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.

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

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Two of the most well-known poker companies around are merging in a TV deal shortly in what is predicted to be an incredibly lucrative project. The hugely popular online poker website Full Tilt Poker has just announced that they will be working with World Poker Tour Enterprises for the following W.P.T. season. FullTiltPoker.net is scheduled the key sponsor of the World World Poker Tour Enterprises’ television season, and the online poker room is scheduled to be presented in each and every one of the episodes which can be enjoyed on FSN. Full Tilt Poker will secure all the control of the instructive parts of the installments.

Facts of this accord have not been revealed so far, but the deal is sure to be a sensation. This accord will combine two tremendously prominent poker businesses. WPT which is a renowned force on television due to Fox Sports Net channel and Full Tilt which has a vast Texas Hold’em set of fans, as well as a Texas Hold’em poker lineup including players who have accumulated a total of ten WPT awards and 35 World Series of Poker bracelets. FullTiltPoker.net also supports many other Texas Hold’em poker players and now the Texas Hold’em website has started providing poker lessons as well.

This pact is guaranteed to gain a new following and should to fill the new recognition which Texas Hold’em poker is causing. This deal suggests World Poker Tour Enterprises’ forfeit of the online poker room business as World Poker Tour will soon end their Texas Hold’em poker webpage W.P.T.E. online. The subscription website ClubWPT.com will more than likely carry on as usual.

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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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