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There are a couple of nice promotions running this February at Fortune Poker since they’re featuring both a €12,500 Leap Year Special and €10,000 Valentine’s Lovers Special. Freeroll hunters will especially like the Leap Year Special because it offers two free poker tournaments, and an added value tournament. Here is a quick look at the details of the freerolls and added value event: Feb 29th at 18:30 – €2,500 New Player LeapRoll, entry is free for new players in February. Feb 29th at 19:00 – €5,000 added by Fortune Poker, €5 + €0.50 buy-in. Feb 29th at 19:30 – €5,000 …

Everybody loves to play poker for free money – especially when $25,000 is on the line! And that’s exactly what you can expect at Carbon Poker when they run their $25,000 Bankroll Booster Freeroll on February 26th. To get into the $25k Bankroll Booster, you need to play in the daily qualifiers that’ll be running from now until February 25th. There are three qualifiers running every day, and they take place at 13:30, 17:30 and 21:30 (server time). The entry is totally free, and the top 10 finishers in each poker tournament will receive a seat for the $25k freeroll. …

2012 will see the Unibet Open become more than just a poker tour – promising to be a comprehensive festival of Unibet games and gaming. The first Unibet Open stop of 2012 takes place at the award winning Prague Hilton, with around 300 players competing for six-figure top prizes across four days from February 16th-19th. Unibet have organised a completely new Leaderboard structure for 2012, with no prize-pool deductions this season, and the top three players at the end of the year winning sponsorship to 2013 Unibet Open Events. While some things are changing, Unibet’s reputation for player hospitality will …

Whether you’re new to online poker or not, chances are that you know the game involves plenty of skill. And the more measures you take to learn poker strategy before visiting the cyber felt, the better the chances that you’ll be successful in online poker from the start. Keeping this in mind, here are some things you should do in terms of beginners poker strategy to make sure your early poker days go smoothly. 1) Be Selective in the Hands you play – The most important beginners poker tip is to be selective in the hands you play preflop. Sure …

Canadian poker pro Nathan “Blackrain79” Williams is the biggest micro stakes winner in PokerStars history. In fact, he has pulled in $30,000 in profits while playing the $0.01/$0.02 and $0.02/$0.05 stakes alone. This being said, it’s no wonder why Williams is one of the most popular coaches at DragTheBar, where players can get free poker training through RakeTheRake. In regards to Williams’ record micro stakes profits, he was quoted as saying, “I guess (people were impressed) because no one was playing as many hands as I was and getting such high win rates. And people just thought it was crazy.” …

Birmingham, England native and poker pro Stuart Rutter will be joining Team Sky Poker after recently signing a deal with the company. As part of the deal, Rutter will join Julian Thew and Ryan “Scotty” Spittles in the announcer’s booth on Sky Poker TV, which can be viewed on the UK’s Sky channel 865. The company is certainly getting a quality pro in Rutter because the Cambridge mathematics graduate is one of the best cash game players in England, and his $770,379 in live poker tournament winnings are an added bonus. Rutter’s biggest tourney cash came in a 2010 WSOP …

Starting in March Carbon Poker is to run its first ever tournament series. This is set be a massive event and it is something that Carbon players have been requesting for a while. The event will be called Poker Maximus and will officially start on March 4th 2012. Satellites will start running for the events in late January 2012. For all you RakeThe Rake players signed up at Carbon, here’s the details: Dates – March 4-25th Satellites – Will start early to mid January and run until completion. Players who have existing tournament entry coupons will be able to use …

James “Asprin1” Akenhead proved why he is one of the UK’s best poker players by winning the most recent PokerStars Sunday Million tournament along with $213,750. This was certainly no easy task either when you consider that there were 7,150 players who either paid the $215 buy-in or satellited into the poker tournament. In addition to this, dozens of Team PokerStars pros bought into the event, which meant plenty of players on Akenhead’s level. Event still, the Londoner battled his way onto the final poker table with the third best chip stack (9.63 million). And Akenhead wouldn’t be behind for …

You’ve only got until Wednesday 1 February to register for the Super Poker Event of Europe 2012! The Super 2012 is being held in Dublin at the Citywest International Events Centre, Dublin, on  25th and 26th February  and has the support and participation of poker players and poker clubs from across Europe. As such it is set to be a remarkable and exciting new live event on the poker calendar! With an estimated prize pool of between €600,000 to €1.2 million, the Super 2012 offers poker players the chance to experience the big time for a ridiculously low buy-in of …

Those who closely follow online poker already know that Randy “Nanonoko” Lew is one of the best multi-tabling players in the game today. Nanonoko has become legendary for his quick decision-making, high-volume multi-tabling and impressive results. A testament to Lew’s skills is that he’s made millions of dollars, despite normally playing $5/$10 NL Hold’em games and lower. Recently, the Team PokerStars Online member decided to push his skills to the limit by trying to break the Guinness World Record for most online poker hands played in eight hours. Seeing as how the previous record was 23,492 hands (2,336 hands per …