The hugely popular online poker room FullTiltPoker.com, just let everyone know that for the tenth time they will feature the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” at the beginning of next month. This Texas Hold em event will launch with a $216 Texas Hold em buy-in championship. Fulltiltpoker.com will have a prize pool of more than $15 million guaranteed. The Texas Hold Em championship has 25 poker events with the main poker tournament on Sunday, November 16th which will award a $2.5 million prize pool.

There is a possibility for any Texas Hold em player to play in the FullTiltPoker.com tournament, by coming first in as many satellite games as possible. Depending on how many satellite games you win, the more FTOPS cash you will receive. If you happen to win more satellite events than the other players, you will receive two extra buy-ins for the FTOPS. The satellite poker games are taking place at the moment, and are open for members of Full Tilt Poker.

The FullTiltPoker.com tournament launched in 2006 with a total of 8 events and awarded $1 million in prizes. Since then, the poker tournament has become extremely popular, with the previous year’s tourney running 25 FTOPS events and prizes of over $15 million. FTOPS X will include a Two-Day Event which will have buy-ins of $2500 to $5000. The very first Two-Day event was FTOPS V, that FTOPS tournament had a prize pool of $400,000. Next month’s Two-Day event has a guaranteed prize pool of around $2 million. This tournament will launch on Sat., Nov. 15th.

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One of the most important aspects in Texas Hold Em is misleading your competitors by making them think you actually have a good hand, when in all honesty it is possible you have the worst hand at the table. This is what people call “Poker face”, a straight expression to trick your poker buddies into trusting in an idea that might be false.

If you have a good hand it is most likely going to make you more nervous, could possibly make your hands shake, and your heartbeat race. These are tell-tale signs that your competitors may see very quickly, especially if they are old friends. Keep in mind not to glimpse at the pot if you have some good poker cards in your hands. This is very obvious to your poker buddies that you are, in your head, counting how much you will possibly win.

In the situation where you have a terrible poker hand, try not to avoid looking at your opponents, don’t lower your head, and don’t act reluctant about your bet. In the event that you can persuade yourself that your hand is equal, or superior than your competitors; you will possibly fool them into believing this as well. Remember to make this seem as natural as possible. Your gestures and motions might be saying one point, while what you are saying are giving them a whole different idea.

Another significant aspect of Texas Hold Em is to be able to read your opponents “poker tells”. A “tell” is any kind of expression, physical gesture, or habit that may give you an idea of the type of Texas Hold Em hand they are holding. One key rule to remember is when your poker buddy gives the appearance that he has a great Texas Hold Em hand; he, in all likelihood, is holding a weak hand. From a different angle, if he behaves in a way that seem like he has a poor poker hand, he very likely is holding a strong poker hand.

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The largest prize pool ever was announced by Bodog’s website, with the main tournament awarding $300,000 guaranteed. Total cash for the eight day Texas holdem tournament will be higher than $650,000, over the course of the weeklong poker tournament. The Bodog Poker tournament will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues until Sunday, October 5th. The popular poker tournament website will also feature six “Bounty” games, 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 stars will be playing all rivals 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 brought home over $1.4 million. He says that if you thought the first poker championship was a good one, you will definitely be stunned with this year’s poker contest and the prize money involved. He also challenges anyone that dares to eliminate him from the poker tournament to come forward.

The Kick off Bounty Tournament will be the first poker contest in the contest on Sunday. Any poker challenger has the ability to buy-In directly into this, and any of the other Texas Hold em games with cash. Or another option is to win their way into the Texas Hold em games through the satellites which are presented every night during the poker championship week. Bodog will feature six bounty tournaments and seven “Championship Events”, that will have higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

Bodog’s contest will have thirteen events which will lead up to the main event on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the championship with a guaranteed $300,000 in cash, regardless of the total number of players in the championship. All the poker players who decide to enter the main poker tournament will have to shell out $500 for the buy-in and in exchange will receive 10,000 in poker chips.

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