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.

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