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Cake Poker Teams Up With Phil “Unabomber” Laak: Adds Eight New Sites

Thursday, February 11, 2010

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The Cake Poker Network was the 10th largest online poker network on the web, until now. Thanks to the addition of Unabomber Poker, the official poker website of Phil “The Unabomber” Laak, and 7 more poker websites, the Cake Poker Network is now the 9th largest poker network online At Unabomber Poker, you can play online [...]

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PKR Spices It Up With Sexy Nuts & Loaded Partnership

Thursday, December 24, 2009

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Hey poker playing Lads! Do you like seeing buxom broads in skimpy outfits? Of course you do! That’s why you read Nuts Magazine or Loaded Magazine, the two places you can count on seeing plenty of them every month. Well now you can enjoy staring at them all you want while you’re playing online poker [...]

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Poker Stars Will Be First To Go Mobile

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

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It was only a matter of time before online poker went mobile, and it looks like that time is just about upon us, courtesy of Poker Stars. Just the site you’d expect to be making a bold and progressive move forward onto the smartphone scene by enabling its enormous worldwide member base to play online [...]

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Poker Stars Player Breaks Record For Most Hands Played In A Row

Monday, November 30, 2009

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Over at PokerStars this weekend, a 22-year-old Russian player going by the name of innerspy accepted the challenge posed by the Russian Card Game Masters and hosted by Poker Stars to try and break the world’s record for the most number of hands played in one sitting. And he did it! Innerspy sat down for just [...]

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PatIvey: The Phil Ivey of PKR Poker

Monday, November 16, 2009

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Phil Ivey is no longer the only Ivey making it big in the poker world, nor is he the only P. Ivey, even. His near-namesake (and near-doppelganger in recent success as well) is named PatIvey and after winning the PKR Masters in September, for about $30,000, and then winning it again in October, for another [...]

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Poker Stars Satellites Running Now For 3 Poker Tours: EPT, LAPT, UKIPT

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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Satellites galore going on at PokerStars, awarding free entries into every stop on the several live poker tours that Poker Stars now sponsors. Schedules are just coming out for the third season of the Latin American Poker Tour, the sixth season of the European Poker Tour, and the inaugural season of the eagerly anticipated U.K. [...]

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Best Poker Bonuses Get Better: PKR, William Hill, Ladbrokes

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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Welcome bonuses (or first deposit bonuses as they’re also called) a one of the ways that poker sites compete with one another for your patronage. That’s why they are constantly trying to one-up each other with how much “free money” they can offer players to join their site. Most of the welcome bonuses offer 100% [...]

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PPA Tries to Delay UIGEA

Monday, October 12, 2009

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The time is almost upon us for the alleged “official” end of legal U.S. online poker. As of December 1st all online poker sites, other online gambling sites, and most especially internet payment processors are legally required to abide by the UIGEA “guidelines”. What this boils down to is a requirement that all these businesses [...]

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PokerStars Breaks Another Of Its Own Guinness World Records

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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Back on September 6, PokerStars broke its own record in the Guinness Book of World Records for “Most Players at an Internet Poker Room”. It was a Sunday when Poker Stars had 307,016 players playing at 42,814 poker tables at once. This beats the old record by more than 100,000 online poker players. This is not [...]

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WSOP Online Poker To Use 888.com/PacificPoker Software

Monday, September 14, 2009

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Guess who’s going to be providing the official poker software for the new online poker rooms soon to be launched (though no dates have been given yet) by Harrah’s Entertainment, Casear’s Casino, and the World Series of Poker. It’s 888.com – the portal site for, among others, Pacific Poker. For now, these offerings will only be available [...]

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