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After the huge success of their Double Guarantees Week in late January, Full Tilt Poker has decided to bring this extremely popular promotion back from March 28th to April 3rd. Normally, Full Tilt’s weekly poker games offer $15 million in guaranteed prizes; however, the Double Guarantees Week will offer nearly $37 million in guaranteed money. The event starts on Sunday, March 28th at 0:00 ET with a $23,000 KO poker tournament that will be doubled to $46,000. From there, the prize pools will only get bigger with some tournaments offering millions of dollars. Some of the highlights of Double Guarantees …

While Full Tilt Poker pro Tom Dwan and PokerStars pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom are still busy issuing challenges on the felt, Victory Poker player Andrew “good2cu” Robl has a challenge of different sorts. Robl, who has been doing some mixed martial arts training when he’s not busy earning 33% rakeback at Victory Poker, has issued a $50,000 cage match challenge to any beginner fighter (or poker player). Robl announced the challenge through his poker blog at CoinFlip, and started out talking about his training experiences by writing, “I’ve been training MMA (mostly jiu justi) 3-4X times a week. I train …

UB Poker continues to rebuild their base of sponsored players in the wake of Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke leaving a couple of months ago. And it looks like these two could be long forgotten at UB since they re-signed one of poker’s best young talents in Adam “Roothlus” Levy. Levy is best known for his online poker play, where he’s earned over $3.6 million in online tournament winnings, which includes several huge victories at UB and Full Tilt Poker. In addition to his online poker tournament exploits, Levy has over $1.5 million in live tourney winnings. Some of his …

When you’re finished playing in those puny $100 and $200 freerolls, why don’t you head over to Full Tilt Poker and jump in a real freeroll. Anybody who signs up at Full Tilt, downloads the poker software, and makes a deposit will be eligible for the massive $100,000 First Deposit Freeroll. Be sure to sign up for the 27% rakeback offer at Full Tilt too! This is one of the biggest free poker tournaments in the game, and you can get in as long as you complete the aforementioned steps. After you’re signed up and have made a deposit, the …

We’re used to seeing online poker sites offer big prize packages for the WSOP * Main Event. However, one thing that you don’t commonly see is rooms offering numerous other incentives along with the prize package – including a $1 million sponsorship deal! But that’s exactly what UB Poker is doing with their Series 2011 promotion, where you’ll not only be able to win a $12,000 Main Event prize package, but also lots of other bonuses and incentives afterward. All along the way, you could be earning UB’s fantastic 30% rakeback deals too! Getting back to the Main Event incentives, …

Have you ever wanted to be the top player at your online poker room, yet don’t have enough time to sit around grinding for 10 hours a day? If so, then you should visit InterPoker because they give virtually every player a shot at being Player of the Month. Those who want to vie for the Player of the Month title just need to do one thing: email InterPoker. Okay, it’s a little more complicated than that, but the only thing you really need to do is send them an email detailing why you are deserving of the award. And …

While the 2011 WSOP may still be a few months away, it’s never too early to start thinking about an event that will offer over $180 million in total prize money. PowerPoker definitely subscribes to this line of thinking because they are already offering prize packages for the 2011 Series. PowerPoker is giving out two different types of prize packages with one being worth $2,500, and the other worth $13,000. As you may have guessed, the $13k prize package is for the 2011 Main Event poker tournament, while the $2,500 prize package is called a “Vegas Spree” package, and it …

Full Tilt Poker Onyx Cup Series is a six event series that will feature buy-ins ranging from $100,000 to $300,000. The tour aims to find the best poker player in the world and will boast a total prize pool estimated at $30M. The news, which broke on Monday, detailed the inception of the Onyx Cup Series and featured additional introductions by Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Tom Dwan, Gus Hansen and Erik Seidel. The first five events of which will be preliminaries, followed by the sixth Grand Finale event with a $250,000 buy-in. With the tournaments scheduled to be held across …

Mark your calendars for May 8th because that’s when the 2011 SCOOP begins. PokerStars just recently released the SCOOP schedule, which includes a total of 38 events and $45 million in guaranteed money. In addition to the massive amount of money involved in this online poker event, PokerStars is once again offering their very popular format of Low, Mid, and High buy-ins. As the name implies, each buy-in level caters to different bankrolls so that everybody can compete. Of course, if you can’t afford the normal buy-ins for these poker games, there will also be 2011 SCOOP satellites starting on …

Most casino poker players would be elated with the following career: $4.3 million in tournament winnings, a $250k Aussie Millions High Roller title, a $25k LA Poker Classic High Roller title, and an NBC Heads Up Poker Championship win. Even without rakeback, that’s an incredible stat line! But for Full Tilt Poker pro Erik Seidel, this is just the first two months of 2011. Seidel added to his amazing two-month run by winning the 2011 NBC Heads Up Poker Championship on Sunday. The final match was a great story in itself as Seidel faced 2003 WSOP* Main Event champion and …