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Poker Rake Races

New iPoker Race - Boylepoker Exclusive $7,500 Cash Race

June 17, 2013 at 7:23 PM |

Boylepoker offers an exclusive $7,500 cash race just for Rakerace.com players in the following 6 weeks. In addition to the private promotions, players are eligible for the $1,000 first deposit bonus, and using the room's VIP club, you can get up to 16-20% cashback.

Poker Interviews

50-Minute Video Interview With DrGiggy

December 28, 2010 at 3:16 PM |

In the following video, PokerStatic's interviewers Eric Bickel and Bret Oliverio talk to the Canadian NLHE cash game pro, Martin 'DrgGiggy' Giguere, who, as it turned out, got 5% of Jonathan Duhamel's WSOP winnings.

Poker Strategy

Poker Strategy: How to gain extra value with thin-value betting and pot building?

February 20, 2023 at 4:05 PM |

Have you ever wondered how some players with very similar playing styles win more than others? Well, there could be many nuanced reasons. Today we'll highlight two of them; building the pot and value betting thinly on the river.

Poker Rake Races

Play Ongame, Play RedKings! Five RedKings Cash Races Running Parallel in August

July 25, 2013 at 2:39 PM |

Rakerace.com players have the opportunity to participate in five excellent promotions at RedKings Poker in August as well. An exclusive $5,000 race, a $10,000 affiliate pooled race, a $50,000 Ongame central race, a $10,000 central Strobe Boost race and additional daily races are available.

Poker Rake Races

150K in Rake Races at Unibet

January 4, 2011 at 3:41 PM |

To make sure you will not forget to keep playing poker this year, we are offering you a brand new promotion at Unibet. Starting this January, Unibet will be holding three rake races, making a €150,000 prize pool altogether.

Poker Players

Dutch Boyd Broke, Sells Bracelet on eBay

December 21, 2012 at 3:00 PM |

Two times WSOP champion Dutch Boyd has lost all his money, does not get a job and now offers his bracelet won at the Bellagio for sale on eBay.

Poker Rake Races

MyBet Poker Exclusive $5,000 Cash Race - 1-31 August 2013

July 29, 2013 at 6:33 PM |

In August, iPoker network's MyBet Poker continues to offer a $5,000 private cash race, exclusively to Rakerace.com players.

Poker Rake Races

Win Your Share of $50,000 in the PokerStars VPP Ring

April 15, 2011 at 1:41 PM |

Ring games are the true test of a poker player’s skill. Also known as cash games, this is poker in its purest form, and now players in Central & Eastern Europe can play ring games and cash in big time. With VPP Ring you have five weeks to earn as many VIP Player Points (VPPs) as you can while playing cash games, top 500 players will share the $50,000 prize pool!

Loyalty Program Reviews

Analysis of the Cake Network Reward System

December 30, 2009 at 3:57 AM |

Gold Cards are awarded to real money ring game players of all stakes and levels. In fact, players can receive a Gold Card on their first hand dealt or even from hands they fold. And while that's nice and all, the Gold Card Race is here to light the fire of competition!  

Poker Players

Tom Dwan Phone Interview

September 23, 2011 at 3:53 PM |

As we reported, poker pro Tom ’durrrr’ Dwan set out to give interviews on whatever he knows about the Full Tilt Poker case. Among the several, the latest and most extensive audio material was published by Subject: Poker and you can listen to it here.

Poker Humor

Worst Interview Ever?

December 29, 2010 at 5:40 PM |

Hardly. A 2+2 thread with similar title hit the forum quite a while ago, but is still up and running. It contains many of the funniest moments/posts from Full Tilt Poker pros, mainly Phil Ivey, answering many of the most… interesting questions from “practised” members of the poker community. Not exactly interviews in the first place, they are definitely worth your while reading through.

Poker Rooms

Win an Xbox One and Other Great Prizes on partypoker!

April 3, 2017 at 8:26 PM |

PartyPoker’s live tournament series, PartyPoker LIVE launched this year and now, the second installment is ready for take-off in Austria. Meanwhile, you can take part in an exclusive Rakerace.com tournament for an Xbox and more.

Poker Videos

Phil Hellmuth Crazy Lady Gaga Entrance at WSOPE

September 24, 2010 at 4:22 PM |

Phil Hellmuth is famous for his big, and sometimes weird entrances, followed by bad play which leads him to his early elimination. He did the exact same at the WSOPE Main Event as well. He rode in on a classic red double-decker bus accompanied by a brass band, who began to play Lady Gaga's Pokerface, while 11 girls dressed as Gaga danced and sang.

Poker Players

Phil Hellmuth: Is His Time Over?

October 7, 2010 at 5:36 PM |

Once the world's biggest poker player Phil Hellmuth have not won a single tournament for 3 years and 110 days now, his bad luck surrounds his cash games as well.

Lost & Found

Free 10-minute HU SNG Video from Cog Dissonance

December 29, 2010 at 1:28 PM |

Cog Dissonance is one of the leading instructors from the coaching website HUSNG.com. He's extremely successful at heads-up sit n' gos, his ROI is 7% and his total profit after 15,000 played SNGs is $98,961. In this free video he talks about the general strategy for HU SNG SuperTurbos and shows us some gameplay as well.