Online poker site Ladbrokes Poker has announced that its highly popular Million Dollar Rake Race running every month on the site will increase the amount of players paid every month from 3000 to 3,500 places. According to Ladbrokes, the change won’t affect or reduce the prizes paid to the top 150 positions at the end of each race, the winner of the race will still get $20,000, with anyone in the top 150 getting between $1500 to $1000.

 

In addition, Ladbrokes.com also announced that players finishing in 1st, 10th, 20th, 30th and 40th in the rake race this month will get an extra two hour training session with the Swedish cash-game sensation and Team Ladbrokes member Jonas ‘Nebuchad’ Danielsson. With only 25 years, ‘Nebuchad’ has won millions of dollars in online cash games to emerge as one of the headline stars of the Scandinavian poker scene and one of finest cash-game players in Europe.

 

"Players have readily welcomed the $1,000,000 Rake Race's monthly cash injections, after all everyone is feeling the credit crunch pinch. We see the Rake Race as an excellent way to reward our loyal players! To date a total of 12000 individual payments have been made. Extending the Leaderboard by 500 places means we can reward even more players for continuing to play on Ladbrokes Poker. The training sessions with Nebuchad are like gold dust, so it will be interesting to watch the activity of players around the five spots as they try and regulate their playing to scoop this money can't buy session with our sponsored pro." said Ladbrokes Poker’s Marketing Manager, Kate McLennan.

 

For more information on the monthly Million Dollar Rake Race and other available tournaments and promotions, please visit Ladbrokes Poker.