Australia Plans Ban on Online Poker

According to a leaked report on website WikiLeaks.org it is understood that the Australian government is planning to follow in the footsteps of the U.S and ban online gambling.

PokerStars Launch Live Poker Room In Macau

Wednesday the 18th of March saw the cotinued expansion of leading online poker giants PokerStars.com as they launched Asia's largest live poker room. The 22 table poker room situated on the 2nd floor of the Grand Lisboa Casino in Macau is PokerStars first advance into what appears to be a highly profitable market.

Rakebackmypoker And DevilfishPoker Rakeback partnership

Rakebackmypoker is pleased to announce a very exciting rakeback deal for its players through Devilfishpoker on the fast growing Entraction Network

Devifishpoker is fronted by the hugely popular and charismatic poker professional Dave 'Devilfish Ulliot and offers money-added tourneys, freerolls, bounties, and the chance to play with Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott at his new home with a bounty on his head every Thursday evening.

Rakebackmypoker Member Steve Goosen 3rd in 2009 FTOPS event 12

Steve goosen (pwnosaurus) finished 3rd in the 2009 FTOPS event 12 on Fulltiltpoker playing his way through a starting field of 1630 players.

Goosen from Canada battled for about 12 hours for his share of the $1.63 million prize pool and cashed just over $164k for his efforts giving a nice return on his $1k buyin.

Elliot Smith Exits the Aussie Millions Placed Third

Rakebackmypoker Member Elliot Smiths 2009 Aussie Millions assault finally comes to an end finishing in third place collecting a cool AU$700k. Hand number 205 of the final table was to be smiths last.

Elliot limped in the small blind when Stewart Scott long time chip leader said all in Smith insta-called and turned over Ah Qc well ahead of Scotts Ad 7c

Rakebackmypoker Member Justin Allen Wins WSOP Circuit Event New Orleans

Justin "lockdownTex" Allen took down the first prize in the Winter Bayou Poker Challenge December 08 worth over $158k and also secured a seat in the WSOP 09 main event.

Justin aged just 21 and from Dallas TX USA also reached the final table of the World Poker open October 08 finishing 5th and taking down $58k making a great start to his short live tourny life.

Rakebackmypoker Member Elliot Smith Reaches Final Table at Aussie Millions 2009

Rakebackmypoker member Elliot Smith has played his way to the final table of the 2009 Aussie Millions. Smith, who battled his way through the starting field of 681 players, has reached the final table of 8 with a healthy chip stack of just over 1.1 million.

Rakebackmypoker Member Elliot Smith Deep In Aussie Millions

Elliot, hailing from Canada, doubled on a critical hand through Tino Lechich when shoving with Ac Ks and was called by Lechich with Ah Qh and then had to sweat it out for over five minutes waiting for the camera crew to join. Finally the cards dropped 9c 4c 5d 3d 5s and improved Smiths stack to 720k.

Microgaming Network Bans Rakeback Promotions

The once bustling Microgaming Network (formally Prima Poker Network) has put yet another nail in the coffin of its own poker sites and network by banning the promotions of rakeback and VIP deals and making a blacklist of affiliate sites.

Microgaming has blacklisted a large number (over 100) of affiliate sites that offer rakeback and VIP deals including Rakeback.com, Rakebrain.com, Pokerlistings.com and Rakebackmypoker.com.

Rakebackmypoker Recommends All Poker Players use an ip changer

Rakebackmypoker is recommending all USA poker players use an IPchanger(VPN) due to the latest efforts by the State of Kentucky to stop residents from the state accessing online poker rooms, casinos and sportsbooks.