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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The two most popular online poker companies around are joining forces shortly in what is probably going to be an extremely successful merger. The incredibly successful Texas Hold’em website Fulltiltpoker has recently publicized that they are collaborating with World Poker Tour Enterprises for the approaching W.P.T. season. FullTiltPoker.com is scheduled the foremost backer of the World World Poker Tour’s 7th, and the online poker room is on tap to be presented in every single one of the episodes which are aired on FSN. FullTiltPoker.com will acquire all the rights to the educational pieces of the installments.

Facts of this deal have not been given away so far, but the contract is sure to be a breakthrough. This agreement will bring together two tremendously strong poker companies. World Poker Tour Enterprises which is a famous powerhouse on TV through Fox Sports Net channel and FullTiltPoker.com which has an enormous Texas Hold’em following, and a poker lineup consisting of players who have won a total of ten W.P.T. titles and 35 WSOP bracelets. Full Tilt Poker also sponsors many other Texas Hold’em poker players and now the Texas Hold’em webpage has begun presenting poker education also.

This accord is assured to draw in a new set of fans and is guaranteed to fit the newfound recognition which Texas Hold’em poker is spawning. This deal signifies World Poker Tour’s surrender of the Texas Hold’em room market as they will soon close their Texas Hold’em poker site WPT online. The pay site ClubWPT.com will more than likely continue to operate.

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Texas Holdem’ used to be accessible only in Vegas Casinos or from video poker machines, but now it is more popular than ever in Las Vegas, Nevada thanks to the the internet.

The famous Venetian Casino, is now betting on this popularity with its new audience-participation show called “The Real Deal!” in its showroom located in the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino, debuting in October.

Their new show will mix comedy and game show elements to entertain its live audience. The audience will also be able to join in the great game of Texas Holdem’ alongside the top poker players. There will be prizes for the audience including a chance to win 1$ million.

In “The Real Deal!” the audience will play with players like Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu. Around 10 of the World’s most famous poker players have already signed up for the poker 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 come to Las Vegas casinos want to play poker,” Negreanu says, “but obviously they can’t play in a big poker tournament 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 pro poker 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.

Creators of the show say that you don’t have to be a professional poker player to join in the game. There are other ways to enhance your point total, that doesn’t involve playing 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 big poker winner in this game.

Creators of The Real Deal are also betting on the charisma of the professional poker stars to create some interesting moments. Poker players such as Scotty Nguyen, the flamboyant five-time World Series of Poker winner, definitely can keep an audience entertained and should provide some memorable moments in this TV poker game show .

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