Wednesday, July 8, 2009 - Gene Bromberg
We’ve lost over 1,000 players during Day 2B of the Main Event, and to put that in some perspective that’s $10 million in entry fees left behind for the survivors. Ten million bucks invested with the best of intentions and the highest of hopes, gone in just a few hours.
Unfortunately one of those deposed today was Adam “Roothlus” Levy, and his unhappy tale is the stuff of nightmares. I’m not sure which is the worse way to go–a gut-wrenching bad beat, or betrayed by a cold deck. The latter is the fate that befell Adam–he flopped a set, only to have his opponent flop a larger set. That’s a receipe for disaster and that’s just what happened to Roothlus–sitting there with a set he lay in wait as his opponent took forever to decide what to do. Or, that’s what Adam thought his opponent was doing. He tweeted that he hadn’t heard the other player announce “All in” (his opponent didn’t move in his chips) and they sat there looking at each other waiting for the other to act. When Adam realized what had happeend he apologized for the inadvertant slowroll and turned over his set…only to find that he was drawing to a single out. That out didn’t hit, and Adam was out of the Main Event. He tweeted that “lol” was his reaction, which is better than the “bos” mine would’ve been (barf on shoes).
Still alive today are Phil Hellmuth, holding court on the Feature Table, and Scott Ian, who is competing with Phil to see who will be the last member of Team UltimateBet standing. And with a full week before the November Nine is official determined, it may be an equally long time before we know who wins that particular bragging right as well.
Tags: 2009 world series of poker, 2009 wsop, adam levy, Poker Poker Poker, Scott Ian, world series of poker, WSOP
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - Gene Bromberg
What with all the furor today over who didn’t get to play, let’s pause a moment to talk about those who ARE playing today. Including one Team UB member who is making his 2009 World Series of Poker debut, Scott Ian. Scott has been touring in Europe in support of Anthrax’s new album, Worship Music, and just made it into Vegas yesterday. And already he’s won a big pot with pocket Aces to boost his stack to over 40,000.
Two other players looking to make a big, final splash at the Main Event are Adam “Roothlus” Levy and Michael Binger, who are among the 2,809 players who are shoehorned into every nook and cranny of the Rio for play today.
One player who exited the tournament much too early was Matt “Wiscomurray” Murray, who was eliminated just before the dinner break. I saw him in the Phil Hellmuth lounge during the break and when he told me he’d been eliminated I said, “Oh, I’m sorry…I did get a pic of you, though.” Then I thought about what I said and added, “I’m sure that’s a great comfort right now”. Sometimes I can be a freakin’ idiot.
One player I didn’t get a picture of today was Matt Graham, who was eliminated from the Main Event while I was attending Jeffrey Pollack’s meeting earlier today. But I did get quite a few shots of Matt earlier in the Series, like when he won his second WSOP bracelet in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event:
Tags: 2009 world series of poker, 2009 wsop, adam levy, Anthrax, Matt Graham, Michael Binger, Scott Ian, world series of poker, Worship Music, WSOP
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Thursday, June 18, 2009 - Shawn Rice
I know the WSOP is well underway and I had to do a little business before heading out and I will be out there this weekend off and on til the main event. If at all possible please try and come by on June 29th , UB will be having a monster party at Studio 54 at the MGM. Let me tell you if you have not been before the UB party’s ROCK! Its great to see old friends and meet many of the players you play online with often. I just got a call from Gary “Debo34″ Debernardi and he invited me to a Stone Temple Pilots concert at the Palms on July 2nd, we seen them there last year with Scott Ian and Pearl Aday and a few other friends, It was a killer show and we all hung out at the bar after the show and tons of people wanted pics and autographs from Scott… he handles that stuff so well. I have seen my share of jerk who hate to be bothered when in public, Scott was way more than happy to take the pics and all. He is a very down to earth type of person who has a strong passion for the game we all love and has been kicking ass online. In fact he won the Sunday 200k a couple of months back. I won it in December and he had to go and show me up! I am super happy for him. If you go and read his blog he writes about being really sick that weekend and having to miss a family reunion.. It’s no fluke I know Scott well and his game is really solid. I can honestly say he is the most improved player I know over the past year or year and a half.
After the WSOP I plan on playing lots online and getting ready for Aruba. That’s always the best trip of the year, I am the type of guy who never really gets sick and when I do it’s really bad. I was really sick last year there for too many of the days there. I even missed Phil’s party in bed with the cold sweats and running a very high temperature. I can’t wait to make it all up and bring your camera as this will be filled with a lifetime full of memories. Last year Annie had to leave a lil early and head to New York to film the Celebrity Apprentice. I must admit I was addicted to the show, I loved them in years past and this last season was the best ever. I so hated the ending as it was given to one of Donald’s pals. Annie was so deserving and I am so sick about the results I know I can’t stomach to watch another season after feeling punked.
I have been pretty busy doing some private poker lessons and let me tell you. You better be on your toes with the questions I get. They are very very deep type questions. I think it’s a really smart thing to do to try and better your game. I’ve been playing lots of Pot Limit Omaha 8 or better live in Amarillo and I have learned a lot from the local guys here. Mostly from a player named Nathan Wiesner who sometimes comes over to the house to play online tourneys and lets me watch him and ask tons of questions. Last time I seen Annie I asked her a few questions that helped me tons in that game. I feel like my PLO game is very solid and has been for years as that’s the game I was first taught how to play about 20 years ago. It would seem that it’s not hard to adjust from one game to the other but on a higher level it’s played very different. I took forward to learning it as that’s where the money is at around here in the local games. West Texas has been famous for having good players over the years and let me tell you there are still many here. I just know it’s a matter of time before you will hear of them, they just need a little volume to get these great results, They are already kicking butt online and play live really well.
I have also been playing a lil golf on the par 3 course that was formally owned my Amarillo Slim with a lot of the guys I regularly play cards with. It’s great exercise and I even hit a hole in one about 6 weeks back, let me tell you it was all 100% luck. I know many good players who have never hit one including my dad who used to play 6 days a week and was close to a scratch golfer. I know better than play the bigger course as the last time I was out there I lose a lil over $10,000 to some guys from a surounding town. I played in a scramble and I was never any help to my partner. I am hoping to match up again so I have lots of incentive to better my golf game.
Come by and say hello at the WSOP and hope you can make the party in Vegas, If not win your seat to Aruba, It’s the time of your life. Hope to see many of you soon and if you have any poker questions, please write into to “Ask a pro” and we will try our best to get your game back on a winning course.
Proud UB Team Member
Shawn Rice
Tags: Annie Duke, Aruba, Celebrity Apprentice, Debo34, MGM, New York, Palms, Pearl Aday, Phil Hellmuth, Scott Ian, Stone Temple Pilots, Studio 54, ub, Vegas, WSOP
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Monday, May 25, 2009 - Scott Ian
Ah spring, rebirth, the flowers are blooming and the air smells like orange blossom (well it does in Los Angeles, here in NYC it smells like pee and exhaust) and the weather is getting good and an overwhelming sense of optimism grips me like Hellboy’s fist.
I am an optimistic person by nature but for some reason right now it’s on ten. I’ve got so many things coming to fruition right now, new Anthrax record, Pearl’s debut record, my Lobo book for DC, kicking ass at poker on Ultimate Bet (I must admit I am still excited about winning the 200K weeks back), the WSOP right around the corner and of course eating and drinking like a maniac. I love that word, maniac. It’s hilariously descriptive. Willard Scott is a maniac. And Michael Myers is a maniac. That just kills me.
One of the definitions of maniac is an obsessive enthusiast and I guess you can say that I am an obsessive enthusiast over everything I do (I guess that’s why I got so deeply into poker so fast) so when I was approached to be a part of this crazy idea, a wine pairing where wines are going to be paired with Led Zeppelin songs, I maniacally answered yes. My friend Joe Bastianich (restaurateur, winemaker, guitar player and headbanger, he co-owns Babbo, Osteria Mozza, The Spotted Pig etc etc with Mario Batali) came up with this concept and asked me what I thought about it. At that moment I realized Joe was a maniac like me and I told him I thought it was a great idea. I wasn’t sure how he would pull it off but I loved his passion for it. To take Jimmy Page’s riffs and figure out what wine would go best with let’s say Kashmir or Whole Lotta Love was a leap only an obsessive enthusiast could make.
Who wants to drink great wine and listen to Led Zeppelin?
Show of hands please.
If you have a soul, you just put your hands up.
OK so a few months ago I was at dinner in LA with Joe Bastianich and Mario Batali and it turned into (as they always do) a late night Amaro (it’s like Italian Jager but stronger) session. It was a Friday night and I realized that the best Zeppelin cover band in the world, Six Foot Nurse was playing at Molly Malone’s. I rousted a bunch of the crew out of their liquid-herb induced haze with promises of “I swear if you close your eyes IT IS Led Zeppelin.” Now I’m going to have to ask you, the reader to take me at my word on this and if you ever have the chance to see the Nurse, take it.
We made it to Molly’s in time to catch the last twenty minutes of the set and if memory serves, three seconds into The Ocean Joe turned around to me with huge eyes and said “Holy shit.”
The rest of the evening was just piling on more wood to the already raging fire and before Joe left he said to me, “We have to do something with these guys, have to bring them to NYC and do something.”
Joe being the man of his word that he is called me the next day and asked me if I thought the band would be interested in coming to NYC to do an actual live show where he would pair wines with specific Zeppelin songs. Take his idea and realize it!! He didn’t have any other details other than the most important one which was, let’s do this.
Of course the band was excited about the opportunity to go to NYC and we worked it out where I would play a few songs with them as well. I was nervous about this because as strange as it may sound, other then Rock N Roll, I don’t know any Zeppelin songs on guitar. Or, I don’t know any Zeppelin songs on guitar correctly. I’ve never sat around and learned Zeppelin. Crazy right? Well Nalle Colt (guitar player for The Nurse as well as Pearl) knows it all note for note so on one hand I knew that if I learned something wrong he could show me the right way to play it and on the other hand I was stressed because he knows it all note for note and I didn’t want to come in to rehearsal like an idiot. It would be like playing hold’em with Annie and playing like a donk.
I woodshedded and learned The Ocean, Rock N Roll, The Rover, Whole Lotta Love and Heartbreaker. At rehearsal I learned Good Times Bad Times and then day of show learned Tangerine and Since I’ve Been Loving You. After rehearsal I felt really good about where I was at with the songs and after Nalle showed me a couple of little Page-isms, I was ready to rock. The band sounded sick with the rhythm guitar.
We had a pre-show meeting at the Spotted Pig the night before where we ate and drank for five hours and discussed how the show would run for fifteen minutes. That’s pretty much how the whole week in NY went. Pearl and I would make one plan, like “let’s stay in and be mellow tonight because we’re super hungover” and that would turn into Joe texting me and saying “Come into Del Posto for dinner. Please let me feed you. Pasta will heal your soul.” How do you say no to that? So we go for dinner and that turns into Pearl and I and the Nurse guys in the private room at Del Posto drinking all night with Joe, Mario, Jay McInerney and NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson. Weird, random and totally in context with my life. Jay and Jimmie were both really cool and Jay had some great Michael J. Fox stories (but those are for the book my friends, sorry). Jimmie said he’d take me out on the track and I plan on taking him up on it.
Anyway, I digress.
Show time at the City Winery, a killer new venue from the people that started the Knitting Factory in NYC. Live music, food and a wine program where you can make your own wine with help from an expert and with grapes flown in from the world’s best regions.
The show was oversold. Four hundred and change packed around tables. Six glasses in front of each person with a place mat explaining what each wine was and why it was paired with the accompanying song.
The show was being hosted by Joe and his buddies Mike Edison (ex editor of High Times and Screw magazines) and David Lynch (wine expert, not the Blue Velvet guy). If anyone can make the unlikely coupling of fine wine and rock music work, it would be these three eclectic mofo’s. They all took turns on the mic explaining as best they could to the crowd how this evening came to be and even had the band kick into short five to ten second bits of songs to whet their appetites. I could tell the evening was going to be a success. Besides the obvious fact that the place was sold out, as soon as the band played the first five-second tease, the place went nuts. These people were starving for rock!! Lots of mid to late 30’s white whiteys that have the cash to drink well and would never go out to a rock show. They didn’t even know they wanted this night and we gave it to them.
After Mike Edison described Zeppelin as like “the moment right before penetration” they introduced the first wine, Henriot Blanc de Blanc Champagne that was paired with Immigrant Song. Try and think about the acidity of Champagne and then think of Plant wailing and Page’s biting riff and it makes sense. Or it doesn’t and it doesn’t matter because you’re drinking killer booze and getting your ass kicked by the Nurse. I can’t remember all of the pairings as I was getting ready to play (I was to get up for the last pairing, Bordeaux and Whole Lotta Love) and then I would stay up and we would play all the rest of the songs. There was a Chablis with Misty Mountain Hop which worked as the edgier notes of the Chablis (compared to the Champagne) matched Page’s deliberate phrasing in Hop. Kashmir was paired with a Barolo and the wine, like the song both took their time to unfold their epic bodies.
By the time the six glasses of wine were finished the crowd was well oiled and when we kicked into The Ocean, spontaneous dancing broke out all over the room. Amazingly, as buzzed as I was I didn’t fuck up once. The energy got better and better with each song and Rock N Roll closed it out in true bombastic Zeppelin style. The reaction to the band was so overwhelming you would think these people really saw Led Zeppelin. Maybe it was all the great wine? We came back and encored with Since I’ve Been Loving You and said goodnight. After the show we “helped” Joe finish off some triple magnums of fine Bastianich vino.
It was an insanely decadent week. Being fed by Joe and Mario everyday is amazing and brutal at the same time. I swear I gained 190 pounds. I’ve been on tuna with oil and vinegar since.
So since this unlikely pairing worked I started thinking about pairing poker hands with Zeppelin, or for that matter, any songs. There are the obvious ones like Killer Queen or Number Of The Beast (set of sixes). I’m looking for a deeper connection. Feel free to chime in and I’ll let you know how I progress.
Cheers,
Scott
Tags: Led Zeppelin, NASCAR, Rock N Roll, Scott Ian, ub, Wine, WSOP
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Sunday, May 3, 2009 - Tiffany M
I play a lot of online tournaments at Ultimate Bet and every now and then I make it deep. I even have a few final tables and a small win here or there in some of the smaller buy-in tournaments but recently my tournament track record has not been consistent especially considering how much I play. Most of the UB Star Player/Pros all play UB’s big Sunday 200k Guarantee tournament and a few weeks ago our very own Scott Ian won THE WHOLE THING for over $40,000. I couldn’t believe it when I heard the news. Of course I’m aware that UB has their pro team for a reason and that each player is skilled at poker. However I also know how hard it is to make it through a large field, to have your hands hold up, to avoid the minefield of bad beats and to skillfully maneuver through a final table and clench the #1 victory. Scott’s win gave me a glimmer of hope. If HE could do it… SO COULD I! Something snapped within me that day and I set out the following Sunday to win the 200k myself!
It sounds so simple but when that Sunday rolled around I simply made the decision to PLAY GOOD POKER! During the tournament I found myself getting away from bad starting hands, no matter how pretty the suited junk looked. I became less enamored by AK and opted to fold it more regularly when I didn’t hit a flop and had someone betting into me. I let go of a lot of small pairs that I’d normally play in early position or to a raise. This might be a controversial suggestion but I watched TV and did other things online to occupy my time so as to avoid getting impatient and becoming an action junkie. I played a Phil Hellmuth type game. Even when I would hit a flop with a good hand, top pair or a tempting draw I made the choice to get out of sticky situations when I didn’t feel that I was strong and look for a position where I could get my money in BETTER. I made a lot of great folds that day and got paid off when I did wait for a strong hand.
Whaddya know, that Sunday out of about 1,000 players I cashed in the tournament and took 64th place. I know it doesn’t sound like the most amazing feat but I was excited to accomplish the very thing I set out to do. I play the 200k on a weekly basis and it’s one of UB’s biggest and toughest events and this was my best finish in the tournament to date. Even though I got my money in with a dominating hand and was eliminated when another player sucked out it felt very rewarding to know that I played a really good game of poker.
I kept that same determination and diligence the following Sunday in the 200k and cashed AGAIN, taking 66th place… yet again losing with a the better hand. With back to back cashes I started feeling like I was on to something so I decided to apply this new “PLAY GOOD POKER” technique to every tournament I played. No matter what stakes I played, even the smallest buy-in tournament all I knew was that I liked the taste of winning. So, I’d make up my mind to win whatever tournament I entered. Within the next week I had another deep cash in large tournament followed by two final tables! I had transitioned from splashing around and letting sloppy habits and the tendency to want to gamble dictate my game to simply playing like I knew I should. I’d tell myself “play as if this is the last few tables in the Main Event”. Better yet, I played as if Annie Duke were sitting there watching me, knowing she’d smack me upside the head and lecture my face off if she saw me playing like a donkey.
It’s easy to get lazy with your game when you spend a lot of hours playing online; hand after hand, pot after pot, game after game. It’s easy to lean more towards gambling to accumulate chips than to play a patient and boring game where your chip stack increases painfully slow. I’ve also found that if the money/buy-in isn’t significant to me it becomes easier for me to donk around and not take it seriously. That concept is ridiculous considering that I’d never take, even ten bucks and flush it down a toilet. When I decided to take EVERY game seriously and focus my $25 buy-in game got just as good as my $200 buy-in game. When you start playing good poker, it’s contagious. When you start winning it’s addictive. Scott Ian is making me rich and hopefully I will do the same for you.
Tiffany Michelle
Tags: Phil Hellmuth, Scott Ian, ultimatebet
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Friday, May 1, 2009 - P0ker J0
Hello UB-land:
Ok so how can I NOT start with the Celebrity Apprentice. Really is time for P0ker J0 to head back to the doctor for some good old blood pressure pills. I haven’t been this wound up since my son wrote his name on my new white cabinets in permanent black marker!! Ok so I digress. So Joan Rivers has decided that all poker players are white trash?? Have blood money? Have no last names?? I mean come on! Again – Annie held her head up high and showed perfect restraint (something that I would have not been able to accomplish in the same situation). Melissa Rivers surely made her true colours (or colors if you are in the US) apparent didn’t she? Wow – P0ker J0 speechless again. Rarely happens. I will truly be glued to my TV this coming Sunday. But here is a challenge to all you poker players. If you feel slandered by Miss Cement Face herself (yes you donkeys -I mean Joan Rivers) then leave a comment on my blog. Let’s get some action here!
Ok so what next – how about our very own HollywoodDave winning the WSOP circuit event! Wow from blackjack to poker – pure genius. I’m so proud of him and look forward to hanging with the HD at the series this summer. Congrats again Dave – love you!
So May is a month with the Poker Brat himself. Watch every Tuesday in May for the one and only Phil Hellmuth playing at the tables. Play with him in the $30+3 and gun for him -he has a bounty on his head. This is your chance to get down and dirty with the poker brat himself. Enjoy!
So I mentioned that P0ker H0 has graduated from online radio to mainstream radio. While still doing his “thang” every Sunday night on Rounders Radio, you can now check him and his buddy Wiscomurray on WTDY every Saturday from 2:00 – 3:00 pm. Check out the website for more details. And for the record – NO – I’m not suggesting that P0ker H0 has a great face for radio!! 
Well I think that’s all she wrote for now – stay tuned for more promo details on our own Tiffany Michelle and Scott Ian – yes – another home game with the rockstars! I’m just waiting to see if Jon Bon Jovi RSVP’d. Details to follow!
Ok – P0ker J0 out for another week. Enjoy
xoxoo
Tags: Celebrity Apprentice, Hollywood Dave, Joan Rivers, Phil Hellmuth, Scott Ian, Tiffany "Tiffany M" Michelle
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Monday, April 20, 2009 - Debo34
My Vegas trip was pretty short, just 5 days but was filled with nonstop action, and activities. The very first day I participated in Doyle Brunson’s 2nd annual beer pong tournament at hogs and heifers bar in downtown Vegas. UltimateBet was represented well with me, Scott Ian, p0ker h0, Tracy Scala, Hollywood Dave, and Wiscomurray all attending. I was teamed up with Scott for the tournament, which unfortunately for us was short lived. In the first round we played 2 bouncers from the bar, who by the way were defending champions and it showed. They started off hot and it looked like we were going to get destroyed. We actually made it close at the end and had a legitimate chance to win it if we had made just 2 more shots. Scott had never played the game before but he was a natural…no surprise that a rock star would be good at a drinking game. It was an awesome time, with a lot of cool people.
The next day I played the $500 6 max circuit event at Caesars. This tournament was a bit strange in the fact that for the first 6 hours of this tournament every single thing I did seemed to work out perfect. I picked up and had to show down so many big hands early, that a few hours in, it didn’t matter if I had cards or not. I won pot after pot building my stack from 8k to 36k with small pot after small pot with nothing big ever risked. Just when it seemed like I would cruise deep into this tournament, it all came crashing down in 1 big hand. With the blinds at 300/600 a fairly aggressive player made it 1800 from second position. I was on the button and looked down to see KK. The raiser had close to the same stack as was a very aggressive player after the flop even when he missed. The player directly behind me was a player who seemed like he was going broke soon. He was sitting on 14k and I thought it was very likely he might squeeze here as well. He had all of his chips in the middle at least 6 times before this hand. So I decide to flat call and try to trap and win a big pot. The guy behind me immediately raised to 6200 of his 14k. When it folded back to the original raiser he thought for about 20 seconds before announcing he was all in. This became a monster pot for this time in the tournament. Part of me wanted to lay this hand down. Not because I thought I was behind, but because everything had gone right with very little risk so far. I really didn’t want to gamble for all of my chips at this point. It reminded me of some of the things I have heard Phil Hellmuth say in the past, that at the time I heard them I thought were absurd. He was talking about not wanting to get all his money in even though his hand was dominant because he knew he would find better spots with less risk. This all made sense to me at that particular point in time. I knew my hand was good but yet I wasn’t sure I wanted to call. I decided to make the call, and the guy who made it 6200 folds with almost half of his money in the pot. My KK was up against AK and I lost the hand when an ace came on the flop. He had me covered by 900 chips. I went to the rail, and he went to chip leader in the tournament with over 80k in chips. I can’t wait to discuss this hand with Phil next time we are together. I’ve never wanted to fold a hand that I knew was dominant so badly in my life. I know this sounds crazy, as it did to me before I was put in a spot where I felt like I had control of the table like I did that day.
The only good news that came about busting from this tournament is that I got to attend the UB dinner at Fix at Bellagio we had for our Bellagio super sat package winners. Miss C put on a great dinner party and we had a great time drinking and eating, and drinking some more as we got to chat with the winners. When we were finished there we all headed over to play the drunken 11pm tournament at Caesars. Luckily for me I was out in the first 20 minutes so I could get some rest for the next day.
The next day I went and played a $2500 satellite for the 25k WPT championship. As it turns out I really didn’t need to get sleep at all for this tournament as I was out within the first hour when twice I flopped top 2 pair, and twice got caught on the river. Grrrrr
My trip overall was an A+ for fun, and a D- for poker. It’s hard to pay the bills with fun last time I checked, but I guess it could be worse. Besides, I’ll have 7 weeks in Vegas starting late May. I’m sure I will get my fill then.
Good Luck
Debo
Tags: Bellagio, doyle brunson, Fix, Hollywood Dave, P0ker H0, Phil Hellmuth, Scott Ian, Tracy "Fatcats" Scala, ultimatebet, wiscomurray, WPT Championship
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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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Friday, April 3, 2009 - P0ker J0
Hello UB!
Friday again huh? This week went by faster than a Bon Jovi encore! Wow – I must be getting old! As always – another interesting week in Team UB land!
We saw Annie Duke last another week on Celebrity Apprentice. Did you see it? It was an Annie Duke I’d never seen before! I think if Annie ever decides to open up a hotel, I’d sure be one of the first guests – ESPECIALLY if she was at the Bell Desk! Seriously though Annie – congrats again for lasting this long. I think her strategy is becoming a bit more evident now as the episodes progress. Don’t forget you can get Annie’s “behind the scenes” blog here.
Well it sounds like everyone had a blast at the Dream Team Poker Challenge in Vegas! Even though Jamie Gold’s team won, team Hellmuth, team Hollywood Dave, team Binger and team Tiffany Michelle all made us proud! A great turnout by all!
You’ve heard P0ker H0 and Annie on Rounders Radio – are you ready for this though?? The great P0ker H0 and the infamous Wiscosmurray can now be heard on live radio in the WI area. They are launching the Man Up show on WTDY on the MidWest Family Broadcast on Saturday mornings at (wait for it…………………) 7:00 AM!!!! I mean who would have thought poker players would even be up that early. The ONLY time I have EVER seen a poker player up that early is when they haven’t been to bed yet!!! Anyway – it should prove to be a very entertaining program. They will of course be talking poker, but intuition leads me to think that they’ll take it up a notch. I’m just on the edge of my seat waiting to hear all about it.
So rock star to poker star!! Did you see our very own Scott Ian take down the 200k on Sunday? Check out his blog about it here – and YES, tha is Keanu Reeves in the photographs!! Anyway, he has been working his ASS off playing poker for the last few years. I first met Scott when he won the VH1 Rock Stars of Poker that UltimateBet sponsored a few years ago. I have always found Scott to be one of the most genuine down to earth kinda guys. I couldn’t be happier for him! This was a huge triumph for him and he deserves it! Way to go Scott!! Don’t forget we still have to finish having that conversation about how you should grow your hair so I can teach you to backcomb!!
So what’s next? Well the WPT Bellagio event is in a few weeks. Seems like there will be a good sized UB group there and so many of the pros will be there. Check back next week on my blog for full details of how you can hang with Team UB in Vegas!
Well that’s all for P0ker J0 this week! Have a good one and see you next Friday!
P0ker J0
Tags: Annie Duke, Bellagio, Bon Jovi, Celebrity Apprenctice, Dream Team Poker, Jamie Gold, Keanu Reeves, MidWest Family Broadcasting, P0ker H0, Phil Hellmuth, Scott Ian, ultimatebet, VH1, WPT, WTDY
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Friday, April 3, 2009 - Ultimate Bet Marketing
Unbelievable, isn’t?
Much to mention, and much to talk about… First major thing is that the UB Marketing team would like to congratulate Scott Ian for his amazing performance on the Sunday $200k Guaranteed. With a field of over 1000 players Scott achieved to make it to the final table and end up the tournament with a 3 player deal from which he walked away with over $30.000. Amazing performance and best wishes in his future tournaments!!
Huge news from the CEREUS network, and that is that we have already qualified over 50 players to this year’s WSOP Main Event. Chances are still available through our Step tourneys and every Sunday we are guaranteeing 1 seat @ our $530 satellite.
Last night our popular Wednesday $1000+50 event had some major online pro action. This tournament is getting more popular everyday due to the high profile players that usually play it. Proof of it, yesterday Shaun Deeb aka Tedsfishfry took down the event and cashed an approx. of $40.000.
Our jackpot was recently hit like 3 times in less than 4 days, the biggest it got was $800.000 and every day our jackpot tables are getting more popular. You can find them from the lowest to the highest stakes depending on your style of play and who knows; a bad beat could end up rewarding you thousands of dollars.
Thanks for paying us a visit and remember to check http://www.ultimatebet.com/poker-promotion for our latest promotions. For our Blackjack players we have some juicy prices this month to the player who achieves the most blackjacks during the day, so check the promo page and learn of the exciting prizes we have for you for the following weeks.
Tags: Cereus, Scott Ian, Sunday 200K, ub marketing, wednesday 1000+50, wsop main event
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