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Poker Tournaments

Durrrr, Ivey, Juanda and Giang Cash Game Madness in Macau

November 15, 2010 at 5:56 PM |

Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey, Chau Giang and John Juanda seem to have a good time playing against Chinese businessmen at some high stakes cash game tables in Macau. Phil Ivey won a $2 million pot there, according to some rumors.

Loyalty Program Reviews

PartyPoker - VIP Club Review

November 12, 2010 at 2:24 PM |

Though PartyPoker does not give rakeback to its players, using their VIP system, it's easy to achieve 30-40% moneyback. Let's see how PartyPoker's loyalty system works.

Poker Videos

WSOP Final Table - If You Missed The Live Broadcast

November 11, 2010 at 5:45 PM |

If you missed out the live broadcast of the WSOP Main Event final table at ESPN3.com, now you can watch it. Thanks to PokerTube.com, now everybody can watch the most important moments in the form of this 100-minute video.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

Poker Players

Huggins is Closer to the Big Game

November 4, 2010 at 2:53 PM |

Here's a little update to Jared Huggins' story: the unlucky but forever optimistic, once homeless poker player have now uploaded his audition video for the PokerStars Big Game show. If he receives enough votes, he can easily be the loose cannon in the largest poker site's hit tv show.

Poker Players

High Stakes Profit List: Durrrr Leads the Way, Ziggy Loses Big

November 3, 2010 at 2:36 PM |

Tom ’durrrr’ Dwan clearly is the greatest high stakes winner of October with $990,000 in profit, while Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies lost over $1.7 million.

Poker Rooms

New Poker Room at Rakerace.com - Big Bet Poker

November 3, 2010 at 2:10 PM |

We are happy to present you our newest rakeback provider partner, Big Bet Poker. Part of the relatively small Merge network, you can expect weak players involved mostly in casino games and sports betting.

Poker Rake Races

PokerStars Exlusive Loyalty Freeroll - November

November 3, 2010 at 11:10 AM |

With an extraordinary timing and prize, the exlusive RakeRace Loyalty Freeroll continues this November. PokerStars now offers 41 tickets (worth 3000FPP each) to PokerStars' November Turbo Takedown, where players can play for their share of the handsome $1,000,000 prize pool.

Poker Tournaments

Eiler Takes Down EPT Vienna, Negreanu 4th

November 2, 2010 at 1:35 PM |

Michael 'mae9690' Eiler, 20-year-old player have won the EPT Vienna on Sunday. The young german player won the final heads-up against Martin Hruby. Daniel Negreanu finished 4th.

Lost & Found

Jungleman Heads-Up Training Video

October 31, 2010 at 6:15 PM |

Daniel 'jungleman12' Cates, a specialist of NLHE heads-up recently released a training video in which he plays heads-up at 6 tables at the same time, and comments his play, explaining his decisions. The short version of the video has been made available on YouTube for all to benefit from.

Poker Players

Tony G Descendant of Dracula?

October 31, 2010 at 12:12 PM |

The highly controversial Lithuanian-born poker pro, 'Tony G' (Antanas Guoga) is a distant relative of Vlad the Impaler, as he writes in his blog at PartyPoker.

Poker Tournaments

From Freeroll to Aston Martin: Marek Sosnowski Takes Down PartyPoker's Drive the Dream

October 29, 2010 at 1:59 PM |

The 19-year-old Polish player, Marek Sosnowski has won PartyPoker's latest Drive the Dream contest, winning a Ł150,000 Aston Martin DB9 Coupe. The teenager can't drive, he's working hard to get his license as soon as possible.

Poker Rake Races

PartyPoker Gladiator Challenge

October 28, 2010 at 7:01 PM |

Step into the arena for 30 days of exciting poker action from 1st to 30th November. Reach the minimum daily target of only 10 points for five days and you'll claim an entry into a $5,000 PartyPoker freeroll.

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

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 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 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.

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.

Poker Books

Barry Greenstein - Ace On the River - Book Review

October 21, 2010 at 6:29 PM |

Last time we wrote about Doyle Brunson's Super System 2, one of modern poker's most important books that teaches you the basics of all kinds of poker. Of course there are many more good books, which are not touching upon the basics, and such a book is Barry Greenstein's Ace On The River. It is one of our all-time favourites here at Rakerace.com. In our present review, we want tell you why.

Poker Players

Jared Huggins - The Story of a Homeless Poker Player

October 21, 2010 at 4:21 PM |

Jared Huggins' story moved people all over the world. He lost his bankroll, his jobs and has been evicted from his home. After 6 moths spent on the streets the help came. From whom? The poker community of course.

Poker Rake Races

Get a Free Poker Software from Rakerace.com

October 21, 2010 at 1:24 PM |

By participating in Rakerace.com's bwin promotion, you get the opportunity to get your hands on one of the many valuable poker software including Poker Tracker 3 or Holdem Manager for example.

Poker Players

Poker Hall of Fame Has Its New Members: Dan Harrington, Erik Seidel

October 20, 2010 at 1:51 PM |

The long awaited Poker Hall of Fame Class of 2010 was announced yesterday morning. The newest members of the Hall of Fame are 1995 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Dan Harrington and eight-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel.

Poker Movies

Jay Rosenkrantz and Taylor Caby to Make Feature Length Documentary About the Online Poker Boom

October 19, 2010 at 2:29 PM |

High stakes pro Jay Rosenkrantz announced on his blog that yesterday he is about to collaborate with Taylor Caby and Ryan Firpo, developing a "definitive feature length documentary about the online poker boom". The working title is "Boom".

Poker Players

Isildur1 to Be Sponsored?

October 18, 2010 at 7:23 PM |

According to high stakes blogger Sohello ’BankTheMan’ Shah of the Swedish expressen.se, a “20 years old” person, who “has during the end of 2009 and the whole of 2010 become one of the poker world’s hottest topics,” is soon to be signed by one of the major online poker providers.