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By participating in Rakerace.com's bwin promotion, you get the opportunity to get your hands on one of the many valuable poker software including Poker Tracker 3 or Holdem Manager for example.

Bots Discovered at Full Tilt Poker

A few days ago, Full Tilt Poker has sent e-mails to a number of its clients concerning a security breach; i.e. some players got banned and their bankrolls confiscated due to botting at the room’s tables. Affected players were refund for their losses to these accounts.

Insane Gambling Lawsuit in Illinois

Illinois has some interesing laws. Scott Crespo, Florida lawyer is suing players based on an Illinois code that says all money above $50 lost gambling can be sued back.

Poker Hall of Fame Has Its New Members: Dan Harrington, Erik Seidel

The long awaited Poker Hall of Fame Class of 2010 was announced yesterday morning. The newest members of the Hall of Fame are 1995 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Dan Harrington and eight-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel.

Jay Rosenkrantz and Taylor Caby to Make Feature Length Documentary About the Online Poker Boom

High stakes pro Jay Rosenkrantz announced on his blog that yesterday he is about to collaborate with Taylor Caby and Ryan Firpo, developing a "definitive feature length documentary about the online poker boom". The working title is "Boom".

RedKings Exclusive Rake Race for GSOP Malta Packages

In cooperation with RedKings Poker, Rakerace.com organizes an exlusive rake race from 18 October to 17 November. Only those who registered through Rakerace.com are eligible to participate. The first 2 players will get to travel to the $1600 buy-in GSOP Live Malta tournament, the 3rd best player will get a $320 GSOP Live Budapest online satellite buy-in.

IPT San Remo 2 Final Table Live Stream

Here's the live coverage of IPT San Remo 2's final table, which is progressing at this very moment. Besides 5 Italians and 1 Lithuanian player, 2 Hungarians have made it to the table, Richárd 'jampiriki' Scheili and Csaba 'csaba333' Szász are on the 6th and the 5th places.

Isildur1 to Be Sponsored?

According to high stakes blogger Sohello ’BankTheMan’ Shah of the Swedish expressen.se, a “20 years old” person, who “has during the end of 2009 and the whole of 2010 become one of the poker world’s hottest topics,” is soon to be signed by one of the major online poker providers.

Full Tilt Top 10 Winners/Losers of 2010 So Far

Full Tilt Poker's high stakes tables are a place for spectators to hang around every night because there just might be some fireworks between pros like Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan and Gus Hansen. 2010 was a very profitable year for some players, but not not all. The top 10s of the biggest winners and losers are really interesting to look at.

23-Way Chop at WPT's Side Event

Weird things happen in Connecticut: 23 players agreed to a 23-way chop at WPT's preliminary $400 NLHE Deep Stack event at the Foxwoods Resort Casino.

General Poker Quiz

You think you know all about poker? Love to guess around? Then this is your opportunity to test your poker knowledge in our 16-question quiz.

Doyle Brunson - Super System 2 - Book Review

Written by the godfather of poker, Doyle Brunson, Super System is considered the bible of poker. Already a two-times WSOP champion, Brunson wrote the indispensable book in 1979. He released the Super System 2 in 2004, which we are going to present to you now.

No Limit Hold'em Tips for Beginners - Part 2.

This is the second part of our guide to the basic game techniques in No-limit Hold’em. You can find the first part here.

Video Interview with Tony Dunst

Tony ’Bond18’ Dunst has recently been announced to host WPT’s show ’The Raw Deal,’ acquiring the job as one of a great number of contestants. The year of 2010 seems rather lucky for him as he also managed to make it to the 50th place in this years’ WSOP Main Event. PokerTube released a 23 minutes long video interview with him, talking about his life and poker background.

Poker Is A Sport Says The Department of Labor

The US Department of Labor now recognizes "Professional Poker Player" as a legit profession, appearing in the federals listings and the Occupational Code Assignment.
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