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Matt Damon is a Poker Expert!

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Ok so you ask yourself how someone so young can become a major player in the worlds top poker tournaments. Well do you remember the film Rounder’s, Matt Damon was taught to play poker, he actually states that he never ever forgot and he is now one of the top players in major tournaments.

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Spiderman Toby Maguire Pockets $10,000.000 in a Poker Tournament!

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Well this is our first post on reporting some famous celebrities who have hit the big time in poker! For today we present you with Spiderman!! Toby Maguire himself has pocketed around $10 million dollars and been ranked as 292 in a major World Series tournament. It just goes to show that even superheroes can win! Stay tuned for our next post about Matt Damon!!

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Absolute Poker Latest Reload Bonus

Reload this Wednesday June 25th and get a 100% Reload Bonus up to $150 on the first deposit you make between 00.01 ET and 23.59 ET Wednesday! Use Bonus Code YEAH100 To sign up for best Absolute Poker Rakeback visit http://www.raketherake.com/PokerAbsolute.html

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Virgin Poker Free Flights Update

Congratulations to EdgarDavid, Biatch_P & RTR_Virgin who have all won 50,000 Virgin Flying Club Miles. There are 9 Virgin Poker flights left in our fantastic RaketheRake Virgin Poker Promotion, this rake race is heating up, so hurry if you want to win your Virgin Atlantic Air Miles! For more information on this promotion please go to http://www.raketherake.com/PokerVirgin.html

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Stefan Mattsson Comes Within a Whisker of Winning Barcelona WPT

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Purple Lounge, sponsored poker player Stefan Mattsson has taken yet another huge step forward in his professional poker career, cashing €220,000 ($346,621) at the WPT Spanish Championship. Casino Barcelona where the final WPT was held, attracted a strong field of 253 players including among others: Juha Helppi; Carlos Mortensen; Annette Obrestad; Antonio Esfandiari and Patrik Antonius of which six returned for the final table including Stefan Mattsson who went into last day with the chip lead. After a tough final day Stefan ended 2nd in this extremely strong field of players and pocketed his largest cash to date. Proving he’s …

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RakeTheRake Friend Michelle Orpe cashes for Purple in European Ladies Championship

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Friend of Rakeback Affiliate RakeTheRake and Purple Lounge sponsored player Michelle Orpe has taken another step in her professional poker career by reaching the final table and cashing in one of the most prestigious women only tournaments in Europe. Well known as an international jetsetter and presenter on Sky Poker, Michelle reached the final table of the European Ladies Poker Championship in London on May 4th. At stake was a guaranteed Prize pool of $100,000 and a top prize of $30,000. A strong field of experienced professionals failed to faze Michelle and she outlasted among others another friend of RTR, …

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Free Playboy Tournament Tonight – Sunday 4th May

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Just a quick reminder that the winner takes all $3,000 Playboy Mansion freeroll is today at 3pm ET (8pm BST) Full details here: http://www.raketherake.com/rakeback-news/2008/04/29/cake-poker-playboy-mansion-package/ May the 4th be with you! Winner Best Poker Affiliate 2008 (CAP Awards)

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Congratulations to the San Remo 3!

Congratulations to our top 3 in the RakeTheRake San Remo $10,000 Freeroll at InterPoker 1st – lagune 2nd – parrisimo 3rd – interdonk The prizes for the top 3 are as follows: 1st Place – San Remo Premium – Value $4,000 2nd Place – San Remo Deluxe – Value $3,000 3rd Place – San Remo Classic – Value $2,000 The full details of these packages can be found here: http://www.interpoker.com/promotions/0108/theitalianjob.shtml?2179198 Well done to you all and good luck in San Remo!

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RakeTheRake Player Wins Full Tilt FTOPS VI

Congratulations to THEnaturalACE who finished clear at the top of the FTOPS VI leaderboard. With a total of 340 points over the 12 day event, THEnaturalACE finished a mammoth 80 points ahead of second place TopTizzlePizzle, and pocketed just under $50,000 in the process, a nice addition to his 27% rakeback. Other RakeTheRake leader board finishers included 6th Greg__Chimp 57th monika13 71st phatchoy888 =106th Broberts85 =106th JLimbs 139th Scroovel =181st FishRoller =181st faysoconivy 226th bballer88 Many congratulations to all our players! The full leader board can be found here http://p.fulltiltpoker.com/ftops-leaderboards/ftops/current To register for rakeback with Full Tilt see http://www.raketherake.com/PokerFullTilt.html

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Full Tilt Now Accepting Maestro/Switch and Solo debit cards

Great news from Full Tilt Poker if you’ve had problems depositing recently… Reloading your Full Tilt Poker account is now faster and easier than ever thanks to the addition of two new deposit options – Maestro/Switch and Solo debit cards. Both of these fast, convenient, and secure deposit methods allow you to make instant deposits to your Full Tilt Poker account using your Solo or Maestro/Switch debit cards. Reload your player account today and begin playing to take advantage of our incredible Year-End Bonus where you can receive bonus dollars for each month that you reached one of their four …

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