durrrr Antonius Matchup Running Along Smoothly at Full Tilt

Full Tilt has just launched a brand new info site comprising all the action of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an incredible online heads up challenge presenting some of the greatest big money poker players taking on the poker sensation Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The new website gives online poker players and fanatics the chance to monitor this historical online poker challenge and get timely statistical updates. With this innovative “durrrr Challenge” site players can follow all the poker action and review each poker hand played during the poker challenge, and get tons of statistical information, including how many hands were played, time of session, cash won, average won during each hand and much more.

Around six months ago, the 23 year old online poker player handed out a heads-up challenge open to any player with the cash, time and talent to accept it. Any poker star entering the challenge has to put up $500,000 against durrrr’s $1.5 million. Tom’s challenge specifies that a minimum 50,000 online poker hands need to be played simultaneously at 4 or more poker tables of no-limit Hold’em or pot-limit Omaha. At the end of the challenge, the poker player who has more money will earn the pool. In essence if you enter the Full Tilt Challenge and win a dollar after the 50,000 poker hands, then you will win Tom’s $1.5 Million, but if he triumphs by a dollar then he will take your $500,000.

So far, several poker pros have agreed to to play the “durrrr challenge”, including WSOP Champ Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, however, only Patrick Antonius has accepted the Full Tilt Poker Challenge. Until now, both poker pros have taken part in a total of 20,647 poker hands out of 50,000, with Tom Dwan leading the count $726,546 total.

If you would like to see more details on the Full Tilt Poker durrrr Challenge and Tom durrrr Dwan vs. Patrick Antonius, please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

Full Tilt has 2009 WSOP Covered with New Page

The hugely successful online poker website Full Tilt Poker is taking the coverage to the next level with the 2009 WSOP with their 2009 WSOP News Page, a new website built to provide customers on everything related to the World Series of Poker 2009, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, round the clock news, poker stars’ blogs and more.

FullTiltPoker.com’s new World Series of Poker Coverage Page is not the typical news website like tons of other sites. The website is divided into three areas, and includes a daily highlights piece in where readers 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. Besides the typical daily updates and results on each and every event, Full Tilt Poker’s 2009 World Series of Poker Coverage Page also highlights two blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights commentary, poker news, inside info from Full Tilt Poker Pros, opinions from Full Tilt’s viewers and writers and guest posts from guest bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which features commentaries from members of Team Full Tilt playing in the WSOP 2009, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

In addition, Full Tilt Poker’s new 2009 WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter area that gives round the clock updates and comments from several poker players. Some of the players that participate in the Twitter portion include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter section allows poker players to send short messages allowing people from around the world to stay informed. These comments known as “tweets”, can be forwarded from anywhere through a mobile phone or other handheld.

If you would like more info on FullTiltPoker.com’s new World Series of Poker Coverage Page please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/series-coverage.

2ND CHANCE TO WIN 1 OF 6 2009 WSOP SEATS!

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

New Encore Las Vegas, Nevada Hotel and Casino to Unveil

Vegas industrialist Steve Wynn certainly has a reason to be thrilled about this holiday time. With an estimated investment of nearly $2.3 billion, the spectacular hotel-casino called Encore will be open to the public this month.

This lavish casino and hotel is attached to the extremely popular Wynn Vegas on the LV Strip. As tons of Las Vegas, Nevada casino and hotel proprietors are doing their best to find a manner to keep their hotel-casinos afloat, Wynn is doing quite well with his billion dollar hotel-casinos.

The 2,000 room hotel-casino is an incredible creation. The main focus of this hotel-casino will be the nightclub, XS. Wynn has noticed in the recent past that nightclubs are hotspots in Las Vegas, Nevada, and not necessarily the hotels like they used to be. He states that Las Vegas nightclubs frequently generate more money and are a big magnet for the young pack.

Steve Wynn has also built a lavish restaurant near the XS nightclub. Inspired by the well-known Colombian painter, Fernando Botero this restaurant in the form of a circle has a gigantic Botero figure as the focal point. Not quite stunning as the nightclub which it is connected to; the Botero steakhouse is designed to harmonize pretty well with the loud Sin City nightclub.
The idea behind XS and Botero is a sort of St. Tropez atmosphere, where the party chugs along without a break and the main part of the party takes place near a swimming pool or beach. Times are a changin’ in Sin City, where many people would rather drinking and parties to gambling and casinos nowadays.

Robbie Knievel to Soar Over Mirage Casino and Hotel’s Renovated Volcano

With almost one full year of no activity, the Mirage Casino and Hotel’s famous volcano will be revived better and more spectacular than it has ever been. The legendary Sin City casino-hotel is bringing out their best to attract as many tourists as they can to check out their reconstruction.

This New Year’s Eve, the daredevil and stuntman Robbie Knievel will take a stab at a motorbike leap over the Mirage Casino and Hotel’s synthetic volcano. This act will commemorate the conclusion of a three-year renovation of the Sin City casino. During this period, the Vegas megaresort has put in about $110 million improving their accommodations and suites.

The upcoming New Year’s Eve feat is said to be Knievel’s final stunt in the United States. The stunt will last for 5 mins. and present pyrotechnics and a state of the art soundtrack. The music for the stunt has been written by Mickey Hart (former Grateful Dead drummer). Robbie Knievel is the son of the late Evil Knievel-the first and most renowned daredevils.

The Las Vegas Mirage was constructed in 1989 by LV mogul Steve Wynn and was regarded as Vegas’ first megaresort. This reconstruction is one of a large cluster on the Las Vegas Strip in the past year. This megaresort has hopes that this presentation will attract a big number of visitors to the Las Vegas casino-hotel. The scheme behind the renovation is to do better than other well-known Vegas hotel-casinos like the Bellagio hotel and casino.

The Golden Boy v. Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao Guaranteed to be the Fight of the Year

The LV event many boxing fanatics have been waiting patiently to see is finally taking place this week. De La Hoya will face one of the sport’s existing top fighters, Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao. This match is scheduled for Saturday, December 6th in the MGM Garden Arena in LV.

Undoubtedly there has been many words spoken in Las Vegas regarding this competition. The Golden Boy has cut his weight down to 147 lbs. to fight as a welterweight, and people say that De La Hoya might not be as stout since the weight reduction. ”Pac-Man” Pacquiao has already contended one time as a lightweight and is now heading up to the welterweight division. Pacquiao is also the current lightweight title-holder , and is regarded by many boxing experts to be the best boxer at the moment.

This is The Golden Boy’s first visit back to Las Vegas for a fight since he competed with Floyd Mayweather Jr. in May of last year. This fight will definitely be a sold out event for the MGM Grand Vegas. Sightseers to Las Vegas, Nevada have decreased in the past few months, but LV events like this match really have a way of attracting people to Las Vegas.

This match will undoubtedly be one for the records as it consists of the two finest fighters of the last few decades in a 12 round welterweight match. The Golden Boy v. ”Pac-Man” Pacquiao tickets are being sold right now. If you attend only one Sin City event this year, this is unquestionably the event to choose.

C.E.S. Las Vegas Fans Astonished by Fantastic Hotel Room Prices

Aficionados of next year’s C.E.S. Vegas may be in for a great change in their plans. As a rule, near this time of the year it is almost unheard of to locate a vacant Vegas hotel room anywhere in Sin City, but the upcoming C.E.S. Las Vegas, Nevada is turning out to be an exception to the rule. A large part of the best hotel resorts on the Sin City Strip have surprisingly lowered their hotel rates ,some as much as twenty percent.

Around 100,000 travelers occupy Vegas each and every year to explore the cutting-edge gadgets displayed by the Consumer Electronics Association. The Vegas event is held from January 8th to the 11th with the big part of the events on display in the Venetian Hotel Resort and the Sands Expo and Convention Center. This ends up being a time period when hitting upon a good hotel price turns out to be practically a hopeless task.

The Consumer Electronics Association revealed last week that a lot of the Vegas Strip hotels have cut their hotel room rates, the majority of them by a pretty big amount. If you have already booked your room, it might be a good idea to recheck prices on Las Vegas rooms. To give you an example: the Tropicana hotel casino has slashed their nightly rate by close to seventeen percent. The biggest of the Las Vegas resort hotels that operate near the C.E.S., have started offering special Consumer Electronics Show prices to the fans of the Sin City event.

Several analysts say that this decrease in Vegas hotel resort rates is due to the fact that a lot of the electronics corporations have had to lower the number of the workforce they are dispatching to the event. This forces the Vegas hotel resorts to cut their room rates to attract more tourists to their hotels during this show. Other experts indicate that it is caused by the recent lack of visitors to LV in comparison to previous years.

Two points of view of LV

Vegas is full of inconsistencies these days. For the regular Las Vegas, Nevada vacationer, their money will last a lot longer than in previous years. On the other side of the coin for the Sin City native, these days are somewhat more complicated.

The Vegas sightseers will be extremely pleased with the reduced prices of Vegas hotel rooms, even on The Strip. Without bringing up the large amount of budget Sin City show tickets, LV coupons, and even LV food credits. This is surely a prime moment to stay in Sin City for the budget –minded sightseer. Of course the economic state does have an affect on some aspects of Vegas for the visitors. For instance, various performances are required to close or search for other theaters. “Stomp Out Loud” being the most obvious model of this variation, they are stepping out of the Planet Hollywood resort and casino theater in January of next year.

To show an example of how the country’s economic condition is having an affect on the Las Vegas, Nevada natives, you can take a look at the very same Las Vegas casinos, Las Vegas hotel casinos, and Las Vegas eateries that are offering these cheap prices and Las Vegas coupons. In recent months LV has noticed the total number of tourists go down, which in turn affects the average maid, bellboy, or casino dealer. Nearly all of the foremost Las Vegas Strip hotels have been forced to lay off employees because to this situation.

If there is something good of this time; the outlook is very optimistic for Sin City tourists. You will be able to locate some hard to believe Las Vegas, Nevada sales, and with the price of gasoline on the decline these are some excellent days to visit LV.

"BeLIEve" premiers in the Luxor Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada

People might think that a powerful blend of Criss Angel along with Cirque du Soleil might be a merger created in heaven, or in the case of Criss Angel, hell.

If you had the opportunity to be any one of the loads of supporters who have enjoyed this brand new Las Vegas event, called Criss Angel BeLIEve featured at the Luxor Hotel Casino, then you might possibly have a distinct viewpoint about this new production. This new Las Vegas, Nevada idea is really Cirque du Soleil’s sixth performance to display on the Sin City Strip.

The presentation initiates somewhat similar to Criss Angel’s standard magic events, with a hint of “Cirque”. Then suddenly a failed magic trick carries Criss Angel to a Wizard of Oz-like fantasyworld. There are weird rabbits running around the theater, combined with Criss’ everyday tricks and illusions combined with Cirque’s powerful charm. The show climaxes with Criss Angel basically shredding himself in half, probably the high point of this presentation.

One of the difficulties, that a good number of supporters have come upon with the event, is the fact that the magician has frequent speaking roles in the show. Criss’ acting abilities aren’t actually his best ability, and this is not habitual in any of Cirque’s other well-liked Las Vegas, Nevada shows.

There is hope, though, in this union of Criss with Cirque du Soleil. You will see many amazing illusions featured in the event, and integrated with Cirque’s talent, the production does have its unforgettable and breathtaking moments. The number of ticket sales do not lie, as this performance is turning out to be one of best selling performances that Cirque du Soleil has had in Las Vegas.

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

Some tips to find the top Vegas hotel and flight deals

Even if you are not the biggest fan of Sin City casinos, neon lights, and all night parties, Sin City can be a cheap getaway if you plan ahead and do some searching. It is definitely important to have a clear picture of what you want to visit, how long you will stay in Las Vegas, Nevada, and where you will be spending the night. If you have a clear picture of these concerns, then your trip to Sin City will certainly be one to remember forever.

When it comes time to make flight reservations, this may be the most difficult part to acquire the best deal possible. Many airlines have been cutting down their flights recently, due in part to the financial and gasoline condition in the U.S.. It may be a good idea to compare travel packages from some different companies; a good example of these types of packages may be hotel + flight + car rental for a set price. Sometimes you may find that it is less expensive to buy these separately. The cost difference you may find could be major.

One idea that you may find helpful is to sign up for e-mail alerts from the Sin City hotels and airlines you are interested in. You will receive an e-mail when their best Las Vegas hotel deals are available somewhere around two months in advance. A good tip is to make sure that if you have already reserved a Las Vegas hotel room, continue to check the prices that they are offering up till the day of your trip. The rates might drop so if you see a price cheaper than the one you booked for, try to speak with the manager of the hotel about dropping the cost.

Don’t forget that tourists heading to Vegas are less these days, Vegas hotels are looking for you. Today is the day to to make a reservation in one of Las Vegas’ hotels.