Poker News Quick Hit

Ladies & Gents here's a Quick Hit of poker news for you.

• XWINK is a player on Full Tilt who started out with around $4,000 then turned it into $2MILLION. Since then he has had some losses, especially the most recent session where he lost $878,000+, with one of the takers being none other than JUNGLEMAN12 Dan Cates. Don't get upset yet for XWINK he's still up over $600,000 so he'll be fine.
• Victor Ramdin took down the live Big Event at the Bicycle Casino in LA to the tune of $500k with notable Joesph Hachem coming in 2nd for a cool $300k
• "Kid Poker" Daniel Negreanu lost a nice $214k to online superstar SAUCE123 and is now down over $360k for the year. notable Gus Hansen is still up for the year (around $800k+)
• If anyone still cares at all about the "Durrrr" Challenge, Dan JUNGLEMAN12 Cates is the challenger and is up over $800k so far

ladies & gents we will have more soon for now we leave you with this:

"Hell hath no furry like a hustler with a literary agent." -- Frank Sinatra

NBC's National Heads Up Championship Elite Eight!

Ladies & Gentlemen it's almost time for NBC's NHUC Elite Eight to get under way. They will back at it at 10:45 PST and here they are:

1. Andrew Robl vs. David Benyamine. Roble "Good2cu" had to beat former NFL star and now Full Tilt Poker Red Pro Emmitt Smith and James Bord to advance. David Benyamine just took out Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi.
2. Vanessa Selbest vs. Erik Seidel. Selbest eliminated "OMGClayAiken" Phil Galfond in the previous round and Seidel took out another Phil in Phil Gordon.  Seidel also took down Jennifer Harman, one of the best female cash players around.
3. Olivier Busquet vs. Jonathan Duhamel. Busquet already eliminated Jason Mercier and Duhamel has taken down the likes of Esfandiari so this should be a good fought match.
4. Chris Moneymaker vs. David Oppenheim. Moneymaker is having a run-super-good streak after taking down the likes of online giant "Jungleman12" Dan Cates and everyone's favorite living legend Doyle Brunson. Meanwhile Oppenheim has already eliminated one run-good player in the like of Carlos Mortensen.

We wish them all the best!

NBC's National Heads Up Championship

Ladies and Gents, here's some of the latest info from NBC's National Heads Up Championship

• Doyle Brunson took out Jennifer Tilly with J10os against her K2os
• Liv Boeree eliminated Seinfield star Jason Alexander
• Tom Dwann took down "War Machine" Don Cheedle
• Dan "Jungleman12" Cates successfully eliminated the sometimes "god-like" Phil Ivey
• Carlos Mortensen took down Sam Trickett
• Chris Moneymaker dominated John Racener w/a straight over two pair

Here's the results so far

Poker News

Ladies and Gents, we apologize for being away for so long, but we're back and with some poker news for you.

• Travis Makar (one of the named conspirators in the Ultimate Bet scandal) called in on the poker show DonkDown Radio and during the hour long interview between several interruptions from the host, Makar revealed some things to the listeners like how he became involved with Russ Hamilton, how the "super user" accounts came about and who used them. He also implied that he had papers detailing who else was involved besides Hamilton and hinted as to why Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth may have left the site. For more be sure to check it out here at PokerNewsDaily.com's article TravisMakarUB
• UB's COO Paul Legget has responded to the alleged extortion by Zoltan "Brainwashdodo" Roszsa. Roszsa is accused of trying to extort Legget for some unknown amount of money in exchange for information Roszsa claims to have on Legget about the scandals. For more be sure to read the full article here Paul Legget Extortion
• Full Tilt Poker running a new "Durrrr Challenge" Promotion but in this one you can earn a chance to play against the mighty Dwan mano a mano for $1.5 MILLION! and the challenge starts as low as the $.01/.02 limits check out the details here Durrrr Promo
• Carbon Poker has updated it's latest software and VIP program. Their newest software will let you "deal it twice" also know as "run it twice", rabbit hunt/rabbit cam (where you can peek at what the last card would have been had you stayed in the hand) and mucking one card. Their revamped VIP program makes it easier for you to earn points and turn them into cash and Carbon Poker is one of the few sites to run on both Windows and Macs
• Now actual action in the poker world----- "Isildur1" Viktor Blom hit up Cates "Jungleman12" for a cool $343k while playing over 8 hours of $25/50 PLO on PSTARS and Mr. Blom is up over $450k for the year thus far.
• "OMGClayAiken" Galfond took a nice chunk of change from Gus Hansen to the tune of $134k via $500/1000 PLO Cap on Full Tilt. Don't feel to bad for the dane as Mr. Hansen is up for the year at almost $3 MILLION.

That's the news for now be sure to check out our lil brother site at Cowabunga Poker for other news too.

Here's a classic quote from the gentleman himself " I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me....Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer" -Sinatra

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This Week 9/2/10 in Poker

Poker News and Updates in the Poker World for Sept. 2 2010

This week here are some of the things we've seen.

• Tom Dwan who was up $900,000 for the 1st week in August, took several brutal beatings in his new "Durrrr Challenge" to Jungleman12. But managed to stay up for the year so far.

• Phil Ivey passed Dwan in winnings online for the year so far via some Full Tilt High Stakes tables and loses by Gus Hansen.

• The PPA-Poker Players Alliance took a stand against Commerce Casino along with fellow poker pros across the nation who "tweeted" their concerns and raised support to have Commerce Casino change their stance on the proposed regulation of online poker.

• Andy Frankenberger wins WPT Legends of Poker Tourney to the tune of $750,000 and a trophy of the famous poker legend Wild Bill Hickok.

• The Nominees for the Poker Hall of Fame for 2010 came out and they are:

• Chirs Ferguson
• Barry Greenstein
• Jennifer Harman
• Dan Harrington
• Phil Ivey
• Linda Johnson
• Tom McEvoy
• Daniel Negreanu
• Scotty Nguyen
• Erik Seidel

• The CEREUS Network ,which owns Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker, got purchased by Blanca Games. The acquisition will not affect any promotions.

• And Victory Poker has moved to the much larger Cake Network as of September 1st therefore offering more games to players.

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Good Luck at the tables Players!

The SinatrasStyle Stories: game cont'd.

We're calling him Riviera tonight and he just walked in to join the game. The three of us have been playing together for years and "the other guy" ,aka Riviera tonight, joins us every now and again. He's always coming up with ideas that sound nuts and out of nowhere, however they always pay off big for us. Tonight we're keeping it low key and running a squeeze play on two fish at the table in a smooth rotation. First let me explain the game and the play exactly. It's $2/4 no limit hold'em. I was in first position and called the bet, it didn't matter what my cards were because we knew the fish, who we'll call Big Tuna, would raise it up in middle position. We knew this because he had a tendency to puff on his cigarette when he was trying to make a move and look cool. Well he was sucking on his cigarette like a gay baby with a dick shaped pacifier so we knew he was raising and raising big. DMartini had already noticed this and made the play by re-raising in late position, I simply flat called and Big Tuna followed suit. The flop came out a bland 3,8,2 or 4,7,2 something like that. I bet half the pot and Big Tuna made an act of raising it big, but Dmartini flat called and I re-raised it big. Talk about a surprised Tuna, he had at this point stopped making love to his cigarette and worriedly just called. And like clock work DMartini re-raised it to almost half of his chips were in the pot. I made the act of looking pissed and shoved all in. Just like magic Big Tuna folded looking confused and trying to tell himself he made the right lay down. He even protested "Hell, I fold. You two guys can battle it out!". But DMartini responded accordingly, " Shit, I can't call I was making a play on you Sin, but you caught me. I fold.". Just like that we took his money, and I made an act the rest of the time of playing "sheriff" on bluffers just as a way to take some of the attention off the face that Riviera and SappyD we're doing the same thing to the other fish at the table.

When we finished up the game, we all left our separate ways and met up at our joint the BLEND to split the mone, do a shot, smoke a cigar and call it a night....well almost morning.

---SinatrasStyle

The SinatrasStyle Stories

SinatrasStyle

It feels like Casablanca here and I don't mean classy and starring a sultry Ingrid Bergman. More like black and white and filled with smoke. We're down $300, well technically I'm even, D-Martini over there is down $200 because he won't stop silver tonguing the ladies in the room and focus on his cards and SappyD already won his big hand for the night and then let a suck out on the river get to him, so now he's down $100 and bleeding chips away like he's working for the red cross. Right now we need some help and wouldn't you know it. Help just walked in, he's the other guy of the pack and tonight we'll call him Riviera.

This is poker, no not the glorified TV stuff where guys get paid to wear logos and run their mouths more than they do to play cards. I'm talking about here in the smoke filled living room of a guy they call Fat Paul and offer PBR as a nice way of raking a $1 a flop. This is what we do, and believe it or not we're good at it, hell sometimes we're even great at it.