The highly anticipated and should-be revolutionary brand new online poker room realdealpoker.com has opened pre-registration for future players. Alltough it is not possible to download the software yet, you can allready create an account and choose a desired nickname before the favorites are taken.

Here's a short list why realdealpoker should be different then the other rooms around :

- Every hand is played with a real, single deck of cards
- Each hand is washed and shuffled
- Players have the option to cut the cards before the deal
- Each deal will use burn cards
- No random number generators
- Each hand is fully audible

visit realdealpoker's website for more details or to register.

RoyalFlushed's poker team will keep an eye open to see when they open the doors for some realdealpoker action

First they put up their best efforts to try and stop the growing popularity of online poker, but as soon as they realize there's no change in regulating, they go after their money...

It seems the government has been able to find out about the identity of several online poker pro's, and now request that they pay their taxes over their poker winnings. according to some sources, an amount of several millions is involved in this action.

It isn't clear how the government have been able to find out about the identity of the players, but it seems they had some cooperation of the involved poker rooms.

According to Dynstee, a dutch lawyer who represents a couple of the poker pro's, people who are send such letter by the government, shouldn't pay without a hassle because he says the government should try to collect the money from the poker rooms, and not from the people who play there.

For anyone who's playing poker at PKR, here is a short list of 'secret' commands, that can be typed into the chatbox directly to show your emotion or to taunt your opponents.

PKR is a 3D poker room with very nice graphics, you'll need a computer with a decent graphics adapter tough, to play there. With the ability to show emotion and even taunt your opponents you really get the feeling that your playing live opponenst.

Here's the list :

/rude /phew /bosh /grr /kiss /noway /oops /owned /hello - silent hi /orly /Ohreally /nk - no kidding /nty - no thanks /niceone /tut

/yay /sweet /typical /atlast /shutup /sorry /whatever /shame /bravo /gasp /inyourface /iyf /crikey /finally /me followed by anything!

If you have any additions you would like to share, feel free to post them beneeth, or mail me at info@royalflushed.net.

In August 2006, the first ever FTOPS event was a straight succes. With eight events and a total price pool of more then $1 million it was the best online poker tournament available. Now, about 3 years later, the tournament has even got bigger : 25 events with a smashing price pool of more then $15 million guaranteed!

Then FTOPS XI will start on 04 february, with a NL Hold 'em event with a guaranteed price of $1.000.000.

Some of the other tournaments :

- Feb 6th : NL Hold 'em Triple Shootout, $200.000.
- Feb 7th : NL Hold 'em Rebuy, $500.000
- Feb 8th : NL Hold 'em $1.500.000

The main event takes place on February 15th; then the NL Hold 'em with a guaranteed price of $2.500.000 will start.

The buy-ins of the different tournaments ranges from $100 to $500 with some exceptions ($1000 and $5000 buy-ins for 2 NL Tournaments). You can also qualify for the different tournaments via multiple satellite tournaments.

For more information about FTOPS XI, see Full Tilts website : FTOPS XI Schedule

Fajah Lourens, famous actrice from the dutch tv soap 'Goeden Tijden, Slechte Tijden', is playing in the Master Classics of poker that started last yesterday in Amsterdam.

All competitors, including Fajah, paid 6200 euro's to take part in the most important poker tourney of the Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg).

The total price poule is 2,4 million euro and the estimated first price will be around 700.000 euro. Last year the Norwegian guy Trond Eidsvig won the first price and took home a smashing 620.000 euro.

In an earlier tournament, the VIP days in Venlo, Fajah finished 11th for the main event.

She said : "All went very well in Venlo. Everything I did was good. I was a bit lucky one time when i had KQ. There was a Q on the deck and i went all in against Aces, thank god another K came on the river. "

"The way I got eliminated was a bit silly tough. I had absolutely nothing, but a spectator winked at me when another player raised on the river. I tought he ment that he didn't have anything, so i went all in and the other player snap-called me."

"That was just stupid of me, i played my own game the whole day, and everything went smooth. So stupid...i ran out of the casino and drove off immediately.