The popular Texas Hold em website FullTiltPoker.com, has just announced that finally they will hold the Full Tilt Online Poker Series or “FTOPS” at the start of November. This poker championship will begin with a $216 no-limit Texas Hold em championship. The Texas Hold em tournament will have a $15 million prize pool. The Texas Hold Em championship will have 25 poker games with the main Texas Hold em tournament on Sunday, November 16th which has a $2.5 million prize pool.

There is an option for any Texas Hold em poker player to play in the FTOPS, by coming first in as many satellite games as they can. Judging by how many satellite games you succeed in, the more FullTiltPoker.com chips you will receive. If you end up winning more satellite tournaments than the other players, you will win two extra buy-ins for the FTOPS. The satellite poker games are are being held right now, and anyone who is a member of FullTiltPoker.com can participate.

The FTOPS tournament began in 2006 and it had 8 events and awarded over $1 million in prize money. Since then, the FullTiltPoker.com tournament has become incredibly well-known, with last year’s Texas Hold Em tournament holding 25 Texas Hold em events and giving away prizes of over $15 million. This year’s tournament will highlight a Two-Day Event having buy-ins of $2500 to $5000. The first two-day event was FTOPS V, that FullTiltPoker.com Tournament had a prize pool that totaled over $400,000. This Two-Day event has a guaranteed pool of around $2 million. This event will launch on Saturday, November 15th.

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A vital aspect in poker tournaments is deceiving your opponents by forcing them to believe you have a decent hand, when in reality it is most likely your hand is much worse than theirs. This is popularly known as “Poker face”, an unreadable expression used to trick or deceive your competitors into thinking something that might not be true.

If you happen to have a good poker hand it is most likely going to affect your nerves, could possibly make your hands shaky, and your heartbeat race. These are pretty obvious signs that your poker competition may see very quickly, especially if they know you well. Try not to peer over at the pot if you have a good poker hand. This is a tell-tale sign to your competition that you are, in your head, adding up what you might win.

In the condition where you have a god-awful poker hand, try not to dodge your competitors eyes, don’t lower your head, and don’t act reluctant about your bet. When you can prove to yourself that your set of cards is just as good, or superior than your competition; you will possibly convince them of this as well. Keep in mind to keep this as natural-looking as possible. Your use of body language and motions may be saying one idea, while the things you are talking about are making them believe something entirely different.

Another significant aspect of Texas Hold Em is to be able to read your opponents “poker tells”. A “tell” is a look or appearance that may give you an idea of the type of Texas Hold Em hand they are holding. One vital rule to never forget is when your competition behaves as though he has a good Texas Hold Em hand; he, most likely, has a very weak hand. From a different angle, 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 tournament giving away $300,000. The total prizes for the eight day event will be over $650,000, over the course of the fourteen tournament event. The Bodog Poker event will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues until Sunday, October 5th. The popular Texas Hold em tournament website will also feature six “Bounty” tournaments, where the challengers can win $109 in Texas Hold em credits for each Team Bodog poker competitor they eliminate from the tournament. Some of the most popular names in poker will be playing all participators in the poker tournament.

Team Bodog pro, Justin Bonomo, is undeniably excited about the Texas Hold em championship. Throughout his poker career, the 23 year old has brought home about $1.4 million. He says that if you thought the first poker tournament was huge, you will definitely be amazed with this year’s Texas Hold em contest and the prize money involved. He also challenges anyone that dares to eliminate him from the poker contest to step forward.

The initial Bounty Tournament will be the first event in the tournament on Sunday. Any poker player is able to buy-In right into this, and any of the other poker matches with cash. Or another alternative is to win their way into the events through the satellites which are being played every night during the poker championship week. Bodog will have six bounty events and seven “Championship Events”, which have higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

In the tournament will be thirteen events which will lead up to the main tournament on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the championship with a guaranteed $300,000 in hard cash, regardless of the amount of poker players in the contest. All the competitors who decide to enter the main tournament will have to shell out $500 for the buy-in and in return will receive 10,000 in Texas Hold em chips.

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