FullTilt has just launched an original info site covering all the action of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an exciting online heads up tourney involving some of the greatest high stakes online poker players challenging the poker sensation Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The innovative new website offers internet poker players and fans the chance to stay on top of this historical online poker challenge and get timely updates. With this new “durrrr Challenge” site players can track all the action and review each poker hand played during the poker challenge, and get tons of statistics, including number of hands played, session time, cash won, average won during each hand and much more.

Close to six months ago, the twenty-three year old internet poker pro delivered a heads-up challenge open to any player with the money, time and capability to accept it. Any poker player entering the durrrr challenge has to bet $500,000 against Dwan’s $1.5 million. Dwan’s challenge specifies that a minimum 50,000 online 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 heads up challenge, the player who has more cash will earn the pool. Essentially if you enter the Full Tilt Challenge and win a dollar after the 50,000 poker hands, then you will win Dwan’s $1.5 Million, but if he wins by a dollar then he will take home your $500,000.

To date, some professional poker players have agreed to to play the “durrrr challenge”, including Full Tilt Poker Star Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, yet, only Patrick Antonius has said yes to the Full Tilt Poker Challenge. Thus far, both poker players have completed in a total of 20,647 hands out of 50,000, with durrrr ahead $726,546 total.

If you would like more information on the “durrrr” Challenge and Tom durrrr Dwan vs. Patrick Antonius, please stop by http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

Leading poker site Full Tilt Poker is taking the coverage to the next level with the 2009 WSOP in Vegas with their WSOP Coverage Page, a new platform dedicated to inform players on everything related to the 2009 WSOP, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, round the clock news, poker stars’ blogs and more.

FullTiltPoker.com’s new WSOP Coverage Page is not the usual news website like most of the other sites. The website is separated into three areas, and includes a daily highlights area in where readers can get access to the World Series of Poker 2009 events info, results, players and more in a series of articles written by the Full Tilt Poker staff members Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Aside from the typical daily updates and results on each and every poker event, Full Tilt Poker’s 2009 World Series of Poker Coverage Page also features two in house blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which features commentary, covering news, insider info from FullTilt.com star players, opinions from FullTilt.com’s players and authors and guest posts from other poker bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which highlights 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, FullTilt.com’s new World Series of Poker Coverage Page has a Twitter section that provides round the clock updates and comments from different poker pros. Poker players involved in the Twitter section 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 forwarded from all around the world through a mobile phone or other handheld.

To view more info on Full Tilt’s new WSOP Coverage Page please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/series-coverage.

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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.

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Vegas billionaire Steve Wynn without a doubt has something new to be anxious about this Christmas time. With an estimated investment of around $2.3 billion, the brand-new hotel and nightclub called Encore will inaugurate in the next few days.

This deluxe casino and hotel is connected to the tremendously fashionable Wynn Las Vegas on the Vegas Strip. As many Las Vegas, Nevada hotel and casino investors are trying to find a direction to keep their hotels open, Wynn is flying high with his $billion Vegas properties.

This 2000 room hotel-casino is an incredible creation. The centerpiece of this hotel and casino will be the nightclub, XS. Steve has taken notice lately that nightclubs are a huge attraction in Sin City, and not primarily the hotels as they used to be. He thinks that Vegas nightclubs frequently make more riches and are a huge hotspot for the young and hip set.

He has also built a posh steakhouse adjacent to the XS nightclub. The idea behind the popular Colombian painter, Fernando Botero this circular steakhouse has a huge Botero carving as the focal point. Eventhough it is not as fantastic as the nightclub which it is connected to; the Botero steakhouse is thought to complement rather well with the flashy LV nightclub.
The thought behind XS and Botero is a sort of St. Tropez atmosphere, where the bash chugs along nonstop and most of the party occurs next to a pool or beach setting. Times have definitely changed in LV, where folks favor partying to gambling these days.

Following around a year of sleeping, the Mirage Hotel-Casino’s famous volcano will be reborn bigger and more impressive than in the past. The popular Las Vegas, Nevada hotel-casino is pulling out all the stops to attract as many vacationers as possible to explore their reconstruction.

This New Year’s Eve, the stuntman Robbie Knievel will try a motorcycle jump over the Mirage Hotel and Casino’s synthetic volcano. This feat will indicate the finale of a 3-year redecoration of the Vegas casino and hotel. Over this period, the LV casino has spent around $110 million upgrading their accommodations and suites.

This New Year’s Eve stunt is supposedely Knievel’s last act in the U.S.. The act will go on for five minutes and include fireworks and a high-tech soundtrack. The music for the stunt has been performed by Mickey Hart (former Grateful Dead drummer). Robbie Knievel is the son of the late Evil Knievel-one of the world’s first and most renowned daredevils.

The Las Vegas Mirage was developed in 1989 by Vegas mogul Steve Wynn and was regarded as Las Vegas’ 1st megaresort. This upgrade is one of a set of hotels on the Vegas Strip as of late. The hotel and casino hopes that this spectacle will attract tons of sightseers to the Vegas casino-hotel. The inspiration behind the upgrade is to compete with other popular Sin City hotspots like the Bellagio resort.

The Sin City event many boxing aficionados have been itching to see is coming very soon. The Golden Boy will match wits against one of the world’s current best boxers, Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao. This match is on schedule for the 6th of December in the MGM Grand in LV.

Surely there have been many conversations held in Las Vegas regarding this bout. Oscar De La Hoya has reduced his weight down to 147 lbs. to battle as a welterweight, and some agree that Oscar De La Hoya may not be as physically powerful since the weight loss. Manny has in the past boxed once as a lightweight and has a desire to continue in the welterweight category. Manny is also the current lightweight champion , and is judged by many boxing experts to be one of the best boxers of the moment.

This is De La Hoya’s first visit back to Las Vegas, Nevada for a match since he fought Floyd Mayweather Jr. this past year. This match will definitely be a sell-out for the MGM Las Vegas. Visitors to Sin City have decreased in the past few months, but Sin City events like this one seem to have a way of attracting people to Las Vegas.

This match will definitely be one for the records as it matches the power of the two greatest boxers of our time in a twelve round welterweight contest. The Golden Boy and Manny tickets are available to buy. If you were to see only one Vegas event this year, this is definitely the Las Vegas Event to choose.

Enthusiasts of next year’s Consumer Electronics Show Vegas might be in for a great change in their plans. Regularly, about this time it is close to impossible to find a vacant LV hotel anywhere near Las Vegas, Nevada, but the approaching Consumer Electronics Show Sin City is turning out to be an exception to the rule. A good number of the most popular resort hotels on the LV Strip have astoundingly slashed their rates as much as 20%.

Around 100,000 travelers overtake Las Vegas, Nevada every year to inspect the innovative technology exhibited by the Consumer Electronics Association. The Las Vegas event is on display from January 8th to the 11th with the majority of the events taking place in the Venetian Hotel and Resort and the Sands Expo and Convention Center. This proves to be a time when locating a suitable hotel room price turns out to be virtually an impossible undertaking.

The Consumer Electronics Association publicized a few days ago that a lot of the Vegas Strip resort hotels have slashed their hotel room rates, the majority of them by a pretty large percentage. If you already booked your hotel room, you probably want to see if there are any better deals on Sin City rooms. To give you an example: the Tropicana Las Vegas has lowered their room rate by close to seventeen percent. Most of the Las Vegas hotel casinos that are open next to the C.E.S., have started offering exceptional Consumer Electronics Show prices to the guests of the Vegas event.

Most experts say that this drop in Las Vegas hotel room rates is because of the fact that a lot of the electronics companies have had to reduce the quantity of workers they are dispatching to the event. This obliges the Las Vegas, Nevada hotel resorts to reduce their room rates to draw more tourists to their hotel and casinos at the time of this convention. While others imply that it is because of the existing scarcity of sightseers to LV compared to the past few years.

Vegas has many conflicts in recent times. For the normal Las Vegas sightseer, their hard cash will last lots longer than earlier in the year. On the other side of the coin for the Las Vegas, Nevada local, times are a little more difficult.

The Vegas sightseers will be incredibly delighted with the bargain prices of Las Vegas hotel rooms, even on the Sin City Strip. Not to mention the large amount of inexpensive Vegas show tickets, Las Vegas coupons, and even Vegas food credits. Right now is definitely a prime time to holiday in Las Vegas for the budget traveler. Of course the financial condition does affect some aspects of Las Vegas, Nevada for the visitors. As, a few shows are obligated to close down or search for new theaters. “Stomp Out Loud” being the most noticeable case of this change, they are exiting out of the Planet Hollywood resort setting in January of next year.

Now to get a picture of how the U.S.’s economic state is affecting the Las Vegas, Nevada natives, you can take a look at the very same Las Vegas casinos, Las Vegas, Nevada hotel casinos, and Las Vegas eateries that present these bargain costs and Sin City coupons. For the past months Vegas has become aware of the amount of travelers go down, which in turn affects the typical maid, bellboy, or casino worker. Most of the major Vegas Strip hotel resorts have been obligated to lay off staff because to this situation.

One thing is sure of this condition; the prospect is very positive for Las Vegas sightseers. You unquestionably able to obtain some incredible Las Vegas sales, and with the cost of gas decreasing these are some excellent days to visit Vegas.

People might feel that a dramatic mixture of Criss Angel and Cirque du Soleil would be a match made in heaven, or in in the case of Angel, hell.

If you had the chance to be any one of the numerous supporters who have gone to this brand new Sin City idea, titled Criss Angel BeLIEve at the Luxor Hotel and Casino, then you might possibly have a unique viewpoint about this newest performance. This innovative Las Vegas performance is actually Cirque du Soleil’s sixth show to present on the LV Strip.

The performance starts out somewhat identical to Angel’s habitual magic events, with a tinge of “Cirque”. Then all of a sudden a failed illusion feat carries Criss to a Wizard of Oz-like dreamland. There are dreamlike rabbits hurrying all-around the theater, together with Criss’ everyday tricks and illusions combined with Cirque’s remarkable fascination. The performance culminates with the illusionist in effect splitting himself in half, most likely the best part of this event.

One of the predicaments, that the majority of fans have encountered with the performance, is the point that Angel has lots of spoken parts in the production. Criss Angel’s acting abilities aren’t really his strong suit, and this is not routine in any of Cirque’s other well-liked Las Vegas shows.

There are more positive factors than negative, though, in this blend of Criss and Cirque du Soleil. There are lots of impressive stunts displayed in the event, and united with Cirque’s genius, the presentation does have its outstanding and magnificent moments. The sales of tickets do not lie, as this production is looking to be one of leading shows that Cirque du Soleil has had in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Cirque du Soleil which was started in Montreal, Canada combines this brand new brainchild to their schedule of Vegas productions. Cirque’s other performances consist of: “O” in the Bellagio Hotel and Casino Vegas, Zumanity in the Zumanity Theater at the New York-New York hotel, LOVE at The Mirage Casino, Ka at the Ka Theater at the MGM Grand Casino, and Mystere in the Treasure Island Casino Hotel.

Even if you are not the biggest fan of Sin City casinos, neon lights, and all night parties, Las Vegas, Nevada can be an inexpensive break away from your hectic schedule if you plan ahead and do some research. It is definitely important to have a clear picture of what you want to see, how long you want to stay, and where you want to stay. If you have a clear idea of these topics, then your getaway to Las Vegas, Nevada will unquestionably be one to remember.

When it comes to purchasing a flight, this may be the most difficult part to acquire the best deal possible. Most of the major airlines have reduced their daily flights, due in part to the financial and fuel condition in the U.S.. Some good advice to consider is to compare travel packages from some different companies; a good example of these types of packages could be hotel + flight + car rental for a specific price. You may find in some cases that it is cheaper to purchase these separately. The cost difference you may find could be considerable.

One idea that you may find beneficial is to register for e-mail notifications from the Las Vegas, Nevada hotels and airlines you are interested in. They will send you an e-mail when their best Vegas hotel deals are available around two months beforehand. Also make sure that if you have already reserved a Sin City hotel room, continue to check the prices that they offer all the way until the date of your trip. The rates could change so if you see a price cheaper than the one you booked for, go ahead and talk to the hotel about changing the cost of your room.

Try to keep in mind that there are fewer visitors to Vegas nowadays, Sin City hotels and casinos are looking to attract clients. This might be the best opportunity to take a weekend trip to Vegas.