Best Cash Player
Nominees: Richard Ashby, Matt Perrins, James Dempsey, Phil Shaw and John Kabbaj

Best PLO Player
Nominees: John Shipley, Richard Ashby, Devilfish, JP Kelly and Ben Grundy

Best Tournament Player
Nominees: Jake Cody, Sam Trickett, Roberto Romanello, John Eames and Chris Moorman

Best Social Media User
Nominees: Keith Hawkins, Sam Trickett, Vicky Coren, Live Boeree and Dale Philip

Best Blogger
Nominees: Tony Kendall’s Blondepoker Diary, Neil Channing’s BlackBeltPoker Blog, James Atkin, Snoopy (blackBelt Poker) and Stephen Bartley (PokerStars)

Best Online Player
Nominees: Chris Moorman, Richard Ashby, James Dempsey, Jake Cody and Dave Shallow

Best Poker League
Nominations: Nuts Poker League, Poker Tree, Live Pub Poker, Champions Poker League, Poker in the Pub

Best Poker Forum
Nominees: Thehendonmob.com, Gutshot.com, Punterslounge.com, 2+2.com, PoketFives.com and BlondePoker.com

Best Contribution to Poker
Nominees: John Duthie, Neil Channing, Mad Marty Wilson, Tony Kendall and Simon Trumper

Poker Personality of the Year
Nominees: Kara Scott, Liv Boeree, Luke Schwartz, Victoria Coren and Roland de Wolfe

The best part about these awards is that anyone can vote. Simply go to the BritishPokerAwards website and register for your favourites.
I know that we will be showing support for our friends Victoria Coren, Bertrand Grospellier and John Duthie who all have granted us time for exclusive poker player interviews over the last twelve months.

You will all receive a full newsletter about this but in the mean time we thought it best that we clear up what is being said about the future of Rakeback on the Merge Poker Network.
Following several rumours in poker world, Merge have announced that they will end Rakeback for New Players as of 1st June. We have no information at this time regards what will happen after that but we suspect new players will have to sign up via the normal VIP programs.

What this means is that you have about 3 weeks to sign up for a Merge room to take advantage of a fixed rakeback rate of 35% But don’t take too long to think about it in case they move the goal posts. And don’t forget to be a good buddy and tell a friend!

Carbon Poker welcome US and Non-US players alike and all offer the following:

• 35% Rakeback paid daily to your account.
• VIP Programs worth between 5-15%
• Sign up bonuses between $600 and $2000
• Lots of internal promotions.

And in addition they offer the following:

• $10,000 Personal Rake Chase – up to 40%
• Free iPad for raking $10k before 31st July
• DragTheBar Training Free each month
• Upgrade to the top VIP level ETHER for Stars SN/SNE and FT Black Card players
• $25 just for signing up and raking $25

SIGN UP TO CARBON POKER AND GET RAKEBACK

As part of our pro player interview series we have been granted exclusive access to David Vamplew who is a fan of rakeback himself and acknowledged member of one of the leading rakeback affiliates in the world – RakeTheRake.

We are giving poker fans the opportunity to submit questions they would like David to answer. Anyone who has their questions published in the final interview will get a name check and entry into a monthly freeroll of their choice.

Simply submit your questions at the Rakeback.co.uk Facebook page in the discussion section.

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[PRESS RELEASE, London, UK]
Leading UK Poker Cashback site, Rakeback.co.uk, published the third exclusive pro poker player interview this week with the creator of the European Poker Tour (EPT) and all round poker nice guy – John Duthie.

This BAFTA wining TV producer and Director famed for programs like Clocking Off and Silent Witness reveals what he thinks about the new breed of pro poker players or “Poker Ego’s” that has arisen since his early debuts on televised poker.

“Silly hats, stupid clothes, absurd behaviour….it’s all cringe making” John Duthie – (excerpt from interview)

The exclusive John Duthie Interview also allows the creator of one of Europe largest live poker tournament series, to give poker fans an insight into the man behind the million dollar poker winner.

Despite earning millions from playing poker John reveals how he does not consider himself to be a pro player and that his abilities and constantly questioned, perhaps one of the reasons he would not encourage his two sons to appear on the EPT circuit anytime time soon.

This interview with Rakeback.co.uk provides poker fans the opportunity to see a different side of the successful players within the industry. When asked about what he [Duthie] would like to see happening in to poker in the next 5 years his reply was not of bigger prizes, more glamorous venues and raising profiles but of a more considered sensible approach:

“I would like to see younger players realise that there is more to life than just poker and whilst they may have made large amounts of money would hope that they learn to do something else in life. Wealth is so much more than material as we all come to learn” Duthie – (excerpt from interview)

Above all John Duthie is a family orientated man who regards happiness as the ultimate success and waits for the day when his wife walks the dogs!
Read John Duthie Interview

The Interview with John Duthie is available to read on Rakeback.co.uk from the 11th of October 2010. Also published are exclusive interviews with PokerStars Pro Victoria Coren and PKR Poker Pro James Sudworth.

Read all interview here:

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Rakeback.co.uk is the leading UK Rakeback Poker affiliate with top cashback poker programs at online poker rooms such as Full Tilt, UB.com and PKR Poker, monthly freerolls and rake races, plus other cashback and poker quiz sections, ensuring poker players get the most value from their rakeback provider.
Rakeback is a cashback program for online poker players where a percentage of the rake paid to the online poker room is paid back to the players.

[PRESS RELEASE: London, 2nd September]
The latest from top rakeback site, Rakeback.co.uk, is a series of poker quizzes designed to test the poker knowledge of poker players from all over the globe.

“Everyone thinks they are a poker master these days, so we thought what better way for players coming to our site to test their metal, than the ultimate poker quiz series!” Emma Gilbert, Online Community Manager for Rakeback.co.uk. “As the series progresses the quizzes will become more difficult and test player’s poker knowledge to the max!”

The Quizzes are created in house by the team behind the popular UK Rakeback site and they are also inviting people to submit their own quiz questions on their Facebook group.

“Anyone who submits viable questions for the quizzes will be granted entry into their choice of one of our monthly freerolls. Simply Submit your questions in the discussion section of our Facebook group” Gilbert

The Poker Quizzes addition comes hot on the heels of the recently launched “Ask the Pros” interviews, the first of which was published last month and featured Victoria Coren with other big names to follow.

Rakeback.co.uk will also be attending many of the poker events this summer including the English Poker Open and Poker in the Park so anyone visiting the site over the next few months will have lots to keep themselves amused.

About Rakeback.co.uk

 
Rakeback.co.uk is the leading UK rakeback site which provides players with up to 40% rake back at top online poker rooms including Full Tilt, UB.com and Cake Poker. The site is built on the principles of giving poker players maximum value so in addition to the great rakeback deals they also offer cashback on selected online purchases and the biggest combination of monthly promotions for their players totalling over $600,000 in rake race and freeroll prizes!

Simply sign in to find out more about Pay no Rake promotions

Daily satellites and semi- qualifiers start on June 27th with finals playing every Sunday.

Times are Daily and Subject to Change

Alternatively you can spend your Cake points and buy your way straight in to one of the weekly EPO Semi finals or Finals directly

Ivey won his incredible 8^th bracelet after defeating a final table of truly world class proportions. John Juanda, Chad brown, Bill Chen and David Baker have all won World Series of Poker bracelets and against this backdrop this 8^th bracelet victory must taste even sweeter for Ivey. Having won the tournament he questioned how much the prize was having no idea as he entered the final table. Only a man who has won $10m since June 2009 could ask such a question where others would have memorised the payouts well in advance.

Ivey defeated Bill Chen heads up and when questioned to the root of his success he responded “I never doubt myself” even though he was one of the small stacks throughout the closing stages. Britain’s David Baker made another deep run in the tournament to cement this as his best World Series of Poker whilst john Juanda was glad to be back at another final table eventually finishing 3^rd.

The final hand of this illustrious tournament was played in Razz and Ivey and Chen committed on fifth street with strong low hands. Ivey made a 6 low to beat Chen’s seven low before rivering a wheel to end the tournament on a sweet note and collect the bracelet and inconsequential $329, 840. This win further enhance his reputation and his lead in the all-time tournament winnings race against Daniel Negreanu and Jamie gold.

Phil Ivey plays at Full Tilt Poker and his recent performances online have shown his abilities in the high stakes cash game arena where he is both feared and respected as one of the all time greats. Interestingly none of his 8 bracelet wins have come playing No limit hold em which is the game at which he conquers all at the highest stakes.

The final table in San Remo was as follows at the start of the day:

Seat 1: Claudio Piceci – 4,460,000
Seat 2: Alexey Rybin – 1,890,000
Seat 3: Atanas Gueorguiev – 2,520,000
Seat 4: Jakob Carlsson – 13,525,000
Seat 5: Giuseppe Diep – 1,830,000
Seat 6: Liv Boeree – 3,440,000
Seat 7: Toni Pettersson – 5,035,000
Seat 8: Michael Piper – 4,600,000

Atanas Gueorguiev was first to leave after he lost a race with his 99 against Toni Pettersson’s AQ to leave himself with only 200,000 in chips. He was out shortly after his J6 losing to Alexey Rybin’s KJ. Caludio Piceci was next to go after bluffing at a big pot with Carlsson holding top pair. Carlsson made the call and Piceci was out in seventh place. Giuseppe Diep followed swiftly as his pre flop all in with 9c8c lost to Carlsson’s pocket 10s. Rybin left in fifth place after flopping top pair top kicker on a 10 8 2 board only for Carlsson to turn over pocket jacks.

Michael Piper was out in fourth place his Qh10h losing to the AK of Carlsson after all the chips went in pre-flop. As we went three handed Jakob Carlsson held 25 million chips to Pettersson’s 6 million and Boeree’s 5.5 million. Three handed was a real battle and Boeree started to accumulate chips. The big hand saw Pettersson flop top pair on a Kd4s3s board with KQ in the hole. All the chips went in after some serious tanking from Pettersson. Boeree was only too happy to turn over her pocket 3s and the bottom set.

Heads up lasted a couple of hours with a dinner break in the middle. Boeree was able to dominate the confrontation and capitalised on her chip lead. All the chips finally went in pre-flop with Boeree’s 55 against Carlsson’s A6. With no Ace or six Boeree was free to pick up the winner’s cheque.

The Final Standings:

1 – Liv Boeree — €1,250,000
2 – Jakob Carlsson — €750,000
3 – Toni Pettersson — €420,000
4 – Michael Piper — €345,000
5 – Alexey Rybin — €270,000
6 – Giuseppe Diep — €210,000
7 – Claudio Piceci — €150,000
8 – Atanas Gueorguiev — €90,000