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Poker Tournaments

WSOP Circuit Event Goes to Africa

October 27, 2010 at 6:08 PM |

WSOP is holding its first WSOP Circuit Event in Johannesburg, South Africa. Vanessa Rousso, Gus Hansen and Maria Ho have already signed up for the tournament considered "The World Cup" of poker.

Poker Rake Races

Chocolate Poker $10,000 Rake Race This November

October 27, 2010 at 3:52 PM |

In partnership with Chocolate Poker, Rakerace.com is organising a rake race with a whopping $10,000 on offer this November.

Poker Tournaments

High Stakes Poker Season 7 Announced

October 27, 2010 at 1:13 PM |

GSN has released the recording dates for the 7th season of its hit TV show, High Stakes Poker. The Season will be shooting from 18-20 November.

Online Poker

What is the Moneybookers Security Token?

October 26, 2010 at 7:20 PM |

Moneybookers (MB) is used by many poker players for transfers to and from poker rooms and a number of other financial transactions. Afraid of hacker attacks, however, a lot of people are afraid of creating a MB account, which fear is more or less reasonable. With the Security Token (ST), however, these attacks can be counteracted.

Poker Tournaments

EPT Vienna Starts Today

October 26, 2010 at 6:32 PM |

The Vienna stop of EPT7 has launched today at the Kursalon Palace in the capital of Austria. It is the second time the PokerStars European Poker Tour visits the Middle-European country; in 2005, French Pascal ‘Triple P’ Perrault managed to win the event, earning €184,500.

Poker Rake Races

Betsson Exclusive $5,000 Cash Race (1-30 November)

October 26, 2010 at 5:12 PM |

In partnership with Betsson, Rakerace.com is organizing a $5,000 cash race this November.

Poker Rake Races

PokerHeaven & InterPoker Exclusive €3,500 Rake Race – (1-30 November)

October 26, 2010 at 3:06 PM |

Rakerace.com once again cooperates with PokerHeaven and InterPoker to organise a €3,500 Rake Race this November.

Poker Players

Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier to Play StarCraft 2 Instead of Poker?

October 25, 2010 at 6:08 PM |

One of the most successful French poker players, Bertrand Grespellier is rumored to give up poker for StarCraft 2.

Poker Rooms

Anonymous Tables at Ladbrokes

October 25, 2010 at 5:53 PM |

Leading UK betting company Ladbrokes has recently made the first anonymous tables available at their online poker room. Switching between normal and anonymous tables being an option, the latter has the advantage of your data, including your screen name and avatar, being completely unavailable to fellow players.

Poker Humor

Poker Look-Alikes - Two Plus Two Forum

October 25, 2010 at 2:21 PM |

The Viktor Blom photoshop selection of 2+2 posts proved to be a huge success, so we decided to dig Two Plus Two forums again to find you some more. Needless to say, we succeeded. We present you now the best poker look-alikes.

Poker Rooms

Cake Poker Introduces Exchange

October 25, 2010 at 1:05 PM |

A player-to-player marketplace has been set up by Cake Poker where you can buy and sell Gold Cards. These are “collectible rewards that are randomly distributed to players at all of our real money ring games.”

Poker Videos

The Annie Duke Show - Episode 1

October 23, 2010 at 5:16 PM |

Annie Duke has started her very own show called (quite surprisingly) "The Annie Duke Show". The first episode is 59 minutes long, you can watch it here at Rakerace.com.

Online Poker

FTP Application for Android?

October 22, 2010 at 7:47 PM |

A growing number of poker applications reach the mobile phone market, for instance SwitchPoker’s latest development for the iPad/iPhone. Now it is Full Tilt Poker that plans a release for the Android.

Largest Chip Stack Record Broken

October 22, 2010 at 3:55 PM |

This is the year for poker records, this June Phil Laak set the world record for longest continuous poker playing, and now, Paddy Power Poker have broken the the Guinness World Record for the world's largest chip stack.

Poker Tournaments

Randal Flowers Takes down WPT Festa al Lago

October 22, 2010 at 3:46 PM |

Held at the Bellagio, the 2010 WPT Festa al Lago brought about a new record set by 20-year-old Randal ‘RandALLin’ Flowers: in addition to being the youngest player ever to win a World Poker Tour event (WPT Barcelona, June 2009) he is now also the youngest to do it twice.