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Just last month, Americas Cardroom held their largest poker tournament ever with a $75,000 Guaranteed. And they’re already looking to top this by holding a $100,000 Guaranteed on February 26th at 6pm ET. If you’re interested in playing in this event, you can either pay the $150 + $12 direct buy-in, or try to win a seat in one of the satellites. Some of the satellites are as cheap at $2.20, which gives lots of players an opportunity to win a $100k seat. One important thing worth mentioning here …

Taking place over the weekend of 18th – 20th May, Nordic Aces 2012 is the new Poker Icons poker tour open for any team of four players in the Nordic region, whether it’s a pro-team from one of the partnering poker sites or simply a group of friends. With a buy-in of €900 per team, the winning team are expected to walk away with €10k between them, with a total prize pot of around €30k! Each team member will play one ranking tournament of No Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha on the Friday, and whether or not the team …

The first ever Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) turned out to be a huge success at PokerStars since it offered players a collective $18.5 million over 49 poker tournaments. A big chunk of this amount came from the 2012 TCOOP Main Event, which saw 3,667 players pay the $700 buy-in to create a $2,438,555 prize pool. Among the players who bought in were world-famous poker pros such as Alex Kravchenko, Humberto Brenes, Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo, Lex Veldhuis, Liv Boeree, Martin Staszko, Shane “shaniac” Schleger, Vanessa Selbst and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom. Out of this elite group, only Brenes managed to …

Most of us dream about vacationing in an exotic destination complete with sandy beaches and palm trees. Unfortunately, the more likely scenario involves a four-hour car ride to some lame campsite or lake because you don’t have several thousand dollars to spend on a dream vacation. But at Everest Poker, nothing is unrealistic if you play in their $1 Vacation Tournaments, where you can win an amazing trip in just a few simple steps. The first step involves finding a $1 Vacation tourney by looking in the poker software at Everest. Once you’ve registered, you need to cash in one …

While Christmas has been over for quite a few days now, you can still get plenty of free gifts at Poker Heaven via their “January Sales” promotion, which runs throughout both January and February. Some of the prizes you can win in January Sales include cash, iPods, iPads, Beats headphones, Xbox 360’s and more. To get started on your way towards winning these prizes, you need to log into the PlayerZone, and click the “Activate Offer” button under the prize you want. After doing this, it’s simply a matter of hitting the poker tables and earning the required amount of …

Fans of expensive electronics will really love the new promotion that 888poker is running since they’re giving away $50,000 worth of 3D TV’s and other electronics. 888poker’s partner in this venture will be LG Electronics, and they’ll jointly offer the $50k in home entertainment products from December 12th, 2011 to February 12th, 2012. To play for the 3D TV’s and other products, you simply need to join 888poker and make a $10 minimum deposit within the aforementioned timeframe; this earns you a ticket for the $5,000 Guaranteed LG Tournament. Assuming you sign up at 888 through RakeTheRake, you’ll receive a …

Alexa Fisher may be well over a decade away from legally being allowed to play online poker or in  a casino, but that’s certainly not stopping her from playing wherever else she can. In fact, the 8-year-old American poker prodigy reportedly knows how to play 50 different poker games, and she has some poker tournament experience as well. The child grinder first learned how to play poker at the age of 3 when father Justin Fisher taught her the basics. After learning both the rules and strategy for holdem poker by age 5, Fisher picked up other poker games such …

Are British poker tournament pros Liv Boeree and Sam Holden starting a poker boom in the UK? The BBC definitely seems to think so since they prominently featured both players in a recent article called “Poker’s Faces: Are the British about to invade?” In regards to Holden, the 22-year-old from Sussex is fresh off of a 9th place finish in the 2011 WSOP Main Event. And the big final table appearance has done more for Holden than just deliver him a $782,115 cash; it has also earned him plenty of fame through poker news. As the BBC put it, “Although …

Barry Greenstein and Linda Johnson were already legends in the poker world, and needed no validation from anybody. However, they certainly aren’t complaining after being the only two inductees in the 2011 Poker Hall of Fame class. Besides Johnson and Greenstein, the full list of nominees included Annie Duke, Huck Seed, Jack McClelland, Jennifer Harman-Traniello, John Juanda, Marcel Luske, Scotty Nguyen and Tom McEvoy. Considering some of the poker tournament legends on this list, it was certainly an honor to be selected for the Poker Hall of Fame in 2011. Linda Johnson reiterated this point by telling the press, “I …

American football fans are already excited since both the NFL and college seasons have officially kicked off. But Cake Poker is giving fans even more reason to be pumped up with their Monday Night Football promotion. The first thing worth discussing about this promotion is that Cake will be increasing their Monday night $2,000 Guaranteed tournament to a $4,000 prize pool. Now this may not be that exciting because Cake Poker already runs both a daily $15k and $25k tournament, but here’s the added bonus: anybody who finishes within the top 50 of the $4k Monday Guaranteed will automatically receive …