Full Tilt Poker will attempt to stamp its name on the Guinness Records and to do so; the site has announced that it will try to set a new record for the Largest Online Poker Tournament. Full Tilt’s Record Breaker tournament was unveiled as the finale to FIVE, a week of events and promotions created exclusively to celebrate the site’s 5^th anniversary. The tournament will take place on July 19th at 15:05ET, players can buy in for this event for only $5 or 1000 Full Tilt Points and compete for a share of a $250,000 guaranteed with $250,000 added prize pool. Players can also get entries to this event by playing the online satellites available on the site and starting for as little as 30 cents or 50 Full Tilt Points.

Team Full Tilt pros and WSOP bracelet winners Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson and Phil Ivey have already confirmed they will take part in the event, offering players the chance to sit down at this historic tournament and play with some of the best high stakes and tournament pros in the world.

“By extending the limits of what is possible in online poker tournaments, Full Tilt Poker will allow players to compete for a big payout without the big buy-in,” said Team Full Tilt member Howard Lederer.

Putting together a poker tournament of this magnitude would be nearly impossible for any brick and mortar casino or poker room. The current record for the largest “live” poker tournament was set at the 2006 WSOP Main Event with 8,772 players. To break the current Guinness Record set by PokeStars.com in December, 2008, Full Tilt Poker will need to attract over 35.000 players. If successful, this tournament will establish Full Tilt Poker as World Record holder and cement its reputation as a world leader in online poker industry.

For more information on Full Tilt’s Record Breaker tournament, please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/the-record-breaker.

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FullTiltPoker.net has recently opened a new info section covering all the facts of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an amazing online heads up tourney presenting some of the best high stakes online players taking on the online poker phenom Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The new site gives poker players and fanatics the opportunity to follow this historical Full Tilt Poker Challenge and receive timely statistical updates. With this new “durrrr Challenge” portal poker players can follow all the details and review each hand played during the challenge, and look at lots of statistics, including how many hands were played, time of session, cash won, average won during each hand and lots more.

Around six months ago, the twenty-three year old internet poker player delivered a heads-up challenge open to any poker player with the money, time and ability to accept it. Any poker pro entering the durrrr challenge has to put up $500,000 against durrrr’s $1.5 million. Tom’s challenge states that a minimum 50,000 poker 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 durrrr challenge, the player who has more cash will earn the pool. In essence if you enter the poker challenge and win a dollar after the 50,000 hands, then you will earn Dwan’s $1.5 Million, but if he succeeds by $1 then he will take your $500,000.

Thus far, several poker players have agreed to to play the “durrrr challenge”, including Full Tilt Poker Star Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, however, only Patrick Antonius has agreed to the poker challenge. At this point, both poker stars have participated in a total of 20,647 hands out of 50,000, with Tom leading the count $726,546 total.

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

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The hugely successful online poker site Full Tilt Poker is taking the coverage to the next level with the World Series of Poker with their 2009 World Series of Poker Coverage Page, a new website built to inform customers on everything related to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, updates, poker celebrities’ blogs and more.

Full Tilt’s new World Series of Poker Coverage Page is not the run of the mill information site provided by tons of other sites. The site is broken down into three parts, and includes a daily highlights piece in where viewers can get access to the World Series of Poker 2009 events info, results, players and more in an articles series written by the Full Tilt staff members Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the run of the mill daily updates and results on every event, FullTilt.com’s 2009 WSOP News Page also features two poker blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights commentary, poker news, insider info from FullTiltPoker.com star players, opinions from FullTilt.com’s fans and writers and guest posts from special guest bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which features posts from members of Team Full Tilt playing in the 2009 WSOP, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

Also, FullTilt.com’s new WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter section that supplies round the clock updates and notes from various poker professionals. Poker players involved in the Twitter area include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter section allows poker 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.

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

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A huge prize pool was announced by Bodog Poker site, with the main Texas hold em tournament awarding $300,000 guaranteed. Total cash for the eight day poker tournament will be more than $650,000, throughout the weeklong poker tournament. The Bodog Poker tournament will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues until Sunday, October 5th. The famous sportsbetting website will also feature six “Bounty” tournaments, where the challengers can win $109 in poker credits for each Team Bodog poker player they eliminate from the poker eliminatories. Some of the most popular names in poker will be taking on all participators in the poker contest.

Team Bodog star, Justin Bonomo, is definitely energized about the Texas Hold em championship. Over the course of his poker playing career, the 23 year old has brought home about $1.4 million. He says that if you considered that the first poker tournament was a good one, you will definitely be stunned with this year’s poker contest and the awards involved. He also challenges anyone that has the courage to eliminate him from the Texas hold em tournament to come forward.

The initial Bounty Tournament will be the first poker game in the championship on Sunday. Any poker player has the ability to buy-In directly into this, and any of the other events with cash. Or another opportunity is to win their way into the Texas Hold em games through the satellites which are presented every night during the poker championship week. Bodoglife is going to hold six bounty eliminatories and seven “Championship Events”, which will feature higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

In the tournament will be thirteen events which will lead up to the main tournament on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the championship with a guaranteed $300,000 in prizes, regardless of the amount of players in the Bodog Open. All the contestants who wish to enter the main Texas Hold em contest Texas Hold em event will have to shell out $500 for the buy-in and in exchange will accept 10,000 in poker chips.

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