Monday, April 20, 2009 - Scott Ian
I flew to Vegas today to play in Doyle Brunson’s Beer Pong tourney. The event was being held at Hogs And Heifers in downtown Vegas. If you’ve never been to Hogs And Heifers, I highly recommend it. It’s a real dive bar with the right attitude. It’s definitely worth the cab ride from the strip. It’s only a couple of miles but it feels like a universe away from the bullshit fancy pants places in the casinos that charge way too much and everyone looks like a Rock Of Love or Tool Academy cast member. I paired up with UB’s own Debo and we figured we’d have a good shot at winning the thing. My hand-eye coordination is really good and even though I’d never played beer pong before, I have had drinks on stage before and still played my guitar perfectly!
Guitar playing has got to be harder than throwing a ping pong ball into a cup right?? In the first round we drew last years champs who also happen to work at H&H. Debo and I weren’t scared. We beat them and then we’re the team to beat. Send a message! The match started off ugly for us as one of the players on the other team named Mitch hit like 6 in a row. Jeez!!! We started to come back and I made 5 or 6 shots and we closed the gap from being down like 7 to 2 to 4 to 2. They hit again and we had 1 cup left. We got them down to 2 cups but then they hit and we couldn’t tie it. Oh well, there’s always next year. I had a blast any way. The shit talking was epic and the bar was crazy with 4 tables of beer pong going at the same time. A whole group of us, me, Debo, Poker Ho, WiscoMurray, Tracy “Fatcats” Scala and a few others made a $100 a man last longer bet but we made the mistake of inviting the ringers as well so nobody collected. Everyone was having a blast. The Binger brothers lost a tough match. Michael Binger was on fire, hitting 6 in a row at one point. Liv Boeree also kicked ass in her first match. I was out but stayed to cheer on my pals and drink a lot of PBR. Debo came and found me and told me that a bunch of guys were heading over to Caeser’s to play a $200 tourney and I decided to roll with them because if I stayed at H&H I would get REALLY drunk and not be very happy on my 7:25AM flight to NY the next morning.
So we phantomed to Caesers. Myself, Debo, Ho, Wisco and Tracy all bought in. Wisco and I were at the same table. There were only about 100 people in the tourney and I felt good about my chances with 5000 in chips and 40 minute levels. I played so patient, winning pots, playing my image, chipping up to around 15K. At that point the blinds were 2-400 with a 50 ante and I woke up with AA on the button. There was a raise in front of me to 2K, I call. The flop comes Q,6,2. He shoves, I call. He’s got 10’s. The turn is a blank and then he spikes his 10 on the river. I felt the air go out of me a bit and now my 5:30AM wake up call started to loom large. I really didn’t tilt, what can you do? I got my money in good. That shuffle is an asshole. That’s all it is. That beat took me down to a little over 5K in chips and now the blinds were 3-600 with a 75 ante and I shove the next hand with A3c. The BB calls with 89c. My A high wins it. I was still a bit loopy from the KO blow of the rivered 10 but at least I had around 13K. A few hands later I steal the blinds open raising to 1800 and then the next hand I have 99 and I open raise to 1800. Wisco shoves, I call. He’s got AJ and he hits an A on the flop and that leaves me with 1200. I’m all in a few hands later with Q8 vs AK and I’m off to bed for my
7:25 AM flight to NY.
All in all a blast of an day/night and I can’t wait to hang with Team UB again soon.
Cheers,
Scott
Tags: Beer Pong, Caesars, Debo, doyle brunson, Michael Binger, Vegas
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Sunday, April 19, 2009 - P0ker J0
Well hello UB land!
As always – its been a busy few weeks. Many members of Team UB found themselves in Vegas for the Bellagio event. Well at least that is what they tell me – but for some reason, I think a certain Beer Pong on Monday April 13th could have had something to do with it!! Click here and then follow the link under Red Carpet Events to view some pictures from the event. YES – that really is Team UB taking one for the team! UB logos everywhere – I love it and am very proud of my pros!! (even though I think all they won was a hangover!)
But there was business in Vegas! UB held a pro/player dinner before the main event. In true UB fashion – our pros showed the players the UB love! Dinner at Fix followed by seemingly copious amounts of poker strategy (and when I say poker strategy…what I really mean is alcohol!) I think a good time was had by all and there is video footage to prove it! Check it out here! I personally would like to thank the Team UB members for showing our players a good time – and a special thank you goes out to my pro that called me at 4:30 AM after the festivities were seemingly over!! Love you Team UB!!
So ANOTHER week goes by on the Celebrity Apprentice. I have a few words for the great Joan Rivers!! Wow – this is gonna get personal. I’ve heard that she has said some fairly horrible things about Annie and poker players in general. I take that all very much to heart as I know how generous and kind poker players can be!! Annie stood her ground and continues to play with dignity and respect. I’m not sure that I could pull that off! I would wanna pull out my hairspray and do some collateral damage to Joan Rivers’ face! Ok – I digress! Go Annie Go!! Sunday’s episode should be a good one!
Well plans are rolling for the upcoming WSOP. I will be a great series with Phil going for #12; it is his 20th anniversary since winning his first main event bracelet and it is UB’s 10th anniversary. As you can see – lots to celebrate. Details are being finalized! Hope to see you all in Vegas!
Last but not least – I am very happy to announce that the UB podcasts will be launching in May! Stay tuned for details. Our very own Hollywood Dave will be hosting these entertainment filled interviews – and since when is HD ever boring?? That would be NEVER!!
Ok – that’s all she wrote. Be back next week. Have a good one (and in the words of the great HD) Rock on!
P0ker J0
Tags: Beer Pong, Bellagio, Brunson, Celebrity Apprentice, Fix, Hollywood Dave, Joan Rivers, Phil Hellmuth, podcast, ub
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - HollywoodDave
Alright rockstars, it is officially reeeeeally late right now but i wanted to drop a quickie update & some swanky new UB videoblogs for your viewing pleasure… finally got back to Vegas after a great Easter with my dad, bros, & hottie gf MB & the action never stops!
After amazingly turning down Dodgers home opener tix after I booked myself to play in the Doyle Brunson Beer Pong Championship with E-Sho (sis Erica Schoenberg) here at the rockin’ Hogs & Heifers biker bar in Vegas, we proceeded to have a total blast but still went donkdown in round one! We were up against a pair of local bartenders who i suspect had played the game a BIT more frequently than Erica or I have, especially considering we both graduated college years ago…
Here’s a vidblog I made just for UB during the madness… in a world exclusive, it features myself & UB’s own Scott Ian and Debo filming simultaneous vidblogs! In fact, I’m actually doing MY vidblog while shooting Debo doing HIS, while we hold each other’s respective cameras! Check it out
Even though Erica and I didn’t advance, we had a helluva time drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon and talking plenty of shit! And lo and behold, we ended up winning the trophy for ‘Stick to Playing Cards’ lol
TONITE was a blast — a bunch of us UB pros got together at Fix here in Vegas to kick it with the players who qualified thru UB to play in the WPT 25k super satellite tomorrow. So we did what you would expect us to: get drunk and end up buying in to a late-nite $120 tourney here in town with a sick last-longer bet that ended up being as large as the 2nd place prize money!! Needless to say, I busted early but my girl MB made it all the way to 3rd place, daddy-o! And extra sweet to have the nice big piece of her action, too… ship!
Here’s another vidblog i shot while all of us random UB pros were wandering over to buy in for the event….see if you can spot us all!
Alrighty then…..it is late as shit and i have def gotta crash….got people coming to install a new TV in about 2 hours lol….laters all!
-hd.
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Tags: Beer Pong, Bellagio, Dodgers, doyle brunson, Ericka Schoenberg, Scott Ian, Vegas
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