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Most high stakes poker games take place at Full Tilt Poker where pros like Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan battle for 6-figure pots on a consistent basis.  However, there are a couple of other poker sites currently trying to create a high stakes scene at their online poker room too.  One of these sites is Carbon Poker, and they’ve recently added some high stakes poker tables. Carbon now offers limits of $200/$400 and $300/$600 for their poker players.  Before, the highest blind levels offered by Carbon Poker were $50/$100 so this is quite a jump.  And just think how much …

Full Tilt Poker pro Phil Ivey, who is regarded by many to be the world’s best holdem poker player, has decided to sell his million dollar Las Vegas mansion for $1.995 million.  Ivey has obviously earned some major rakeback in his career since the 6,727 square foot house has four giant bedrooms, window views of the surrounding mountains and golf courses, six bathrooms (you can never have too many bathrooms), and three fireplaces. If you’re not already jealous enough of Ivey, the poker tournament star’s mansion also has a big swimming pool, pool-side hot tub, and a four-car garage.  Those …

Loyalty is an allegiance, faithfulness and devotion to a cause. Poker Loyalty Programs allows you to be added to a mailing list that will provide the latest VIP bonus offers and updates you on the latest promotions that are going on. A poker loyalty program will also offer monthly refunds to poker players as a incentive for constantly playing. At the end of each month, poker players will receive a rebate amount based on an assortment of factors such as rake contribution, number of hands played, number of tournaments entered and the number of tournaments won. Normally a player will …

Last week baseball season saw another opening day and a new season begin to unfold. While the baseball season is long and anything can happen, many diehard fans are already dreaming of taking home that World Series title. In the words of Jackie Robinson, “Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.” If Robinson is right and baseball is like poker, then those diehard baseball fans might enjoy checking out another series while they wait for the long-lasting baseball season to play out. The inaugural World Team …

Word has it that the mysterious masked Swedish poker player, who has also turned out to be a real game master, might finally be revealing his identity soon. The masked player has stated that he will take Tony G up on his offer to meet him at the PartyPoker Big Game IV event. This potential unveiling of the masked master will only add to the event’s popularity that always attracts thousands of poker players of varying skill levels. The online masked master has been making noise in the poker scene since last October and is guaranteed to draw some heavy …

For the average poker player, making $230,000 would take months (or even years) of winning sessions and collecting rakeback.  But Full Tilt Poker pro Tom Dwan recently showed how quickly $230,000 can be made when you’re a high stakes online poker player. Dwan’s big score came when he met fellow high stakes player Patrik Antonius for a quick session.  And this was the true definition of a quick session since the pair only played for a total of 9 minutes.  The two played 61 poker hands in their heads-up contest, which was enough time for Dwan to take $230,710 from …

Yesterday Isildur1 lost a total of 5.3 million dollars, probably creating a new record. Isildur1 is something of an online poker enigma in terms of his identity, but has been the most active high stakes Swedish player at online poker room Full Tilt in recent weeks. In just three days in November he played over 10,000 hands to win $560k+ and in the past six weeks he has played in excess of 130,000 hands, culminating in the spectacular loss of $5.3m yesterday. In a few short weeks Isildur1 has taken the high stakes action to a higher altitude, making even …