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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 …