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Poker Rooms

New Room in Our Portfolio - Free €10 and Exclusive Satellite at Winamax!

October 29, 2013 at 3:25 PM |

Celebrate the start of the cooperation between Rakerace.com and the single largest French room Winamax with free €10 and grab one of the Winamax Main Event tickets as well!

Poker Tournaments

GSOP Live Baden 2013: Jouni Kallio Wins

February 17, 2013 at 4:46 PM |

Jouni Kallio took down the Grand Series of Poker Live Baden tournament for €65,130, besting the nine-handed final table, including Karel Kratochvil in the heads-up.

Poker Interviews

Interview with Daniel ‘Jungleman12’ Cates

August 16, 2010 at 5:02 PM |

Jungleman12 is one of the most frequently mentioned names in today’s world of online poker.

Poker Tournaments

WSOP Event #20: Benjamin Scholl takes down $5,000 Limit Hold'em

June 13, 2012 at 2:45 PM |

By the third day of Event #20, the $5,000 Limit Hold'em tournament at the WSOP, 17 players remained, lead by Matthew Woodward. In the end, Benjamin Scholl emerged victorious cashing $206,760.

Poker Rooms

Winamax Chip Set Challenge - Win Deluxe Prizes in the Central Promotion

March 19, 2014 at 3:45 PM |

Winamax Poker has announced the Chip Set Challenge, a central promotion to win a Deluxe Chip Set and Winamax Series tickets, added to the money prize pool.

Poker Humor

Support Printing Bobby Crosby’s +EV Comic Strip

July 8, 2012 at 1:57 PM |

Bobby Crosby, the renowned writer of the +EV comic strip now aims to raise funds to publish 150 of the best strips in printing. To achieve this, he calls for the help of the international poker community.

Poker Players

Cristiano Ronaldo Playing Heads-Up Against Jungleman12 and Antonius

December 6, 2010 at 4:31 PM |

The Portuguese soccer player, Cristiano Ronaldo appears to have been playing poker on Full Tilt Poker against Daniel 'jungleman12' Cates and Patrik Antonius.

Poker Tournaments

WSOP 2013 - Event #39 - Daniel Idema and Phil Hellmuth Celebrate

June 24, 2013 at 3:36 PM |

Despite not making it to the top 17 players to return on Day 3 of World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2013 Event #39 $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better, Phil Hellmuth celebrated his historic 99th WSOP in the money finish.

Poker Interviews

The Dang Brothers: A Video Interview

January 18, 2011 at 2:34 PM |

PokerStatic has recently made a video interview with the Dang brothers, Di and Hac, also known as Urindanger and trex313, respectively. While the former plays PLO with Gus Hansen, they evaluate their poker year of 2010.

2011 Retrospective – Part 2

December 23, 2011 at 1:22 PM |

In the second part of our end-of-the-year retrospective, we revise what happened in February, 2011.

Poker Tournaments

WSOP Event #2 - Jake Cody Defeats Hansen

June 7, 2011 at 10:54 AM |

As we reported, Gus Hansen was a clear favourite for the WSOP $25,000 Heads-Up Championship. However, it was Jake Cody, 22-year-old British poker pro, who took down the $851,192 main prize and the WSOP bracelet in the end.

Poker Players

Gus Hansen Crawls Back with $1.5 Million Session

May 16, 2013 at 10:00 AM |

One of this year’s biggest online high stakes loser so far, Gus Hansen managed to pull himself together and won a total of $1.5 million on FLO8 and 27TD tables earlier this week. His payday was sponsored by Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom and Alex ‘PostflopAction’ Kostritsyn, above all.

Poker Tournaments

WPT Venice 2013 - Rocco Palumbo Is Champion

March 31, 2013 at 8:22 PM |

WSOP champion Rocco Palumbo took down his first ever World Poker Tour title in the main event of the 2013 Venice stop of the show. The main event was held on the 5th event day and Marcello Montagner started in the chiplead.

Poker Rooms

May you earn the highest rakeback!

April 30, 2020 at 9:29 PM |

No more bad jokes in this article, only the best rakeback offerings, we promise!

Poker Tournaments

ESPN Coverage of WSOP Main Event Is a Success

July 27, 2011 at 4:29 PM |

ESPN has released the statistics on their coverage of the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event. The number of viewers doubled compared to last year’s data.