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If sit and go poker tournaments are your game, then you’ll love the new deal that Absolute Poker is offering. Those who play poker in Absolute’s SNG’s will have a chance to win one of the 45 seats seats to either the Sunday $200,000 Guaranteed, or the Wednesday $80,000 Sniper tournament. To be eligible for a seat, you just have to meet one of the following weekly requirements: – Play in five designated $6 SNG’s, and you’ll be entered into a Wednesday free poker tournament where the top 10 players earn seats for the $80k Sniper tourney. – Play in …

One of the most popular online poker deals ever is the bad beat jackpot offered at Ultimate Bet Poker.  This jackpot is always worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it has grown as high as $800,000 in the past. And while it may not be big poker news to the regulars at UB, the bad beat jackpot is steadily climbing to massive amounts once again since it’s currently worth over $570,000.  The payout structure for the bad beat jackpot works like this: – The loser gets 50% – The winner gets 25% – The rest of the players dealt …

If you play micro stakes poker games, you don’t expect to play for lots of money at this juncture.  In fact, you are probably just hoping to improve your poker strategy before moving on to higher stakes.  But at Ultimate Bet Poker, you don’t have to wait for the higher stakes before playing for lots of cash.  You can play poker for major money right now through their Perfect Play promotion! Altogether there will be over $100,000 worth of prizes offered with the money spread out over several different promotions.  In Perfect 10, you will compete in $10 +$1 tournaments …

If you’ve ever thought of playing at Ultimate Bet Poker, then now is the time to do it since they are giving away $1,000,000 through their poker tournament leaderboards.  Whether you are seeking a weekly, monthly, or yearly prize, there is lots of cash to be won in this promotion. The best thing about the tournament leaderboards at UB is that you don’t need to do anything except play poker.  The leaderboard takes care of itself since you earn points for cashing in poker games at Ultimate Bet.  Of course, your goal should be to finish as high as possible …

Since 2006 Full Tilt has been running its ever growing FTOPS events.  From the start of August Full Tilt have been giving their players the chance to win a share of $19,000,000 across 34 events – their biggest FTOPS to date! RakeTheRake member of 5 years Broberts85 was the triumphant winner of event 1, landing himself a massive $164,357! Our members dominated the tournament with an impressive second prize of $113,856 going to Doorbread, an RTR member of 3 years.          RTR players continued their success in events 2 and 7, with Maxxscam and Dooks each placing second, winning $32,205 and …

Lots of people are already winning major cash in the big tournaments and free poker events at Carbon Poker.  However, Carbon is looking to give away even more money in their Tourney King promotion. What’s great about the Tourney King promo is that players will be earning extra money on top of what they already make by playing in poker games.  The way it works is that online poker players will be competing on two different leaderboards depending upon their poker tournament buy-in.  The two leaderboards are the Low Limit Leaderboard and the High Limit Leaderboard; the difference is that …

While playing online poker and collecting rakeback is always great, sometimes people just want to play tournament poker.  Unfortunately, most people have chosen not to play poker in the WSOP * Circuit tournaments in recent years.  This has led the organization to undergo some major changes in an effort to bring more casino poker players out. Perhaps the biggest change so far is that the Main Event will no longer feature a $5,000 buy-in.  Instead the Main Event will only cost $1,500, which is sure to draw more players to the felt.  The reason why this is being done is …

In just three weeks, Full Tilt Poker will be launching yet another rendition of their flagship event.  The Full Tilt Online Poker Series XVII will kick off on August 4th with a huge $750,000 Guaranteed poker tournament.  In all, 34 different tournaments will be held, and $19 million in guaranteed prize money is slated to be given away.  Some of the poker games that will be offered during FTOPS XVII include Omaha, H.O.R.S.E., Stud, Razz, and of course texas poker.  In addition to the different poker variations offered, 6 of the tournaments are going to have Rush Poker formats.  For …

The end of summer is usually a sad occasion since it marks the time when people have to start raking leaves, wear warmer clothing, and pretend they’re not home when Trick or Treaters come around.  However, the end of summer is a joyous occasion for those who play poker at Ultimate Bet because this is when they hold the UB Online Championship – a.k.a. UBOC. The fifth installment of the UBOC will run from August 18th to August 29th, and will offer 20 tournaments with the culmination being a $1,000,000 Guaranteed Championship poker tournament.  And for those holdem poker players …

As if we didn’t have enough machines to take our money. Normally we are quite happy feeding the slots and poker machines as we do have a lot of fun and may actually win in the process, but I really have to draw a big line when it comes to my bank ATM getting in on the act!  Gamblers in Vegas were all hit hard by the ATM gremlins as the glitch infiltrated several ATM machines around the city resulting in as many as 40,000 transactions being affected. Customers were going to the machine and using their cards as they …