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Gutshot Poker's exclusive $25,000 Rake Chase for BankrollMob members continues. The chase is on until the 31st of December and you will get rewarded for your play. Simply, login and play. As soon as you reach the rake targets (MGR Target) you will receive your prize.

Update - Rake Chase winners 30th Nov-13th Dec:

The Rake Chase is on until the 31st of December! You can still cashin on the prizes!

How it works
Reach the MGR (Monthly Gross Revenue) targets by playing at Gutshot Poker. If you reach your targets before the "number of spots available" runs out - you will receive your prize. In other words, make sure to reach your target before anyone else. We will publish available spots on a weekly basis.

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Epic Poker League, a league that only qualified players with a membership card can take part in, is now almost one year old and so far it has been a success - something that very few people thought earlier this year. The conditions to enter the EPIC Poker League main event make sure that only the best poker players in the world can take part.

However, those conditions don't apply to Doyle Brunson, who hasn't taken part in any of the 2 EPL main events played so far. On Tuesday, Doyle Brunson was offered the first lifetime membership card by the EPL, which means that he can enter any future Main Event no mater how his poker career is going.

Read more » Epic Poker League: Brunson gets lifetime membership card

PokerStars 10th anniversary celebrations is soon about to reach its climax. The Sunday Million on the 18th of December will have a $10,000,000 prize pool! The buy-ins remains the same but the prizes are tenfold. There are plenty of ways to qualify to this December's main event in the online poker world for as little as a shy $1.

Make sure that you'll be seated and ready to battle for the guaranteed first prize of $2,000,000!

Details
What: Sunday Million Tournament - $10 Million Guarantee
When: December 18 at 20.30 CET
Prize pool: $10,000,000
First prize: $2,000,000 guranteed
Buy-in: $215

How to get there - the Economy Class:
There are hundreds of satellites running in the days leading up to the event. To register for a satellite or buy-in directly, open the PokerStars lobby and click ‘Tourney’ & ‘All’, or ‘Events’, ‘10th Anniversary’ & ‘All’.
For your best chance to qualify, play the $11 Sunday Million Mega Satellite with a huge 1,000 seats guaranteed. It takes place one hour before the Sunday Million at 19.45 CET, and you can win a seat for just $1.
You can also turn your Frequent Player Points (FPPs) into a $215 Sunday Million entry with the PokerStars 10th Anniversary Sunday Million Mega Path!

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PokerStars has been running some fantastic promotions lately as a part of its 10 year anniversary. However, the most popular one so far must have been the 72 Billionth Hand Promotion. On Sunday, December 11th, when over 400,000 players were logged into the site, 6 lucky players on a $.02/$.05 table were dealt into the hand. All players went all in pre-flop and a player called "Kozlicek_x", from Czech Republic, won the hand with a set of sevens. For the win he got the pot of $27 + $24,300 in prize money. The other players received a minimum of $12,100 each. 

What's next?
On Sunday Pokerstars 10th Anniversary celebration is back with an amazing $10 million Sunday Million tournament at 14:30 EST. The buy-in will be $215 (satellites running around the clock) and the winner will take home at least $2 million! 1 hour after the Sunday Million starts, there will also be a $10,000 High Roller event, which most probably will attract some big names.

Viktor "Isildur1" Blom has not been so active at PokerStars in the past few months. Well, some say that he plays with a fake alias and that he has been active since "Isildur1" went on a break. Last week, however, he was once again back as Isildur1" and showed the poker world that he still can dominated at the highest stakes.

In total, Viktor Blom ended up winning an impressive $1.4 million, and the most money came from $100/$200 Pot Limit Omaha games against VietRussian, Phil Galfond, Brian Townsend and Fake Love888. According to different tracking sites, Blom is now up about $1.9 million this year on PokerStars. Only Ilari Sahamies and Rafael Amit have won more than that.

The final table of Five Diamond World Poker Classic was probably one of the most interesting World Poker Tour final tables this year since both Antonio Esfandiari and Vanessa Selbst were on it. But unfortunately Esfandiari, who won the tournament last year had the chance to take home his 3rd WPT title, didn't do so well on the final table and was eliminated already in 6th place. Selbst did better though and she was doing well until there were only 3 players left. Then everything came to an end when she lost an all in with K9 versus James Dempsey's A9.

Read more » Star-filled final table of Five Diamond World Poker Classic

The 2011 EPT Prague main event has come to an end (the largest EPT Prague ever). The winner, Martin Finger from Germany, received amazing €720,000 for his achievement, and the runner-up, David Boyaciyan from Netherlands, received €535,000.

When the heads-up begun, Finger had a 4-1 chip lead over Boyaciyan and everyone thought that it wouldn't take long before he had all the chips. But Boyaciyan fought really hard and well and after 3,5 hours of play he had overtaken the lead from Martin Finger, who was in shock and tried to figure out what he was doing wrong.

Read more » Martin Finger took home EPT Prague (€720,000)

There are some quite interesting rumors circulating in different forums at the moment. One of them is that Viktor Blom, whose sponsor deal with PokerStars is about to expire and also hasn't been seen playing on the site for quite some time, has been active lately under a fake nick. "Wilhasha", who has taking on everyone at the $50/$100 NLH tables, is rumored to have used account "drpill" on Full Tilt Poker and was known to have shared accounts with no one else than Viktor Blom.

Read more » Is Isildur1 using a fake alias on PokerStars?

The record field of 722 players has been narrowed down to 31 after 4 days of poker (Day 1a & 1b, Day 2, Day 3) The 3 first days ended with a Russian in the lead. But that tradition came to an end yesterday and now the chip leader is Partrik Renkers from Netherlands. Renkers had a fantastic winning streak during Day 3 and today a 2.4 million stack is waiting for him at the Hilton poker room. The player in second place, Martin Finger from Germany, has about half of that stack.

Read more » EPT Prague: Only 1 former champion through to Day 4

For 6 years, High Stakes Poker has been one of the most popular cash games on television. There have been 8 seasons of High Stakes Poker since they started broadcasting the show on GSN in January 2006, and since the very beginning the biggest names in the poker world have taken part and lost/won millions of dollars.

This year, however, the show's viewer ratings have been been extremely poor and many have stopped watching the show. In fact, the low viewer base of High Stakes Poker might mean the end of the show as GSN won't continue broadcasting the show next year. And it remains unclear whether or not any other TV channel wants to continue broadcasting the show. In other words, season 8 might be the last season of High Stakes Poker.

As a part of the 10th anniversary celebration, PokerStars launched a new promotion yesterday morning. The promotion is called "Road to 100 Billion Poker hands" and lots of money is up for grabs. Starting from hand #71,700,000,000, prizes will be awarded for all players dealt into every millionth hand (e.g. 71,902,000,000), and more than $750,000 will be awarded in total, to more than 1,000 players. The winner of the Mega Milestone hand (#72,000,000,000) will get at least $20,000, and all other players at the table will get $10,000 each.

All you have to do to take part in this promo is to play at PokerStars and pray to the poker gods! If you don't have an account at PokerStars already, click here and get a 100% up to $600 deposit bonus.

Day 3 of the EPT Prague main event is being played at the moment and there are 129 remaining players. The chip leader is Garri Tevosov, from Russia, with 764k, followed by Martin Finger, from Germany, with 612k and Mads Wissing, from Denmark, with a stack of 565k. There are a few big names with chips left, however, none of them can be found in the very top of the remaining field of players.

We will return with an update as soon as Day 3 comes to an end.

In July next year it's time for a new charity tournament named Big One for One Drop. The tournament will be played during the 2012 World Series of Poker and all participants will automatically give $111,111 from the $1 million buy-in to water projects all over the globe. There are already a few big names confirmed for the tournament. Among these players one find super stars like Patrik Antonius, Gus Hansen, Johnny Chan, Daniel Negreanu, Tom Dwan and "ElkY".

Read more » Poker Pros to donate huge amounts to charity

The second starting day of the EPT Prague main event attracted amazing 488 players! Add the 234 players from Day 1a to that and you'll get a new EPT main event record! Out of the 722 participants, 437 players will return to the table in a few hours time and continue the struggle. The chip leader, just like Day 1a, comes from Russia. Andrey Saenko, PokerStars player, played outstanding poker during Day 1b and has accumulated 200,800 - about 20k more than Mads Wissing, from Denmark, in second place.

Read more » EPT Prague becomes a part of history

The EPT Prague main event kicked off yesterday and saw a field of 234 players. After a long day of poker (8 one-hour levels), 133 players still had chips left and they will return tomorrow to the tournament room at the Hilton.

The one who managed to accumulate most chips during Day 1a is Vedzizhev Beslan from Russia. With 131,200 chips he has a small lead over Jesus Cortes, from Spain, with 131,200. And only 1 chip behind Cortes is Sergey Baburin with 131,100. These 3 players are closely followed by several players, so it's impossible to predict how things will go during Day 2.

Unfortunately not a lot big names in the poker world made it through Day 1a. Let's hope that Day 1b, which begins in a few hours, will generate a few more renowned players will plenty of chips.

The WPT Prague main event came to an end yesterday. The final table was probably one of the sickest final tables in WPT history and it lasted for nearly 10 hours. Below you find a short recap of how the final table was played out, and also you will find out what we mean with "one of the sickest final tables in WPT history".

Read more » A sick final table of the WPT Prague main event

The final table of the WPT Prague main even is just about to start and so is also the EPT Prague main event. In other words, today will be the most exciting Monday in a very long time. The WPT Prague main event attracted a field of 571 players and became the biggest-ever WPT event held on European ground. Now it will be very exciting to see whether the EPT Prague main event can break some records as well.

We will keep you updated with the most exiting news from start to finish, so you are guaranteed not to miss out on anything interesting.

The World Poker Tour Prague main event attracted a field of 571 players and became the biggest European WPT event ever (the previous attendance record was set by WPT Vienna last season). Now, after 4 days of play, the tournament is down to a final table, and these are the players that will do everything in their power to take down the tournament and the first place prize of $630,263.

Read more » Live Stream: The largest-ever European WPT is down to a final table

Tomorrow it's time for the final table of the Swedish championship of online poker. 10 finalists will battle it out for a first place prize of 1.255.737 sek (about 137,800 euro). There has been quite a lot of talk in Swedish media and forums about the final table and the finalists.

However, one finalist has received much more attention than the other players, Hans Berglund. The reason for this is that Berglund's employer LIDL didn't give him time off to play the final table. In fact, Berglund's boss gave him an ultimatum: "either you show up for work or you're fired".

Read more » Had to quit his job to be able to play the Swedish Championship final table

Today an intensive tournament period begins in the capital of Czech Republic, Prague. For 11 days World Poker Tour, European Poker Tour and GSOP Live will be played, and lots of pros are expected to take part.

First out is Day 1a of the WPT Prag main event. The buy-in is €3500 and the tournament is a multi entry tournament, which means that players that get knocked out during Day 1a can enter Day 1b as well. Hopefully this will give the tournament a nice prize pool.

On Monday, the same day as the WPT final table will be played, PokerStars EPT Prag will kick off and be played till Saturday. And during EPT also GSOP Live will begin. GSOP Live will continue until December 11th.

A report posted yesterday morning by EgamingReview is suggesting that Facebook is looking to lunch real-money gambling in the UK. According to the report, Facebook has spoken with up to 20 online gaming experts and potential facilitators over the last 6 months and will try to get 8 licenses for UK operators to offer real-money gambling apps. If it works out fine in the UK, Facebook are then planning on getting licenses for the rest of Europe as well.

If Facebook get the necessary licenses to operate in the UK, and maybe the rest of Europe, it might be a real industry changer as Facebok has such a huge customer base. However, the future will tell whether or not people actually wanna play poker for real-money through a Facebook application.

No christmas without the BankrollMob Christmas Calendar and tons of free gifts and prizes from all our partners. This year we have some boasting $15,000+ gift value in our daily calendar draws. This year however, there are no restrictions to enter, so EVERYONE that has an approved Mob account, have a chance of winning - every day from the 1st -> 24th December.

Thats not all. This year we give all users 5 chances every day to win some of the prizes, so thats a total of 120 chances if you get around to using them all!

This year, to keep it exciting, we will not announce all the prizes upfront, but announce the prices daily, so be sure to check in every day to grab your chance at winning. We can divulge that the prizes includes every thing from high value tournament tickets to exclusive freeroll entries, MobPoints, draws, merchandise and tons of other stuff! Read more » BankrollMob Christmas Calendar with $15,000+ in prizes

Five Chinese companies are currently making plans for a poker tournament with a $100,000,000 guaranteed prize pool - the greatest guarantee in poker history. The tournament is planned to be held in Macau, China, in 2013 and only 500 players can enter it. The name of the tournament will be Macau Pro Am Poker, and it would be the richest poker event ever held.

William Murray, an American businessman, is speaking on behalf of one of the five companies.

"The goal is now to get 500 participants, with one third coming from the Far East, third from the U.S. and one third from other countries, said William Murray, adding that the first prize at a prize pool of $100,000,000 will be $25,000,000."

Got $10,300 to spare? Then the upcoming High Roller tournament on PokerStars might be something for you! The tournament is part of PokerStars 10 year anniversary and will be held on December 18, the same day as the anniversary version of Sunday Million with $10 million guaranteed. Anyhow, the High Roller tournament starts at 21:30 CET and will have a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool. PokerStars believes that it will attract the online world's poker elite and that it will be watched by thousands of people from all over the globe. Well, the future will tell whether or not the High Roller tournament will be a success of a flop.