The hugely successful online poker site Full Tilt is upping the ante on the news from WSOP 2009 with their 2009 WSOP News Page, a new portal created to provide poker players on everything related to the World Series of Poker 2009, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, minute to minute updates, players’ blogs and more.

FullTilt.com’s new 2009 WSOP Coverage Page is not the typical information site offered by many other sites. The website is broken down into three parts, and includes a daily highlights area in where viewers can get access to the WSOP 2009 events info, results, players and more in an articles series written by the Full Tilt Poker staff members Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Aside from the same ol’ daily updates and results on every poker event, Full Tilt Poker’s 2009 World Series of Poker Coverage Page also highlights two in house blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights comments, wsop news, inside info from Full Tilt star players, opinions from FullTiltPoker.com’s fans and authors and guest posts from guest bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which features comments from members of Team Full Tilt playing in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

In addition, Full Tilt’s new 2009 WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter area that provides round the clock updates and notes from different 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 send short messages letting the world know whats going on. These updates known as “tweets”, can be transmitted from all over through a cellular phone or other handheld.

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

Open to ALL WDIAV Forum Members

This is your LAST BEST CHANCE to win one of SIX $1,500 2009 World Series of Poker event tickets in Las Vegas!

May 17th, 9 pm EST - Put it on your calendar! $500 Freeroll PLUS a chance to win a ticket to our WSOP Step 4 final where we are giving away 6 WSOP seats. Top 18 placers in the event will win a Step 4 ticket.

Terms and conditions:

1. You MUST be a registered WDIAV Forum member. This Freeroll will be by pre-registration ONLY. No password.

2. You MUST have a minimum of 50 valid (i.e. non-spam or redundant) posts to the forum threads.

3. You must have a minimum of 50 forum points available to enter. You can still earn points under the CURRENT point system (more about that below) by making posts to the forum and by posting your avatar. When you enter this final freeroll tournament, you will be redeeming ALL of your current forum points for this last chance to win.

4. All Step 4 Tickets are transferable to another forum member or WDIAV Player. Anyone found selling tickets will be immediately disqualified and their forum account will be cancelled. All tickets have no cash value.

5. WSOP seat(s) are non-transferable and have no cash value. You must be present at the RIO with your Harrah’s players card to obtain your WSOP seat.

6. You MUST be 21 years old at the time you present your ticket in Las Vegas for your $1,500 event #7 seat. This event will be played on June 2nd, 2009 at 12 noon.

7. Winners are responsible for any and all taxes, travel, expenses and any other costs incurred in this promotion. Winners of WSOP seats agree to wear the shirt and hat of our choice while playing in the event. Winners agree to hold WDIAV harmless for any occurrence as a result of this promotion. Void where prohibited or restricted by law.

8. The final date to earn forum points and to make 50 posts to the forum is May 15th, 2009. After that date, forum members who try to enter this tournament by completing their posts and points will not be allowed to play in this tournament!

If you haven’t had time to earn points and post into the forum or you’re a new forum member, here’s your chance to get into a really GREAT DEAL! Get your points and posts into the WDIAV forum by NO LATER than May 12th, 2009.

ANNOUNCEMENT - WDIAV POINTS WILL BE CHANGING

We’ve been working hard to try to create a point system that rewards forum members who contribute to our forum and who make it a fun and interesting place to visit. The DAY AFTER this special tournament, we will be announcing our new forum point system. At that time, all old WDIAV points will be come invalid.

Some of the new features:

* Automatic point calculation

* Automatic point redemption for passwords to tournaments

* Point rewards for all parts of the forum - threads, posts, photos, videos, referrals, blogs, comments, adding events to the calendar and much more.

* Redeem points for cash and gift certificates

Once again, we want to say thanks to all our members who have made our forum the success it is. Now we want to take it to the next step in enjoyment.

Regards, WDIAV Team