Celebrity Apprentice, Phil Twitters?

Friday, March 13, 2009 - P0ker J0

Hello all:

Well what a busy couple of weeks it has been!  My head is spinning (big 80’s hair and all)

As I’m sure most of you know, Annie Duke is kicking some serious butt on the Celebrity Apprentice.   The girls won again this past week and Annie is still a strong contender in the game.  I love how she steps up to the plate and just gets shit done!  I think the girls are all just getting to know her – but for those of us who know her here in the poker world – that is just how she is!  Look out for another episode this coming Sunday.  I believe that NBC will only show one of the two hours this Sunday with a full two hour episode airing next Saturday on March 21st.  Keep an eye out for some news on the UB auction site.  We will soon be auctioning off some products from the Celebrity Apprentice on the site.  Stay tuned for more information!

So Annie and Phil just finished filming the ever popular NBC Heads Up Challenge.  It will air some time in May I believe.  I think there was some fierce competition. It is interesting to me to see how  mainstream poker has become.  So many celebrities from the entertainment world have made poker a big part of their lives.  I know Annie drew Brad Garrett in the heads up and Don Cheadle also was invited to play.  I am thrilled that he wore the UB logo for the event!  He and Annie go way back as they co-founded Ante Up for Africa together.

So Phil has been a busy bee.  He has started to embrace the technology available to everyone today. I’m pretty impressed – I won’t lie!  He now has a Facebook page, he has his own YouTube channel and has just recently announced that he is twittering! (is that even a verb?)   Check it out here!

Annie and P0ker H0 will not be hosting The Ultimate Poker Show on Rounders Radio this Sunday (the great Hollywood Dave will be at the mic!).  They are both teaching at the World Series of Poker Academy in Vegas.  Always a good crowd with lots of poker knowledge flying around. P0ker H0 even told me he went to Vegas on a private jet!!  I just hope his ego doesn’t start to get big! Actually – who am I kidding?? His ego is already big enough!

Well I think that is all for now – will be back next week!  Have a super week and chat soon.

P0ker J0

p.s..did anyone notice how I didn’t manage to get a Bon Jovi mention this blog?? I couldn’t quite find a way to get him in there.

Tags: Annie Duke, brad garrett, Celebrity Apprentice, don cheadle, Facebook, Phil Hellmuth, rounders radio, Twitter, World Series of Poker Academy, YouTube

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Heads Up!

Friday, March 6, 2009 - Gene Bromberg

The NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship starts this afternoon and both Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke have interesting first-round matches. Phil is pitted against the World Poker Tour’s Mike Sexton, while Annie faces off against actor Brad Garrett. Phil could possibly face a rematch with Tom “durrrr” Dwan in the round of 16–if you recall, Phil got all his money in with pocket Aces against durrrr’s pocket tens on the 3rd hand of the match and a ten peeled on the turn. Which caused Phil just a wee bit of consternation–I’m sure you’ve seen the video, but if not, here’s the match in it’s entirety:

Just about everyone on the planet Earth would like to see the two tangle again but each will have to win two matches to make it happen.

My pick to win it all? Uh…Phil Hellmuth or Annie Duke. I am a company man, after all. But one player I think could win it all is Vanessa Selbst, who’s made the final four of the last two WSOP Heads-Up events (and won a PLO bracelet in 2008 as well). She’s a super, ultra, mega, hyper-aggressive player and when I covered her a couple of times at the WSOP the other folks at her tables were having a really miserable time dealing with her. She goes up against Layne Flack in round one and could possibly face Kenny Tran, who won the bracelet in the 2008 WSOP Heads-Up event, in the round of 16.

Of course predicting heads-up poker matches is an inexact science at best. Last year Phil Ivey was nearly bested by an amateur player in round one, and Orel Hershiser ended up finishing fifth. That’s why they play the games, and this should be a most interesting weekend of poker and personalities.

Tags: Annie Duke, brad garrett, nbc heads-up, nbc heads-up poker, nbc national heads-up poker championship, nbc poker, Phil Hellmuth, phil hellmuth heads-up, vanessa selbst

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