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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 …

With the World Series of Poker* just one month away, the world’s biggest poker tournament event may be forced to find a new home.  That’s because Harrah’s Entertainment is thinking of selling the Rio to whatever company is interested in acquiring the massive hotel and casino. This story was first broke by Business Week as they reported that Harrah’s is offering the Rio and all its property including machines and poker tables for around $500 million.  And while no specific details of the deal have been released yet, there are already several unidentified sources who are interested in purchasing the …

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 …

World Team Poker is set to be one of the most entertaining poker tournaments in the world since teams from all around the globe are gathering to compete in this international event.  And many of the teams that will play in the event have finished selecting their team members. Team USA, which is captained by Phil Hellmuth and Doyles Room personality Doyle Brunson, is the latest team to pick their members.  Hellmuth and Brunson selected Allen Cunningham, Annie Duke, Jennifer Harman, Erik Seidel, Mike Matusow, Chris Ferguson, and Howard Lederer.  Team Australia members include Tony G, Jeffrey Lisandro, Steve Topakas, …

Why is online poker becoming so popular? Online poker games have many advantages over conventional games. You can’t play regular games 24/7, even in Vegas. Whereas if you wanted to, you could relieve yourself on the toilet while dominating a poker tournament online. There is no way you could do that playing poker with your buddies in person. You could wake up at 5am and start playing. Could you gather up your college friends on Sunday to play some poker at 5am? Good luck with that. Another great advantage of online poker is that there is a time constraint for …

The European Poker Tour rebounded quite well after robbers broke into the Berlin poker tournament and stole well over $300,000.  1,239 people made their way to the EPT San Remo event via direct buy-ins and online poker room satellites.  The 1,239 players broke a record for an EPT event held on European soil, and created a €6 million-plus prize pool. Of the 1,239 holdem poker players in attendance, RakeTheRake’s friend Liv Boeree ended up being the biggest winner of them all by taking first place and the €1.25 million prize pool.  The interesting thing about Boeree is that she had …

Few poker pros have come as far as UltimateBet player Tiffany Michelle has in the last year.  Michelle cemented her place as one of the best texas poker players in the world when she finished in 17th place in the World Series of Poker.  Her showing at the WSOP, and the fact that she is one of the more attractive players in the game today have made Tiffany Michelle a fast rising star. Now UltimateBet is giving people the chance to win a date with this poker hottie on April 28th in a free poker tournament.  That’s right…you don’t even …

Since blowing through an estimated $350 million in boxing winnings over his lifetime, former heavyweight champion boxer Mike Tyson is always looking for work.  Whether that means being the host of a WWE professional wrestling show, starring in the movie “The Hangover”, or playing at a poker tournament at the Aussie Millions, Tyson is always up for anything.  And while playing at the Aussie Millions didn’t tempt him to become an online poker pro, it did spark an interest in gambling that has carried over to his new reality TV show. The reality show that Mike Tyson is on is …

With the World Series of Poker* starting in a month and a half, many poker sites are giving out seats to the Main Event.  And these $10,000 Main Event seats are definitely hot items since last year’s poker tournament featured over $60 million in the prize pool.  And Main Event champion Joe Cada took home $8.55 million of that prize pool. This year Full Tilt Poker is giving you the chance to become the next Joe Cada for just $1!  All you need to do is become a member at Full Tilt, and then sign up for the $1 poker …

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 …