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Every online poker room runs freeroll poker tournaments in an effort to keep players happy and entice new people to their room.  Unfortunately, most of these freerolls only offer $50 or $100 prize pools, and the large amount of players involved means that one would have to play thousands of poker hands just to win some money.  Carbon Poker doesn’t believe in wasting players’ time with pointless poker games so they’ve decided to hold a massive freeroll poker tournament that will offer $100,000!  The winner of this free poker tournament will cash for $20,000 while the rest of the placers …

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 …

Pacific Poker is already one of the online poker world’s biggest rakeback providers since they offer 36% rakeback deals to their players.  But Pacific Poker isn’t one to rest on laurels since they are constantly rolling out new promotions to keep members happy.  And their latest promotion involves a $25,000 Royal Flush Jackpot! In order to win this huge jackpot prize, you simply need to play in Royal Flush Jackpot rooms at Pacific Poker.  As you play at these poker tables, a small raked amount will be taken from your hand and added to the Royal Flush Jackpot.  So essentially, …

Upon hearing that actor Al Pacino and the media-labeled “Suicide Doctor” Jack Kevorkian were going to play poker games with each other, most people would be wondering where the punch line is.  However, the aforementioned scenario is actually going to happen and no punch line is involved. Pacino is traveling to Michigan to play poker with Kevorkian since the infamous doctor invited him there.  Pacino, who is playing Dr. Jack Kevorkian in the HBO movie You Don’t Know Jack, got the invite from Kevorkian at the film’s premiere and was very excited to attend.  He said, “He’s invited me to …

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, …

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 …