The hugely popular online poker website FullTiltPoker.com, just revealed that once again they will have the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” in the first week of November. This well-known tournament will commence with a $216 Texas Hold em buy-in championship. The Texas Hold em tournament will have a guaranteed $15 million worth of prizes at stake. This tournament has 25 poker events with the main event held on Sunday, November 16th which has a $2.5 million prize pool.

There is an option for any poker player to show their skills in the poker tournament, by winning as many satellite games as possible. Depending on how many satellite games you succeed in, the more FTOPS chips you will receive. If by chance you win more satellite tournaments than the rest of the players, you will gain two more buy-ins for the tournaments. The satellite poker games are are being held right now, and are open for members of Full Tilt Poker.

The Full Tilt Texas Hold Em Tournament began in 2006 when it consisted of 8 events and awarded $1 million in prizes. At the moment, the tournament has become greatly famous, with last years poker event holding 25 FTOPS events and a prize pool of more than $15 million. The tenth edition of the tournament will include a Two-Day Event with buy-ins ranging from $2500 to $5000. The original Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that Texas Hold Em tournament had a winner that was able to take $400,000 home with him. November’s Two-Day event has a definite pool of over $2 million. This Two-Day event will kick-off on November 15th.

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An important facet in poker tournaments is misleading your competitors by persuading them into thinking you have a good poker hand, when in reality it is possible your hand is much worse than theirs. This is what people call “Poker face”, a straight-face for tricking your poker buddies into supposing an idea that may not be true.

Having a good poker hand is most likely going to make you feel nervous, could possibly cause your hands to shake, and your pulse race. These are signs that your competitors may pick up on very quickly, especially if they are good friends of yours. Be careful not to peer over at the pot if you have a good poker hand. This is a tell-tale sign to your competition that you are, in your head, counting how much you will possibly win.

In the condition where you have a dreadful poker hand, try not to dodge your competitors eyes, keep your eyes up, and don’t be indecisive about your bet. In the event that you can prove to yourself that your hand is just as good, or superior than your competitors; you will possibly convince them of this as well. Keep in mind to make this seem as normal as possible. Your use of body language and motions might be saying one idea, while the things you are talking about are making them believe something entirely different.

One more crucial point of poker is to be conscious of the competition’s “poker tells”. A “tell” is a look or appearance that could might give away information about their hand. One critical point to remember is when your competitor appears as if he has a good poker hand; he, most likely, has a very weak hand. On the other side of the coin, if he behaves in a way that seem like he has a poor poker hand, he probably has a pretty decent hand.

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An Incredible grand prize was announced by Bodog, with the main Texas hold em tournament giving away $300,000. Total cash for the eight day poker event will be over $650,000, over the course of the weeklong Texas hold em tournament. The Bodog Texas Hold em tournament will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues through Sunday, October 5th. The famous Texas Hold em tournament website will also feature six “Bounty” tournaments, where the contestants can win $109 in tournament credits for each Team Bodog poker player they knock out of the poker contest. The biggest poker celebs will be challenging all participators in the event.

Team Bodog champ, Justin Bonomo, is undeniably psyched about the Texas Hold em championship. Over the course of his poker playing career, the 23 year old has earned over $1.4 million. He says that if you had the idea that the first poker championship was a good one, you will definitely be amazed with this year’s Texas Hold em Tournament and the awards involved. He also challenges anyone that has the courage to eliminate him from the poker tournament to come forward.

The initial Bounty Tournament is going to be the first poker game in the championship on Sunday. Any poker challenger is able to buy-In right into this, and any of the other poker matches with cash. Or another choice is to win their way into the events through the satellites which are held every night during the poker championship week. Bodog will feature six bounty tournaments and seven “Championship Events”, which have higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

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

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