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If you play micro stakes poker games, you don’t expect to play for lots of money at this juncture.  In fact, you are probably just hoping to improve your poker strategy before moving on to higher stakes.  But at Ultimate Bet Poker, you don’t have to wait for the higher stakes before playing for lots of cash.  You can play poker for major money right now through their Perfect Play promotion! Altogether there will be over $100,000 worth of prizes offered with the money spread out over several different promotions.  In Perfect 10, you will compete in $10 +$1 tournaments …

Just a couple of weeks after Russian spy Anna Chapman released her new iPhone game Poker with Anna Chapman, Full Tilt Poker is said to be working on a new application for the Android. Full Tilt has been developing this mobile phone game for the past several weeks, and it’s rumored that the app could be done in as few as a few weeks.  News of Full Tilt going mobile first broke when they sent out an email to Black Card members earlier this week inviting them to participate in the mobile Rush Poker beta testing.  Now it appears as …

After offering a $7,460,000 prize pool last year, the Aussie Millions is easily the biggest casino poker event in the Southern Hemisphere.  And Tyron Krost was certainly glad to be a part of this poker tournament in 2010 when he took the $2 million top prize!  Obviously there is a lot of money involved in the Aussie Millions and if you’d like to play poker for this enormous amount of cash, you should visit Full Tilt Poker.  Full Tilt is currently giving away $16,000 prize packages for the Aussie Millions where $10,000 goes towards the Main Event buy-in, and the …

Dan “Action Dan” Harrington and Erik Seidel were voted into the Poker Hall of Fame this week ending speculation about who would earn the two spots this year.  Both Seidel and Harrington have a wealth of experience in the casino poker world.  Harrington has won 2 WSOP gold bracelets, a WPT title and has over $6.6 million in poker tournament winnings.  Going beyond his playing accomplishments, Harrington has also written several poker books including the Harrington on Hold’em and Harrington on Cash Games series.  Both of these poker strategy book series have churned out multiple best sellers and have made …

Noted online poker pro Randal Flowers made his biggest splash in the casino poker world after winning the WPT Fiesta al Lago event.  This poker tournament was no cakewalk for Flowers though since he faced some of the best players in the world towards the end of the tourney.  Annette Obrestad, Noah Schwartz, Andy Frankenberger, Allen “The Chainsaw” Kessler, and Jeff Madsen were among the final 15 players left.  But Flowers had one thing going for him that all of these other poker pros didn’t – the poker chips lead! Flowers took his chip lead onto the final poker table …

There are many more ways than one to help you burn right through your online bankroll and find yourself searching classified adds for new employment rather than online gaming sites for new game opportunities. Becoming a successful online poker player takes control and discipline. Here are five tips to help you make sure that you’ve got what you need to fund your game and profit in your online gaming. The first thing to remember is to always, always, play within the limits of your bankroll. Most successful online players agree that it is crucial to follow the rule of always …

It appears as if Full Tilt Poker has caught athlete fever since they’ve just signed tennis pro James Blake a week after signing British boxer Audley Harrison.  Blake became a professional tennis player in 1999, and rose to prominence in 2006 when he was the No. 4 ranked player in the world.  Blake remained consistent up until 2009 as he never fell out of the top 15.  Unfortunately, a string of poor tournament finishes have left Blake the 120th ranked player today.  But that doesn’t take anything away from his online poker appeal in Full Tilt’s eyes.   Full Tilt is …

Commonsense would tell you that it’s not good to be a captured spy.  You would be held captive, forced to reveal vital information, and possibly even tortured.  That’s of course if you were caught as a spy before 2010.  Now captured spies are treated like celebrities, and even get to release their own poker games! Such is the case with Russian spy Anna Chapman who has become quite the media magnet after being arrested by US authorities for espionage several weeks ago.  Chapman is not only all over the news for her celebrity appearances and interviews, but now she is …

Full Tilt Poker player Nick Schulman recently appeared on a very interesting episode of the new MTV show “World of Jenks.”  If you haven’t heard of “World of Jenks,” it’s a documentary-style TV show where host Andrew Jenks dives into interesting professions to gain new perspectives.  As you may have guessed, the show featuring Schulman was about casino poker. After Jenks meets Schulman, Nick and his friend are playing Chinese poker (where Schulman reveals he is down $4,800).  Then Schulman happens to win a $20,000 pot while playing internet poker at Full Tilt.  After winning the giant pot, Schulman gambles …

With the WCOOP and SCOOP already offering online poker players over $100 million in guaranteed prize money, it’s not like PokerStars needs to host anymore huge internet poker events.  But the PokerStars staff never seems to rest since they just recently announced that they’ll be running 13 Regional Championships of Online Poker.  The RCOOP poker games take place in October, November, December, and February with over $7 million in total prize money being offered.  The biggest RCOOP event is the USA Championship of Online Poker where $3.3 million will be given out throughout 11 tournaments.  The second largest RCOOP event …