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Things are truly heating up in the online poker scene with a fierce battle emerging between the current #1 online poker room PokerStars trying to outdo their #2 rival FullTilt Poker.
FullTilt have been aggressively trying to capture a bigger market share of the online-poker industry (which is still booming), by introducing new promotions, Poker TV Shows, Bigger bonuses for players and even an attempt at a Guinness World record.

Pokerstars and FullTilt still allow USA Players, both rivals already have huge poker player databases and are well populated each night however an increase in market share amounts to bigger earnings especially in the sought after US poker market that both have their eyes set on.

It seems in the battle of POKERSTARS Vs FULLTILT every move FullTilt poker make in terms of promotions gets counteracted upon by Pokerstars who do a similar slight more tweaked version of the same promotion.
We have compiled a list of some of these key moments in the rest of this article.

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Great news for all you Poker TV fans, ESPN will announce today that they have signed a new deal to cover the World Series of Poker until 2017, the current deal ends in 2010 despite ESPN’s poker rating being down 8% this year to date, “ESPN is bullish on poker for a long time to come”; according to a spokesperson.
The main event coverage for 2009 begins soon which will provide the needed boost in ranking especially seeing the Tiger Woods of poker “Phil Ivey” making the final table this year.
The deal will provide viewers of ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, ESPN-International and several other TV channels the chance to watch the World Series. ESPN have covered poker’s most prestigious event since 2003.

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FullTilt Poker have recently upgraded their software platform, If you have not already logged into your account the next time you do you will see all the new changes made aimed at making players at all levels and computing skill levels feel at ease with a much easier to use more user-friendly poker console. FullTilt’s new software allows users to choose one of three different lobby views based on their individual preference.

To summarize the different FullTilt Poker lobby view options users can choose between Basic View, Standard View or Classic view with easy access to change between views at any given time.

Basic View is the simplest of all and provides steps 1 thru 6 to help players choose the game they are looking for, basic view is best for those newbie’s or people lacking internet savvy.

Standard View is the most advanced of all the views and offers new tools and widgets to assist more advanced players.

Classic View as suggested by the name is the old FullTilt Poker lobby view.

Read on to discover the many new features available on the newest version of Full Tilt Poker.

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“Face The Ace” a new concept for a game show combined poker show will be heading to your TV with network airing date of the first episode scheduled for 1st August 2009 on NBC, the new poker TV series Face-The-Ace will be hosted by Steve Schirripa from the popular “The Sopranos” miniseries.

The new poker-theme game-show gives contestants the chance to play heads up against some of the world’s finest poker players.

Face the Ace poker game show will kick off with back to back episodes starting 9 p.m. ET. on the 1st of August with the remainder of seven episodes being televised on NBC every Saturday afternoon. Contestants will need to beat 3 pros on national TV to walk away with $1,000,000.

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FullTilt Poker just signed Justin ‘BoostedJ’ Smith who will now loose his well known BoostedJ nickname which will be replaced by a red FullTilt Pro “Justin Smith”.

The 21-year old online poker pro Smith finished in the money in five diffrent poker disciplines at this year’s WSOP namely no-limit Hold’em heads-up, limit 2-7 triple draw, no-limit 2-7 single draw, stud 8’s or better plus pot-limit Omaha with an 8th place finish at the $10,000 World Championship Stud 8 or Better event to conclude his World Series of Poker rookie year.

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