So far in 2010 Sorel Mizzi has had a fantastic year, finishing inside top ten in 12 tournaments. He has also grabbed 4 titles this year, which currently puts his in first position in player of the year ranking. Compare to last year this is a huge improvement because he finished 174th and in 2008 he finished in 91st. Click to read more …

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There are many who still have doubt about Online gambling. They believe that online poker produces negative addictiveness on a person which helps them ruin their lives. Gambling is also not allowed within few religions. Click to read more …

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Luckily, the Gambling Act of 2005 hasn’t really made the UK gambling industry hurt too much.The law was designed to keep gambling under better control and hasn’t been used much as opposed to say the UIGEA in the United States. But just recently, we’ve seen the act rear its head in a case against a Cheshire pub that may have a whole lot of people wanting to stick to online poker from now on.

The UK Gambling Commission, which was created as a result of the Gambling Act of 2005, recently commissioned three men for running poker games out of the Cherry Tree pub in Runcorn, Cheshire. Click to read more …

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The hotly anticipated PokerStars Final has finally taken place and in all honesty the winner deserved every cent of his winnings, although it was a tough call who to back. On the one hand, we had the poker playing priest who was going to donate all his winnings to the church in order to build a new roof. Then we have the badly injured 9/11 veteran policeman who due to injuries sustained whilst rescuing people trapped in the towers, has been unable to work. Click to read more …

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It would appear that 2009 is a year that many Vegas casino owners will want to forget all about. Although it would appear that online poker players have enjoyed a bumper year for their 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. Click to read more …

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RakeTheRake wants to celebrate the Easter festival by respecting some of the more unusual traditions associated with it. It would seem that nowadays Easter is not all about going to church, hunting for Easter eggs and Easter bunnies.

And so the rakeback specialist has decided to add its own unique celebration to the festivities by inviting online poker players to join them on Easter Sunday, 4 April, for a special 400,000 US Dollar freeroll. Click to read more …

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The British public would be shocked at just how much money is stolen from vulnerable and unaware people every year through lottery scams. It is a known fact that so many people are still unnecessarily falling prey to a scam that has been around for well over a decade now. The scams have absolutely nothing to do with the actual lottery or any valid lottery around the world. Click to read more …

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Online poker players at FuguPoker’s new room can scoop a Rolex, RCA camcorder, Bose headphones and $20 free before the end of the year.

RakeTheRake and FuguPoker have teamed up to bring some massive introductory prizes to online poker players who play online poker with FuguPoker before the end of the year.

If you weren’t aware, FuguPoker is a new online poker room on the Cake Network and you have the opportunity of playing all of the classic poker games you love from Texas Hold’em, Omhaha Hi Lo, Omaha, 7 Card Stud through to 7 Card Stud Hi Lo. Click to read more …

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Leading poker rakeback site RakeTheRake has announced the launch of what it hopes will be the web’s most definitive Poker Wiki on its site. The Poker Wiki has been developed by RakeTheRake in the hope that the ever expanding number of poker players will source and share information about the online poker games, its celebrities, game types and tournament events.

This is a great plan as it will offer existing and novice online poker competitors definitions and tips on poker strategies, types of poker games they can play, player terminology and poker resources. Click to read more …

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Surely the Wii has been put down as a family console? Why is it that you can even see these Poker games on the console? Apprently there is a fairly good reason why all of this is happening. Click to read more …

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