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Every online poker room runs freeroll poker tournaments in an effort to keep players happy and entice new people to their room.  Unfortunately, most of these freerolls only offer $50 or $100 prize pools, and the large amount of players involved means that one would have to play thousands of poker hands just to win some money.  Carbon Poker doesn’t believe in wasting players’ time with pointless poker games so they’ve decided to hold a massive freeroll poker tournament that will offer $100,000!  The winner of this free poker tournament will cash for $20,000 while the rest of the placers …

Upon hearing that actor Al Pacino and the media-labeled “Suicide Doctor” Jack Kevorkian were going to play poker games with each other, most people would be wondering where the punch line is.  However, the aforementioned scenario is actually going to happen and no punch line is involved. Pacino is traveling to Michigan to play poker with Kevorkian since the infamous doctor invited him there.  Pacino, who is playing Dr. Jack Kevorkian in the HBO movie You Don’t Know Jack, got the invite from Kevorkian at the film’s premiere and was very excited to attend.  He said, “He’s invited me to …

If there was any doubt that online poker has plenty of money to go around, those doubts were erased on April 26th.  That’s because April 26th saw 10 different players win over $100,000 across several Internet poker tournaments. This day of big winning was headlined by the PokerStars Sunday Million tournament where Paul “147_star” Williams took first place and earned a prize of $258,194.  Williams wasn’t the only big winner in the Sunday Million holdem poker event though since “Benjamin89” and “the_blues57” also had 6-figure paydays.  Runner-up Benjamin89 cashed for $188,684 and the_blues57 made $131,640 for taking third place. And …

Games modeled after professional poker players have found little success in the video game market due to the fact that people can just go to online poker rooms if they want to play free poker.  But UltimateBet pro Annie Duke thinks she can succeed where others have failed through her new iPhone application entitled Annie Duke Poker Tutor. As you may have guessed from the title, Annie Duke Poker Tutor is more than just a game where you play mindless hours of poker in an effort to build your play money bankroll.  Instead, it has the added element of teaching …