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The payment provider Skrill, formerly called Moneybokers, and offered as a payment solution from RakeTheRake, has become the Official Payment Provider Sponsor of the European Poker Tour Season 8, which began last week in Tallinn, Estonia. Skril is the third brand to sponsor GPTL’s poker tours in 2011, joining playing cards manufacturer Copag and luxury jeweller Shamballa Jewels. Nikolai Riesenkampff, co-CEO of Skrill Holdings, operating Moneybookers, said: “Skrill is delighted to join the European Poker Tour as its Official Payment Provider Sponsor. Now in its eighth season, the EPT has grown to become one of the largest and most lucrative …

The Spider-Man star, Tobey Maguire is said to be at the centre of a furore involving major Hollywood names and their alleged illegal high-stakes poker playing activity. The movie stars are, allegedly, all facing lawsuits after participating in illegal gambling at underground poker clubs in California. It seems this invitation only poker web consisted of a number of regular movie stars that allegedly includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, as well as other moneyed celebrities, entrepreneurs, businessmen and even attorneys! The high stakes games ended in 2009 and Tobey Maguire is noted to have been a ‘very, very …

Some players might think of poker as a somewhat stressful game – especially if they don’t take the time to learn poker strategy beforehand. However, a Canadian university study found the opposite to be true in that online poker actually reduces stress. The primary cause of stress is a hormone called cortisol, which increases blood sugar and blood pressure when released. Cortisol also reduces your immune responses, and all of this causes you to feel more stressed out. But the study found that when you play poker online, your cortisol levels decrease by 17%, which reduces stress levels quite a …

Full Tilt Poker Onyx Cup Series is a six event series that will feature buy-ins ranging from $100,000 to $300,000. The tour aims to find the best poker player in the world and will boast a total prize pool estimated at $30M. The news, which broke on Monday, detailed the inception of the Onyx Cup Series and featured additional introductions by Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Tom Dwan, Gus Hansen and Erik Seidel. The first five events of which will be preliminaries, followed by the sixth Grand Finale event with a $250,000 buy-in. With the tournaments scheduled to be held across …

Redkings Poker is one of the fastest growing European based online poker rooms out there and is generally known to have a strong caliber of players bouncing around in its online game rooms. At most times the amount of players currently using the site falls somewhere around 17,000 and with the majority of those players being of a high quality field this online poker room has the makings to be a venue where some big stuff could go down. Redkings.com offers the option of playing online and, hopefully, winning instantly or you can also download their software and give it …

A lot of online poker rooms offer new players the chance to participate in a freeroll poker tournament or two.  However, few rooms offer online poker deals that give players the chance to play for $54,500 like Pacific Poker does.  That’s because when you sign up at Pacific Poker, you’ll not only receive rakeback deals up to 36%, but you will also have the opportunity to play in $54,500 worth of freerolls. Any new player who signs up at Pacific Poker will get to play poker in seven $500 New Depositors’ Freerolls.  This is totally free poker and all you …

This is the best time of the year for NFL fans since the 2010 football season is in full swing.  And if you happen to like football and poker, you’re going to enjoy this NFL season even more because Carbon Poker is giving away lots of money through an NFL-themed promotion. The promotion gives players a chance to pick the winners of NFL games, and if their picks are correct, they get to play poker in a big freeroll.  These free poker tournaments will be offering lots of prizes including cash, VIP Points, and copies of the video game Madden …

Phil Ivey is one of the top internet poker players in the world as he consistently dominates the high stakes competition at Full Tilt Poker, and makes lots of money through rakeback.  Ivey is also one of the top casino poker players too, which is why the ARIA Resort and Casino Center in Las Vegas decided to dedicate a poker room to him. “The Ivey Room” recently opened with a $1 million invitation-only freeroll poker tournament that included such stars as Doyle Brunson, T.J. Cloutier, Barry Greenstein, Eli Elezra, Daniel Alaei, Erick Lindgren, David Williams, David “Chino” Rheem, and of …

The world of poker is filled with plenty of exciting and fascinating venues.  In fact, every poker room offers its own bit of character to players, which sometimes makes the experience just as good as the actual game.  Apparently though, regular poker rooms aren’t good enough for two UK residents as they’ve decided to play poker on a mountain top instead.  Conor Toner and Paul Brady of Portsmouth plan on playing poker games at the top of Mount Snowdon in Wales.  Both of these guys are managers at casinos in Portsmouth, and they want to climb the 1,085-foot Mt. Snowdon …

Nobody likes to be told what to do and unwanted suggestions can feel more like orders than recommendations. But when it comes to poker tips, there’s really no reason not to be all ears due to the fact that whether you decide to bite the hook and follow the lead-on, or not, at least you know the bait is out there, and if you aren’t biting it your opponents might be. So, with that philosophy in mind here are a few tips from the pros to add to your tackle-box. 1. Playing poker online and playing at the casino are not …