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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 …

Word has it that the mysterious masked Swedish poker player, who has also turned out to be a real game master, might finally be revealing his identity soon. The masked player has stated that he will take Tony G up on his offer to meet him at the PartyPoker Big Game IV event. This potential unveiling of the masked master will only add to the event’s popularity that always attracts thousands of poker players of varying skill levels. The online masked master has been making noise in the poker scene since last October and is guaranteed to draw some heavy …

Jeff Madsen already makes enough money as a Full Tilt Poker pro, which earns him lots of extra cash through the 27% rakeback deals they offer.  However, Madsen is never one to turn down a nice chunk of extra money and he recently proved this by taking up a prop bet to move to Israel. The prop bet is from a very rich holdem poker player (known only as Manny B). And Manny B apparently makes enough money to where he can offer Madsen $50,000 to live in Israel from April 15th to the start of the WSOP* on May …

We’d like to say a big thank you to all RTR players who completed our survey recently. Your views are invaluable to us and you can be assured we will be taking your thoughts on board to develop our rakeback site and service to you. And we are delighted to announce the lucky winners of the prize draw to win our three fabulous prizes. The 1st prize of the Zeppelin iPod Speaker System goes to NathanP from the USA 2nd prize, a third generation 64GB iPod Touch, goes to TamasF from Hungary. And 3rd prize of a year’s subscription to PokerOffice, …

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 …

We like to ensure we’re always offering you the very best rakeback service and so we’d love your feedback on playing poker, rakeback and our site. By logging into your RTR account and clicking the survey banner you can enter our short online survey, for a chance to win one of three superb prizes: an award-winning Zeppelin iPod Speaker System (RRP $650), a 64GB iPod Touch, 3rd generation (RRP $470) or a year’s subscription to PokerOffice, the most sophisticated poker software available (RRP $99). All completed surveys will be entered into a prize draw on Friday 2 April 2010. Winners will …

We’re launching what we hope will be the most definitive online Poker Wiki. Our Wiki has been developed in the aim of supporting the increasing number of poker players in finding and sharing information about the game, its celebs, key events, definitions, poker strategy and game terminology.   But like any wiki, it becomes most valuable when players contribute to it. So we’re offering $50 to the ten players who contribute the most entries to the RTR wiki before 28 February 2010, whether your entry is game strategy or news of your own poker playing celebrity. Contributors must have a RakeTheRake …

Heads up No deals, that’s what’s ringing in my head. No deals. I call the wife “Honey what do you think?” She says “Deal”. I say “Trust me” and say “No deal” I’ve come this far and I’m not going to be a coward now. Tureniec asks for a deal, I say “No way”. I have a 2 to 1 chip lead. I decide that I don’t want to get into pots with Michael without a hand and I can afford to be patient. So I fold a few hands that I would normally raise with on the button. He …