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Norbert Bárdos — Editor-in-Chief
Norbert has written about poker as banoster since 2009. He came to the game from sports journalism, by way of the television broadcasts that followed the poker boom — which meant he arrived already knowing how to file copy, and learned the poker afterwards.
He joined PokerAkademia first as a player and then as an editor, and wrote most of the news archive that turned it into the defining community site of Hungarian poker. In parallel he built a playing career: an NL100 six-max cash regular, several years spent as a backed player, and three years in Team Hero's Hungarian cash game programme, coached by high-stakes regulars including Katz0r and neomorf. He is still an active, winning player at those stakes.
What he brings to RakeRace beyond the editing is fifteen years inside the poker industry itself, including the affiliate side of it. He knows how rakeback deals get negotiated, why one room's offer wins on paper and loses at the table, and which parts of this business readers are usually not told about. That is the beat he covers personally: poker news, the industry, and how the money actually moves.
He has followed casino games since 2025, and plays blackjack away from the poker tables. The hands-on casino reviewing on this site is done by Patr1ckz, who has six years of play behind it; Norbert's role there is editorial.
What he covers
- Poker news and industry analysis
- Poker room reviews and rakeback deals
- How the affiliate business works — including ours
- NLHE cash game strategy at micro to mid stakes
Experience
Playing since
2009
Stakes and format
NL100, six-max No-Limit Hold'em cash
Coaching
Three years in the Team Hero Hungarian cash game programme
Editorial background
Sports journalist, then editor at PokerAkademia
Casino games
Following since 2025
Role at RakeRace
Editor-in-Chief
Elsewhere
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- The — most of it his
Disclosure
Norbert spent three years in the Team Hero cash game programme, and RakeRace has a commercial relationship with Team Hero. He does not write our Team Hero coverage, and any article that mentions them carries this disclosure.
The rest of the team
Norbert edits the work of the writers on our team page — Zenderman on cash game strategy and poker news, Daniboy on solver work and study method, and Patr1ckz on tournaments and casino reviews.
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