Saturday, August 8, 2009 - Liv Boeree
I’ve been back in the UK for about ten days now and haven’t had a chance to rest at all because last weekend was Sonisphere, a new rock and metal festival near London. It had my dream lineup of bands – Metallica, Alice in Chains, Paradise Lost and of course Anthrax, to name a few! If you don’t know by now, fellow UB pro Scott Ian is the guitarist and driving force behind Anthrax, so I was over the moon when I found out they were playing. Scott of course sorted us out with the best possible AAA passes enabling me to swan about all over the festival including the band areas where there was a plethora of free food, drink and even haircuts!
Anthrax played on the first day and absolutely blew everyone away with their performance. These guys are as hard and heavy as ever and it was a real treat to watch them play with their old singer John Bush. The rest of the weekend was of a similar ilk with more loud music and long hair than you imagine, finishing with standing on the side of the stage to watch Metallica. What more could a girl want?
The very next day the whole motley crew of bands, media et al bundled down to central London to attend the Kerrang awards (Kerrang is a famous music magazine in Europe). Scott was hosting the whole event which meant that he could invite a bunch of us to sit on his table along with his lovely lady Pearl (who played Aruba last year) which was amazing. All around were famous rock stars including The Prodigy, Skunk Anansie, Machine Head and Alice in Chains and things got pretty rowdy once the absurd amount of alcohol on each table started to be consumed. After the awards finished a group of 30 of us headed out to bar after bar, getting progressively louder until each bar moved us on. The night eventually ended around 4.30am with various members of the group getting lost or climbing into rickshaws in Soho and cycling off into the night screaming maniacally. Love it!!
- Kerrang Awards
- On stage!
Tags: alice in chains, Anthrax, Aruba, John Bush, Liv Boeree, London, Metallica, Paradise Lost, Scott Ian, ub
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Monday, March 2, 2009 - Scott Ian
If you haven’t heard yet, my online Home Game is March 11 8:30PM EST and it’s me, Slash, Kirk Hammett from Metallica, Jerry Cantrell from Alice In Chains and Vinnie Paul from Pantera, Damageplan, Hell Yeah, and Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke rounding it out to 7. We have 20 seats open for you to win. Click here for more info http://www.ultimatebet.com/poker-promotion/scott-ian-home-game and I’ll see you at my Home Game!!!
Had a good day one at the WPT Invitational yesterday. For a charity/ celeb tourney the structure was good and the blinds didn’t skyrocket instantly for an all-in fest. Matt Savage is the man!! The table I was at for 6 1/2 hours was pretty tight and no one really jumped out in front. Kevin Wiseman from the show Alias chipped up pretty good and was a good player. Late in the day Mekhi Phifer (Dawn Of The Dead!!) sat on my left and I got to talk to him about making what I consider to be the best horror movie re-boot ever. Dare I say I may even like the new Dawn Of The Dead better than the original. Blasphemy!!!!
Mekhi, whose charity The Vine Group raised over 80K, told me that getting to make dawn was one of those situations that as an actor he couldn’t believe he was being paid to be there it was that much fun.
Towards the end of the day I was pretty short-stacked after being card dead for what seemed like a week when I woke up with AKs on the button. One raise to 6K in front of me and I shoved (blinds were 1K-2K, 400 ante) and took it down and on the next hand had AA and I took the blinds and antes to get up to 50K. I got moved from my table for the last hand and ended up UTG with Chris Ferguson and Phil Laak on my right. Phil had a big stack, Chris short-stacked. I had 73 and folded and that was the end of the day. Ended up with 49,500 for day 2.
I made sure to get to the Commerce Casino on time today as I was starting in the BB and it was going to be 3K with a 500 ante. The field was down from 432 to 120 and the tables weren’t as soft as they were on day 1. I still had Ferguson and Laak on my right and actors Jon Hamm from the show Mad Men at around 140K and Kevin Wiseman at around 85K. We were 7 handed. Things started off really slow for me and I folded for 2 rounds which brought me down to 34K. They broke our table and the second hand I picked up at the new table UTG was A8os and I open shoved. The BB called with 75s and the flop came A 10 8. Turn was a 7, river bricked and I doubled up. I got moved again right after that hand. Just when I was really starting to like that table!
At the next table things were quiet for a few hands and then in middle position I picked up 99 and raised to 10K. Blinds were 2K – 4K 500 ante. BB calls. Flop comes J82 rainbow. I bet 15K, BB raises to 30K, I shove he calls. 99 vs A8. Turn 2, river 8. I flipped the table over and burned the hotel to the ground.
Well, I did in fakey land in my brain. There were around 100 left and if I double there I’m gonna make a deep run. Ah, the best laid plans of mice and men…..Damn you Poker, why do you mock me!!!!
So I raced home from Commerce and jumped in the Sunday 200K 40 minutes late with $2790 in chips and I’m currently at $4894. Hope this goes better than the live tourney.
Cheers,
Scott
Tags: Alias, alice in chains, Annie Duke, Damageplan, Hell Yeah, Jerry Cantrell, Kevin Wiseman, Kirk Hammett, Matt Savage, Mekhi Phifer, Metallica, pantera, Phil Hellmuth, Scott Ian, Slash, Vinnie Paul, WPT Celebrity Invitational
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Friday, February 27, 2009 - UB Marketing
From rock stars, WSOP and the hottest game of the year in Aruba!!!
As you may have noticed, some weeks ago CEREUS launched Step tourneys!! Steps is an easy way to win huge land events/online tourney packages through a quick an exciting sit n go structure. Pretty much for just $0.10 you can end up sitting at the most prestigious tourney, the WSOP Main Event July 3rd, 2009.
Not only that, $0.10 can end up giving you huge profits!! The first 10 players winning a WSOP package all the way from step 1 will win a 100% free $8500 package to Aruba 2009! But it doesn’t ends there… We at marketing believe that UB management have CEREUSLY lost it… it seems that any player who signs up with UB, agress to wear our gear and achieves to win the WSOP 2009 main event will take home $10.000.000 in addition to the Main Event’s prize pool. Details for this promo will be available soon, but its already confirmed.
In addition to the millions of $ UB is throwing out the window, he have a special tourney featuring UB’s own Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke plus an amazing line up of rockstars!! So check it out, on March 11th 20 players will be joining Vinnie Paul (Pantera), Scott Ian (Anthrax), Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains), Slash (Guns n’ Roses/Velvet Revolver) and Kirk Hammett in a 27 seat sng with a $10.0000 prizepool… check details at http://www.ultimatebet.com/poker-promotion/scott-ian-home-game
So, make sure to check out our step tourneys, because some major prizes await some lucky UB players.
The promotions team @ UB is constantly baking tons of exciting promos, so make sure to stop by the blog for updates and visit our promo page @ http://www.ultimatebet.com/poker-promotion
Take it easy and see you at the tables!!
Tags: 2009 wsop, alice in chains, Annie Duke, Anthrax, aruba classic, Cereus, guns n roses, pantera, Phil Hellmuth, sit n go, STEPS tournament, ub marketing, velvet revolver
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