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You’ve only got until Wednesday 1 February to register for the Super Poker Event of Europe 2012! The Super 2012 is being held in Dublin at the Citywest International Events Centre, Dublin, on  25th and 26th February  and has the support and participation of poker players and poker clubs from across Europe. As such it is set to be a remarkable and exciting new live event on the poker calendar! With an estimated prize pool of between €600,000 to €1.2 million, the Super 2012 offers poker players the chance to experience the big time for a ridiculously low buy-in of …

After witnessing fantastic 2011 WSOP* Main Event runs by Sam Holden and Anton Makiievskyi, 888Poker rushed to sign these rising young stars before anybody else could. And both players certainly represented 888poker well after they earned strong final table finishes. Sam Holden, who is from Canterbury of the UK, gave a valiant effort after making it onto the 2011 Main Event final table with the smallest poker chip stack. After three hours of surviving among the bigger stacks, the 22-year-old busted out in 9th place when his A-J hand was beaten by Ben Lamb’s A-K combo. For his deep tournament …

888Poker has rolled out some amazing new promotions and features for RakeTheRake players, which include free poker money, poker cam tournaments, private player lounges, and plenty of other interesting promos. We’ll cover all of the new and exciting events at 888poker below, and don’t forget that if you sign up for this site via RakeTheRake, you’ll receive a 100% signup bonus to $600. One more thing worth mentioning is that the following promotions only run until November 30th. Free Poker Money – If you’re hesitant about depositing and taking advantage of the aforementioned bonus, simply create an account at 888poker …

There’s never been a better time to sign up at 888 Poker because they’re currently offering both a $100,000 free poker challenge and a potential iPad 2 for new depositors. In regards to winning an iPad 2, you need to make a deposit at 888 and use the code “IPAD4ME.” Once you’ve done this, you can register for the Beginners’ Freeroll; to find this free poker tournament, look under the “Tournaments” and “All” tabs. Once you are registered for the free poker tourney, you’ll be competing for these prizes: – 1st place wins iPad 2 – 2nd place wins iPod …

Just a week after Party Poker and Bwin announced a huge merger, 888Poker is looking at a future merger with another poker room.  The news of 888Poker looking for a potential merger partner broke when 888 CEO Gigi Levy said that his internet poker site is definitely interested in merging within the next six months.  Most people would suspect that he is hoping to keep up with poker sites like Party Poker with this move, but he insists that this isn’t the case.  He told eGaming Review all of this when he said, “I think that the first thing to …

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 …

A rake is a charge paid to the card room operating your poker game. Whether you are playing in person at a casino or playing poker over the internet you will be always be raked a certain amount of money while playing poker. For instance, Full Tilt Poker’s rakeback system calculates the number of hands you play so that the more hands you play the more rake you will earn and the more rakeback you will generate. Casinos won’t give you any of your rake money back. Poker rooms normally take a 5% cut out of every pot and you …