Category Archives: RakeTheRake

Hollywood Poker has made a habit out of offering players casino poker prize packages to events that nobody else offers seats for.  What this means is that you don’t have to stick to the same old venues where every other poker room is sending players. The latest interesting prize package offer rolled out by Hollywood Poker involves seats to the live Grand Series of Poker events.  If you haven’t heard of the GSOP via any poker sites, this is Hollywood’s flagship internet poker event where millions of dollars are offered to players through a series of tournaments.  But this year, …

The “Brunson 10” is getting a little closer to living up to its name after deciding on a seventh and eighth member.  For those of you who haven’t heard of this elite group, the Brunson 10 is Doyle Brunson’s group of players who represent the poker room that carries his namesake in Doyles Room.  All of the players Brunson has picked so far are some of the best, young online poker players in the industry. Getting back to the new mystery members, Brunson chose four of the world’s best internet poker players before the beginning of the WSOP with Dan …

We’ve all heard of ladies night but it seems like the poker championship playing field of 2010 might be shaping up to be ladies year. For starters, the NBC Heads Up Championship spot was taken home by Annie Duke who may have been inspired by her fellow heroine Vanessa Rousso’s runner-up finish the year before. Early April saw Liv Boeree take it all in the EPT San Remo which featured the largest EPT main-event field in all of the competition’s history; and last but certainly not least, Vanessa Selbst did some serious damage to the competition at the NAPT Mohegan …

PokerStars has been the giant of the online poker world ever since taking this position from Party Poker a few years ago.  However, they might have to take a step back down on the poker room food chain following Party Poker’s recent merger. Party Poker’s parent company – PartyGaming – recently agreed to a merger with the Austrian gambling site Bwin that will take place in 2011.  The two companies finally agreed to terms on the merger this week, and Bwin will get 51.4% of the company while internet poker giant Party Poker will have a 48.36% stake in the …

Just because the WSOP is over with doesn’t mean that there aren’t still plenty of great casino poker events going on.  PokerStars is making sure of this as they are sponsoring a huge event this year called the Balkan Poker Festival.  Much like any other PokerStars event, the Balkan Poker Festival is going to offer lots of cash since over 200 players are expected to play in the Main Event.  But for once, poker tournament players might be interested in the host city of Varna, Bulgaria more than they are in the actual money. That’s because Varna, which is located …

As if numerous online poker deals and a Loyalty Program offering up to 36% weren’t enough to play at 888Poker, this extremely popular poker room recently added even more incentive by performing a massive upgrade on their software.  In fact, over 100 features were added to the poker software at 888, which makes it one of the best sites to play poker at in the world! The updated software will take effect as of July 26th, and people will now be able to take advantage of the new 3D poker lobby.  What’s really cool about this 3D online poker lobby …

Another day and another schmuck trying to sully the good name of poker: this time it’s Marcus Bebb-Jones, a 46 year-old UK poker player who has been accused of murdering his American wife, Sabrina in 1997, interring her body in the soils of a national park near Douglas Pass in Colorado and then treating himself to a weekend in Las Vegas. The poker enthusiast subsequently moved back to the UK only to be arrested in a police raid of his home last year.  There’s nothing funny about what happened here; it was a case of cold-blooded murder seemingly carried out …

When it was announced that both SportsBook Poker and PlayersOnly Poker were leaving the Cake Poker Network to join the MergeGaming Network, things looked pretty bleak for Cake.  However, things haven’t dropped off a bit at Cake Poker as evidenced by the fact that they are opening four new online poker rooms.  One might even say their incredible 33% rakeback deals are they main reason why Cake Poker can lose two huge rooms and still be doing great. The four internet poker rooms that Cake will be opening include WingsPoker, Unleashed Poker, PokerXRC, and Broadway Tables.  Each poker room has …

If you’re tired of listening to Lon McEachern and Norman Chad ramble on about the 2009 WSOP, then don’t worry because ESPN will be airing new episodes starting on July 27th.  The 2010 installment of the world’s largest casino poker event will begin running at 8pm ET on the 27th with the $50,000 Player’s Championship.  If you followed the Player’s Championship this year through poker news, then you already know that Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi won this poker tournament and the $1.56 million prize.  But now you have a chance to see the tournament on TV! Besides the Player’s Championship, …

Online poker is great because you can make all kinds of money by beating up on fish without ever having to step foot outside of your house.  What’s more is that you will get a lot of money back through all of the great rakeback deals that are always being offered by poker sites.  But even with all of the perks and great online poker deals that internet rooms have to offer, it’s still nice to get away and play casino poker at a huge land-based tournament. So if you find yourself longing for the canals of Venice, Italy or …