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Here at RakeTheRake it’s special promotion time! We’ve got 3 months of extra special promos running to celebrate our new site launch. Every week there’ll be a different online poker room working with us to bring you an incredible prize, many that ‘money just can’t buy’. Our first week offers you the chance to win an all expenses paid package to the World Series of Poker* in Vegas, courtesy of Paradise Poker and RakeTheRake.

Think dietary supplements are only used by athletes to improve performance? Well you might be surprised to know that online poker players are also using dietary supplements to improve their game too. The study, which was conducted at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, sought to find out what substances poker players were using to increase their neurocognitive functions at the poker tables. Neuroenhancing substances (includes caffeine and dietary supplements) have been used for years by scientists, classroom students, and public speakers to increase concentration and calm nerves. But few such studies have focused on the relationship between internet …

Besides being successful casino poker players, what do Liv Boeree, Chris Ferguson and Michael Piper all have in common? They all studied physics in college, which seems to be a growing trend among good poker players. And if you’re wondering why a growing number of live and online poker players are coming from the physics arena, you need look no further than what this material entails. The subject of physics involves a heavy amount of mathematics relating to how matter moves through space and time. And seeing as how being a successful poker player involves applying math to the tendencies …

Mini FTOPS will be back on May 8th for all of the low stakes online poker players who love playing for huge prize pools. And Mini FTOPS XX promises to be the biggest ever with $12.5 million in guaranteed money on the table! As mentioned before, the action begins on May 8th with a $750,000 guaranteed holdem poker tournament, and the buy-in is just $20 + $2! At most poker sites, a $20 + $2 buy-in wouldn’t get you into a $30,000 guaranteed tournament – let alone a $750k poker tournament! And that’s what is so great about Mini FTOPS …

Just 6 days into MintedPoker’s royal wedding promotion, they had a winner. The main prize, a Holiday for 2 to London, was won by Kurt from the USA. Kurt, or rumpleitis9 as he is known on screen, has been playing online poker for over 9 years and was playing at a 0.25/0.5nl table. And the prize he won was worth over 8,000 big blinds! Playing on average for just one hour a day, Kurt was overwhelmed to win this amazing prize, the biggest he has ever won. It was through the poker forums that Kurt found out about MintedPoker and …

May is going to be an excellent time for online poker players since both the Full Tilt Poker Mini FTOPS XX and PokerStars SCOOP will be starting on May 8th. Of course, the 2011 SCOOP is where most of the money will be at since PokerStars is offering $45 million guaranteed across 38 events. For those of you who’ve never played the SCOOP, this massive internet poker event provides three different buy-in levels so that everybody can get a piece of the action. For example, Event #1’s 6-max NLHE has Low Stakes ($22 buy-in, $300k prize pool), Medium Stakes ($215 …

If you’ve been busy developing a snarling, mean poker face in hopes of intimidating casino poker players, then stop! A study done at Harvard University shows that players who smile win more often than those who have a neutral or mean-looking poker face. The study on poker faces was done by Harvard postdoctoral student Erik J. Schlicht, and his study involved multiple people playing holdem poker. The players were fairly decent since Schlicht had them take a poker strategy test, and the subjects had to score at least a 70 out of 100 to participate in the study. Once the …

Party Poker runs a huge online poker promotion every month, and this April is no different since they are bringing back their popular Card Rush promo. Card Rush runs throughout the entire month of April, and it will award 1.8 million prizes in all. To get started on the winning track, you only have to collect 5 Party Points while playing in real money poker games. Once you get 5 points, you’ll receive a prize that could be anything from cash to a free poker tournament entry. From here on out, you receive a prize for every 15 Party Points …

Some players might think of poker as a somewhat stressful game – especially if they don’t take the time to learn poker strategy beforehand. However, a Canadian university study found the opposite to be true in that online poker actually reduces stress. The primary cause of stress is a hormone called cortisol, which increases blood sugar and blood pressure when released. Cortisol also reduces your immune responses, and all of this causes you to feel more stressed out. But the study found that when you play poker online, your cortisol levels decrease by 17%, which reduces stress levels quite a …

Online poker may not offer as many tells as casino poker does, but there are still plenty of tells you can spot. This being said, here is a look at the top 10 internet poker tells that will help you crush your opponents. Tell #1: Betting Patterns The biggest online tell you can spot comes through a player’s betting patterns. For example, if they bet big before the flop and check postflop, they likely missed the flop. Likewise, if they bet big on a drawing board, then check or call on the turn, they might’ve been bluffing you with a …