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Patrik Antonius Competing in Heads Up Tourney Against durrrr

Filed under: full tilt poker, poker, poker news — admin June 24, 2009 @ 7:06 pm

Full Tilt has just launched an original info section involving all the information of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an incredible online heads up tournament featuring some of the best high stakes online players taking on the online poker phenom Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The new section gives poker players and fans the opportunity to track this amazing durrrr challenge and get frequent statistical updates. With this new “durrrr Challenge” site players can view all the action and review each hand played during durrrr Challenge, and check out lots of stats, including how many hands were played, session time, cash won, average won during each hand and tons more.

Around six months ago, the 23 year old internet poker phenom dealt out a heads-up poker challenge open to any poker player with the cash, time and talent to accept it. Any poker player entering the challenge has to put up $500,000 against Tom’s $1.5 million. Tom’s challenge states that at least 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 poker player who has more money will take home the pool. In essence if you enter the challenge and win a dollar after the 50,000 hands, then you will earn Tom’s $1.5 Million, but if he wins by a dollar then he will take your $500,000.

Up to now, several professional poker players have agreed to to play the “durrrr challenge”, including WSOP Champ Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, yet, only Patrick Antonius has consented to the durrrr challenge. Thus far, both poker players have taken part in a total of 20,647 poker hands out of 50,000, with durrrr up by $726,546 total.

For more info on the Full Tilt Poker durrrr Challenge and durrrr vs. Antonius, please go to http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

WSOP 2009 News Blogs and more from Full Tilt Poker

Filed under: Las Vegas, poker, poker news — admin June 8, 2009 @ 3:12 pm

The most popular poker website FullTilt.com is taking the coverage to the next level with the 2009 WSOP with their WSOP Coverage Page, a new site created to give poker players on everything related to the 2009 WSOP, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, minute to minute 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 many other sites. Full Tilt’s Site is broken down into three areas, and includes a daily highlights piece in where readers can get access to the 2009 WSOP events info, results, players and more in a series of articles written by the FullTiltPoker.com writers Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the same ol’ daily updates and results on all of the poker event, FullTiltPoker.com’s 2009 WSOP News Page also features two blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which features comments, poker news, inside info from FullTilt.com Pros, opinions from FullTiltPoker.com’s readers and authors and guest posts from other poker bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which features commentaries from members of Team Full Tilt participating in the World Series of Poker 2009, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

In addition, Full Tilt’s new WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter area that gives live updates and info from various poker professionals. Included in the Twitter portion include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter section lets players to send short messages permitting people from around the world to listen to them. These messages known as “tweets”, can be transmitted from anywhere through a mobile phone or other portable device.

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