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Once the world’s biggest online poker room before the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was signed into effect in the United States, Party Poker is doing everything they can to get back on top.  And one of the recent measures they’ve taken to get there again is opening a site that will offer services to French players. Party Poker’s parent company, PartyGaming, signed an interesting (and semi-confusing) deal that will be called www.partypoker.fr.  The deal was signed with PMU, France’s pari-mutual horse racing company, and it calls for PartyGaming to help PMU set up an online poker site.  But rather …

Rush Poker at Full Tilt Poker has been hailed as one of the greatest inventions in online poker.  In fact, some online grinders would put Rush Poker right up there with the invention of Internet poker itself – especially those who like to collect rakeback! And the reason why rakeback junkies love Rush Poker so much is because it speeds up the game, thus allowing people to play more hands in a shorter amount of time.  For those of you who haven’t had a chance to try out Rush Poker, here’s a quick look at how it works. The main …

The World Series of Poker* is no doubt the biggest name in all of poker, and they are well paid for this recognition too.  Online poker rooms pay the WSOP* millions of dollars to advertise through their brand, and the relationships between Internet poker companies and the WSOP* is normally pretty good.  However, Everest Poker is one company that is not happy with the WSOP* and they are actually taking them to court over a disagreement.  Everest Poker, which is one of the world’s leading poker sites, contends the World Series of Poker* breached a contract by showing a logo …

There’s been a lot of flirtation with the concept of making poker an official sport.  People have even went as far as to say that online poker could one day wind up in the Olympics (this might be a stretch).  Getting back to reality, it does appear clear that some countries do look at poker as more than just a game.  Lithuania recently proved this when they officially declared poker a sport in their country.  This past weekend, the Lithuanian Department of Physical Education and Sports recently recognized that the Lithuanian Sports Poker Federation is a legitimate organization.  And while …

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 …

While most players today are making their money by playing online poker and taking advantage of rakeback deals, Carlos Mortensen is sticking to the old-fashioned way by earning his cash through live tournaments.  And Mortensen recently earned a lot of cash when he took the $393,820 top prize at the WPT Hollywood Poker Open. This was the third World Poker Tour win for Carlos Mortensen and this ties Gus Hansen for the most all-time wins in the WPT.  Perhaps even more important than this is that Mortensen was able to move past Daniel Negreanu on the all-time WPT money list.  …

Apparently there aren’t enough rakeback deals going around in online poker so people are resorting to robbing live poker tournaments to make money.  Four armed gunmen stormed the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Berlin, Germany the other weekend in pursuit of the €1.36 million prize pool that was up for grabs in the European Poker Tour Berlin tournament. The robbers broke up the €5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event as they ran into the ballroom.  At least one of the men had a gun and another was holding a machete when they interrupted one of Europe’s biggest live poker tournaments.  When they …

The British public would be shocked at just how much money is stolen from vulnerable and unaware people every year through lottery scams. Most would be extremely surprised that so many people are still falling victim to a scam that has been around and well publicized now for a decade. The scams have absolutely nothing to do with the actually lottery or any valid lottery around the world. It is even uncertain as to the exact figures of whom and how much as many people are too embarrassed to report that they have become victims to the scam. The scam …

2009 will be a year that many casino operators on the Vegas strip will want to forget. Although online poker players have found it a great year for rakeback deals. It was to be expected that the global financial downturn would have a knock on effect on Las Vegas but no one really expected the drop in visitors that resulted. Everything has been blamed for the drop in takings, from the Vegas lavish reputation to the legislation in the USA. Now however there are a few hushed whispers that there may be a few signs of recovery showing up. No …

For most businesses online it really is a priority to be listed high on a search engine, and the crème de la crème of the engines has to be Google. Companies are known to spend a great deal of money and time working to the strict rules of ‘search engine optimisation’ in order to claw their way to the top few pages for certain search terms.  Google is the goal for most businesses on the web and companies work hard to get to the top. However, in recent years Google has become more and more strict on the methods it …