FullTilt has recently introduced an original informative section containing all the action of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an intense online heads up tournament involving some of the most talented big money online poker players taking on the Heads Up Specialist Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The brand new section gives internet poker players and fans the chance to follow this amazing durrrr challenge and check out frequent updates. With this new “durrrr Challenge” portal players can view all the action and check out each poker hand played during the challenge, and check out lots of statistical information, including how many hands were played, session time, amount won, average won during each hand and much more.

Close to six months ago, the twenty-three year old internet poker professional handed out a heads-up challenge for any poker player with the money, time and talent to accept it. Any player entering the poker challenge has to bet $500,000 against durrrr’s $1.5 million. Tom’s challenge states that at least 50,000 online poker 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 heads up challenge, the poker player who has more cash will secure the pool. Essentially if you enter the poker challenge and win $1 after the 50,000 hands, then you will win Dwan’s $1.5 Million, but if he succeeds by $1 then he will take home your $500,000.

Up to now, several poker players have accepted to play the “durrrr challenge”, including WSOP Champ Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, though, only Patrick Antonius has accepted the poker challenge. At this point, both poker players have taken part in a total of 20,647 hands out of 50,000, with Tom Dwan ahead $726,546 total.

For more information on the “durrrr” Challenge and Tom durrrr Dwan vs. Patrick Antonius, please check out http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

The most popular online poker website FullTilt.com 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 dedicated to provide players on everything related to the 2009 WSOP, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, round the clock news, players’ blogs and more.

FullTilt.com’s new WSOP Coverage Page is not the usual information site offered by tons of other sites. Full Tilt’s Site is broken down into three parts, and includes a daily highlights area in where viewers can get access to the 2009 WSOP events info, results, players and more in an articles series 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’s 2009 World Series of Poker Coverage Page also highlights two poker player blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which features comments, poker news, inside info from FullTilt.com Professionals, comments from Full Tilt Poker’s viewers and authors and guest posts from special guest bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which highlights commentaries from members of Team Full Tilt participating in the WSOP 2009, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

In addition, FullTilt.com’s new WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter section that supplies round the clock updates and comments from several poker pros. Included in the Twitter section include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter feed permits these players to send short messages letting the world know whats going on. These comments known as “tweets”, can be transmitted from all over through a mobile phone or other portable device.

If you would like more info on  FullTilt.com’s new WSOP Coverage Page please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/series-coverage.

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.

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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

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* 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

Sin City hotel tycoon Steve Wynn certainly has something to be anxious about this Christmas time. With an investment of about $2.3 billion, the spectacular hotel and casino dubbed Encore will kick-off this week.

This lavish hotel-casino is attached to the extremely popular Wynn Las Vegas on the LV Strip. While many Sin City casino-hotel investors are trying to discover a manner to keep their hotel-casinos afloat, Wynn is doing quite well with his $billion hotel-casinos.

This 2000 room hotel and casino has left nothing to the imagination. The big attraction of this casino-hotel will be the nightclub, named XS. Wynn has taken notice in the recent past that nightclubs are a huge attraction in Vegas, and not primarily the hotels like they were years ago. He thinks that Las Vegas nightclubs typically produce more hard cash and are a massive hotspot for the younger group.

Steve Wynn has also built a lush eatery connected to the XS nightclub. The idea behind the well-known Colombian painter, Fernando Botero this circular restaurant has a massive Botero carving as the focal point. Although not dramatic as the nightclub which it is connected to; the Botero steakhouse is designed to complement quite well with the loud LV nightclub.
The design pertaining to XS and Botero is a sort of St. Tropez atmosphere, where the celebration goes on 24 hours a day and a big part of the party scene happens near a pool or ocean area. Times are changing drastically in Vegas, where many people favor parties to casinos these days.

After almost a entire year of no activity, the Mirage Megaresort’s renowned volcano will be reborn bigger and more amazing than ever before. The well-known LV hotel is doing their best to draw as many tourists as feasible to take a look at their transformation.

This New Year’s Eve, the daredevil Robbie Knievel will have a crack at a motorcycle jump over the Mirage Hotel and Casino’s artificial volcano. This jump will celebrate the conclusion of a 3-year overhaul of the Sin City hotel-casino. Throughout this period, the LV casino-hotel has invested over $110 million renovating their rooms and suites.

The upcoming New Year’s Eve act is supposedely Knievel’s last in the United States. The feat will continue for 5 minutes and have fireworks and a state of the art soundtrack. The music for the stunt has been composed by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. Robbie Knievel is the son of the deceased Evil Knievel-the first and most renowned daredevils.

The Las Vegas Mirage was built in 1989 by Vegas industrialist Steve Wynn and was considered Las Vegas’ first megaresort. This overhaul is one of a huge number on the LV Strip lately. This hotel hopes that this presentation will attract a great amount of sightseers to the LV hotel and casino. The idea behind the reconstruction is to compete with other popular LV megaresorts like the Bellagio hotel-casino.

The LV event most boxing aficionados have been dying to see is finally taking place this week. The Golden Boy will battle one of the world’s present finest fighters, Pacquiao. This boxing match is on schedule for Saturday, December 6th in the MGM in Sin City.

Definitely there has been many rumors in Sin City about this boxing match. The Golden Boy has dropped down to 147 lbs. to contend as a welterweight, and people say that De La Hoya might not be as strong since the weight drop. Manny Pacquiao has previously boxed one time as a lightweight and has a desire to continue in the welterweight class. Manny Pacquiao is also the current champ in the lightweight division , and is regarded by many experts to be the best boxer at the moment.

This is Oscar’s first trip back to Las Vegas for a boxing match ever since he clashed with Floyd Mayweather Jr. in May of 2007. This fight is without a doubt a sell-out for the MGM Grand Garden Arena Vegas. Tourists to Sin City have dwindled recently, but Las Vegas events like this competition seem to have a way of attracting folks to Vegas.

This fight will definitely be one to remember as it matches up the two top fighters of our time in a 12 round welterweight bout. Oscar “Golden Boy” De La Hoya and ”Pac-Man” Pacquiao tickets are being sold right now. If you see only one Las Vegas event in 2008, this is unquestionably the Las Vegas, Nevada event to attend.

Fans of next January’s C.E.S. Vegas might be in for a pleasant change in their plans. Typically, approximately at this time of the year it is close to impossible to come across a vacant LV hotel casino anywhere close to Las Vegas, but the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show LV is turning out to be an exception to the rule. A large part of the biggest hotel resorts on the Sin City Strip have astonishingly cut their prices ,some as much as 20%.

Around 100,000 travelers overtake Sin City each and every year to explore the advanced gadgets presented by the Consumer Electronics Association. The Vegas event is presented from Jan. 8-11 with the greater part of the events taking place in the Venetian Resort and the Sands Expo and Convention Center. This ends up being a time period when discovering a suitable room rate turns out to be virtually an impossible effort.

The Consumer Electronics Association declared some time back that a bunch of the Las Vegas, Nevada Strip resort hotels have slashed their room rates, a great number of them by quite a large percentage. If you already have your reservation ready, you probably want to see if there are any better deals on Sin City hotels. A good example of this is: the Tropicana hotel casino has cut their nightly room rate by about 17%. The majority of the Vegas hotel and casinos that operate near the Consumer Electronics Show, have started granting unique Consumer Electronics Show prices to the visitors of the Las Vegas event.

Many professionals state that this reduction in Las Vegas, Nevada hotel room rates is due to the detail that the majority of the electronics enterprises have had to decrease the amount of people they are dispatching to the show. This makes the Sin City hotels to slash their room rates to invite more vacationers to their hotel casinos at the time of this show. Others advise that it has more to do with the recent scarcity of vacationers to Sin City in contrast to previous years.

LV contains many paradoxes of late. For the standard Las Vegas traveler, their hard cash will last lots longer than before. As for the Las Vegas, Nevada native, these days are somewhat more difficult.

The Sin City vacationers will be exceptionally delighted with the cheap prices of Las Vegas, Nevada hotel rooms, even on the Vegas Strip. Needless to say the number of cheap Las Vegas, Nevada show tickets, Vegas coupons, and even Vegas food credits. Right now is surely a prime time to holiday in Vegas for the budget –minded traveler. Needless to say the financial crisis does disturb some areas of Sin City for the visitors. For instance, some shows are required to close or hunt for new theaters. “Stomp Out Loud” being the most clear case of this variation, they are moving out of the Planet Hollywood resort and casino spot in this coming January.

To show an example of how the U.S.’s financial condition is having an affect on the Vegas natives, you can take a look at the same Vegas casinos, LV hotels, and Vegas restaurants that present these reduced costs and Sin City coupons. In the last few months Vegas has observed the total number of sightseers reduce, which in turn negatively affects the typical attendant, bellboy, or casino dealer. Nearly all of the key Vegas Strip resorts and hotels have been obligated to lay off personnel because to this condition.

If there is something good of this time; the future is very positive for LV tourists. You are certain to get some mind-blowing Sin City coupons, and with the price of gas plummeting these are wonderful months to travel to LV.

One might assume that a powerful union of Criss Angel along with Cirque du Soleil would be a merger created in heaven, or in the case of Criss Angel, hell.

If you are any one of the countless supporters who have gone to this innovative LV event, called Criss Angel BeLIEve featured at the Luxor Hotel Casino, then you might have a unique opinion about this innovative idea. This new Las Vegas, Nevada show is in fact Cirque du Soleil’s sixth performance to exhibit on the Las Vegas, Nevada Strip.

The production commences very similar to Criss Angel’s everyday magic productions, with a hint of “Cirque”. Then all of a sudden an unsuccessful magic stunt takes Criss into a Wizard of Oz-like fantasyworld. You will see dreamlike rabbits scampering around the theater, as well as Angel’s everyday tricks and illusions combined with Cirque du Soleil’s powerful allure. The event culminates with Criss Angel basically shredding himself in half, most likely the focal point of this show.

One of the problems, that the majority of showgoers have encountered with the performance, is the point that the illusionist has frequent speaking pieces in the presentation. Criss Angel’s drama skills aren’t in fact his best ability, and this is not routine in any of Cirque du Soleil’s other well-liked Sin City shows.

There are more positive factors than negative, though, in this union of Criss with Cirque. You will see many amazing illusions displayed in the presentation, and combined with Cirque du Soleil’s brilliance, it does have its brilliant and magnificent moments. The sales of tickets do not lie, as this performance is looking to be one of biggest performances that Cirque du Soleil has had in Las Vegas.

Cirque du Soleil which was produced in Montreal, Canada includes this latest proposal to their schedule of Sin City presentations. Their other events include: “O” in the Bellagio Hotel Casino Las Vegas, Zumanity at the Zumanity Theater inside the New York-New York hotel casino, LOVE at The Mirage Hotel and Casino, Ka at the Ka Theater inside the MGM Grand Casino Hotel, and Mystere at the Treasure Island Casino.

Considering the rising cost of airline flights, Vegas can be a cheap vacation if you plan ahead and do some research. One thing to remember is to have a clear idea of what you want to visit, how long you will stay in Vegas, and which hotel you are going to stay at. If you have a clear idea of these questions, then your getaway to Las Vegas will unquestionably be one to remember.

As far as Las Vegas flights are concerned, this may take up most of your time to find the best price. Many airlines have been cutting down their flights recently, due in part to the financial and fuel issue in the United States. You might consider comparing 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 less expensive to purchase these separately. The cost difference you may find could be big.

One tip that you may find beneficial is to sign up for e-mail alerts from the Vegas hotels and airlines you are interested in. You will receive an e-mail when their best deals are available around two months ahead of time. Also make sure that if you have already reserved a Vegas hotel room, continue to check the prices that they are offering until the day of your hotel stay. The rates could drop so if you see a rate less expensive than the one you booked for, talk to the hotel about giving a discount.

Remember that there are fewer visitors to Vegas nowadays, so the hotels and flights to Vegas are looking to attract your business. Today is the day to get online and book a flight and hotel to Las Vegas.