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If you play micro stakes poker games, you don’t expect to play for lots of money at this juncture.  In fact, you are probably just hoping to improve your poker strategy before moving on to higher stakes.  But at Ultimate Bet Poker, you don’t have to wait for the higher stakes before playing for lots of cash.  You can play poker for major money right now through their Perfect Play promotion! Altogether there will be over $100,000 worth of prizes offered with the money spread out over several different promotions.  In Perfect 10, you will compete in $10 +$1 tournaments …

Running between October 11th and November 7th 2010 the London Calling festival will consist of 57 tournaments, featuring affordable buy-ins designed to bring ‘poker to the people’ The majority of buy-ins will range from £20 to £100 and players will have the opportunity take part in PLO, PLO8 and Heads Up events, as well as No Limit Hold’em. In addition therefore will also be a two day HORSE event. London Calling will finally conclude with a £300 buy-in main event. There will also be a leaderboard running throughout the festival where players will have the opportunity to win points. Players …

As if having the chance to play at the world’s largest online poker room isn’t enough, PokerStars is now giving people the opportunity to play against some of the world’s best players in Alexey “LuckyGump” Makarov and Denys “diatty” Shcherbakov for huge bounties and cash prizes.  This promotion, which is entitled the LuckyGump Series, is actually named after Makarov and will run from October 6th to the 27th.  To play poker in the LuckyGump Series, all you need to do is look for the free, low, and medium stakes qualifiers in the PokerStars lobby.  Every LuckyGump poker tournament will offer …

Even if you missed out on the Full Tilt Online Poker Series where $20.5 million was given away, you still have an opportunity to get in on the FTOPS action.  That’s because Full Tilt Poker is going to be running Mini FTOPS XVII starting on September 8th.  Just like the regular FTOPS, Mini FTOPS will run a total of 34 poker games where the buy-ins cost a fraction of what the normal FTOPS tournaments do. To illustrate this point, consider that the FTOPS Main Event cost $640 to enter while the Mini FTOPS Main Event poker tournament, which offers a …

Poker players wearing sunglasses has been a stereotype within casino poker for years.  But PokerStars’ player Daniel Negreanu is one person who doesn’t like this stereotype….in fact, he doesn’t even think people should be wearing sunglasses at the poker table period! Negreanu recently spoke of his disdain for sunglasses on the popular holdem poker show High Stakes Poker.  He basically said sunglasses hurt the game, and that sunglasses aren’t needed to learn how to play poker.  The other people who were playing poker hands with him such as Doyle Brunson and Tom Dwan agreed that sunglasses aren’t necessary. Daniel Negreanu …

The mere mention of the Belgian Open Poker Championships may not have you envisioning million dollar prize pools, but this casino poker event is actually one of the biggest in Europe.  Last year, the Belgian Open Main Event offered a €1,138,877 prize pool where Antonio Guida eventually won the largest share at €256,082.  In addition to the huge prize pool, many of the world’s top pros such as Marcel Luske, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, and Johnny Lodden play poker at the Belgian Open Poker Championships. If you’d like to join them this year, you should start playing at PokerStars since they …

FTOPS XVII proved to be the biggest online poker series ever at Full Tilt Poker.  61,150 players participated in the 34 poker games that ran during FTOPS XVII while a total of $20,598,444 was given away during the series.  The biggest poker news in FTOPS XVII came during the Main Event when “TyboVegas” navigated through 4,805 players to capture the title.  Interestingly enough though, “TyboVegas” ($423,057) earned less money than his heads-up opponent “DQnk” ($446,942) since a deal was made before the two played the final poker hands. Another big story in FTOPS XVII included Mike “chapmoney” Chapp taking first …

Every player to the game has their own strategies and ways of raking in the pot, but there are a few basic rules of thumb that seem to be tested-and-true as they come up again and again in poker blogs and forums. The following is a compilation of what we found to be the top-three old standbys when it comes to advice from the pros as to how to improve your game. Should we call them the three golden rules of the game? Or maybe better deemed, the three champion cash-collecting customs?: 1. Sometimes folding is the best option. Not …

Former Ultimate Bet player and rising female poker star Liv Boeree has been tabbed as the host of the fourth annual Poker in the Park event.  Boeree, who also represented Absolute Poker and their 30% rakeback deals, is a former model who became the third female to win a European Poker Tour event after she captured the EPT San Remo title; she also won over €1.25 million for the victory.  After winning EPT San Remo and having her name plastered in poker news headlines everywhere, Boeree will now have the opportunity to open Poker in the Park. If you haven’t …

Now that cross-dressing men have taken to raiding ladies-only casino poker events, many women are wondering where they can play poker.  Luckily, PokerStars has taken it upon themselves to provide an answer for ladies everywhere with their brand new Women’s Poker League. The Women’s Poker League gives ladies around the world a chance to compete in poker games just for women.  These ladies-only tournaments run every day and the buy-ins start at just $5.50.  Whenever you enter one of these tournaments, you’ll earn points in the Women’s Poker League standings.  The women who earn the most points in this league …