boxing followers have been dying to see is right around the corner. Oscar De La Hoya will fight one of the sport’s present finest fighters, Manny Pacquiao. This competition is on schedule for Sat. December 6th in the MGM Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Definitely there has been many rumors in Las Vegas regarding this match. De La Hoya has trimmed his weight down to 147 lbs. to battle as a welterweight, and some agree that The Golden Boy could not be as strong since the drop in weight. Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao has already boxed on one occasion as a lightweight and has a desire to continue in the welterweight division. Manny Pacquiao is also the current lightweight champ , and is thought of by many boxing pros to be the best fighter of these times.

This is Oscar De La Hoya’s first journey back to Vegas for a boxing match ever since he competed against Floyd Mayweather Jr. this past year. This match will definitely be a sold out event for the MGM LV. Sightseers to Vegas have reduced lately, but Vegas events like this competition really have a way of bringing fans to Las Vegas.

This fight will surely be one for the records as it matches up the two finest boxers of the last few decades in a twelve round welterweight bout. Oscar De La Hoya versus Manny Pacquiao tickets are selling quickly. If you were to see only one Las Vegas event all year, this is certainly the LV Event to check out.

Fans of next year’s C.E.S. Las Vegas, Nevada could be in for a pleasant surprise. Regularly, approximately at this time it is just about impossible to discover a vacant LV hotel and casino anywhere close to Las Vegas, Nevada, but the approaching Consumer Electronics Show Vegas is proving to be a whole different ballgame. A large part of the biggest hotel and casinos on the Las Vegas, Nevada Strip have shockingly cut their prices at a maximum of twenty percent.

Just about 100,000 travelers raid LV each year to examine the revolutionary technology exhibited by the Consumer Electronics Association. The Vegas event is on display from Jan. 8th to the 11th with the greater part of the events being presented in the Venetian Hotel and Resort and the Sands Las Vegas. This proves to be a season when hitting upon a suitable room rate becomes almost a ridiculous effort.

The Consumer Electronics Association announced last week that a lot of the Sin City Strip resort hotels have cut their hotel room rates, most of them by quite a large percentage. If you have already made your reservation, you might want to check some of the recent deals on Las Vegas hotels. For example: the Tropicana Las Vegas has cut their nightly rate by around 17%. The majority of the Sin City hotels and resorts operating near the Consumer Electronics Show, have started offering individual C.E.S. prices to the guests of the Las Vegas event.

Some professionals say that this decrease in Sin City resort hotel prices is because of the detail that most of the electronics enterprises have had to decrease the amount of staff they are flying out to the event. This forces the Sin City hotel casinos to slash their room rates to interest more visitors to their hotel and casinos at the time of this convention. While others imply that it has more to do with the current shortage of sightseers to Las Vegas in contrast to years ago.

Sin City is showing many paradoxes these days. For the regular Las Vegas, Nevada tourist, their hard cash is able to last a lot longer than earlier in the year. On the other side of the coin for the Las Vegas, Nevada native, times are somewhat more complex.

The Las Vegas, Nevada sightseers will be quite happy with the cheap prices of Las Vegas, Nevada hotel rooms, even on The Strip. Without bringing up the availability of cheap Las Vegas show tickets, Las Vegas coupons, and even LV food credits. This is positively a great moment to visit Vegas for the budget –minded visitor. Of course the financial state does change some aspects of Vegas for the tourists. For instance, a few performances are obligated to close down or search for new theaters. “Stomp Out Loud” is the most apparent model of this transformation, they are exiting out of their Planet Hollywood resort site in this coming January.

To get an idea of how the nation’s economic state is affecting the Las Vegas, Nevada natives, you need to look no further than the very same Vegas casinos, Las Vegas hotel casinos, and Las Vegas, Nevada eateries that offer these cheap rates and Vegas coupons. In recent months LV has noticed the quantity of sightseers reduce, this in turn negatively affects the run of the mill server, bellboy, or casino dealer. Nearly all of the major Vegas Strip resorts have been obligated to lay off people due to this situation.

If you look at the bright side of this state; the future is very encouraging for Sin City visitors. You unquestionably able to stumble on some extraordinary Las Vegas, Nevada offers, and with the cost of gas descending these are wonderful days to check out Las Vegas.

One may think that a powerful mix of Criss Angel with Cirque du Soleil might be a union created in heaven, or in Criss Angel’s case, hell.

If you had the opportunity to be one of the many enthusiasts who have attended this innovative Las Vegas idea, called Criss Angel BeLIEve featured at the Luxor Hotel, then you may have a different opinion about this newest show. This brand new Las Vegas idea is really Cirque du Soleil’s sixth performance to run on the Sin City Strip.

The show initiates quite identical to Angel’s routine illusion shows, with a tinge of “Cirque”. Then all of a sudden an unsuccessful magic trick takes Angel into a Wizard of Oz-like fantasyland. You will see otherworldly rabbits dashing about around the stage, in conjunction with Angel’s usual magic tricks and illusions connected with Cirque du Soleil’s dramatic attraction. The production climaxes with Angel actually splitting himself in half, most likely the focal point of this idea.

One of the predicaments, that most enthusiasts have encountered with the event, is the point that the illusionist has lots of spoken pieces in the presentation. Criss Angel’s acting talents aren’t really his best ability, and this is not customary in any of Cirque’s other popular Las Vegas, Nevada productions.

The good outweighs the bad, though, in this fusion of Criss Angel with Cirque. Expect many fabulous stunts featured in the performance, and united with Cirque’s outstanding ability, the presentation does have its memorable and magnificent moments. The ticket sales do not lie, as this presentation is looking to be one of largest performances that Cirque du Soleil has had in Vegas.

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

Even if you are on a tight budget, Sin City can be an inexpensive break away from your hectic schedule if you make reservations in advance and do some research. One good tip is to have a clear idea of what you want to do, how long you will stay in Las Vegas, and which hotel you are going to stay at. If you have a clear idea of these topics, then your vacation to Vegas will undeniably be one to remember forever.

As far as flights are concerned, this may be the most difficult part to find the cheapest flight. Many airline companies are cutting back flights, due in part to the financial and fuel situation in the United States. Something to think about is to compare travel packages from several different companies; a good example of these sort of packages could be hotel + flight + car rental for a guaranteed price. Depending on the time of year, you may see that it is less expensive to buy these separately. The cost difference you may find could be considerable.

One idea that you may find beneficial is to sign up for e-mail alerts from the hotels and airlines you are interested in. They will forward you an e-mail when their best deals are available around two months ahead of time. Also make sure that if you have already booked a hotel room, continue to check the rates that they are publishing up till the day of your trip. The prices may change so if you see a rate less expensive than the one you reserved, try to speak with the manager of the hotel about dropping the cost.

Remember that the number of people visiting Vegas is less these days, so the hotels and flights to Vegas are looking to attract your business. Right now is a perfect moment to get online and book a flight and hotel to Las Vegas