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It's time to get ready for the third of the exclusive series of RummyRoyal freerolls. Make sure to tell your friends, relatives and even your foes to register for the next $100 BankrollMob battle which is scheduled on Monday the 17th of September att 22:00 GMT / 00:00 CET / 18:00 EST. Please note that this series of weekly $100 freerolls are only available for BankrollMob members!

The last freeroll was played on the 10th of September and it had a total of 17 participants. It was a very exciting field of players that sat down to play. After almost one hour of joy and anguish it was clear for everyone; the mighty JackStoner was the winner and took home the first prize of $50 - Good work!

Chazz39 managed to finish behind the winner for the second time in this series of freerolls - well done and keep it up! Will Chazz39 gather his strength and come out the winner in the next one?

How to participate
1. All participants must be members of BankrollMob - sign up for a free Mob account here!
2. Create a RummyRoyal account and claim your exclusive $5 No Deposit Bonus!
3. Make a deposit of at least $10 to get access to the exclusive series of freerolls. You will automatically qualify for the 150% up to $300 first deposit bonus at Rummy Royal!

Exclusive RummyRoyal Freeroll details
What: Exclusive Freeroll for members of BankrollMob
Where: RummyRoyal
When: Every Monday at 22:00 GMT
Buy-in: Freeroll
Game: Kalooki 51
Prize pool: $100
Prize structure: 1st $50, 2nd $30, 3rd $20.
Tournament Name in Lobby: $100 BRM Freeroll

For more details on the exclusive $100 Freeroll - please click here!

About Rummy
Rummy is, like poker, a group of skilled based card games. The game is usually played between 2 to 6 players with a normal 52 card deck. The aim of the game is to get rid of your cards before your opponents and by doing so, get your points. This is done by forming two types of card combinations:
- Runs: Consecutive sequences of three or more cards of the same suit.
- Sets: Three or four cards of the same rank. If you are using two decks, a set may include two identical cards of the same rank and suit.
The most common rummy games are Gin Rummy, Kalooki 51, Kalooki 40 and Rummikub.
Every player is dealt 10 cards. The remaining cards are put on the center of the table as one pile of stock cards. The top card is turned over as the first card of the discard pile. The player next to the dealer is first to make a play. You either pick up the top card of the stock pile or the turned over card of the discard pile. Then you may place you hand in the two types of the card combinations. If no combination can be made, the player discard one card from their hand and the game continues to the next player to the left.
Once the stock pile is finished the discard pile is shuffled and it is turned into the new stock pile and the game continues.

When 63 players sat down at the tables and Day 3 kicked off, the tournament director had a plan to get as close to 12 players as possible. But in the end there were still 24 remaining players, and the man with the biggest pile of poker chips was the same as when the day started, Philipp Gruissem.

Read more » WPT Grand Prix de Paris: Gruissem Leads For The Second Consecutive Day

The relaunch of Full Tilt Poker is getting closer and closer and the new owner, PokerStars, is working around the clock to get everything ready in time. A part of the relaunch-process is to hire new staff.

In total, eleven positions are posted on Rational FT Services in 2 separate categories, Marketing and IT. In the Marketing area, a Promotions manager and a Product Business Analyst are available. In the IT field, nine positions are "up for grabs", including software developers, a Linux Engineer and a Java Developer. No salary terms are listed for the positions and the potential hires would likely have to move to Dublin to take the position.

Day 2 of World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris has now come to an end. The day started with 143 players (we got the numbers wrong yesterday) and ended with 63 after some really exciting and wonderful four levels of poker.

Philipp "Philbort" Gruissem will bring the largest stack (280,600) to the tables today, and there are many well-known faces with healthy stacks in the remaining squad. Just to mention a few: Juha Helppi (222,800), Faraz Jaka (157,400), Jason Mercier (140,700), David Benyamine (137,600) and Theo Jorgensen (126,900).

The money bubble will burst when 27 players remain - all players will then be guaranteed at least $17,154 each. The winner of the tournament will take home bank-busting $515,720, and the runner-up gets $341,149!

The second day of the WPT Grand Prix de Paris main event saw a field of 228 players. It was a very slow day, with nobody really willing to put their entire stack at risk. On the final 30-minute level, five or six players had about 100k each and battled for the top spot.

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On Tuesday, the International Stadiums Poker Tour (ISPT) announced the singing of David Benyamine as an ambassador. Benyamine will now join forces with Michael Mizrachi, Liz Lieu, Patrik Antonius and Sam Trickett to promote what's expected to become the world's biggest poker tournament.

Read more » International Stadiums Poker Tour Signs David Benyamine

Unibet Poker will give all new players from BankrollMob a tourney ticket worth €2 + €0.20 - No Deposit Required! This exclusive offer is only available between the 11th and 15th of September for members of BankrollMob. The tourney ticket is your chance to qualify for the Unibet Open which is played between the 3rd and 7th of December at the fabulous Casino Royale in St Maarten.

How to get the exclusive Unibet Open tourney ticket
Well, it couldn't be easier - just click here and register your Unibet Poker account. Your tourney ticket will be available in your player account the following day!

About the 2012 Unibet Open
Event buy-in: €1,500
Game: No-Limit Texas Hold’em Freezeout tournament
Qualify: Satellites are running daily, starting from freerolls all the way up to weekly Sunday finals for full Main Event packages.

Mark your calender and set the alarm for the next exclusive $100 Freeroll at RummyRoyal! This one is scheduled on Monday the 10th of September at 22:00 GMT / 00:00 CET / 18:00 EST. Please note that this series of weekly $100 freerolls are only available for BankrollMob members!

The last freeroll, played on the 3rd of September, gathered a field of 13 brave mobsters that battled it out for a total of 34 minutes - a good pay for just a bit more than a half-hour spent by the tables! The prize pool was shared as follows:

As you can see, two players finished on the 3rd position and shared the $20 for the 3rd prize. A big congrats to the winner braga26 who proved to be the most skilled rummy player among the mobsters that participated. Will anyone be able to beat braga26 next Monday?

How to participate
1. All participants must be members of BankrollMob - sign up for a free Mob account here!
2. Create a RummyRoyal account and claim your exclusive $5 No Deposit Bonus!
3. Make a deposit of at least $10 to get access to the exclusive series of freerolls. You will automatically qualify for the 150% up to $300 first deposit bonus at Rummy Royal!

Exclusive RummyRoyal Freeroll details
What: Exclusive Freeroll for members of BankrollMob
Where: RummyRoyal
When: Every Monday at 22:00 GMT
Buy-in: Freeroll
Game: Kalooki 51
Prize pool: $100
Prize structure: 1st $50, 2nd $30, 3rd $20.
Tournament Name in Lobby: $100 BRM Freeroll

For more details on the exclusive $100 Freeroll - please click here!

About Rummy
Rummy is, like poker, a group of skilled based card games. The game is usually played between 2 to 6 players with a normal 52 card deck. The aim of the game is to get rid of your cards before your opponents and by doing so, get your points. This is done by forming two types of card combinations:
- Runs: Consecutive sequences of three or more cards of the same suit.
- Sets: Three or four cards of the same rank. If you are using two decks, a set may include two identical cards of the same rank and suit.
The most common rummy games are Gin Rummy, Kalooki 51, Kalooki 40 and Rummikub.
Every player is dealt 10 cards. The remaining cards are put on the center of the table as one pile of stock cards. The top card is turned over as the first card of the discard pile. The player next to the dealer is first to make a play. You either pick up the top card of the stock pile or the turned over card of the discard pile. Then you may place you hand in the two types of the card combinations. If no combination can be made, the player discard one card from their hand and the game continues to the next player to the left.
Once the stock pile is finished the discard pile is shuffled and it is turned into the new stock pile and the game continues.

Greg Merson's road to this year's main event final table has probably been the toughest of all 9 finalists. About 5 years ago he finally managed to put an end to his drug addiction, and ever since he has been very open about his addicition in interviews.

For example: In a recent interview with ESPN, Merson said that he financed his addiction by playing poker in the beginning of his career and that he stopped caring about school and other things in life. However, he managed to quit drugs after getting professional help and then started taking poker more seriously. The kick he got from playing poker drug-free helped him fill the gap after he stopped with, for example, cocaine.

Read more » Many Pitfalls Along Greg Merson's Way to the 2012 WSOP Main Event Final Table

A new series about poker has just popped up on the web. The series has the title "Game Theory" and is described like this by its creators:

"Game Theory is a dramatic web series following a poker rounder who uses his skill to navigate the world of live cash games as his bankroll grow from scratch."

Read more » Game Theory - A New Web Series About Poker

Michael Phelps has won an incredible 18 gold medals at the Olympics, including his last win of the 4x100-Meter Medley Relay at the London 2012 Olympics. After the Olympics in London came to an end, about a month ago, Phelps announced that he was retiring from swimming, and he also revelaed in some interviews that he would spend more time playing poker.

Read more » Michael Phelps Wins Big in Vegas

On November 4th the long-awaited Autumn $1 Million ($1,000,000 guaranteed) will be played on Party Poker. The tournament kicks off at 13:30 ET and the buy-in will be $600 + $40. If you don't have that kind of cash to spend on a single tournament, then there are several cheaper ways to qualify for the tournament. Satellites for the Autumn $1 Million are already running around the clock, with the cheapest ones only costing $1 to enter.

No account on Party Poker? Make sure to check out the offers below before signing up!
Party Poker - $50 Gift Offer
Party Poker - $150 No Deposit Bonus

73 players particiapated in the Macau High Stakes Challenge last Friday. The field included many of the world's best poker players, including Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, Erik Seidel and John Juanda. Another famous poker pro who paid the $260,000 entry fee was the American high stakes phenomenon Tom "durrrr" Dwan.

Read more » Why Tom "durrrr" Dwan Didn't Show Up for The Macau High Stakes Challenge ($260k buy-in)

The 2012 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) kicked off yesterday and will continue until September 23, with 65 events and an overall guaranteed prize pool of $30,000,000! The buy-ins range from $215 to $10,300 and there are cheap satellites running around the clock to all the remaining 63 events. This means that it doesn't have to cost more than a few dollars to take a shot at the big tournaments where some serious cash is up for grabs!

Is your account balance 0 on PokerStars? Then you should check out the 20% Reload Bonus up to $100 before making your next deposit. The bonus is available until 23:59 ET on September 4 and you'll have 45 days to clear the bonus. Click here for more info.

Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky has been doing extremely well at PokerStars' nosebleed tables in the past three weeks or so. In fact, as of September 1st, he was up $2,678,174 (over $900k from playing NLHE and over $1.7 million from playing PLO) this year, which means that he has won about $2k more than EireAbu (rumoured to be a Dutch pro based in Ireland) - the previous biggest winner of 2012 on PokerStars.

Now, it will be interesting to see how things turn out this week at PokerStars' high stakes tables. Maybe neither "sauce123" nor "EireAbu" will be in the lead next Monday? Anything is possible at these high stakes with so tough competition, so we will just have to wait and see.

Last Friday, a field of 73 poker players, including wealthy businessmen and poker stars, entered the first ever Macau High Stakes Challenge for HK$2,000,000 each (US$260,000) and created poker history. In total, 21 players made a rebuy and brought the prize pool to insane HK$182,360,000 (US$23,511,000). Plenty of big names hit the rail early due to the fast-moving 30-minute levels, and it didn't take many hours of play until the field had been narrowed down to only 8 players (picture), including notables such as Phil Ivey, Sam Trickett and John Juanda.

Read more » Stanley Choi Won Macau High Stakes Challenge (US$6,4 million)

Get ready for the second attempt of the exclusive weekly freerolls at RummyRoyal on Monday the 3rd of September at 22:00 GMT! This series of weekly freerolls are only available for members of BankrollMob. Make sure not to miss out on some great online rummy action for free and the chance to get your share of the $100 prize pool!

How to participate
1. All participants must be members of BankrollMob - sign up for a free Mob account here!
2. Create a RummyRoyal account and claim your exclusive $5 No Deposit Bonus!
3. Make a deposit of at least $10 to get access to the exclusive series of freerolls. You will automatically qualify for the 150% up to $300 first deposit bonus at Rummy Royal!

Exclusive RummyRoyal Freeroll details
What: Exclusive Freeroll for members of BankrollMob
Where: RummyRoyal
When: Every Monday at 22:00 GMT
Buy-in: Freeroll
Game: Kalooki 51
Prize pool: $100
Prize structure: 1st $50, 2nd $30, 3rd $20.
Tournament Name in Lobby: $100 BRM Freeroll

For more details on the exclusive $100 Freeroll - please click here!

About Rummy
Rummy is, like poker, a group of skilled based card games. The game is usually played between 2 to 6 players with a normal 52 card deck. The aim of the game is to get rid of your cards before your opponents and by doing so, get your points. This is done by forming two types of card combinations:
- Runs: Consecutive sequences of three or more cards of the same suit.
- Sets: Three or four cards of the same rank. If you are using two decks, a set may include two identical cards of the same rank and suit.
The most common rummy games are Gin Rummy, Kalooki 51, Kalooki 40 and Rummikub.
Every player is dealt 10 cards. The remaining cards are put on the center of the table as one pile of stock cards. The top card is turned over as the first card of the discard pile. The player next to the dealer is first to make a play. You either pick up the top card of the stock pile or the turned over card of the discard pile. Then you may place you hand in the two types of the card combinations. If no combination can be made, the player discard one card from their hand and the game continues to the next player to the left.
Once the stock pile is finished the discard pile is shuffled and it is turned into the new stock pile and the game continues.

According to the latest report by an online poker tracking site, the poker traffic has dropped by 0.6 percent in the past 7 days. PokerStars dropped 13 percent in the past week after climbing 17 percent the week before. The main reason for this big change is that PokerStars' 85 Billionth Hand promotion started and came to an end during this period. However, PokerStars is by far the biggest and strongest online poker room with about 22,000 real-money players over the past 7 days.

Here are the top 10 online poker rooms as of Thursday:

Rank, Site, 7-Day Average (Real-money ring players)
1 PokerStars 21,800
2 iPoker 2,850
3 PartyPoker 2,200
4 888Poker 2,000
5 PokerStars.it 1,780
6 Ongame Network 1,540
7 Winamax.fr 1,400
8 Revolution Gaming 1,260
9 PokerStars.es 1,220
10 PokerStars.fr 1,220

Some of the biggest stars in the poker world are in Macau at the moment. The reason for this is that the Macau High Stakes Challenge, a $258,000 buy-in tournament with an optional rebuy, is starting today, with the winner potentially recieving about $5 million dollars.

The tournament will be played at StarWorld Hotel and Casino's Poker King Club and according to Sam Trickett, 80 players had registered for the tournament yesterday, including Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Erik Seidel, Gus Hansen, Joe Hachem. Trickett will also take part in the tournament. It might be a very expensive week for him if he doesn't get into the money since he just purchased a Ferrari 458 Spider with a price of approximately $257,000.

The 2012 World Championship of Online Poker is getting closer and closer, with the first event scheduled for September 2. To celebrate the upcoming tournament series PokerStars is offering a 20% Reload Bonus up to $100. The bonus is available until 23:59 ET on September 4 and you will have 45 days to earn the VIP Player Points (VPPs) required to clear the bonus.

Click here for more information on the reload bonus.

World Poker Tour Legends of Poker attracted a field of 622 players this time. When the final table with last 6 players started yesterday Josh Hale had the chip lead, but not many believed that the unknown American would have a chance against experiened players such as Ali Eslami, Greg Mueller, Jeff Madsen etc.

Read more » Josh Hale Wins the WPT Legends of Poker

The International Stadiums Poker Tour (ISPT) team has been strengthened even more as the British poker pro Sam Trickett has joined as ambassador. Trickett, who is the U.K.'s all-time money leader with more than $15.4 million in live tournament winnings, will now work together with Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi to promote what's expected to become the world's largest tournament in the history of live poker.

The tournament is scheduled for May 31, 2013, at the Wembley Stadium in London, England. The buy-in is €600 (1 rebuy or add-on possible) and 30,000 players are expected to take part and fight for a chunk of the €20,000,000 prize pool. The players will play online against each other at first, then the "laptops" will be put aside when 3000 players remain and live action begins. 1000 seats are reserved for players that want to buy-in directly (€6000) to the live part of the event.

According to an interview with Jens "Jeans89" Kyllönen in Card Player Europe, the Finnish poker pro has paid €160,000 to reserve a seat on Virgin Galactic's space flight. Kyllönen, one of the most successful poker players online this year, told the magazine that he'll probably make the trip in 2014 after the testing stage is complete. He will have to spend three to four days training for the flight at SpacePort America. The space trip will only last for 2 hours.

"I've always been fascinated with space and now that I have the opportunity to be within the first people going I just felt like I had to do it," Kyllönen said.

It's time to have a look at last week's results from the High Stakes Poker World (online). Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky was the biggest winner with $575,996, followed by Ilari Sahamies, who came second in the EPT Barcelona main event for €629,700 last Sunday, with a $508,383 profit.

Read more » High Stakes: Viktor Blom Lost Over a Millon Dollars Last Week!

It ended up being a very interesting final table of the EPT Barcelona Main Event this weekend as famous players such as Ilari Sahamies and John Juanda were on it. Unfortunately Juanda was the first player to hit the rail and he received €76,100 for his 8th place.

Read more » EPT Barcelona: Mikalai Pobal Defeated Ilari Sahamies Heads-Up