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Full Tilt has just introduced an innovative info site containing all the action of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an incredible online heads up poker tournament presenting some of the most talented high stakes poker players taking on the online poker phenom Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The innovative new site offers online poker players and fans the opportunity to follow this incredible internet poker challenge and check out regular statistical updates. With this fresh “durrrr Challenge” website players can view all the action and check out each poker hand played during durrrr Challenge, and get tons of stats, including number of hands played, session time, amount won, average won during each hand and lots more.

Close to six months ago, the twenty-three year old internet poker pro handed out a heads-up poker challenge for any player with the loot, time and talent to accept it. Any poker pro entering the durrrr challenge has to bet $500,000 against Dwan’s $1.5 million. Tom’s challenge states that at least 50,000 poker hands need to be played at the same time at 4 or more tables of no-limit Hold’em or pot-limit Omaha. At the end of the durrrr challenge, the poker player who has more money will take home the pool. In essence if you enter the Full Tilt Challenge and win a dollar after the 50,000 hands, then you will take home Dwan’s $1.5 Million, but if he succeeds by $1 then he will earn your $500,000.

Up to now, some poker players have accepted to play the “durrrr challenge”, including Full Tilt Poker Star Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, however, only Patrick Antonius has said yes to the challenge. At this point, both poker players have completed in a total of 20,647 hands out of 50,000, with Tom durrrr Dwan leading the count $726,546 total.

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The hugely successful poker site FullTiltPoker.com is taking the coverage to the next level with the World Series of Poker with their WSOP Coverage Page, a new portal dedicated to give players on everything related to the World Series of Poker 2009, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, minute to minute updates, poker players’ blogs and more.

FullTiltPoker.com’s new WSOP Coverage Page is not the typical news website offered by many other sites. The website is divided into three areas, and includes a daily highlights piece in where fans 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 Full Tilt poker experts Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the usual daily updates and results on all of the event, FullTiltPoker.com’s WSOP Coverage Page also features two poker blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which features comments, poker news, inside info from FullTiltPoker.com Professionals, opinions from FullTilt.com’s players and writers and guest posts from guest bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which features comments from members of Team Full Tilt participating in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

Additionally, FullTiltPoker.com’s new 2009 WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter section that provides immediate updates and notes from different poker professionals. Included in the Twitter section include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter feed allows players to transmit short messages allowing people from around the world to stay informed. These messages known as “tweets”, can be sent from any place in the world through a cell phone or other handheld.

For more information on  FullTilt.com’s new WSOP Coverage Page please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/series-coverage.

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Vegas hotel tycoon Steve Wynn unquestionably has a reason to be anxious about this Christmas time. With an investment of around $2.3 billion, the brand-new hotel and casino dubbed Encore will open in the next few days.

This luxurious casino and hotel is connected to the very popular Wynn Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip. While many Vegas hotel investors are trying their hardest to discover a direction to keep their hotel-casinos afloat, Wynn is doing extremely well with his billion dollar hotel-casino investments.

This 2000 room hotel is a great addition to the Wynn Las Vegas. The big attraction of this hotel will be the nightclub, called XS. Wynn has seen in the recent past that nightclubs are a huge attraction in LV, and not primarily the hotels as they were before. He says that Las Vegas, Nevada nightclubs frequently make more income and are a big draw for the young set.

He has also created an extravagant restaurant adjacent to the XS nightclub. Named after the well-known Colombian artist, Fernando Botero this circular steakhouse has a gigantic Botero carving as the centerpiece. Eventhough it is not as stunning as the nightclub which it is adjacent to; the Botero steakhouse is created to match pretty well with the loud LV nightclub.
The design pertaining to XS and Botero is a sort of St. Tropez feel, where the celebration chugs along nonstop and the majority of the partying occurs next to a pool or beach. These times are certainly different in LV, where many folks would rather social gatherings to slots nowadays.

Following around one entire year of no activity, the Mirage Hotel and Casino’s well-known volcano will be revived bigger and more stunning than ever before. The legendary LV megaresort is pulling out all the stops to attract as many visitors as they can to explore their redecoration.

This New Year’s Eve, the daredevil Robbie Knievel will have a crack at a motorbike leap over the Mirage Hotel-Casino’s manmade volcano. This jump will indicate the ending of a 3-year transformation of the LV casino and hotel. Over the course of this period, the Sin City casino has spent about $110 million improving their rooms and suites.

The upcoming New Year’s Eve feat is said to be Knievel’s last feat in the U.S.. The act will continue for five mins. and have explosives and a state of the art music soundtrack. The music for the presentation has been performed by Mickey Hart (former Grateful Dead drummer). Robbie Knievel is the son of the deceased Evil Knievel-the first and most famous daredevils.

The Las Vegas, Nevada Mirage was opened in 1989 by Las Vegas tycoon Steve Wynn and was considered Vegas’ first megaresort. This reconstruction is one of a large cluster on the LV Strip as of late. The casino-hotel wishes that this show will draw tons of sightseers to the LV hotel-casino. The idea behind the reconstruction is to outdo other iconic LV hotels like the Bellagio casino.

The Las Vegas, Nevada event tons of boxing fans have been waiting forever to see is finally taking place this week. The Golden Boy will battle one of the world’s current top fighters, Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao. This competition is taking place on the 6th of December in the MGM Arena in Las Vegas.

No doubt that there has been much talk in LV about this match. De La Hoya has dropped down to 147 lbs. to box as a welterweight, and some agree that The Golden Boy might not be as sturdy since the weight drop. Manny has in the past participated one time as a lightweight and wants to compete from now on in the welterweight class. Pacquiao is also the current champ in the lightweight division , and is thought of by many authorities to be one of the best boxers of the moment.

This is De La Hoya’s first excursion back to LV for a match since he took on Floyd Mayweather Jr. in May of 2007. This boxing match is without a doubt a sell-out for the MGM Grand Garden Arena Las Vegas. Sightseers to Las Vegas have reduced lately, but Las Vegas events like this boxing match seem to have a way of attracting people to Las Vegas.

This bout will surely be one for the records as it brings together the two best boxers of this generation in a twelve round welterweight contest. Oscar De La Hoya versus Manny Pacquiao tickets are still available for purchase. If you were to attend only one Sin City event in 2008, this is undoubtedly the LV Event to enjoy.

Visitors of next year’s Consumer Electronics Show Las Vegas might be in for a big surprise. Usually, around this time of the year it is just about unheard of to find a vacant Las Vegas hotel casino anywhere inside Las Vegas, but the next C.E.S. Sin City is proving to be an exception to the rule. A good number of the biggest hotels on the Las Vegas Strip have surprisingly cut their hotel rates as much as 20%.

Nearly 100,000 tourists raid Vegas each year to take a look at the advanced electronics displayed by the C.E.A.. The Vegas event is held from January 8-11 with the greater part of the events being presented in the Venetian Resort and Hotel and the Sands Vegas. This turns out to be a time period when coming across a good hotel price turns out to be almost a hopeless effort.

The C.E.A. stated a few days ago that many of the Vegas Strip hotel resorts have slashed their nightly rates, a large part of them by quite a large percentage. If you have already booked your room, you probably want to see if there are any better deals on LV hotel rooms. For example: the Tropicana casino hotel has cut their room price by about seventeen percent. The majority of the Sin City hotels and resorts that operate near the Consumer Electronics Show, have started providing exceptional Consumer Electronics Show rates to the guests of the Vegas event.

Some specialists state that this reduction in LV hotel room rates is due to the fact that a lot of the electronics enterprises have had to reduce the quantity of personnel they are flying out to the event. This obliges the Sin City hotel resorts to reduce their prices to interest more tourists to their hotel resorts during this convention. Others imply that it is caused by the existing scarcity of tourists to Sin City in comparison to previous years.

Vegas contains many paradoxes lately. For the normal Sin City sightseer, their money is able to last lots longer than in previous years. On the other hand for the Vegas resident, times are a bit more difficult.

The LV travelers will be quite pleased with the reduced prices of Las Vegas, Nevada hotel rooms, even on the Sin City Strip. Needless to say the number of cheap Las Vegas, Nevada show tickets, Sin City coupons, and even Vegas food credits. This is positively a great time to visit Vegas for the budget sightseer. Needless to say the financial circumstance does change some aspects of Las Vegas, Nevada for the tourists. As, some performances are required to shut down or search for other theaters. “Stomp Out Loud” being the most clear case of this change, they are moving out of their Planet Hollywood casino site in January.

To show an example of how the country’s financial condition is affecting the Vegas locals, you can take a look at the very same Las Vegas casinos, Vegas hotel casinos, and LV eateries that give these cheap prices and Las Vegas, Nevada coupons. In the last few months Vegas has observed the quantity of vacationers go down, this in turn affects the normal server, bellboy, or casino employee. A good number of the foremost Vegas Strip hotels have been forced to lay off employees because to this state.

If there is one positive element of this state; the outlook is very encouraging for Sin City visitors. You will be able to discover some hard to believe Sin City specials, and with the price of gasoline on the decline these are wonderful months to vacation in Sin City.

Many people might imagine that a thrilling blend of Criss Angel and Cirque du Soleil would be a marriage made in heaven, or in Criss Angel’s case, hell.

If you had the opportunity to be one of the numerous supporters who have gone to this brand new Las Vegas production, titled Criss Angel BeLIEve at the Luxor Hotel Casino, then you could possibly have a distinct attitude about this innovative event. This new Las Vegas show is really Cirque du Soleil’s sixth performance to operate on the Vegas Strip.

The performance opens very alike Angel’s habitual illusion presentations, with a dash of “Cirque”. Then suddenly a botched illusion trick moves Criss Angel to a Wizard of Oz-like fantasyland. You can even see bizarre rabbits hurrying on all sides of the theater, together with Criss’ habitual magic tricks and illusions bonded with Cirque’s remarkable charm. The event culminates with the illusionist more or less ripping himself in half, most likely the focal point of this idea.

One of the problems, that a good number of showgoers have encountered with the show, is the detail that the illusionist has many dialogue roles in the performance. Criss’ acting talents aren’t in truth his best talent, and this is not usual in any of Cirque du Soleil’s other trendy LV shows.

All is not lost, though, in this fusion of Criss with Cirque. Expect many stunning feats highlighted in the production, and integrated with Cirque du Soleil’s talent, it does have its brilliant and breathtaking moments. The numbers do not lie, as this show is turning out to be one of leading shows that Cirque du Soleil has had in Sin City.

Cirque du Soleil which was started in Montreal, Canada adds this new brainchild to their list of LV events. Cirque’s other events are: “O” at the Bellagio Casino Hotel Las Vegas, Zumanity at the Zumanity Theater inside the New York-New York casino, LOVE in The Mirage Hotel Casino, Ka at the Ka Theater in the MGM Grand Hotel, and Mystere at the Treasure Island Hotel Casino.

Considering the rising cost of Vegas airline flights, Sin City can be a great weekend getaway if you plan ahead and do some research. It is definitely important to have a clear picture of what you want to do, how long you want to stay, and where you will be spending the night. As long as you have a clear picture of these issues, then your escape to Las Vegas will unquestionably be one to remember.

As far as flights are concerned, this may be the most difficult part to find the best price. Most of the major airlines have reduced their daily flights, due in part to the economic and gas condition in the U.S.. You might consider comparing travel packages from some different companies; one example of these sort of packages might be hotel + flight + car rental for a guaranteed price. You may find in some cases that it is more economical to buy these separately. The difference in cost you may find could be major.

One idea that you may find beneficial is to sign up for e-mail alerts from the Vegas hotels and airlines you are interested in. They will send you an e-mail when their best Vegas hotel deals are available usually two months ahead of time. Also make sure that if you have already booked a Sin City hotel room, continue to check the rates that they are publishing up till the day of your trip. The rates might change so if you see a price cheaper than the one you reserved, try to speak with the manager of the hotel about dropping the cost.

Also keep in mind that tourists heading to Vegas are less these days, Vegas hotels are looking for you. This might be the best opportunity to get online and book a flight and hotel to Las Vegas.