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2010 WSOP* Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel is a good friend of RakeTheRake, and he’s even downed a few drinks with the RakeTheRake girls. So when we heard about the horrific robbery and beating that Duhamel endured, RakeTheRake was shocked and concerned for him. About a week ago, two men broke into the Canadian’s suburban Montreal home in the morning, and started attacking him. Eventually, they tied Duhamel up and kept hitting him until he told them where the valuables were. With this knowledge in hand, the robbers stole Duhamel’s 2010 Main Event gold bracelet, a Rolex Submariner watch that …

Last year thousands of people participated in the special Face the Ace promotion. This promotion took place on Full Tilt Poker. Full Tilt Poker players played against one another in qualifiers to determine who would play for up to $1,000,000 in cash against poker pros on national TV. All you needed to do was sign up at RakeTheRake and Full Tilt Poker and you were on your way to Las Vegas. Promotions similar this one are given out at various online poker sites daily. So why should you sign up? Many new pro poker players began their poker careers online. …

While most players today are making their money by playing online poker and taking advantage of rakeback deals, Carlos Mortensen is sticking to the old-fashioned way by earning his cash through live tournaments.  And Mortensen recently earned a lot of cash when he took the $393,820 top prize at the WPT Hollywood Poker Open. This was the third World Poker Tour win for Carlos Mortensen and this ties Gus Hansen for the most all-time wins in the WPT.  Perhaps even more important than this is that Mortensen was able to move past Daniel Negreanu on the all-time WPT money list.  …