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Stan James Poker $2,500 Exclusive Rake Race - 1-28 February

January 29, 2013 at 12:14 PM |

Microgaming's Stan James Poker returns with an exclusive $2,500 rake race in February for Rakerace.com players only. What is more, players are also eligible for the 30% rakeback and the generous first deposit bonus.

Poker Rake Races

MyBet Poker Exclusive $5,000 Cash Race - 1-28 February

January 28, 2013 at 5:29 PM |

MyBet Poker, part of the iPoker network, greets the new year with their $5,000 private cash race, offered exclusively for Rakerace.com players in February as well, with its outstandingly high return. Join the action now!

Poker Rake Races

Betsson €4,000 Exclusive Cash Race - 1-28 February

January 25, 2013 at 12:00 PM |

Betsson continues to offer their usual €4,000 exclusive cash race in the Microgaming Network only to Rakerace.com players in February, 2013. In addition to the race, the generous €1,000 FD bonus and the 30% cashback are also available to the fans of the Microgaming Network.

Poker Rake Races

Muchos Poker Exclusive €2,000 Cash Race - 1-28 February

January 24, 2013 at 7:33 PM |

Muchos Poker and Rakerace.com are back with their private €2,000 cash race, starting from 1 till 28 February, 2013. As an extra, you can also play at the Enet Network. As usual, only players registering to the room via Rakerace.com are eligible to participate. In addition to the cash race, players have access to the 30% rakeback, available in all networks offered by the room, except for 888.

Poker Rake Races

Betfred Exclusive $5,000 Cash Race - 1-28 February

January 24, 2013 at 5:40 PM |

Betfred Poker continues to offer an exclusive $5,000 cash race to all players who register to the room via Rakerace.com in February. In addition to the race, the $2,000 first deposit bonus is also available.

Poker Tournaments

NBC National Heads-Up Championship - Negreanu Withdraws, Sands Joins

January 24, 2013 at 2:17 PM |

Dealing starts at the NBC National Heads-Up Championship soon, without Daniel Negreanu apparently, who backed out and will not take part in the most prestigious heads-up challenge.

Liv Boeree Analyzes Lance Armstrong's Doping Admission

January 23, 2013 at 7:23 PM |

The British paper The Telegraph asked Liv Boeree, PokerStars pro to analyze Lance Armstrong's interview With Oprah. You can read her opinion below.

Poker Players

Andre Coimbra $100K Challenge - Back to Starting Bankroll

January 22, 2013 at 5:03 PM |

Andre Coimbra is mid and high stakes SNG specialist who keeps testing himself through various challenges. Last year he decided to play all of the events of the PokerStars MicroMillions series, which meant he had to play 100 events between 12-23 July, 2012 without much rest due to the stucture of the tournaments. Now he's up to something big.

Poker Tournaments

Sheppard Wins First Multi Prize Pool Tournament, Romanello Finishes Second

January 21, 2013 at 7:18 PM |

As we reported in January, Roberto Romanello's brainchild, the Multi Prize Pool tournament finally took off. The event was held at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham and ended with the victory of Brian Sheppard, beating Romanello.

Poker Rooms

PKR Releases iPad App

January 21, 2013 at 4:33 PM |

Our partner PKR Poker, a next-generation poker room with quality 3D software has released an iPad version of their client software, which can be downloaded via the Apple App Store.

Poker Tournaments

NBC National Heads-Up Championship Entrants List Released

January 21, 2013 at 2:23 PM |

The names of the players participating in this year's NBC National Heads-Up Championship has just been made public. Amongst the 64 entrants are Phil Hellmuth, Michael Mizrachi, Phil Laak, Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom and Gaelle Baumann.

Poker Legislation

Segregated Online Poker Market to Fail, Regulators Aim for Common Market

January 19, 2013 at 2:00 PM |

French online poker regulator ARJEL has announced that state revenues from online poker fall short of expectations and major changes are necessary.

Poker Players

Gus Hansen Wins $662,000, Isildur1 Returns after Short Break

January 18, 2013 at 4:34 PM |

Following a single day’s break, Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom returned to the online high stakes game, loosing $207,000 in a long session. Gus Hansen is the biggest winner of the past 24 hours.

Poker Players

Isildur1 on Break - January Profits Drop to $3 Million

January 17, 2013 at 5:38 PM |

Viktor Blom (Isildur1) has lost a decent amount of money at the high stakes tables recently, so he decided to take a break from playing poker.

Poker Rooms

PartyPoker Withdraws Top VIP Level and 30%+ Rakeback

January 16, 2013 at 9:41 PM |

PartyPoker has officially announced that they remove the Palladium Elite VIP level, including all bonuses equivalent of over 30% rakeback, as of 1 April, 2013.