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There are a couple of nice promotions running this February at Fortune Poker since they’re featuring both a €12,500 Leap Year Special and €10,000 Valentine’s Lovers Special. Freeroll hunters will especially like the Leap Year Special because it offers two free poker tournaments, and an added value tournament. Here is a quick look at the details of the freerolls and added value event: Feb 29th at 18:30 – €2,500 New Player LeapRoll, entry is free for new players in February. Feb 29th at 19:00 – €5,000 added by Fortune Poker, €5 + €0.50 buy-in. Feb 29th at 19:30 – €5,000 …

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 …

UK poker beauty Liv Boeree put her astrophysics degree to good use recently on a special Christmas episode of the BBC’s University Challenge. The poker tournament pro was representing the 4-player team from the University of Manchester, and the show’s host, Jeremy Paxman, introduced Boeree by saying, “Someone who has used a degree in astrophysics to good effect, and has now become one of the UK’s most successful card players.” For those unfamiliar with University Challenge, the TV show pits two universities against each other in a first-on-the-buzzer quiz show format. As teams correctly answer questions, they earn points, and …

Cake Poker is one of the first online poker sites to get into the holiday spirit since they’re running a $50k Gold Card Wrap-Up Tournament Series from now until January 1st. Like the name suggests, Cake Poker is giving players the opportunity to turn their 2011 Gold Cards into the chance to play in $50,000 worth of poker tournaments; the biggest weekly final of this promotion will offer a $20,000 prize pool! As for the details of how you can play in these huge poker tournaments, Cake Poker will assign a card suit to each week in December, and you …

Carbon Poker has tweaked their poker tournament lineup to include the brand new Fat Stack and Slim Stack tournaments. What’s great about these poker tournaments is that they cater to players who like deep stack and/or short stack tourneys. The Carbon Poker Slim Stack tournaments cover the latter since players only start off with 10 poker chips, and the blind levels begin at 0.5/1. From here, the blinds will advance every two minutes, which doesn’t afford players the luxury of sitting around waiting for premium hands. Of course if you’re a casual or beginning poker player, Slim Stack poker tournaments …

In a follow up to our previous news post regarding Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire being caught in a poker web, it has emerged that he has offered a repayment sum… Tobey Maguire, the Spider-Man star, centre of a lawsuit seeking repayment of hundreds of thousands of dollars allegedly won in high-stakes poker games, has agreed to pay $80,000 to the estate of Bradley Ruderman. The lawsuit against Maguire, detailed alleged winnings of $311,000 that the actor took from Ruderman back in 2007 – 2008. The problem here is that Ruderman’s poker funds had been ‘hard earned’ by embezzling them from …

If you’ve ever wanted to experience the cobbled roads, winding canals and famous breweries of Amsterdam, then you should take a closer look at the Platinum Tour Amsterdam 2011 deal that InterPoker is offering. The Amsterdam 2011 prize packages will enable players to take an incredible 4-day trip to Amsterdam that includes the following: – 3-night stay in a 5-star hotel – Tickets for a Champions League match between Ajax and Real Madrid – A Heineken Brewery complete with beer tasting – Exclusive VIP day/night excursions – Free entry into the 10-player, €4,000 All Winners Rake Race – Transportation covered …

In the waning days of October, PKR Poker has decided to throw a big Oktoberfest celebration. And this celebration will offer a wide range of guaranteed poker tournaments – culminating in an $18,000 Main Event on October 30th, which will be filmed for PKR TV! What’s great about Oktoberfest at PKR is that the buy-ins are relatively cheap, so many players will be able to afford to play. Even if the buy-ins are a little too steep for you, there are plenty of Oktoberfest satellites still running in the PKR lobby. Another thing worth noting is that there will be …

Here are three excellent reasons to play online poker at Poker Heaven: 1. 30% rakeback 2. A 200% up to €1,000 signup bonus 3. €3,500 WPT Ireland prize packages As for the first two points – 30% rakeback and a 200% up to €1,000 signup bonus – you can get both of these when you sign up at Poker Heaven through RakeTheRake. The 30% rakeback is especially key because it will reduce the amount of money that you pay to online poker sites in rake. So any time you have the chance to play at a rakeback poker site versus …

Aced Poker is offering a limited time deal right now where players can get a 100% up to $200 reload bonus. What’s great about this deal is that reload bonuses are extra deposit bonuses given beyond the initial signup. So if you already took advantage of the 150% up to $750 Aced signup bonus that’s offered through RakeTheRake, you could still get the current reload bonus as well. Moving to the specifics of the reload bonus, you need to make a deposit and use the code “RELOADED”. Once you meet the requirements for the reload bonus, you need to earn …