In the world of online poker, November of 2009 will be remembered as the month that “Isildur1″ took the industry by storm. Coming out of absolutely nowhere, this player came in and started winning millions at the nosebleed games against the world’s best. Quickly becoming (more…)
On November 17th, 2009, it was announced that UltimateBet would be rebranded to “tackle the next ten years with a whole new look and focus”. Through the extensive rebranding of the online poker site, the huge makeover reduced the site’s name to UB.com and features (more…)
Airkid3 is a high stakes Sit and Go specialist that has played more poker hands than most players could ever fathom. He consistently makes money at the highest stakes SNG tables on Absolute Poker without the aid of training videos or software all while on the move traveling the world. (more…)
UB.com pro Tiffany Michelle appeared on Fox News this week during a creative attempt by Fox at criticizing President Obama’s policies using poker analogies. On the eve of the President’s State of The Union Address, Michelle spoke with Fox’s Neil Cavuto who introduced (more…)
No matter where you go on the internet you know you are taking some amount of risk. The more dubious the site or the source of the program you download, the risk increases that your computer or online poker accounts will be hacked. Unfortunately for some poker players, their accounts (more…)
Phil Hellmuth has officially gone hood. In the new Ludacris video “Sex Room”, Hellmuth can be seen (sticking out like a sore thumb) scooping a pot from Luda, Trey Songz and Idris Elba from HBO’s “The Wire”. Scroll to around the 2:06 mark and you can see (more…)
Party Poker got a bit of free publicity last week when it was included near the top of a list of the top 1,000 most-visited websites on the internet. The list was generated by Google.com’s DoubleClick Ad Planner service and listed the gaming site at number 59, surprisingly ahead (more…)
Joran Van Der Sloot, the Dutch man accused of murdering and disposing of the body of 18 year old Natalie Holloway is being sought by Interpol after a woman was found brutally stabbed and beaten in a hotel room registered to his name. Van Der Sloot had traveled to Peru to participate in a Poker [...] (more…)
Joran Van Der Sloot, the poker playing, gambling degenerate and all around scumbag has been captured in Chile and passed on to authorities in Peru where he faces a mountain of evidence which tie him to the murder of 21 year-old Stephany Flores. A surveillance video has already been (more…)
Poker celebrity Phil Laak, aka “The Unibomber”, shattered the world record for most consecutive hours playing poker at the Bellagio poker room in Las Vegas this week. The previous record was held by Larry Olmsted who played for a mere 72 hours and 2 minutes at Foxwoods (more…)