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PartyPoker Holds Cancelled Pokerfest III Event in May

April 23, 2013 at 4:47 PM |

PartyPoker has announced that it was indeed due to technical difficulties that some of the Pokerfest III Day 1 events were cancelled on Sunday. Event #1 will be held on 12 May instead.

Poker Players

Gypsymagi820’s Identity Revealed

April 23, 2013 at 2:56 PM |

Finnish player Kyosti Isberg turns out to be behind the Sunday Million runner-up and high stakes HU SNG prodigy ’gypsymagi820’ screen name. Isberg is currently in the top section of the EPT Berlin field.

Poker Tournaments

EPT Berlin Main Event 2013 - Live Feed from Day 1B

April 22, 2013 at 5:28 PM |

Follow the action of the 2013 EPT Berlin Main Event Day 1B right here, at Rakerace.com. The live stream will start at 16:00 Central European Time.

Poker Tournaments

EPT Berlin - The Main Event Kicks Off

April 22, 2013 at 4:14 PM |

Ronny Voth managed to take the chiplead by the end of Day 1A at the EPT Berlin Main Event. Day 1B starts today, live feed from feature table is coming soon.

Poker Rooms

Events Cancelled at Pokerfest III Day 1

April 22, 2013 at 3:31 PM |

The online series of PartyPoker, Pokerfest III, launched on 21 April. Several events got cancelled; players suspect the great overlays behind the organisers’ action.

Online Poker

OMGClayAiken Wins $796k, Isildur1 Bankrupt?

April 22, 2013 at 1:09 PM |

Phil ‘OMGClayAiken’ Galfond played an incredibly profitable session late last week, while Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom lost $477,000 which was apparently enough for him to call bankruptcy.

Poker Tournaments

NBC National Heads-up Championship 2013 Part 4-6

April 22, 2013 at 10:45 AM |

NBC airs its 2013 NBC Heads-up Championship series and the parts are now available via the popular video sdharing sites. To watch the whole series, follow us at Rakerace.com!

Poker Players

Meet Online High Stakes Money List 2013 Leader PostflopAction

April 21, 2013 at 12:00 PM |

Alexander ‘PostflopAction’ Kostritsyn confidently leads the 2013 online high stakes money list: the Russian has 4 million in profits to his name this year and his stats show a steady growth.

Poker Rooms

Improvements at iPoker - iOS and HTML5 Clients, Elite VIP Loyalty System and More

April 20, 2013 at 12:00 PM |

The iPoker network is introducing a number of major changes, going live in the upcoming weeks.

Online Poker

Bwin.Party Leaves Several Markets

April 19, 2013 at 8:23 PM |

Bwin-Party released a statement in which they inform players that they will no longer be accepting players from 18 countries including Argentina, Finland, Greece, Poland and Hungary due to commercial reasons.

Poker Players

Moorman1 Wins 14th Triple Crown

April 19, 2013 at 6:37 PM |

In an incredible run, Chris ‘moorman1’ Moorman won his 14th Triple Crown. As of 16 April, he won tournaments in three different online poker rooms.

Poker Players

Trickett, Seiver and Danchev Top the 2013 Live Tournament Money List

April 19, 2013 at 12:00 PM |

Even though winning over $1 million in the WSOP APAC Main Event, Daniel Negreanu is still behind the top ten of the annual live tournament money list in 2013.

High Stakes Pros Arrested on Charges of Organising Illegal Gambling Activity

April 18, 2013 at 1:32 PM |

WPT champion Vadim Trincher, WSOP champion Abe Mosseri and Justin ‘BoostedJ’ Smith, among others, have been part of a syndicate possibly owned by the Russian mafia.

Poker Players

Isildur1 Wins $548k, Tops April Money List

April 17, 2013 at 5:44 PM |

After topping the January and March online high stakes cash game money lists, Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom now takes the lead in April, too.

Poker Players

Duhamel’s Ex to be Sentenced for Life?

April 17, 2013 at 12:45 PM |

In 2011, previous year’s poker world champion Jonathan Duhamel got insulted and robbed in his own house. The mastermind behind the criminal act was his ex-girlfriend, who now faces a sentence of 25 years in prison.