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Ultimate Bet player Phil Hellmuth has a penchant for grand entrances.  Last year Hellmuth dressed in a military uniform while being escorted by 11 scantily-clad women – one for each of his poker tournament gold bracelets.  And while Hellmuth has been busy promoting the excellent 30% rakeback deals that UB offers, he still made time for yet another grand WSOP Main Event entrance. This year, Hellmuth showed up dressed as a mixed martial arts fighter along with world famous announcer Bruce Buffer.  Hellmuth entered the poker table area from a stage as Buffer bellowed out, “He’s loved by many, hated …

If most of the poker hands you play involve small pots, then you will love MicroMania at PokerStars!  MicroMania will take place in July, and is specifically dedicated to people who play at the micro stakes poker tables.  Assuming you play micro stakes cash poker games, you will get 50% more VIP points in these rooms during MicroMania.  The offer stands for holdem poker tables that are between the $0.05/$0.10 and $0.10/$0.20 stakes.  Poker tournament players can also benefit from MicroMania because PokerStars will be adding $1,000 to the prize pool of select $1.10 No-Limit Hold’em tournaments.  To find these …

Actress Shannon Elizabeth has been active in the online and casino poker industry since the mid-2000’s, and is still famous for her roles in American Pie, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Scary Movie.  Despite her fame and poker experience, Elizabeth has had trouble landing a permanent sponsorship with an online poker room.  However, that may all change now that she has signed with Carbon Poker.  The poker news of Elizabeth’s signing broke this week as Carbon Poker sent out a press release about the event.  Carbon spokesperson Peter Hampton said, “We’ve been on the hunt for a face …

It’s fitting that PokerStars would choose the time of year when the WSOP* is running to sign Ville Wahlbeck.  After all, Wahlbeck managed to play poker just as well as anyone else last June when he finished runner-up to Jeffrey Lisandro in the WSOP* Player of the Year race.  Now Wahlbeck will get to join the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Peter Eastgate, Chris Moneymaker, and Barry Greenstein as a PokerStars pro.  He’ll also get to take advantage of the incredible VIP deals at PokerStars too! Wahlbeck first caught the attention of the world’s largest online poker room when he won …

The World Cup is the world’s largest sporting event since millions of football fans tune in to watch it.  And Carbon Poker is adding even more excitement to the event by holding the World Cup Mega Million promotion. As the name implies, the Mega Million will give online poker players $1,000,000 in cash prizes during the month of June.  To participate in the World Cup Mega Million, you only need to complete the poker download of Carbon; this will also allow you to take advantage of the 35% rakeback deals that Carbon Poker has.  Once you’re signed up, you can …

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 …