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Annie Duke to Leave Ultimate Bet?
Annie Duke Wins Celebrity Apprentice?

by Wicked Chops Entity on 11.3.2008 in Online Poker,Poker News | 1 comment

So we’re hearing that Annie Duke may be leaving Ultimate Bet. If it happens, what the f’ took so long? And will Phil Hellmuth follow?

The speculation is Duke will join Team Full Tilt, which wouldn’t be a shocker given her brother’s affiliation with the site. This would make Duke Team FTP’s most prominent female personality, which probably won’t sit too well with Jen Harmon.

In related Duke news (and this is more speculative than the above), word is she at a minimum finished in the top two in this season’s Celebrity Apprentice and may have in fact won it.

These two stories would make sense when tied together. While 60 Minutes may have put a brief hold on its hatchet job on online poker and Ultimate Bet, it will still run, and Duke’s association with the site would surely be brought up. And with an appearance (and possible deep run) on Celebrity Apprentice, Duke’s profile would never be higher.

Developing…

Tagged as: Annie Duke, Celebrity Apprentice, Poker News, Ultimate Bet

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60 Minutes Hatchet Job on Online Poker NOT Airing November 9th

by Wicked Chops Entity on 11.3.2008 in Online Poker,Poker News | 2 comments

So our sources are telling us that 60 Minutes will not air it’s "hatchet job" (as first described to us here) on online poker sites Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet on November 9th.

They may want to get more interviews, like one with Russ Hamilton (good luck with that). Or more likely, this Sunday is going to be all about Barack "BAM!" Obama.

Hopefully, it just doesn’t air. Bury that thing.

Developing…

Tagged as: 60 Minutes, Absolute Poker, Online Poker, Poker News, Russ Hamilton, Ultimate Bet

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Ultimate Bet Software Firm Slapped with $75M Lawsuit; Nobody Knows Who Really “Owns” UB

by Wicked Chops Entity on 9.18.2008 in Online Poker,Poker News | 2 comments

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Ultimate Bet is going to need an army of lawyers to get itself out of this mess.

MSNBC just published an exclusive story on the $85 million dollar lawsuit just smacked down on UltimateBet.

The $75M claim was filed by Blast-Off Ltd. of Malta, "a private company that currently has an ownership interest" in UB, against Excapsa Software Inc. of Toronto, "which formerly owned and licensed the poker software to UltimateBet."

The total sum of the suit doesn’t actually represent the money that UB stole from its players, so its likely for the ambigious "damages." Not joining the suit are all of the legit online poker sites who UB put at risk because they are greedy assholes that could bascially sink the industry as a hole for an extra few mil even though they were already making money hand-over-fist.

The article goes on to detail how UB’s players, not Tokwiro Enterprises (current owner) or the Kahnawake Gaming Commission (regulatory arm), started to note highly suspicious play by the NioNio account. You know the rest of that story.

It continues on how Tokwiro passed the buck to the previous ownership group, which MSNBC blasts by saying that "blaming employees of a prior owner, Tokwiro might have resolved the mystery had UltimateBet not been the rubber ball in an international shell game."

"But it is unclear to whom —and even whether — the software business was sold." – continue reading after the jump

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Tagged as: Online Poker, Online Poker Cheating, Poker News, Ultimate Bet

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Surely You Can’t Be CEREUS

by Wicked Chops Entity on 7.25.2008 in Online Poker,Poker News | no comments

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CEREUS is the name of the new Absolute Poker + UB super poker platform, which not ironically at all is also the name of the genus name for a cactus plant, as CEREUS will likely leave your account as dry as a desert.

In what has to be the best news ever for people who enjoy buying timeshares, taking part in pyramid schemes, flushing their money down the toilet, or simply getting robbed, Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker have decided to "integrate customers and features" and create one big super ~~user account scamming~~ online poker platform called CEREUS.

According to the press release:

Today, the management of both Absolute Poker and UltimateBet announced the upcoming launch of CEREUS: a new poker platform that will integrate the customers and features from both poker rooms, instantly making CEREUS the third largest online poker network.

Also according to the press release:

CEREUS is the result of more than 12 months innovation and development.

We’d love to sit in on those R&D meetings. "Ok guys, we’ve developed some ground-breaking super-user technology that will more randomize results so the guy manning the account doesn’t actually win EVERY SINGLE hand, minimizing short-term profits but enabling us to present more logical long-term winnings." "Brilliant!"*

There is so much wrong and ridiculous about this it’s, um, ridiculous. Doesn’t matter though as it seems most people don’t care and keep playing these sites. Regardless, read the full press release on the WCP forum here and pick out your favorite lines. For a reminder on why you should never, EVER play on these sites, go here, here, here, and here.

Related, Joanna Krupa doing Ed Hardy is cereusly super.

* Sadly, this conversation might’ve actually happened.

Tagged as: Absolute Poker, CEREUS, Poker News, Ultimate Bet

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Poker News + Other Links Because Agne Stankunaite Is Another Hot Chick on Italian TV

by Wicked Chops Entity on 5.9.2008 in Girls,Poker News | 1 comment

Agne Stankunaite is a Lithuanian supermodel
Let us dumb this down. Italian TV is loaded with insanely hot chicks. Perhaps the hottest in the world, all with ridiculously perfect culos that rank right up there with Brazil’s best, long, stately legs that make Shannon Elizabeth look like an amateur and gorgeous faces that … well, who really cares about faces. And Lithuanian supermodel Agne Stankunaite (yeh, unfortunate last name) is hands down the hottest one we’ve seen in the past cinque minuti. See photos of Agne below, and a super hot video of her on Italy’s Ciao Darwin TV show here.

First, some poker news links and other stuff worth a click …

• Dark clouds over Ultimate Bet as lightning strikes twice for “dhc2lovr“. (link)
• 5:46 of Daniel Negreanu talking about the delayed WSOP Main Event final table. (link)
• LV Sun’s Jeff Haney breaks from his poker purist propensities to support Harrahs’ final table experiment. (link)
• We now know what a scofflaw is. (link)
• If it’s only being held in one city, is it really a “poker tour“? (link)
• A poker player begging to be staked gets him a news feature in New Hampshire. (link)
• Josh Arieh is upbeat, optimistic after Bodog split. (link)
• Pokerati-ers discuss Bodog’s move. (link)
• Is the annoying “You’re not Johnny Chan” chick still running this Playboy charity poker tournament? (link)
• Speaking of, 2008 Playboy Playmate of the Year Jayde Nicole‘s fagina commands your “respect”. (link)
• A dude “Hoyt Corkins” a rocket up his ass, and has video to prove it. (link)
• Did we mention that Kimberly Lansing looked smoking hot at the WPT Championship? (link)
• Mike Matusow rammer det røde felt. (link)
• Victoria’s Secret model Miranda Kerr has the gams for Italian TV. (link)
• Can we get better photos of Miss Asian Poker Tour please? (link)
• Barely legal poker ok’d on Indian res in Iowa. (link)