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Pacific Poker is already one of the online poker world’s biggest rakeback providers since they offer 36% rakeback deals to their players.  But Pacific Poker isn’t one to rest on laurels since they are constantly rolling out new promotions to keep members happy.  And their latest promotion involves a $25,000 Royal Flush Jackpot! In order to win this huge jackpot prize, you simply need to play in Royal Flush Jackpot rooms at Pacific Poker.  As you play at these poker tables, a small raked amount will be taken from your hand and added to the Royal Flush Jackpot.  So essentially, …

If you’ve checked out any poker news in the past few months, you probably know that the new Full Tilt Poker invention known as Rush Poker has become a huge phenomenon.  Not only does Rush Poker prevent wasted time waiting on other players to make moves, but it also enables people to collect more rakeback money in the process. Of course, this doesn’t mean Rush Poker is perfect since the biggest problem with it is that cash games are the only form of poker games you can play in this format.  In fact, Full Tilt does not offer a single …

Unless you’re from another planet, by now you’ve probably heard about the Switzerland Casino robbery. For those who are from another planet, what happened was masked men carrying weapons stormed into the crowded casino of the Swiss border city Basel. The thieves made off with hundreds of thousands of francs. The managing director said there were 10 masked men that pulled into the casino in two cars and ran into the casino with machine guns and pistols. The gang was speaking French and ordered all the employees and guests to get on the floor while they emptied out all the …

The European Poker Tour rebounded quite well after robbers broke into the Berlin poker tournament and stole well over $300,000.  1,239 people made their way to the EPT San Remo event via direct buy-ins and online poker room satellites.  The 1,239 players broke a record for an EPT event held on European soil, and created a €6 million-plus prize pool. Of the 1,239 holdem poker players in attendance, RakeTheRake’s friend Liv Boeree ended up being the biggest winner of them all by taking first place and the €1.25 million prize pool.  The interesting thing about Boeree is that she had …

With the World Series of Poker* starting in a month and a half, many poker sites are giving out seats to the Main Event.  And these $10,000 Main Event seats are definitely hot items since last year’s poker tournament featured over $60 million in the prize pool.  And Main Event champion Joe Cada took home $8.55 million of that prize pool. This year Full Tilt Poker is giving you the chance to become the next Joe Cada for just $1!  All you need to do is become a member at Full Tilt, and then sign up for the $1 poker …

As if there weren’t already enough players moving to online poker and looking to collect rakeback money, the EPT Berlin incident where four armed gunmen stormed the Grand Hyatt Berlin and took over $250,000 of the prize money forced a whole lot more player into Internet poker.  Luckily though, live poker tournament players can feel a little safer now since police have arrested suspects that are connected with the crime. Berlin police say they have the mastermind behind the crime and he is a 28 year-old Lebanese man.  A spokesperson for the police department said, “According to the current state …

For the average poker player, making $230,000 would take months (or even years) of winning sessions and collecting rakeback.  But Full Tilt Poker pro Tom Dwan recently showed how quickly $230,000 can be made when you’re a high stakes online poker player. Dwan’s big score came when he met fellow high stakes player Patrik Antonius for a quick session.  And this was the true definition of a quick session since the pair only played for a total of 9 minutes.  The two played 61 poker hands in their heads-up contest, which was enough time for Dwan to take $230,710 from …

If you thought that you were a big player of online poker, then think again. Most people would fall out of their chair at the thought of playing 40,000 poker hands IN ONE DAY! But there is one man that has now set a new record that will surely take some beating! A Russian player known by the handle ‘innerpsy’ has clocked up a staggering 40,000 games in just 18 and a half hours. Imagine the rakeback that he must be generating aside from any winnings! I hope he’s got a great rakeback deal in place… Online poker is rapidly …