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.

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

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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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According to the 2006 WSOP champ, Jamie Gold, he would be pleased to be recognized as the finest bluffer in the world of poker. But if his last Texas Holdem tournament is any sign, his wish may not come true any time soon.

The setting is the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic held at the Las Vegas Bellagio Hotel and Casino in 2007. Featuring $50 - $100 blinds and a $15,000 buy-in, Darrell Dicken is close to the end of his run. The seat 4 player has just raised his wager to $300, a pretty small increase with only one player calling his play. “I put him as being weak,” Jamie said, “I was thinking about raising, but instead I just called with a 10-3 of hearts to see what would happen.”

Jamie believed that Brad Booth would make some kind of move, which he did. He re-raised to $1600 from the big blind. Gold had the idea that Booth had a decent hand, but he was in a superb position to make a move considering the amount of dead money in the pot. Dicken finally folded, and the unknown in Seat 4 called Booth’s raise.

Now there was more than $4000 in the pot, so Jamie wagered another $4000. His thought was, only if someone else had aces or kings there would be no way they would make that call. Jamie’s plan was to make a huge move on the flop, as long as no ace showed up. The second part of his strategy was to get Booth to fold, which he did. Booth folded with pocket queens.

Coming out of the flop there was an ace of ace-6-5, two clubs. The player in seat 4 checked and Jamie bet $2000. Jamie’s initial thought was to make him think that he had clubs. Seat 4 tossed out a $10,000 chip, but didn’t say anything thus converting his raise into a call. Jamie’s thought was that seat 4 in all likelihood had an ace, but you have to shield it in case he hits his set on the upcoming card.

A 2 of hearts came out on the turn, and Jamie quickly folded to what he thought was a top pair kicker. Seat 4 displayed a king-jack off suit. Seat 4 tricked Gold by bluffing with a better hand, he created an excellent poker play and continued with the bluff to the end of the Texas Holdem’ tournament.

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Texas Holdem’ was a game available only in Vegas Casinos or from electronic poker machines, but now it is more in style than ever in Vegas thanks to the the internet.

The well-known Venetian Hotel and Casino, is now banking on this popularity with its new audience-participation show called “The Real Deal!” in its Venetian Showroom, beginning in October.

This new idea will join comedy and game show elements to entertain its live audience. The audience will also be able to join in the popular game of Texas Holdem’ alongside the the best poker players in the world. Many prizes are available for the audience including a chance to win 1$ million.

In “The Real Deal!” the audience members will play with players like Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu. Around 10 of the world’s best poker players have already signed up for the game show. The audience will be able to play along with the 90 minute game thanks to handheld, wireless, touch screen devices located on each seat.

“People who take a vacation in Vegas want to play poker,” Negreanu says, “but obviously they can’t play in a big game with the players such as Doyle or Phil Hellmuth. But, in this show, they actually can.” At the beginning of each show, six audience members will be chosen to sit at the poker table on stage with two professional players. Each audience member is then involved in the action by being dealt a unique poker hand on their devices. Everyone in the showroom is then involved in the action with big-screen monitors located on stage.

The show’s producers say that you don’t have to be a pro poker player to take part in the game. There are other ways to build your point total, that doesn’t involve the game of poker necessarily. Betting on the suit of the next poker card or trying to guess which state a particular audience member is from, are just some of the ways to come out a champ in this game.

The show’s creators are also betting on the great personalities of the pro poker stars to have great moments. Someone like Scotty Nguyen, the flamboyant five-time winner of the World Series of Poker, definitely can keep an audience entertained and will provide some great entertainment in this new poker game show .

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If I told you every critical decision in online poker was actually an easy decision would you believe me? Probably not, but if you believe in your gut feeling and have inner balance and control then you can hear and listen to your gut feeling and follow through with your gut feeling. Your gut feeling or intuition can be your best friend if you know it is right in it, trust it and listen to it. Your gut feeling is that first feeling you get, the majority of people never believe or trust in there intuition and dismiss the feeling as just a thought and then think more and end up with no real confident answer or decision.

Everyone knows that one guy that seems to just seems to float through life and always gets so lucky, well that guy probably listens to his inner self. He’s probably laid back, never really worried or never panics just always seems so sure.

Your intuition isn’t the solution to all your problems and your gut feeling isn’t always right, just because your gut feeling isn’t always right it’s not correct to stop listening to it, you need to understand that your gut feeling is the best tool that will help your more times then not, so listen to it unconditionally.

You have most likely heard the miracle stories about animals sensing stuff before it happens, or animals acting weird or behaving weird before major events happen. This is because animals rely on 6th sense, they trust and rely on instinct for survival. They don’t have time to thoroughly think things through or contemplate, they feel there gut trust it and react on it.

This is not to say that you shouldn’t think about decisions or problems and should just do what your first 6th sense is, because evaluation is an important and critical part of the decision making process. Going over all the variables presented to you to come up with a conclusion. So evaluation is important and should be done, but you should be able to feel your first natural instinct and let it play a major role in your decision making process. You should give your gut feeling maximum value on the list of variables that you consider when making a decision.

For the majority of people they will never be able to tap into there 6th sense or will never be able to know when they hear it or feel it, this is because in order to hear and listen your gut feeling you need to have balance in your mind and body, you need to have emotional control over yourself, you need to be in touch with your feelings. Everyone has instinct and gut feeling so if you don’t know what your gut feeling is it’s probably because your mind is clouded and cannot clearly identify when your gut feeling kicks in and talks to you.

Being able to hear and listen to your gut feeling can become a very powerful tool in your poker playing, you have to listen to your gut though, the first instinct or thought you have is usually always the correct decision. Your mind is a powerful database more powerful then any computer and has a hard drive that stores every hand you play, every bet that people make, every situation that happens. So your gut feeling is usually what the mind feels based on your database of similar poker online situations.

So practice listening to your self, identify when your gut tells you something and believe in it and use it in life, use it on the Hold’em tables. Hopefully this will help you improve your Texas Hold’em game and make you a better player.

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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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