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Poker Rooms

Tony G Backgrounds for Your PartyPoker Client

November 11, 2010 at 3:07 PM |

If you like Tony G, you might be interested in these custom backgrounds for PartyPoker online tables: you can have a classic black, a Lithuanian themed or a modern one.

Poker Videos

Raymond Domenech to Return in Poker?

November 11, 2010 at 1:25 PM |

If you are French, you must be infuriated and hating Raymond Domenech, France's national soccer team coach who made many bad decisions and had his team eliminated during the group stages at the South African World Cup. Well, now he's teamed up with Bwin, offering the haters the chance to beat him up at poker.

Poker Rake Races

Everest Poker Exclusive Freeroll - Win Tickets for the $50,000 Guarantee Tournament

November 11, 2010 at 12:28 PM |

Rakerace.com organizes an exclusive freeroll at Everest Poker, where our registered players can win 2 tickets (worth $109 each) to the $50,000 Guarantee tournament this Sunday.

Poker Players

Nanonoko’s Spotless Stats are History

November 10, 2010 at 7:09 PM |

PokerStars pro Randy ‘nanonoko’ Lew has played over 4 million hands online as yet, but has so far avoided downswings like his latest session. Now, however, he lost 40 buy-ins in a single day.

Online Poker

Durrrr Challenges Resuming Soon?

November 10, 2010 at 6:07 PM |

According to his blog, Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan is back from Europe and almost finished shooting the upcoming episodes of the show Poker after Dark, as well as ready to continue his two challenges, both went silent quite a while ago.

Poker Players

Poker Community Congratulates Duhamel

November 10, 2010 at 3:57 PM |

As we noted, Jonathan Duhamel won the 2010 WSOP Main Event, taking home $8.9 million after defeating John Racener HU in 43 hands. The social media was soon full with congratulations and reactions from poker pros; here is a short compilation of these.

Casinos

Boardwalk Empire Themed Casino to Open in Atlantic City

November 9, 2010 at 5:22 PM |

If you like the 1920's era, or just in love with HBO's hit show, the "Boardwalk Empire", you will love this news. Atlantic City Resorts will adopt a 1920's theme in one of their casinos by December this year.

Lost & Found

Multi-Table Poker Tournament Coaching Video by Jeremy Menard

November 9, 2010 at 3:29 PM |

Jeremy Menard is one of today's best MTT players winning more than $2 million at online tournaments so far. He is also a multi-table tournament coach at DragTheBar. In this video he shows you his way of thinking at a $500 PartyPoker tournament.

Poker Tournaments

WSOP Main Event - Jonathan Duhamel is the New Champion

November 9, 2010 at 12:59 PM |

Jonathan Duhamel, 23-year-old Canadian player has won the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event. He played very well, exploited his huge chip lead and defeated John Racener for $8,944,310 in prize money.

The Cube - Handy Poker Gadget?

November 8, 2010 at 6:19 PM |

Has it ever come to you that due to some less than perfect hole card viewing techinque other players might see your cards and take advantage of you? If so, The Cube is for you. This little device helps you view your cards securely, and is also a convenient picture holder.

Poker Players

Pokerb00m.eu Goes down after Tekintamgac Scandal

November 8, 2010 at 5:59 PM |

WPT Barcelona winner Ali Tekintamgac got disqualified from the PPT Cannes main event final table, under suspicion that Pokerb00m.eu bloggers helped him achieve his 4th place in the event. The site is currently “under maintenance.”

Poker Tournaments

Duhamel Vs. Racener - Final Heads-Up Coming Up

November 8, 2010 at 2:25 PM |

After all other finalist were eliminated in Sunday's WSOP Main Event final table, Jonathan Duhamel will face John Racener in the heads-up. Duhamel is in an enormous chip lead, he has over 180 million chips against Racener's 30 million.

Moneybookers - Rakerace.com's Favourite Online Wallet

November 7, 2010 at 6:03 PM |

Some of you have asked us which e-wallet we think is worth it to sign up to. We decided to write an article about it rather than answer to all of you. With the introduction of the Security Token (a physical device designed to increase log in security) Moneybookers is our favourite when it comes to online wallets.

Poker Videos

Banned PokerStars Commercial - Play Online Poker, It's Safer

November 7, 2010 at 2:36 PM |

You are not going to believe this. PokerStars (that's right, the largest poker site in the world) released this commercial recently. Almost instantly they removed it, but it was already too late. It's very successful at YouTube at the moment, PokerStars tries to remove all of the uploads, but we all know it's futile.

Lost & Found

Poker Odds and Outs

November 6, 2010 at 4:42 PM |

It is crucial knowing your odds in poker. We often find ourselves in a situation where our hand is not complete yet, but there is a good chance that it will become better, even to be the nuts on the turn or the river. But what are the exact chances of this happening?