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PokerStars Duel is a series of videos featuring celebrities playing heads-up poker for charity, in front of an audience of poker pros and fans.

The series includes players: Cristiano Ronaldo & Neymar Jr (football legends), Aaron Paul (Actor, Breaking Bad), Sara Sampaio (Victoria Secrets model), Mireia Lalaguna (Miss World) and John Boyega (Actor, Star Wars). The table scenes look like they have been re-enacted for that extra Hollywood effect.

The players are coached by PokerStars pros Vanessa Selbst, Andre Akkari, Fatima Moreira de Melo and may only use one timeout per match.

Winner of the heads-up poker match gets to choose the charity for the donation sponsored by PokerStars.

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When you signup at 888poker and play real money poker games, you’ll get access to the 888 Poker Club Freeroll tournaments which offer an extra $100,000 in prize pools every month.

With every level increase you’ll get a tournament ticket to the daily $500 Level up Free Tournament, earn points playing any real money poker games to level up.

There are also level restricted freerolls which are only available to players of that particular level or any level higher than the requirement. As you increase in levels you’ll get access to more freeroll tournaments where you can score extra cash for free.

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The Bovada Ignition Sale came as a big surprise this week as the largest USA poker site has sold it’s brand to Ignition Casino.

From September 30 the brand formerly know as Bovada will no longer offer poker to it’s existing player database.

Players are urged to transfer their Bovada account to Ignition Casino if they wish to continue playing after the deadline date.

Ignition Casino currently offers similar bonuses and promotions that were available on Bovada. The change over seems more like a change in ownership and re-branding of the poker site.

The Ignition Casino website also has the same design and layout as Bovada excepting that the red theme has now been changed to orange.

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Raise It or #raiseit is a new website sponsored by PokerStars feature insane videos of Neymar Jr, Ronaldo and also a platform for users to submit their own video links.

There are currently three categories for user video submissions: Football challenge, Tennis/Bucket Challenge and Drone Challenge. These are the challenges that Neymar Jr and Ronald have completed, now you can raise it by submitting your own Facebook video link.

Watch the PokerStars Video Challenges for some amazing skills from people all around the World.

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PartyPoker has determined the Greatest Poker Player of All Time by using an in-depth ranking system to calculate the statistics of the best poker players in the World.

The system used eleven different categories to rank players by awarding points to those who have excelled in each division.

The aim was to see who was the best overall player based on their points earned from major poker disciplines.

Read the full article to find out who is The Greatest Poker Player of All Time along with the stats of the top 10 players.

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