Full Tilt has just unveiled a new info site covering all the facts of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an amazing online heads up challenge featuring some of the most talented high stakes poker players taking on the Heads Up Specialist Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The new website section presents online poker players and followers the chance to track this incredible online poker challenge and check out timely statistical updates. With this new “durrrr Challenge” section poker players can follow all the action and check out each hand played during durrrr Challenge, and check out tons of stats, including number of hands played, session time, cash won, average won during each hand and much more.

Around six months ago, the 23 year old online poker pro dealt out a heads-up poker challenge for any player with the money, time and ability to accept it. Any poker star entering the poker challenge has to put up $500,000 against Dwan’s $1.5 million. durrrr’s challenge specifies that at least 50,000 online poker hands need to be played at the same time at 4 or more poker tables of no-limit Hold’em or pot-limit Omaha. At the end of the poker challenge, the player who has more cash will secure the pool. In essence if you enter the durrrr challenge and win $1 after the 50,000 poker hands, then you will win durrrr’s $1.5 Million, but if he succeeds by a dollar then he will take your $500,000.

Thus far, some poker pros have agreed to to play the “durrrr challenge”, including Full Tilt Poker Star Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, however, only Patrick Antonius has agreed to the challenge. Until now, both poker stars have participated in a total of 20,647 hands out of 50,000, with Tom durrrr Dwan ahead $726,546 total.

For more info on the “durrrr” Challenge and Tom durrrr Dwan vs. Patrick Antonius, please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

The most popular poker website FullTilt.com is upping the ante on the news from WSOP 2009 with their WSOP Coverage Page, a new platform dedicated to inform players on everything related to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, round the clock news, poker stars’ blogs and more.

Full Tilt’s new 2009 WSOP Coverage Page is not the same ol’ news portal provided by tons of other sites. The site is separated into three areas, and includes a daily highlights area in where readers 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 FullTilt.com poker experts Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the typical daily updates and results on all of the event, Full Tilt’s WSOP Coverage Page also features two poker blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights comments, poker news, insider info from Full Tilt stars, comments from FullTiltPoker.com’s fans and writers and guest posts from other poker bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which features commentaries from members of Team Full Tilt participating in the 2009 WSOP, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

Also, FullTiltPoker.com’s new World Series of Poker Coverage Page has a Twitter portion that supplies live updates and info from several poker professionals. Poker players involved in the Twitter area include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter area allows players to send short messages letting the world know whats going on. These updates known as “tweets”, can be transmitted from all around the world through a mobile phone or other handheld.

To view more info on  Full Tilt Poker’s new 2009 WSOP Coverage Page please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/series-coverage.

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Sin City billionaire Steve Wynn undeniably has a reason to be wound up about this Christmas season. Investing around $2.3 billion, the stunning new hotel and nightclub dubbed Encore will be open for business very soon.

This posh hotel is attached to the tremendously fashionable Wynn Las Vegas on the Vegas Strip. Whereas most Vegas casino-hotel owners are doing the best they can to find a way to keep their hotels afloat, Wynn is doing pretty well with his $billion investments.

The 2,000 room building has left nothing to the imagination. The centerpiece of this casino-hotel will be the nightclub, XS. Wynn has taken notice lately that nightclubs are hotspots in Las Vegas, and not primarily the casinos as they were in the past. He thinks that Vegas nightclubs usually produce more money and are a big meeting spot for the younger bunch.

He has also built a lush steak house joined to the XS nightclub. The inspiration for the restaurant is the popular Colombian painter, Fernando Botero this circular steakhouse has a massive Botero sculpture as the focal point. Eventhough it is not as stunning as the nightclub which it is connected to; the Botero steakhouse is intended to complement reasonably well with the showy Las Vegas, Nevada nightclub.
The thought pertaining to XS and Botero is a type of St. Tropez air, where the celebration goes on without a pause and a big part of the party takes place near a swimming pool or oceanside. Things have definitely changed in Las Vegas, where most people fancy drinking and parties to gambling and casinos right now.

After close to a year of sleeping, the Mirage Casino-Hotel’s famed volcano will be brought to life larger and more stunning than ever before. The legendary Vegas casino-hotel is pulling out all the stops to draw as many sightseers as they can to check out their transformation.

This New Year’s Eve, the stuntman Robbie Knievel will attempt a motorcycle jump over the Mirage Casino-Hotel’s artificial volcano. This feat will indicate the end of a 3-year renovation of the Vegas hotel and casino. Throughout this period, the Las Vegas, Nevada hotel has invested over $110 million upgrading their accommodations and suites.

This New Year’s Eve feat is supposedely Knievel’s last feat in the United States. The presentation will carry on for five mins. and include pyrotechnics and a modern music recording. The music for the feat has been written by former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. Robbie Knievel is the son of the late Evil Knievel-the world’s first and most renowned daredevils.

The Vegas Mirage was constructed in 1989 by Las Vegas, Nevada mogul Steve Wynn and was regarded as Las Vegas’ first megaresort. This overhaul is one of a handful on the LV Strip recently. This casino-hotel hopes that this stunt will attract a massive amount of vacationers to the LV casino and hotel. The thought behind the overhaul is to beat other big LV hotel-casinos like the Bellagio casino-hotel.

The Las Vegas event many boxing aficionados have been waiting patiently to see is just around the corner. Oscar De La Hoya will face one of boxing’s present top boxers, Pacquiao. This fight is listed to take place on the 6th of December in the MGM Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Surely there has been many words spoken in Sin City regarding this competition. De La Hoya has cut his weight down to 147 lbs. to box as a welterweight, and some folks say that Oscar De La Hoya could not be as sturdy since the drop in weight. Manny Pacquiao has previously fought once as a lightweight and wants to compete from now on in the welterweight group. Manny Pacquiao is also the current champ in the lightweight division , and is considered by many authorities to be the best boxer at the moment.

This is Oscar’s first excursion back to Las Vegas, Nevada for a boxing match since he clashed with Floyd Mayweather Jr. back in May of 2007. This fight is certain to be a sell-out for the MGM Grand Vegas. Vacationers to LV have reduced lately, but LV events like this competition seem to have a way of attracting folks to Vegas.

This bout will unquestionably be one people will be talking about for years to come as it matches the power of the two finest boxers of these past few years in a 12 round welterweight contest. De La Hoya vs. Pacquiao tickets are on sale. If you were to see only one LV event in 2008, this is unquestionably the Vegas Event to check out.

Guests of next year’s Consumer Electronics Show Las Vegas could be in for a great change in their plans. As a rule, around this time it is just about impossible to locate a vacant Las Vegas, Nevada hotel resort anywhere inside Sin City, but the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show Las Vegas is proving to be a whole different ballgame. A large part of the most visited hotels and resorts on the Las Vegas, Nevada Strip have amazingly lowered their prices as much as 20%.

Practically 100,000 travelers invade LV each year to examine the ground-breaking electronics exhibited by the C.E.A.. The Sin City event is held from Jan. 8-11 with the greater part of the events being presented in the Venetian Resort and the Sands Vegas. This turns out to be a time period when locating a good hotel room rate becomes virtually a hopeless undertaking.

The C.E.A. declared last week that many of the Vegas Strip hotels and resorts have cut their room rates, a large part of them by a pretty large percentage. If you have already made your reservation, you probably want to see if there are any better deals on LV rooms. For example: the Tropicana hotel casino has slashed their nightly room rate by around seventeen percent. The majority of the Las Vegas hotels and resorts in use near the Consumer Electronics Show, have begun providing individual C.E.S. prices to the fans of the Las Vegas event.

Most specialists state that this reduction in Las Vegas, Nevada hotel room prices is due to the detail that most of the electronics businesses have had to reduce the number of people they are dispatching to the event. This compels the Las Vegas, Nevada hotels to decrease their rates to invite more tourists to their hotel casinos at the time of this show. While others indicate that it is because of the current shortage of tourists to Las Vegas, Nevada in contrast to the past few years.

Sin City has many paradoxes of late. For the usual Las Vegas vacationer, their hard cash can last lots longer than earlier in the year. On the other hand for the Sin City local, these days are a bit more complex.

The LV vacationers will be incredibly happy with the low costs of Las Vegas, Nevada hotel rooms, even on the Vegas Strip. Needless to say the large amount of budget Las Vegas show tickets, Las Vegas, Nevada coupons, and even Las Vegas, Nevada food credits. Right now is definitely a great time to stay in LV for the budget sightseer. Not surprisingly the economic circumstance does change some areas of Las Vegas for the sightseers. For example, a number of performances are required to close down or hunt for other theaters. “Stomp Out Loud” is the most evident case of this transformation, they are moving out of the Planet Hollywood resort and casino setting in January, 2009.

To see of how the U.S.’s financial condition is having an affect on the Las Vegas locals, you need to look no further than the same LV casinos, Las Vegas, Nevada resort hotels, and Las Vegas eateries that are offering these reduced costs and Las Vegas coupons. Recently Las Vegas has become aware of the total number of tourists plummet, this in turn negatively affects the standard attendant, bellboy, or casino employee. A large amount of the key Sin City Strip hotel resorts have been forced to lay off personnel because to this state.

One thing is sure of this situation; the prospect is very positive for Sin City tourists. You are definitely able to stumble on some amazing Vegas coupons, and with the price of gasoline going down these are terrific months to sightsee in Las Vegas.

Many folks might feel that a thrilling union of Criss Angel in the company of Cirque du Soleil might be a union made in heaven, or in Criss Angel’s case, hell.

If you had the chance to be any one of the many fanatics who have enjoyed this new Sin City presentation, titled Criss Angel BeLIEve featured at the Luxor Hotel Casino, then you might possibly have a distinct view about this new event. This innovative Las Vegas presentation is actually Cirque du Soleil’s sixth presentation to exhibit on the Vegas Strip.

The show begins relatively alike Angel’s regular illusion events, with a hint of “Cirque”. Then suddenly an unsuccessful magic act moves Angel into a Wizard of Oz-like fantasyworld. There are dreamlike rabbits scurrying on all sides of the stage, together with the illusionist’s habitual magic tricks and illusions fused with Cirque’s remarkable appeal. The performance climaxes with Criss Angel more or less ripping himself in half, in all probability the highlight of this production.

One of the problems, that a good number of fanatics have come upon with the presentation, is the fact that the illusionist has several spoken roles in the show. Angel’s acting skills aren’t really his strongest, and this is not habitual in any of Cirque’s other fashionable Vegas productions.

The good outweighs the bad, though, in this mix of Criss with Cirque du Soleil. You will see some fabulous magic tricks displayed in the production, and joined with Cirque’s genius, the show does have its brilliant and breathtaking moments. The number of ticket sales do not lie, as this show is shaping up to be one of most popular productions that Cirque has had in Sin City.

”Cirque” which was created in Montreal, Canada combines this modern idea to their bill of Vegas productions. Their other performances include: “O” in the Bellagio Hotel Casino Vegas, Zumanity at the Zumanity Theater in the New York-New York casino hotel, LOVE at The Mirage Hotel, Ka at the Ka Theater inside the MGM Grand Casino, and Mystere at the Treasure Island Casino.

Despite the fact that you are short on cash and want to get away for the weekend, Las Vegas, Nevada can be a great weekend escape if you plan ahead and do some searching. One thing to remember is to have a clear picture of what you want to see, how long you will stay in Sin City, and where you will be spending the night. As long as you have a clear idea of these topics, then your trip to Vegas will certainly be one to remember forever.

As far as flights are concerned, this will probably take the most effort on your part to find the best price. Most of the major airlines have reduced their daily flights, due in part to the economic and fuel situation in the U.S.. You might consider comparing travel packages from a few different companies; one example of these sort of packages may be hotel + flight + car rental for a guaranteed price. Sometimes you may find that it is more economical to buy these separately. The price difference you might find could be considerable.

One tip that you may find valuable is to register for e-mail alerts from the hotels and airlines you are interested in. You will receive an e-mail when their best Las Vegas hotel deals are available somewhere around two months early. It is a good idea to make sure that if you have already reserved a Vegas hotel room, continue to check the prices that they offer up till the day of your trip. The costs may change so if you see a rate cheaper than the one you booked for, try to speak with the manager of the hotel about dropping the cost.

Try to remember that there are fewer visitors to Vegas nowadays, so the hotels and flights to Vegas are looking to attract your business. Right now is a perfect moment to to make a reservation in one of Las Vegas’ hotels.