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We’ve already discussed how Full Tilt Poker is running numerous satellites for the WSOP* Main Event. But did you know that Full Tilt is also giving away 50 free Main Event seats through their Race to the Main Event promotion? If you didn’t, then you’ll want to pay close attention to how you can win a free seat to the world’s largest poker tournament. Winning a free seat all begins with downloading the poker software for Full Tilt, then looking in their lobby for Round 1 Main Event Race SNG Freerolls. These free poker tournaments run around the clock, and …

We’re used to seeing online poker sites offer big prize packages for the WSOP * Main Event. However, one thing that you don’t commonly see is rooms offering numerous other incentives along with the prize package – including a $1 million sponsorship deal! But that’s exactly what UB Poker is doing with their Series 2011 promotion, where you’ll not only be able to win a $12,000 Main Event prize package, but also lots of other bonuses and incentives afterward. All along the way, you could be earning UB’s fantastic 30% rakeback deals too! Getting back to the Main Event incentives, …

The largest poker tournament in the Southern Hemisphere came to a close after David Gorr won the Aussie Millions Main Event along with AUD $2 million. The 68-year-old Gorr is a very interesting story since he only had around $160,000 in casino poker cashes prior to winning this event. In fact, Gorr has mainly been a recreational player over the years, who works a day job as a computer mainframe specialist for an insurance company. But from the outside looking in, you’d never know that the Melbourne native wasn’t a professional live or online poker player as he easily moved …

Quebecer Jonathan Duhamel made history by becoming the first Canadian citizen to win the WSOP*, collecting a colossal $8,944,310! 23 –year-old Duhamel is a good friend of RakeTheRake and recently enjoyed a few bottles of sake in London with the RTR girls – who gave him a pep talk no doubt! Duhamel now has a bracelet to match that of his good friend Pascal Le Francois who won this year’s Event 8 and finished 11th in the Main Event. The runner up was RTR member John Racener who outlasted over 7,000 players over 4 months. Despite being defeated, self-taught Racener …

RakeTheRake member David Vample beat a record number of 848 players to become the new EPT London Main Event Champion, seizing a remarkable £900,000. After an extensive 6 days Vample, who has only played poker professionally for 12 months, found himself on the final table of the biggest live poker tournament ever held in the UK. Vample’s victory was even sweeter as defeated WSOP* bracelet winner and Full Tilt Pro John Juanda in a heads up, despite Juanda having chip lead of over 14,000,000. Here is how the final table played out: 1 David Vamplew   UK   £900,000 2 John Juanda  USA  £545,000 …

Many of poker’s biggest names were among the 346 players who took part in the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event.  Phil Ivey, Roland De Wolfe, Barry Greenstein, and Freddy Deeb were just a few of the many stars in attendance at this poker tournament.  Interestingly enough, only Roland De Wolfe was still around on the final poker table when the tournament hung in the balance. Wolfe busted out in fourth place though leaving the door wide open for relative unknown James Bord to win his first major poker tournament.  Bord certainly didn’t look to be the favorite …

If ever there was a reason to play online poker, then that reason came this week when Tyson “potterpoker” Marks won $2.28 million in the PokerStars’ WCOOP Main Event.  2,443 players either paid the $5,200 buy-in or earned their way in through satellites to play poker for the $10 million Main Event prize pool.  By the second day, most of these players were gone as only 271 people remained in this huge poker tournament.  When the final poker table rolled around, Tyson Marks had taken the lead and was in control.  Marks only increased the lead as he took plenty …

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series Mini Series recently concluded play and millions of dollars were given away in this fantastic internet poker event.  The biggest poker tournament in the FTOPS XVII Mini Series was the Main Event where a total prize pool of $1.09 million was offered.  Since the buy-in was only $75, the huge prize pool prompted 15,527 players to sign up for this holdem poker tournament.  In the end, “The_Dean221” played his poker hands the best and ended up winning the tournament.  Both The_Dean221 and “castellmich” topped the $100,000 mark while other players cashed in big too.  …

Dwyte Pilgrim may not be a household name among casual poker fans, but he has slowly become a force in the casino poker world.  Some excellent WSOP* Circuit finishes and a host of other poker tournament cashes have put Pilgrim on the map.  And his place on the map just got a little bigger after he recently won the WPT Borgata Main Event. The Borgata event made history for having the largest World Poker Tour tournament field at 1,042 players.  And Pilgrim was able to wade through this large field knocking out holdem poker pros left and right en route …

There is no sign of the World Poker Tour slowing down anytime soon since this casino poker organization is constantly adding new tournaments.  And their newest poker tournament is the Amnéville event in France.  It’s uncertain how much money will be offered in the prize pool at Amnéville, but most WPT events offer several million dollars.  And while none of this may interest you yet, consider this: you could play poker in the first ever Amnéville tournament absolutely free through Party Poker. That’s because Party Poker is giving out $7,000 prize packages for this prestigious event, and all you have …