UB.com & Absolute Poker Bad Beat Jackpot Hits for over $1million

Yes folks a little player named ODESSA99 has just busted the UB.com/Absolute Poker Bad Beat Jackpot after it reached over the $1Million mark per UB.com's website

...Congratulations to the latest Bad Beat Jackpot winner ODESSA99 who hit the jackpot on Monday, February 28 10:51:11 PM EST to the tune of $340,875.15!


Cowabunga Poker has the play by play of the hand ODESSA99 and FARFLUNG played out to bust the jackpot
Good luck ODESSA99 with all that dough!

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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GSN's High Stakes Poker season 7

Well Ladies and Gents GSN's High Stakes Poker is back for Season 7 starting on Feb.26th at 8pm
Changes? you bet how about for starters there will be no Full Tilt Poker pro's that we know of. Due to PokerStars buying out the sponsorship rights to the show. So no Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Gus Hansen, Eli Elezra, etc.... and on top of that Gabe Kaplan will no longer be the host, it will be Norm MacDonald. YEAH Norm MacDonald from Saturday Night Live.  Kara Scott will at least still be there as the other host. Here is the cast list as of right now:

Johnny Chan                                          Doyle Brunson                         Barry Greenstein
Antonio Esfandiari                                  Phil Laak                                 Daniel Negreanu
Andrew Robl                                         Phil Galfond                             Mike Baxter
Eric Boneta                                            Robert Croak                          Jonathan Duhamel
Bill Klein                                                Jason Mercier                          Vanessa Selbst
and more to come, hope you enjoy the new season.

Bellagio Robbery Suspect Arrested: Judge's son is suspect.

According to Las Vegas Review-Journal 29yr. old Anthony Michael Carleo was arrested Wednesday by Las Vegas Police in connection with the much publicized Bellagio Robbery. He was arrested after trying to sell the  high value chips from the Bellagio Robbery to undercover officers.  Not to mention at the time he was also a guest of the Bellagio.  Search warrants were issued for both his room and his fathers home in Las Vegas. (we do not know the outcome of those searches yet)

Anthony Michael Carleo was a real estate broker while living in Pueblo, Colorado and owned a DJ service along w/a limo rental service that he actually co-owned w/his step-father Gino Carleo.  Anthony Carleo filed for bankruptcy back in 2009 and was living with his birth father and Judge George Assad at his home in Las Vegas during the time of the arrest.

George Assad was elected to the position of Municipal Court Judge back in 2003 but in 2008 was ordered by the Nevada Supreme Court to pay for and attend Judicial Ethics classes after having ordered a woman to be locked up in jail for 2 hours at a traffic court hearing.

More to come.....and here is the police report for the arrest Bellagio Robber Arrest Report