PokerStars is on the Road to 100 Billion hands dealt since 2001 so far they have had a promotion every 5 Billion hands, currently PokerStars are close to hitting the 70 Billionth Milestone Hand dealt and there is up to $750,000 in cash to be won playing cash games on PokerStars.

The 70 Billionth hand is estimated to be dealt sometime this November start playing now for your chance to randomly win loads of cash just for being dealt into the hand.

Start playing poker online, sign-up for a free PokerStars account and deposit as little at $10 to start your PokerStars bankroll. PokerStars offer players a sign-up bonus when making a first deposit, players can double their deposited amount up to $600, to clear the bonus players must earn the required amount of points within six months of depositing.

PokerStars bonus code – STARS600

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The newest member to the 888 Poker Team is Santiago Canizares Spanish football star, who now brings his poker skills to the 888 Poker tables.

Players can take on the Santiago Canizares Challenge and play against the football star on the PokerCam cash game tables or in the Canizares Bounty Challenge and win $100 for knocking him out of the tournament.

New players signing up to 888Poker get $8 for free as a no deposit poker bonus register with a valid email to qualify.

888 Poker Bonus 100% first deposit bonus up to $600

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The Durrrr Challenge seems to have faded with Durrrr currently ahead of Patrik Antonius by $140,380.00 having played 4,178 hands of the 50 000 scheduled for the event consisting of 6 total sessions taking 13 hours 12 minutes to date.

The slow down comes as a result of Durrrr taking a beating in 2009, he is currently losing approximately 4 million dollars this year at Full Tilt Poker with a recent losses over last weekend against Phil Ivey who got the better of  “Durrrr” while playing two tables at FullTilt Poker’s $500/$1000 Pot Limit Omaha plus an additional 2 tables of $500/$1000 H.A (Hold’em, Omaha High), Phil Ivey managed to build chip stacks of $2 million dollars over the four deep stacked tables with Durrrr holding $1 million.

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Basic guide to winning with the best poker hand rank

In rank order the poker hands below show the strongest hands to weakest. Always remember that the highest card wins in most cases and a flush involves five cards of the same suit and a straight is any five consecutively  numbered cards.

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