Full Tilt has recently opened an original info site involving all the information of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an incredible online heads up poker tournament highlighting some of the world’s best big money online poker players challenging the Heads Up Specialist Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The innovative new site gives online poker players and fans the opportunity to stay on top of this amazing Full Tilt Poker Challenge and get timely updates. With this brand new “durrrr Challenge” site fans can follow all the poker action and check out each hand played during the challenge, and get tons of statistics, including how many hands were played, session time, cash won, average won during each hand and much more.

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

Up to now, several poker players have accepted to play the “durrrr challenge”, including Full Tilt Poker Star Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, though, only Patrick Antonius has agreed to the durrrr challenge. Thus far, both poker stars have completed in a total of 20,647 poker hands out of 50,000, with Dwan up by $726,546 total.

If you would like more information on the “durrrr” Challenge and durrrr vs. Antonius, please go to http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

The most popular online poker website FullTiltPoker.com is upping the ante on the news from 2009 WSOP with their 2009 World Series of Poker Coverage Page, a new platform dedicated to give poker players on everything related to the 2009 WSOP, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, minute to minute updates, poker celebrities’ blogs and more.

Full Tilt’s new World Series of Poker Coverage Page is not the usual news website offered by many other sites. The site is broken down into three areas, and includes a daily highlights part in where readers can get access to the 2009 WSOP events info, results, players and more in an articles series written by the Full Tilt writers Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Aside from the run of the mill daily updates and results on each and every event, FullTiltPoker.com’s 2009 World Series of Poker Coverage Page also highlights two in house blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which features commentary, poker news, inside info from FullTiltPoker.com Pros, opinions from FullTiltPoker.com’s readers and writers and guest posts from other poker bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which highlights commentaries from members of Team Full Tilt playing in the World Series of Poker 2009, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

In addition, Full Tilt’s new 2009 WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter area that gives live updates and info from several poker professionals. Poker players involved in the Twitter portion include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter area allows poker players to transmit short messages letting the world know whats going on. These comments known as “tweets”, can be sent from any place in the world through a cell phone or other handheld.

If you would like more info on  Full Tilt Poker’s new WSOP Coverage Page please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/series-coverage.

LV hotel tycoon Steve Wynn definitely has a reason to be eager about this Christmas time. Already investing about $2.3 billion, the eye-catching casino-hotel named Encore will be open to the public this month.

This posh hotel and casino is attached to the exceptionally popular Wynn Vegas on the Vegas Strip. Whereas many Vegas casino-hotel owners are trying their hardest to find a manner to keep their hotel-casinos from closing, Wynn is flying high with his billion dollar Vegas properties.

This 2,000 room building is another incredible creation by Wynn. The showpiece of this hotel and casino will be the nightclub, called XS. Wynn has noticed in the recent past that nightclubs are hotspots in Vegas, and not primarily the hotels like they used to be. Wynn says that Las Vegas nightclubs usually make more income and are a large attraction for the younger crowd.

Steve Wynn has also created a lavish steak house next to the XS nightclub. Named after the famous Colombian painter, Fernando Botero this restaurant in the form of a circle has a huge Botero sculpture as the centerpiece. Although not spectacular as the nightclub which it is connected to; the Botero steakhouse is created to go reasonably well with the loud LV nightclub.
The thought behind XS and Botero is a type of St. Tropez feeling, where the party carries on without a break and the main part of the party scene happens near a pool or oceanside. Times have definitely changed in Las Vegas, Nevada, where most people favor partying to gambling and casinos nowadays.

With around a full year of no activity, the Mirage Hotel-Casino’s famed volcano will be resurrected bigger and more stunning than in the past. The well-known Vegas megaresort is trying really hard to interest as many tourists as they can to enjoy their renovations.

This upcoming New Year’s Eve, the daredevil and stuntman Robbie Knievel will take a stab at a motorbike jump over the Mirage Hotel’s synthetic volcano. This stunt will commemorate the ending of a three-year redecoration of the Las Vegas hotel. During this period, the Las Vegas casino and hotel has shelled-out around $110 million renovating their rooms and suites.

This New Year’s Eve act is supposedely Knievel’s last feat in the U.S.. The feat will continue for 5 minutes and include fireworks and a modern soundtrack. The music for the presentation has been performed by former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. Robbie Knievel is the son of the late Evil Knievel-the first and most renowned daredevils.

The Sin City Mirage was developed in 1989 by Vegas tycoon Steve Wynn and was considered LV’s first megaresort. This improvement is one of a large group of hotels on the Vegas Strip lately. This casino has hopes that this stunt will pull a large amount of tourists to the LV hotel and casino. The plan behind the upgrade is to do better than other well-known Las Vegas hotel-casinos like the Bellagio casino and hotel.

The Vegas event most boxing followers have been dying to see is just around the corner. De La Hoya will face one of the sport’s existing finest fighters, Pacquiao. This boxing match is listed to take place on Sat. December 6th in the MGM Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Surely there has been many words spoken in Vegas about this competition. Oscar has cut his weight down to 147 lbs. to compete as a welterweight, and there are those who think that The Golden Boy could not be as physically powerful since the weight reduction. Manny Pacquiao has previously participated on one occasion as a lightweight and wishes to compete in the welterweight division. ”Pac-Man” Pacquiao is also the current lightweight category champ , and is thought of by many boxing pros to be one of the best boxers of the moment.

This is The Golden Boy’s first tour back to Las Vegas, Nevada for a bout since he battled Floyd Mayweather Jr. in May of last year. This match is scheduled to be a sell-out for the MGM Grand Arena Vegas. Visitors to Sin City have fallen recently, but Las Vegas, Nevada events like this one seem to have a way of bringing fans to Las Vegas.

This bout will definitely be one for the books as it consists of the two finest fighters of this generation in a 12 round welterweight match. The Golden Boy vs. Manny Pacquiao tickets are selling out fast. If you attend only one Las Vegas, Nevada event in 2008, this is unquestionably the LV Event to enjoy.

Guests of next January’s C.E.S. Sin City might be in for a big shock. Typically, approximately at this time it is pretty much impossible to locate a vacant Sin City hotel and casino anywhere in the proximity of Las Vegas, Nevada, but the next C.E.S. Vegas is shaping up to be a standout Las Vegas event. A great deal of the most popular hotels and resorts on the LV Strip have shockingly decreased their room rates ,some as much as 20%.

Around 100,000 visitors invade LV each year to check out the advanced gadgets exhibited by the C.E.A.. The Vegas event is held from January 8-11 with the majority of the events on display in the Venetian Hotel and Resort and the Sands Vegas. This turns out to be a time when hitting upon a suitable room rate becomes almost a hopeless effort.

The C.E.A. stated a few days ago that many of the Vegas Strip hotel and casinos have cut their hotel room rates, some of them by a pretty large percentage. If you have already booked your room, you probably want to see if there are any better deals on Vegas hotels. To give you an idea: the Tropicana hotel and casino has reduced their room rate by close to seventeen percent. Most of the Sin City hotels and resorts that are open next to the C.E.S., have begun giving unique C.E.S. rates to the guests of the Las Vegas, Nevada event.

Most specialists say that this reduction in Sin City hotel resort prices is because of the detail that the majority of the electronics corporations have had to lower the amount of the workforce they are dispatching to the convention. This forces the Vegas hotel resorts to decrease their room rates to invite more sightseers to their resort hotels for the duration of this convention. Other analysts suggest that it is because of the recent lack of tourists to Vegas compared to previous years.

Sin City is showing many inconsistencies these days. For the regular Las Vegas tourist, their cash can last a great deal longer than in the past. On the other side of the coin for the Sin City local, these days are somewhat more difficult.

The LV sightseers will be exceptionally happy with the low costs of Las Vegas, Nevada hotel rooms, even on the Vegas Strip. Needless to say the large amount of low priced Las Vegas show tickets, Las Vegas, Nevada coupons, and even Vegas food credits. Right now is definitely a prime time to visit Sin City for the budget tourist. Obviously the economic situation does affect some features of Las Vegas for the sightseers. For instance, several shows are required to close down or search for new theaters. “Stomp Out Loud” is the most obvious model of this change, they are stepping out of their Planet Hollywood casino venue in January.

Now to get a picture of how the U.S.’s financial state is negatively affecting the Sin City locals, you can get a picture from the very same Las Vegas casinos, Sin City hotels, and Las Vegas, Nevada eateries that present these cheap costs and LV coupons. Recently Sin City has witnessed the amount of tourists reduce, which in turn negatively affects the usual maid, bellboy, or casino dealer. Many of the major Vegas Strip hotel resorts have been required to lay off personnel because to this situation.

If there is one thing that is clear of this particular time; the expectation is very encouraging for Sin City sightseers. You undoubtedly able to discover some amazing Las Vegas, Nevada sales, and with the cost of gas descending these are wonderful days to visit LV.

One may imagine that a thrilling mixture of Criss Angel along with Cirque du Soleil would be a union made in heaven, or in Criss Angel’s case, hell.

If you had the chance to be any one of the numerous fanatics who have attended this latest LV show, called Criss Angel BeLIEve at the Luxor Hotel and Casino, then you may have a distinct notion about this new performance. This new LV show is essentially Cirque du Soleil’s sixth event to run on the Las Vegas Strip.

The performance starts out relatively comparable to Criss Angel’s habitual illusion productions, with a dash of “Cirque”. Then out of the blue a failed magic trick moves Angel into a Wizard of Oz-like dreamworld. You will see bizarre rabbits running all over the theater, together with Criss Angel’s usual stunts and illusions bonded with Cirque’s remarkable fascination. The production climaxes with the illusionist basically ripping himself in half, perhaps the focal point of this show.

One of the predicaments, that a good number of enthusiasts have encountered with the performance, is the element that Angel has many dialogue parts in the show. Criss Angel’s drama abilities aren’t really his strong suit, and this is not usual in any of Cirque’s other well-liked LV shows.

There are more positive factors than negative, though, in this combination of Criss with Cirque du Soleil. Expect many brilliant feats presented in the show, and united with Cirque du Soleil’s talent, the performance does have its brilliant and breathtaking moments. The numbers do not lie, as this show is shaping up to be one of biggest presentations that Cirque du Soleil has had in Vegas.

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

Considering the rising cost of airline flights, Las Vegas, Nevada can be an inexpensive getaway if you take your time 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 Vegas, and which hotel you are going to stay at. As long as you have a clear idea of these topics, then your trip to Sin City will unquestionably be one to remember.

When it comes to purchasing a flight, this will probably take the most effort on your part to find the best price. Many airlines have been cutting down their flights recently, due in part to the economic and gas condition in the country. Something to think about is to compare travel packages from some different companies; a good example of these types of packages might be hotel + flight + car rental for a specific price. Depending on the time of year, you may see that it is cheaper to buy these separately. The difference in cost you might find could be significant.

One idea that you may find valuable is to sign up for e-mail alerts from the Sin City hotels and airlines you are interested in. They will send you an e-mail when their best deals are available usually two months early. Also make sure that if you have already reserved a Las Vegas hotel room, keep checking the rates that they are publishing until the day of your hotel stay. The rates might fluctuate so if you see a price less expensive than the one you booked for, try to speak with the manager of the hotel about dropping the cost.

Try to keep in mind that there are fewer visitors to Vegas nowadays, so the hotels and flights to Vegas are looking to attract your business. This might be the best opportunity to to make a reservation in one of Las Vegas’ hotels