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Plus EV Purple Lounge August Race

August 18, 2011 at 1:41 PM |

From our wide range of august exclusive offers, today we take a closer look on the Purple Lounge rake race, where you can get up to 70% cash back with the Rakerace.com private promotion.

Online Poker

Your Country Needs You at World Cup of Poker

August 17, 2011 at 5:49 PM |

PokerStars continues to organise the World Cup of Poker with a Live Final in the 2012 Caribbean Adventure. Qualify for the tournament for free!

Poker Players

How Much of a Fish Guy Laliberté Exactly Is?

August 17, 2011 at 3:01 PM |

Cirque du Soleil company owner and billionaire Guy Laliberté has lost millions of dollars in online poker over the years and has been considered by many the biggest high stakes fish ever. Poker pro Mike Matusow now, however, claims that due to an agreement among the high stakes regulars, he has never had a real chance to win.

Poker Players

Dogishead and Jungleman: Final Confession

August 17, 2011 at 1:37 PM |

The poker community has been in the past week or so all about the “Girah Scandal” – which is not at all about ’Girah’ any more. The true principles have become Haseeb ‘dogishead’ Qureshi and Daniel ‘Jungleman12’ Cates, the career of both in ruins and not a word they say believed any more. Although it took them this much to eventually come clean, at least finally it seems they did.

Poker Players

Money Does Not Last too Long for Ronny Kaiser

August 16, 2011 at 5:27 PM |

Ronny Kaiser has lost almost all of his EPT Tallinn winnings, as he got rid of more than $300,000 on the weekend on PokerStars. 

Poker Players

Chino Rheem Started to Pay His Debts

August 16, 2011 at 1:16 PM |

David ’Chino’ Rheem has amassed a huge debt in the past few years but at last he started to pay it back, following his victory at the Epic Poker League for $1 million.

Poker Rooms

Online Poker Companies to Buy Full Tilt Poker?

August 15, 2011 at 6:19 PM |

According to Canadian-Poker.ca, , a number of poker companies are interested in purchasing Full Tilt Poker, for example Bwin.Party and iPoker network owner Playtech.

Poker Tournaments

Chino Rheem Wins Epic - Will He Settle His Debts?

August 15, 2011 at 4:08 PM |

Chino Rheem has won the million-dollar first prize at the Epic Poker League. He defeated Erik Seidel heads-up. The question is: will he use this sum to pay off his debts or will he continue scamming the poker community?

Poker Players

Jungleman Admits Involvement in Macedo Scandal

August 15, 2011 at 3:22 PM |

Daniel ‘Jungleman12’ Cates admitted in an interview made by Subject: Poker that he had played the ‘SamChauhan’, ‘Toshisan’ and ‘Girah’ accounts and participated in ghosting in cooperation with José Macedo.

Online Poker

Zynga Poker Debuts on Google Plus

August 12, 2011 at 5:54 PM |

Google Plus, the latest pretender to Facebook’s throne, has made yet another step in the competition against the social media giant. They have introduced games, undeniably an integral part of the online community experience, and hit big doing so with titles like Angry Birds and Zynga Poker.

Poker Players

Daniel Negreanu on the Epic Poker League

August 12, 2011 at 3:31 PM |

Already during the monumental Quadjacks interview we have summarised, Daniel Negreanu expressed his views on the Epic Poker League, the latest project from commissioner Annie Duke and chairman Jeffrey Pollack. In his recent blog post, the Canadian pro goes into details about his views on the EPL.

Poker Players

Jungleman and Dogishead Interviewed on Girah Scandal

August 11, 2011 at 4:18 PM |

Bluff Magazine has interviewed the two high stakes players who seem to have the most suspicious relationship with the scammer José ‘Girah’ Macedo. Daniel ‘Jungleman12’ Cates and Haseeb ‘dogishead’ Qureshi were asked a couple of more or less pressing questions and here are some of their answers.

Poker Players

Conspiracy Theories about the Girah Scandal

August 10, 2011 at 6:38 PM |

It would seem that Haseeb ‘dogishead’ Qureshi is gradually becoming the top suspect to be behind the Macedo (Girah) Scandal as forum members and known poker celebrities assume that he is deeply involved in the case. At the very least, he used the Portuguese midstakes pro’s account for multi-accounting.

Poker Videos

The Big Game Season 2 Week 6 - The Final Week

August 10, 2011 at 5:11 PM |

The PokerStars Big Game has finally arrived to the last week of Season 2, and it is a great one. With Tony G, Phil Hellmuth, Jennifer Tilly, plus Team PokerStars Pros Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero, Joe Hachem and Daniel Negreanu to the line-up, we are in for an awesome show.

Poker Rooms

Full Tilt Poker Pays License Fee, Fires Employees

August 10, 2011 at 3:39 PM |

Full Tilt Poker reportedly paid the £250,000 license fee to Alderney, which they were reluctant to do so during the July 26 hearing. They also sacked many of their U.S. employees in order to sort out the company.