Rake the Rake are pleased to announce they are running a fantastic new tournament for online poker players, specifically to find the ‘King of the Gamers’!

Run over a five week period during January and February 2013, RakeTheRake in association with Pokerstars have put up a £6,000 prize fund to find the best poker player from the gaming community.

As well as offering four freeroll qualifiers, each with their own £250 prize pot, gamers will battle it out for two seats each week in the grand finals where they will also pit their skills against former gamer turned poker professional Max Silver.

Max has won over $150,000 in the last 12 months and will play in the Grand Final against the eight qualifiers for a cool £5,000 prize pot in Texas no limit hold’em.

Entry in to the tournament is free of charge and players can play in as many of the qualifiers as they want, running each week on a Wednesday evening from January 16th 2013.

Note that entry to each qualifier must be made at least 5 days before the actual tournament. The first cut-off date for qualifier one is 2am GMT Friday 11th January. You can still enter the qualifiers after this date, but you will be placed in the next available qualifier, in this case the 23rd January qualifier two. The final cut-off date for qualifier four is 2am GMT Friday 1st February after which entries for qualifiers will not be eligible to play.

The full list of dates is as follows:

January 16th 2013 – First qualifier tournament

January 23rd 2013 – Second qualifier tournament

January 30th 2013 – Third qualifier tournament

February 6th 2013 – Fourth qualifier tournament

February 13th 2013 – GRAND FINAL

To enter, simply sign up for a RakeTheRake.com account (where you can get free cash just by playing) and ensure you have a Pokerstars account.

Just complete the entry form on this page: www.raketherake.com/king-of-gamers and ensure you complete it at least 5 days before the qualifier. You’ll need to enter each qualifier separately each week if you want to play in more than one.

The full prize breakdown for the grand final is as follows:

1st place: £3,000

2nd place: £1,000

3rd place: £500

4th place: £300

5th place: £200

The 'RakeTheRake King of Gamers Poker' tournament is open to any new player who signs up for a PokerStars account through RakeTheRake from 13 December 2012. Players must be aged 18 and over. Proof of identity and age may be required.

Full terms and conditions can be found here: www.raketherake.com/king-of-gamers/terms-and-conditions