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Here at RakeTheRake it’s special promotion time! We’ve got 3 months of extra special promos running to celebrate our new site launch. Every week there’ll be a different online poker room working with us to bring you an incredible prize, many that ‘money just can’t buy’. Our first week offers you the chance to win an all expenses paid package to the World Series of Poker* in Vegas, courtesy of Paradise Poker and RakeTheRake.

We’ve already discussed how Full Tilt Poker is running numerous satellites for the WSOP* Main Event. But did you know that Full Tilt is also giving away 50 free Main Event seats through their Race to the Main Event promotion? If you didn’t, then you’ll want to pay close attention to how you can win a free seat to the world’s largest poker tournament. Winning a free seat all begins with downloading the poker software for Full Tilt, then looking in their lobby for Round 1 Main Event Race SNG Freerolls. These free poker tournaments run around the clock, and …

Full Tilt Poker has joined the party in offering WSOP* Main Event seats as they are giving players numerous opportunities to win a $12k prize package to the world’s biggest poker tournament. As always, they are also offering the usual 27% rakeback deals too! Here is a look at some of the different ways you can book your ticket to Las Vegas through Full Tilt: $1 Main Event Seat – Full Tilt is running a number of $1 poker games that give players the chance to win a Main Event seat. You can pay $1 + $0.10 to enter these …

Absolute Poker is one of the latest sites to start giving away prize packages for the 2011 WSOP Main Event, with one notable twist – you can win a prize package for as little as one dime! That’s because Absolute Poker is running lots of different satellites for the world’s biggest poker tournament that will enable anybody to compete for a prize package. The cheapest way to qualify for a prize package is through the STEP tournaments where the lowest buy-in is $0.10, and you can work your way up the ladder by finishing either first or second in these …

While the 2011 WSOP may still be a few months away, it’s never too early to start thinking about an event that will offer over $180 million in total prize money. PowerPoker definitely subscribes to this line of thinking because they are already offering prize packages for the 2011 Series. PowerPoker is giving out two different types of prize packages with one being worth $2,500, and the other worth $13,000. As you may have guessed, the $13k prize package is for the 2011 Main Event poker tournament, while the $2,500 prize package is called a “Vegas Spree” package, and it …

We’re not even two weeks into 2011, and the biggest poker news of the year has already happened. On Sunday, Viktor Blom revealed himself to be mystery online poker player “Isildur1.” The poker community has been buzzing about the identity of “Isildur1” ever since he stormed onto the high stakes scene in 2009. “Isildur1” was involved in some of the biggest poker hands in history, and earned millions of dollars over the past two years. Everybody from Sammy Farha to Phil Hellmuth was pegged as the man behind this poker screen name. But it ended up being the person who …

The summer was pretty rough for world-renowned casino poker player Phil Laak since he got into an ATV accident and spent days in the hospital. However, it appears that things are looking up for Laak after winning 2 major poker tournaments in a row. Laak recently finished in the money at the English Poker Open, coming in 18th place with a prize of £6,800. His success continued as Laak won his first WSOP* bracelet after taking down the £2,500 Six-Handed Hold’em event in the World Series of Poker Europe.  He had to battle through a 244-player field before landing on a final …

Some players follow the belief that if you always approach the game of poker as if you have something to learn, you will; because it is what you learn after you already know it all that really counts and can make you a master. If that is the case then a new poker training website on the market could be of interest to those newcomers to the game of online poker and veteran players alike. Blue Fire Poker is a recently launched poker training site developed by Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, a well-known online poker mastermind who is famous for walking …

The online poker world has already seen one famous young player retire from the game this year.  Canadian Michael McDonald shocked internet poker players in April when he announced that he no longer had any desire to play poker.  Not to be outdone, 2008 WSOP Main Event champion Peter Eastgate recently announced that he will no longer be playing poker either. Eastgate, who has a high-profile blog on PokerStars, talked about his decision to quit casino poker by writing, “When I started playing poker for a living, it was never my goal to spend the rest of my life as …

By the time the average person makes $329,780, they will have spent over a decade at a dead-end job, went through two minivans, and have spent countless hours worrying about whether or not they can still afford satellite TV.  Full Tilt Poker pro Phil Ivey, on the other hand, can earn $329,780 and not even realize it. Now this scenario might sound a little far-fetched, but this actually happened to Ivey in a $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. poker tournament.  Ivey was fresh off making poker news by winning his 8th WSOP bracelet, which ties him with Erik Seidel for fifth on the …