Category Archives: Poker Articles

23-year-old Greg “MYNAMEIZGREG” Brooks earned the biggest poker tournament victory of his young career as he maneuvered through a 712-player field at the LA Poker Classic. With the win, Brooks proved that he is more than just an online poker grinder who earns money through rakeback; he is also a very good live tournament player as well. But anytime a $1.65 million top prize is on the line, you can guarantee that there will be plenty of competition, which was certainly the case on the LAPC final poker table. Brooks’ competition included online poker phenom Steve “gboro780” Gross, Vivek Rajkumar …

Have you ever wanted to make the online poker game experience more personal? More like sitting in your own home with your own friends around the table? Well, now you can thanks to PokerStars online Home Games. Home Games allows you to set up your own poker club, invite your friends and set up games for whenever you choose with your own tournament lobby. It’s all customisable and even better, it’s free! But of course you’ll also want to keep your poker friends in check, so Home Games allow you to run a leaderboard and ensure player stats and tournament …

The case against 8 year old Aashish Nanak from Chandigarh who won 22,912,500.38 Indian Rupees, (that’s a life changing $500,000 dollars!) playing an online poker game, started today in New Delhi. Lawyers acting for the Nanak family are battling to secure the money that would allow the family of twelve to move out of their slum dwelling into a new home and a new life. Aashish’s mother Mrs Nanak said “Aash has always loved the internet and computers he started his own web pages when he was only four years old, he is a very clever boy” Aashish has been …

Ok, so online full tilt poker is a way of life, but there’s still something very sacred about a place of gambling, something you can’t quite explain about the grand halls of a casino. I don’t know about you but I love old buildings, they are fascinating, old buildings that have been left to rot, are both sad and beautiful. What we have done is searched high and low for the best images of old Casinos that we could find and here they are. Some of you might find these images upsetting. 1. This old casino is now a post …

Or Wacky Christopher Walken performing the full tilt poker face of Lady Gaga This is the clip of oddball Christopher Walken reading Lady Gaga’s poker face. This is hilarious; if you haven’t seen it you need to. We have also added the Mash-up of Walken and Lady Gaga performing the song. Video of Christopher Walken performs Lady Gaga’s Poker Face Lady Gaga Vs Christopher Walken perform Poker Face (Mashup) If you can stop laughing a second, don’t forget to Digg, share, Twitter and shout about this post if you liked it guys

PARTYGAMING FOUNDER ANURAG Dikshit is to walk away from the company completely by selling his entire stake, EGRmagazine.com can reveal exclusively. As reported today, Dikshit earlier announced he is to sell two thirds of his 28% stake in the British company to focus on his charitable work in south Asia. However speaking to eGaming Review this afternoon, a spokesman for Dikshit, who pleaded guilty to internet gambling charges under the US Wire Act last December and received a $300m fine, confirmed that Dikshit will sell his remaining stake too.  Shimon Cohen said: “Anurag has paid the US$300m fine that he …

I started playing poker online about 4 years ago, purely because there was nothing on the TV & my car had broken down, so I couldn’t go out either.  I didn’t even know how to play at first, so I played for points until I got the idea.  I think I was hooked as soon as I had won my first pot!  A few months later, I heard about a local live poker game.  It was only an amateur league, played for points, but I loved it.  I gained enough points to end up top of the venue and qualified …

Poker is a game that everyone can enjoy, be it at home in a friendly game among friends or online for fake or even real money, but how many people enter into a real, high stakes professional poker game with a vision to actually win? With the help of Derren Brown, a pensioner named Ann did just that! With no real prior knowledge of poker, and only limited exposure to card games such as gin rummy, Ann was taught firstly the rules of poker, winning hands, odds etc and was also taught body language skills to try to tell what …

When I was asked by RakeTheRake to contribute some articles to their newly redesigned website, I jumped at the chance. My blog, Klopzi’s Mediocre Poker, focuses a little more on my day-to-day life at the virtual poker tables, sprinkled with the occasional personal tidbit. In this new forum, I’m going to do my best to explain how I approach and play poker by discussing everything from strategy to psychology to general observations on the game of hold’em. Before jumping into any thought-provoking posts, maybe I should take a chance to introduce myself. I feel that attempting to read someone’s ideas …

We have recently added a brand new blog to the RakeTheRake website with the aim of making the RakeTheRake site more community focussed and driven by you our users. To achieve this aim we would like to welcome any of our users who would like to write an article about poker or rakeback that they feel would be of interest to our community, any articles provided will then be posted on the site. We have already approached a few authors of poker blogs who have kindly agreed to provide us with some articles, so it won’t be long before we …