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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 …

The world’s three biggest online poker sites have been busy signing new players to represent them at the poker table.  PokerStars was the first poker room to make some big signings as they welcomed Patrick Pezzin, Greg DeBora, Ahn Van Nguyen, and Marcello Del Grosso as new members of Team PokerStars.  Nguyen and Pezzin are probably the biggest signings since both have over $700,000 in career winnings to their credit.  Pezzin finished second in the 2009 $10k Limit Hold’em Championship in addition to making two other WSOP final tables last year. Full Tilt Poker made big moves by signing some …

A rake is a charge paid to the card room operating your poker game. Whether you are playing in person at a casino or playing poker over the internet you will be always be raked a certain amount of money while playing poker. For instance, Full Tilt Poker’s rakeback system calculates the number of hands you play so that the more hands you play the more rake you will earn and the more rakeback you will generate. Casinos won’t give you any of your rake money back. Poker rooms normally take a 5% cut out of every pot and you …

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 …