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Full Tilt Poker Onyx Cup Series is a six event series that will feature buy-ins ranging from $100,000 to $300,000. The tour aims to find the best poker player in the world and will boast a total prize pool estimated at $30M. The news, which broke on Monday, detailed the inception of the Onyx Cup Series and featured additional introductions by Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Tom Dwan, Gus Hansen and Erik Seidel. The first five events of which will be preliminaries, followed by the sixth Grand Finale event with a $250,000 buy-in. With the tournaments scheduled to be held across …

Whether you’re a serious poker player or not, rakeback is crucial because it gives you lots of money back on rake paid. So if you’re not taking advantage of rakeback deals, then you are at a severe disadvantage to the rest of the online poker world. That being said, you can gain the ultimate advantage by playing at MintedPoker, which offers the highest non-VIP rakeback deal out there. If you’re signed up for the deal at MintedPoker, you’ll receive an incredible 40% rakeback! Fortunately, the fantastic online poker deals at MintedPoker don’t end with the rakeback since you can also …

Poker players wearing sunglasses has been a stereotype within casino poker for years.  But PokerStars’ player Daniel Negreanu is one person who doesn’t like this stereotype….in fact, he doesn’t even think people should be wearing sunglasses at the poker table period! Negreanu recently spoke of his disdain for sunglasses on the popular holdem poker show High Stakes Poker.  He basically said sunglasses hurt the game, and that sunglasses aren’t needed to learn how to play poker.  The other people who were playing poker hands with him such as Doyle Brunson and Tom Dwan agreed that sunglasses aren’t necessary. Daniel Negreanu …

After winning 3 – 1 over Aberdeen on Wednesday 7th April the Glasgow Rangers had something to distract them from the reputation of renegade goal keeper Alan McGreggor, who made headlines again earlier in the year. McGreggor raised eyebrows by playing online poker throughout the duration of a two hour questioning by police detectives following a case of assault against him. McGregor was attacked outside a taxi rank on Bath Street in Glasgow city centre whilst making his way home from Kushion Night Club. He was allegedly leaving a party he had been attending for a Celtic player and friend when three …

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 …

Full Tilt Poker pro Phil Ivey, who is regarded by many to be the world’s best holdem poker player, has decided to sell his million dollar Las Vegas mansion for $1.995 million.  Ivey has obviously earned some major rakeback in his career since the 6,727 square foot house has four giant bedrooms, window views of the surrounding mountains and golf courses, six bathrooms (you can never have too many bathrooms), and three fireplaces. If you’re not already jealous enough of Ivey, the poker tournament star’s mansion also has a big swimming pool, pool-side hot tub, and a four-car garage.  Those …

Phil Laak, who is one of poker’s goofiest and most eccentric players, recently made poker news by announcing his plan to break the game’s endurance record.  To break the record for most hours spent at a poker table, Laak will have to outlast the old one set by casino poker player Paul Zimmer; Zimmer played an astounding 74 hours, 20 minutes, and 22 seconds in London’s Casino at the Empire – it’s a shame he wasn’t playing online poker where he could have earned lots of rakeback! Interestingly enough, Laak will attempt to break the record during the course of …

Everyone has heard the phrase “poker takes moments to learn, but a lifetime to master.” However, there are few who actually take the significance of this quote to heart. In order to really become proficient in the game one must invest time and effort. The more playing experience you have the better grasp you will have on building your ideal poker strategy. Poker is not a game of chance but a game of skill, skills that must be developed over time. With the multitude of online poker sites now available to Internet users it’s a breeze to keep sharp and …

In perhaps the biggest poker player signing in quite some time, Full Tilt Poker has managed to land Annette Obrestad on their already impressive roster of players.  Obrestad is not only one of the best young poker tournament players in the world, but she is also a legend in the Internet poker world.  According to the 21 year-old, she never had to deposit her own money into any poker sites.  Instead, she initially funded her poker account by winning freeroll tournaments after learning to play poker.  Even more impressive than this is that Obrestad started her online poker career at …

Michael McDonald is one of the best poker players in the world….or at least was one of the best.  McDonald’s career is seemingly at an end after he announced through his blog that he will no longer be playing live or online poker anymore.  In the blog, McDonald stated that he knew few people outside of the players he had met through Internet poker or at live poker tournaments.  McDonald wrote the following in his blog, “I think in all honesty I should be a fairly interesting person given the amount of time, resources, experience and opportunities I have but …