Harrah’s Enterprises, operator of the World Series of Poker, has unveiled the official schedule for the 41st annual WSOP set to kick off from May 27th, 2010 with the Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em, and closing on November 9th, 2010 with the Main Event final table.

The WSOP 2010 event list features a total of 57 bracelets poker events, including three new events ($50,000 Player’s Championship Event #2, $10,000 H.O.R.S.E Event #43, World Championship, $25,000 6-Handed No-Limit tournament Event #52). The World Series of Poker event schedule includes a few changes, for example, the $50.000 H.O.R.S.E event has been replaced with the $50,000 “Player’s Championship” (Event #2), featuring eight distinctive games (Limit Hold’em, Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better, Seven Card Razz, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better, No-Limit Hold’em, Pot-Limit Omaha, 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball).

The opening 5 weekends of the poker series (May 29-30, June 5-6, June 12-13, June 19-20 and June 26-27) will include $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournaments with two starting flights. In addition, a sixth schedule on July 1-2, will also feature the same event at the same buy-in level. The 41st annual WSOP 2010 will close on Monday, July 5th with the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Championship Main Event. The Main Event will take some time off on July 17th, and will resume on four months later with the “November Nine” final table playing from November 6th-9th

Other variations slated for the World Series of Poker 2010 include a few new regulations that will regulate the daily amount of play, and the addition of more poker tables. According to the 2010 WSOP site, the whole convention center of the Rio Las Vegas will be dedicated to the WSOP 2010, with tournament tables in the 58,000 square foot Pavilion and the 38,000 square foot Amazon Room.

The World Series of Poker is also giving players more than five months to register for the first event on the World Series of Poker schedule. Pre-registration for the WSOP is offered at the Main Cage of the Rio and online at the World WSOP 2010 site. Registration for all bracelet poker events will stay open until the start of the third level (approximately 2 hours, 20 minutes after start time) or until all seats are sold.

“Whatever your game and whatever your bankroll, the 2010 WSOP schedule offers something for everyone. We are planning for the largest WSOP ever and look forward to welcoming all players to the Rio in Las Vegas next summer.” said WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel.

World Series of Poker 2010 event schedule

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World’s best online poker site FullTilt.com has released a new and innovative poker interface that includes innovative new elements on both the front end and backend and creates an easier poker experience.

One of the first things poker players will see is a new welcome page boasting a brand new modern appearance as well as a few brand new aspects such as a list of random security guidelines displayed on the bottom of the screen. Full Tilt new client software gives players 3 distinct lobby views: Basic, Standard and Classic View.

The Basic View gives novice poker players the chance of catching up with the new poker client and viewing the games without the demands of participating. The Basic View provides step by step reports on all the existing poker games, and gives players the ability to decide on their currency, type of game, Game (Hold’em, Omaha Hi or HL, Stud and Mixed Games), Limit (Fixed, Pot or No Limit), and Stake. In addition poker players can now check the action before joining a poker table with the new “Observe Table” choice or click on “Browse Table to view the list of open tables.

The Standard View offers information about all the available poker games and allows poker players to modify the list of poker games and tables to present only the poker games of their preference. This option also offers players the possibility of choosing the type of table, poker game, stake and view the tables before jumping in the poker action.

Full Tilt Players can also select the Classic view and stay with Full Tilt Poker’s initial lobby, however, this choice will be accessible for a limited time only and will be terminated shortly.

Both the Basic and Standard views also features a series of pioneering characteristics such as new revolving graphic screen located on the left that provides customers direct entry to FullTiltPoker’s promos and events including the FTOPS, Iron Man, Play with the Pros, Full Tilt Poker Academy, Poker Deposit Bonuses, and many other poker promotions and Full Tilt Poker Tournaments, as well as an option for video that allows players to view videos directly from the Full Tilt Poker client.

Full Tilt new poker client is available for Mac and Windows OS. To download Full Tilt’s new poker client visit FullTiltPoker.com or click here.

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The most popular online poker website FullTiltPoker.com is upping the ante on the news from 2009 WSOP in Vegas with their 2009 WSOP News Page, a new portal dedicated to inform customers on everything related to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, updates, poker celebrities’ blogs and more.

Full Tilt 2009 WSOP Coverage Page is not the usual news website like many other sites. Full Tilt WSOP News Site is divided into three sections, and includes a daily highlights piece in where fans can get access to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas events info, results, players and more in a series of articles written by the Full Tilt writers Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the typical daily updates and results on each and every event, Full Tilt Poker World Series of Poker Coverage Page also highlights two in house blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which features comments, wsop news, insider info from Full Tilt Poker stars, comments from Full Tilt Poker’s players and writers and guest posts from other poker bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which highlights commentaries from members of Team Full Tilt playing in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

Additionally, Full Tilt Poker’s new 2009 WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter portion that supplies round the clock updates and commentary from several poker professionals. Included in the Twitter area include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter feed lets players to create short messages permitting people from around the world to listen to them. These messages known as “tweets”, can be forwarded from any place in the world through a mobile phone or other portable device.

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

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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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Are there more chances to win if I play a tight poker game or loose?

You will undoubtedly hear both theories from your fellow poker players or possibly the so-called poker professionals. Let’s look first at the tight Texas holdem’ players. Everybody including yourself will have a hard time winning, if the whole poker table is playing a tight poker game. What may occur if you have a table full of tight poker players is the Texas holdem’ players will end up swapping the smaller pots back and forth to each other. In the meantime the poker room is raking in heaps of your hard-earned money, and that of your competitors. So now you might say, is it better to play loose? Well, in this circumstance the better Texas holdem’ players are going to lose fewer hands, but at the end of it all nobody is going to prevail.

How can I better my poker playing in the long run?

The answer to this question is as straightforward as a piece of paper and a pen. A great plan to find out a lot about your playing technique and strategy, is to keep some sort of record of your Texas holdem’ playing. You could write down this information during the Texas holdem’ game, and then pass it to a database on your home computer. This can also help you learn about your opponents playing style, and what is the best tactic to conquer them.

Is it a good idea to use the same tactics for every poker tournament?

If you consider that playing predictable poker is a winning strategy for playing poker, then you should think about changing your poker tactic. The poker experts have the same opinion that changing your poker playing method is the best way to confuse and bewilder your Texas holdem’ competitors. You should test a number of tactics, find the ones that work for you and change them up for each Texas holdem’ game.

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Emerging victorious at the World Series of poker tournament requires a tremendous level of skill and experience that takes years and years to develop. In the case of those players who have the skills, there is every opportunity and a good chance that they can win at the Texas Hold’em poker tournaments that are held on a regular basis. But competing in the World Series of poker tournament requires a $10,000 buy-in, not exactly small change for even some of the most experienced players in the world. With this focus on competing in the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas, players have worked hard towards coming up with a method of winning that is somewhat logical. Fortunately, there is a way to get to the World Series of poker tournament without spending the $10,000 on the World Series of poker tournament seat in Las Vegas. By competing in the different types of tournaments and levels of competition that exist at the online poker rooms and casinos such as Fulltiltpoker.com, the player can do much to enable themselves to enter into the game for free. With the reduction of the $10,000 entry fee, players are already ahead simply by attaining victory at the online poker rooms and online casinos and in winning the seat at the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas.

With this chance to compete at the World Series of poker, many players are more than thrilled to be traveling to the Las Vegas gambling capital of the world and facing down the opponents that are sure to congregate there. While it is true that confidence is good, it is important to understand that the level of skill that will be present at the World Series of poker tournaments in Las Vegas gaming tables will be staggering to say the least. With players who travel from all around the world to compete in this one tournament every year, it is fairly obvious that many individuals specialize in competing at the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas and doing their best to win, sometimes multiple times in the case of players such as the world-famous 11 time World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas winner Phil Hellmuth. With this emphasis on getting to the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas for free, many players can hope to eliminate the $10,000 buy in and move on to winning their way to the top.

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With all the popularity of the poker tournament and the Texas Hold’em competitions that are held around the world, it is not hard to see that there is a committed amount of revenue generated through these types of events. With the focus on holding these over-the-top events in as profitable an area as possible, the establishment proprietors and planners as well as organizers make every effort to ensure that every penny is generated through these types of events. With the popularity of the Texas Hold’em poker tournament, it is not surprising to see so many proprietors leaning on this type of event in order to bring in more players to the tournaments in general. With more players come more revenue and more in coming dollars from players who may not get the chance to compete very often in these types of tournaments. Considering the popularity of the Texas Hold’em poker tournaments around the world, selecting this type of event as a promoter is a wise choice and will generally end up with a highly profitable take at the end of the business day. As players flock from all over to the Texas Hold’em poker tournaments that are so popular and effectively generate so much revenue, it becomes readily apparent that these types of poker tournament circuits and tours are calculated for the maximum impact and exposure to allow more and more players to come on board as they become interested in competing.

As world famous players are attracted to this type of event as well as new players who have never competed, the Texas Hold’em poker tournaments have done an ample job of bringing in players from all around the world in the competitions that exists at these types of tournaments. With these ultra-popular Texas Hold’em poker tournaments, it is not hard to see that there is a tremendous amount of revenue being generated through these types of Texas Hold’em poker tournaments and the popularity that they enjoy. With so many players coming in to try their luck, skilled and unskilled, experienced and inexperienced, it is obvious that planners and organizers of these types of events, as well as the establishment proprietors, benefit from the accumulation of a tremendous amount of revenue. This is the key focus of these types of Texas Hold’em poker tournaments, bringing in more and more players to the poker rooms and casinos in general. The Texas Hold’em poker tournaments are a highly popular way of affecting this, as each tournament brings hundreds upon hundreds and sometimes thousands of players, creating an advertising and marketing bonanza that many industries would love to take advantage of.

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