The popular online poker room FullTiltPoker.com, just let everyone know that for the tenth time they will run the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” a few weeks from now. This Texas Hold em event will launch with a $216 no-limit Texas Hold em championship. The Texas Hold em tournament will have a guaranteed prize pool of $15 million. This tournament will have 25 poker games 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 FullTiltPoker.com player to join in the Texas Hold em tournament, by coming first in as many satellite games as they are able to do. Depending on how many satellite games you take first place in, the more FTOPS chips you will receive. If by chance you win more satellite Texas Hold em games than the other players, you will gain the tournament equivalent of two more FTOPS buy-ins. The satellite Texas Hold em games are being played at the moment, and are open for members of Full Tilt Poker.

The Full Tilt Poker Tournament began in 2006 when it consisted of 8 events and awarded $1 million in prizes. Since then, the Texas Hold Em Tournament has become hugely popular, with FTOPS IX holding 25 poker events and giving away prizes of over $15 million. This year’s tournament will present a Two-Day Event with incredible buy-in amounts ranging from $2500 to $5000. The first ever Two-Day Event was FTOPS V, that poker tournament had a winner of $400,000 in prize money. This year’s Two-Day event has a guaranteed pot of over $2 million. This event will commence on November 15th.

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A vital aspect in poker is deceiving your opponents by making them believe your poker hand is better, when in all honesty you could possibly your hand is much worse than theirs. This is called “Poker face”, a straight expression for tricking your opponents into buying something that could be a lie.

Holding a good poker hand is most likely going to make you feel nervous, could possibly cause your hands to shake, and your heartbeat race. These are signs that your poker buddies may see very quickly, especially if they are good friends of yours. Try not to look at the pot if you have a good poker hand. This is an obvious gesture for your poker buddies that you are, in your head, counting the poker chips.

In the situation where you have a god-awful poker hand, try not to avoid looking your opponents in the eyes, keep your eyes up, and don’t act reluctant about your bet. In the event that you can prove to yourself that your set of cards is just as good, or superior than your fellow poker players; you will possibly convince them of this as well. Remember to make this seem as natural as possible. Your gestures and motions could be saying one idea, while the things you are talking about are making them believe something else.

One more crucial point of poker is to be able to read your opponents “poker tells”. A “tell” is a gesture or habit that could might give away information about their hand. One critical point to remember is when your competition is acting as though he has a strong hand; he, in all probability, has a weak Texas Hold Em hand. From a different angle, if he behaves as though he has a weak hand, he probably has a pretty decent hand.

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The Biggest cash prize yet was announced by Bodog’s website, with the main Texas hold em event giving away $300,000. The total for the eight day poker event will be more than $650,000, over the course of the weeklong poker tournament. The Bodog Texas Hold em event will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues through Sunday, October 5th. The well-known Texas Hold em tournament website will also feature six “Bounty” tournaments, where the participants can win $109 in Texas Hold em credits for each Team Bodog poker competitor they knock out of the poker event. The biggest poker celebs will be playing all rivals in the poker tournament.

Team Bodog star, Justin Bonomo, is undeniably thrilled about the event. Over the course of his poker playing career, the 23 year old has brought home nearly $1.4 million. He says that if you thought the first poker championship was big, you will definitely be astounded with this year’s tournament and the prize money involved. He also challenges anyone that has the courage to eliminate him from the poker tournament to step forward.

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

There are thirteen eliminatories which will lead up to the main poker event on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the grand prize event with a guaranteed $300,000 in cash, despite the amount of poker players in the Bodog Open. All the players who decide to enter the main poker contest will have to shell out $500 for the buy-in and in exchange will be given 10,000 in tournament chips.

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