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In celebration of their sixth anniversary, PokerStars held a Sunday Million tournament for the ages, guaranteeing $6 million! The actual prize pool ended up being $6,746,000 as 33,732 players anteed up the $215 buy-in, and $1,064,737 was set aside for first place. With such a huge prize pool on the line, it’s no surprise that many of the PokerStars players turned out for this event. Some of the pros who fared well in the sixth anniversary Sunday Million tourney included Leo Fernandez (789th), Joao “jomane” Nunes (933rd), Chad Brown (1,500th), Martin Hruby (3,355th), Fredy “sirfreddy83″ Torres (3,997th) and Randy “nanonoko” …

Unibet will be introducing Relax Gaming’s Fast Poker to online poker players over the coming month. Patrik Österåker, CEO of Relax Gaming Network Ltd. has commented “We are thrilled to launch Relax Fast Poker Network together with some of the very leading names in the industry. We look forward to the launch and are sure more operators will join in. Fast Poker has the potential to make Poker really hot again, it’s fun, fast and easy, a great way of playing Poker”. Unibet’s Head of Gaming, Daniel Eskola has said of Fast Poker: “This is a major, exciting development in …

Whether you want to learn poker from the basics up, or you just feel as if your game could do with some tweaking and polishing, one of the best things any smart poker player can do is take advantage of RakeTheRake’s free poker training with DragTheBar. DragTheBar’s poker training provides: 30 professional poker coaches; no obligation to provide payment details for the trial; and 40 new videos uploaded every month (including i-pod compatibility), contributing to a growing library of over 1,000 poker videos covering No Limit Hold’em, Limit Hold’em, Sit ‘n’ Go’s, and Multi-Table Tourneys. You can learn poker with …

Betfair Poker are giving RakeTheRake players a generous 28 chances to win two World Series of Poker Las Vegas Experience packages! This amazing offer runs every week from now until June.The WSOP Experience packages give players 7 nights of the luxury, night life, sights and sounds of Las Vegas with Betfair Poker ambassadors and fellow team members. Betfair have 12 WSOP trials lined up, each offering at least 2 chances to win a luxury WSOP Team Betfair Experience package worth $4,000. Online finals for the previous week’s Trial period will be played on Wednesday evenings at 21:00 CET, starting from …

Ranking right up there with blooming flowers and finally being able to open your windows again, the Party Poker Spring Million is one of the best signs that spring is here. As usual, the Spring Million will offer a $1 million guaranteed prize pool, and this year’s event takes place on May 6th at 13:30 ET. If you’re interested in playing for a piece of this massive prize pool, you should sign up at Party Poker through RakeTheRake; this will get you a 100% match deposit bonus up to $500 and a top rakeback deal. Once you’ve completed the simple …

The Grassroots campaign is on, and it’s Ladbrokes Poker’s mission to find the next big poker star, scouring their virtual felts to crown the Ultimate Grassroots Player. In total Ladbrokes Poker will be spending an impressive £25,000 on Live Buy-ins throughout the promotion with one player eventually being crowned the ‘Ultimate Grassroots Player’ and becoming a sponsored pro with a £10,000 deal. Speaking about the Grassroots Scheme, Amy Trodd of the Ladbrokes Poker Team said: “We wanted to design a promotion for our recreational players who dream of becoming a Sponsored Poker Pro. There are some talented players on the …

Few poker tournament series can even come close to the Irish Poker Open in terms of what it has accomplished throughout the years. Started by Irish bookmaker Terry Rodgers in 1981, this poker extravaganza has steadily grown over its 32 years of existence, and is now the second longest-running tournament series behind the WSOP. Not only is it one of the longest-running; the Irish Poker Open Main Event is one of the richest tournaments in the world. In fact, just last year there was a €1,968,000 ($2.6m) Main Event prize pool, and Niall Smyth collected €550,000 ($794,580) after winning the …

The Nottingham leg of the PokerStars UKIPT is set to take place at Dusk Til Dawn Poker Club for the third year running, and this 3rd anniversary sees Dusk Til Dawn guaranteeing a £1 million prize pool! The PokerStars online satellite qualifiers have been generating significantly more players than last year, so Dusk Til Dawn and PokerStars have agreed to an additional Day 1. Unfortunately last year some players were turned away due to the club’s 50 table capacity but this year, despite the extra cost and workload involved for PokerStars, they have decided to go ahead with running an …

PokerStars has announced MicroMillions, and promises it will be the most inclusive and affordable online poker tournament series yet, catering for poker players of all stakes and ability levels – so whether you’ve only just started to learn poker or you fancy yourself a seasoned pro, you’ll be completely at home playing MicroMillions. The series will feature 100 events from 15th – 25th March, and offers $5 million in tournament guarantees! This micro series is targeted at micro-stakes and recreational players, but with prizes big enough to entice players of all skill levels. Micro Millions has buy-ins starting from just …

Betsafe Poker’s latest hot promotion is the Country Knock-out Challenge, in which Betsafe are giving away ten ipad 2 (32GB wi-fi) as prizes! Recruit as many players as you can to take part in your team’s group game tournaments. The more players in your team, the better your chances of scoring a win and advancing to the quarter and semi final rounds to decide the winner in the Betfair Poker Country Knock-out final! In addition to the 10 iPad 2′s to give away, Betsafe Poker are of course guaranteeing and adding loads of cash prizes as the Country Knock-out final …