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The Party Poker Premier League is back, which means online poker players once again have a chance to win prize packages to this event and appear on TV. Seven of the prize packages are worth $13k, and these cover the $10,450 seat for the televised Premier League Poker V, $1,350 in spending money and a four-night hotel stay in Vienna. Anybody who can make it through the playoffs will compete against 14 world-famous poker pros for a share of a $2 million prize pool. Of course, you could skip …

The “Brunson 10” is getting a little closer to living up to its name after deciding on a seventh and eighth member.  For those of you who haven’t heard of this elite group, the Brunson 10 is Doyle Brunson’s group of players who represent the poker room that carries his namesake in Doyles Room.  All of the players Brunson has picked so far are some of the best, young online poker players in the industry. Getting back to the new mystery members, Brunson chose four of the world’s best internet poker players before the beginning of the WSOP with Dan …

If you’re tired of listening to Lon McEachern and Norman Chad ramble on about the 2009 WSOP, then don’t worry because ESPN will be airing new episodes starting on July 27th.  The 2010 installment of the world’s largest casino poker event will begin running at 8pm ET on the 27th with the $50,000 Player’s Championship.  If you followed the Player’s Championship this year through poker news, then you already know that Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi won this poker tournament and the $1.56 million prize.  But now you have a chance to see the tournament on TV! Besides the Player’s Championship, …

A lot of online poker players are still trying to figure out what to do with all of the cash they made in the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP).  The 2010 SCOOP, which took place in April and May, gave out over $63 million to internet poker players with the Main Event alone offering over $6 million.  What’s amazing is that the 2010 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) might give out even more money than the SCOOP did. PokerStars recently released the schedule for the WCOOP, which includes 62 tournaments.  Considering last year’s event awarded a total …

There are very few people on this planet who have the luxury of being able to retire at the age of 20. Of course, being amongst the lucky few to be born into a multi-millionaire family helps, but for most of us this dream is just that; a dream that will never reach fruition, unless perhaps you posses the cunning skills to become a wizard at the game of poker. This was just the case for immense success story Shaun Deed; a poker player from New York who announced his retirement from the poker tables last year at the ripe …

By the time the average person makes $329,780, they will have spent over a decade at a dead-end job, went through two minivans, and have spent countless hours worrying about whether or not they can still afford satellite TV.  Full Tilt Poker pro Phil Ivey, on the other hand, can earn $329,780 and not even realize it. Now this scenario might sound a little far-fetched, but this actually happened to Ivey in a $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. poker tournament.  Ivey was fresh off making poker news by winning his 8th WSOP bracelet, which ties him with Erik Seidel for fifth on the …

RakeTheRake has paid out $75 million in rakeback to online poker players. Both RakeTheRake.com and Twitter have something to shout about having reached the high flying figure of 75 million. But that’s where the similarity ends as a recent study found that only 17% of Twitter users actually send regular tweets. Whereas RakeTheRake’s online poker players are actively playing online poker and generating monthly rakeback payouts for themselves. In recognition of its players’ achievements in getting the most from their game, RakeTheRake is running a special $750 freeroll on Sunday 27 June. Visit the freeroll entry page and check out …

Several professional poker players have had forays into the land of Hollywood with PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and Full Tilt Poker rep Erik Seidel (Curb Your Enthusiasm) being the latest.  Chris “Jesus” Ferguson is also very interested in joining the circle of online poker players who’ve ventured into Hollywood.  Only Ferguson is looking to do his work behind the scenes and hopes to actually make movies. This is new territory for a holdem poker player, but Ferguson is indeed serious about this venture, and he’s already teamed up with RCR Pictures to make this dream happen.  RCR …

Proving that beer pong isn’t just for drunk college students, Doyles Room sponsored the third annual Doyle Brunson Beer Pong Invitational.  The Beer Pong Invitational was held in Downtown Las Vegas at the Hogs and Heifers bar, and it featured 64 of the world’s best live and online poker players.  The first round of the beer pong tournament was very eventful because Doyle Brunson himself graced the tables.  Brunson played beer pong almost as well as he plays poker hands since he and Zachary “CrazyZachary” Clark defeated Dave Walker and Jason “JaspudUF” Lee in the opening round.  Doyle wasn’t the …

As RakeTheRake.com realises the enormous milestone of having paid out $70 million in rakeback to online poker players, we have decided to mark the occasion by not only offering the highest rakeback rates to our poker players, but by inviting you to enter our $700 commemorative freeroll on Sunday 11 April. 70 million is also the numeric milestone reached by Zynga Game Network at the end of last year for the number of active users per month of its popular Facebook application ‘Farmville’. So whether you’re a Farmville addict or prefer the chase of real winnings from your online poker game, join RakeTheRake for …