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What are some of the hottest headlines in the world of poker? Here you will find all the latest juicy stories along with other important news and tournament results. A must read for the poker enthusiast with articles published throughout the day.
Nevada Officials Worried Over Harry Reid’s Support of Online Gambling
Online Poker Tournament News: UB.com's ‘Tuesdays with Trishelle’
UB.com Online Poker Championship Series Rock Star Bounty $200K
PokerStars Women’s Poker League Could be Hurt by “C***” Defense
Poker pro Annie Duke has lashed out at PokerStars for its apparent defense of Daniel Negreanu calling her a “f***ing C***” last week during an interview.
Victory Poker Confirms Move To Cake Poker: Caging Sara Underwood
Dan Fleyshman, founder and CEO of Victory Poker confirmed to CoinFlip.com Monday that his online poker room will indeed be moving over to the Cake Poker Network.
Rumors first began surfacing over the weekend. Gambling911.com covered the story on Saturday (see Victory Poker Provides Winning Ingredient for Cake Poker).
Annie Duke Furious PokerStars Defends Negreanu “F**ing C***!” Quote
Professional poker player Annie Duke on Tuesday wrote an “open letter” to the folks at PokerStars.com, who responded to a Women’s Poker League participant voicing her opinion over the recent comments made by Daniel Negreanu towards Ms. Duke. Negreanu. In an interview conducted last week by a British poker news site, Negreanu was quoted as calling Annie a “f***ing c**t”.
Annie Duke was not exactly thrilled with what appears to be PokerStars defense of Negreanu’s quote (which appears below).
High Stakes Poker News: Cole South’s $171K Weekend
One of the more popular and successful online poker players, Cole South, walked away with $171,000 this weekend.
Online Poker Tournament News: UB.com Sending Players to Four Aces Poker Event
North America’s 3rd biggest online poker room, UB.com, has announced plans to act as head sponsor for the Four Aces Open Poker Tournament in Montreal September 10th, 2010 at the Four Aces Poker Club. Online poker players will be able to qualify for the $2500+250 buy-in No Limit Hold 'em Main Event in a series of Super Satellites that will take place between August 29th and September 5th.
Daniel Negreanu Sorry For Calling Annie Duke A “F***ing C***”
UB.com Online Poker Championship Series Continues With $583,000 Up For Grabs
UBOC 5 Day Four Recap
UB.com's Online Poker Championship Series, which guarantees over $4 Million in tournament money and competition prizes, continued on Saturday, August 21st with the fifth and sixth of the UBOC5 tournament schedule’s twenty guaranteed events, attracting hundreds of players to the tables for the $128K GTD NLH Heads Up, hosted by Annie Duke, and the No Limit Hold’em 2X (second chance) Shortstack $100K GTD.
Victory Poker Provides Winning Ingredient for Cake Poker
Poker News Daily is reporting that Victory Poker will be switching online poker networks and joining a list of rooms coming on board the Cake Poker Network.
Victory Poker is owned by the same folks who brought us the popular Who’s Your Daddy energy drink. Dan Fleyshman, who runs the company, has been boasting of a “big announcement” on his birthday next month.
Trishelle Cannatella Hosting UB.com Sniper NLH $100K GTD Poker Tourney
Berlin Poker Tour Heist Masterminds Trial Begins
The trial of Mohammed Abou-Charka and Ibrahim al Moussa has begun in the Berlin state court and is expected to go through until November.
UB.net’s Upcoming Poker Freeroll Series Big Reward
From August 23rd, the leading online poker site’s daily freerolls will send one lucky online poker player to the WPT’s annual Festa Al Lago Championship event, where they will compete for a share of the multi-million-dollar Main Event prize pool.
High Stakes Poker News: Patrik Antonius Takes on Zigmund
HighStakesDB.com reports three players fought it out in a $200/$400 PLO game earlier in the week. On Wednesday, they were at it again, but this time they stepped up to play $300/$600 instead. And this time around it was Patrik Antonius who got the better this matchup when he managed to win $237K while the two others lost about $100K each. Antonius also found a $95K win in the seven game, so at the end of the day he ended up winning $332K.
Jesus On TMZ.com: Turns $1 Into $20,000 Playing Online Poker
Professional poker player Chris "Jesus" Ferguson is a major celebrity.
The TV show "TMZ" says so.
"TMZ," a nightly, half-hour, syndicated American television program, usually features on-the-street interviews (or non-interviews) with major Hollywood celebrities such as movie and TV stars (the show is based in Los Angeles).
On yesterday's episode of "TMZ" was--shockingly, or maybe not--a segment on Ferguson.
Jagajeet Chiba: Negreanu Poker Website Needs to be Boycotted
(Jagajeet Chiba’s opinion does not necessarily reflect that of Gambling911.com nor its Management)
Poker World In Shock Over Negreanu Attack On Duke: “F***ing C***”
UB.com Online Poker Tournament Recap (August 18, 2010)
Here is your UB.com online poker tournament recap for two major events that Gambling911.com has been advertising these past couple of days.
Poker News: Daniel Negreanu Calls Annie Duke a “F***ing C***”
Reuters: Sportingbet, 888 Must Settle With U.S. Justice Department