The well-known online poker website FullTiltPoker.com, just let everyone know that once again they will feature the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” in the first week of November. This poker championship will start out with a $216 Texas Hold em buy-in tournament. The Texas Hold em tournament will have a guaranteed prize pool of $15 million. The Texas Hold Em championship has a total of 25 events leading up to the main event on Sunday, November 16th which will award a $2.5 million prize pool.

There is an opportunity for any Texas Hold em poker player to show their skills in the Texas Hold em Poker tournament, by succeeding in as many satellite games as they are able to do. Taking into account how many satellite games you come first in, the more FTOPS chips you will receive. If you happen to win more satellite events than the rest of the players, you will win the tournament equivalent of two more buy-ins. The satellite poker games are taking place at the moment, and are open to any fulltiltpoker.com member.

The FullTiltPoker.com tournament launched in 2006 with eight events and gave away one million dollars in prize money. Since then, the FullTiltPoker.com tournament has become tremendously well-known, with 2006’s FTOPS Tournament hosting 25 poker events and prizes of over $15 million. FTOPS X will include a Two-Day Event which has buy-ins from $2500 up to $5000. The original Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that tournament had a prize pool of $400,000. This year’s Two-Day event has a assured pool of a minimum $2 million. This poker event will launch on Sat., Nov. 15th.

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One of the most important aspects in Texas Hold Em is deceiving your opponents by persuading them into thinking you have a good poker hand, when the truth is it is most likely you have a terrible hand. This is what people call “Poker face”, an expressionless face for fooling your competitors into trusting in an idea that may not be true.

Holding a good poker hand is most likely going make you feel more anxious, could possibly make your hands shake, and your heartbeat race. These are tell-tale signs that your poker buddies may pick up on very quickly, especially if you have been playing with them for some time. Keep in mind not to glimpse at the pot if you are holding a strong hand. This is a tell-tale sign to the other players that you are, in your head, counting how much you will possibly win.

In the condition where you have a dreadful poker hand, try not to keep yourself from glancing at your poker buddies, keep your eyes up, and don’t be indecisive about your poker bet. When you can persuade yourself that your poker hand is just as good, or superior than your poker buddies; you will have a better chance of making them think this as well. Keep in mind to keep this as natural-looking as possible. Your gestures and actions may be saying one idea, while what you are saying are making them believe something else.

Another important aspect of this game is to be aware of your poker buddies’ “poker tells”. A “tell” is a gesture or habit that could might give away information about their hand. One important aspect to keep in mind is when your competition is acting as though he has a strong hand; he, in all likelihood, is holding a weak hand. On the contrary, if he behaves as though he has a weak hand, he most likely has a very good hand.

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An Incredible grand prize was announced by Bodog poker, with the main Texas hold em event giving away $300,000. The total prizes for the eight day poker event will be over $650,000, throughout the weeklong poker tournament. The Bodog Texas Hold em event will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues until Sunday, October 5th. The popular poker tournament website will also feature six “Bounty” tournaments, where the contestants can win $109 in poker credits for each Team Bodog poker competitor they knock out of the poker match. The biggest poker stars will be competing against all competitors in the event.

Team Bodog champ, Justin Bonomo, is undeniably excited about the poker contest. Over the course of his poker playing career, the 23 year old has earned about $1.4 million. He says that if you thought the first poker tournament was a good one, you will definitely be amazed with this year’s Texas Hold em contest and the awards involved. He also challenges anyone that dares to knock him out of the Bounty Tournament to come forward.

The initial Bounty Tournament is going to be the first poker contest in the contest on Sunday. Any poker player is able to buy-In right into this, and any of the other events with cash. Or another option is to win their way into the Texas Hold em games through the satellites which are being played every night during the Texas Hold em contest week. Bodog will feature six bounty eliminatories and seven “Championship Events”, which will feature higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

There are thirteen events which will lead up to the main poker tournament on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the poker championship with a guaranteed $300,000 in cold hard cash, regardless of the total number of players in the contest. All the poker players who want to enter the main poker tournament will have to pay $500 for the buy-in and in turn will obtain 10,000 in tournament chips.

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