After last week’s exciting and record-setting Sunday, it was inevitable that yesterday’s tournament action was going to feel a little anticlimactic. A slight drop off in attendance on Super Bowl Sunday certainly didn’t help matters, as both the UB $200K GTD and Full Tilt’s $750,000 Guarantee had overlays.
Just because the fields were slightly smaller [...]

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Bellator Fighting Championships, a nationally televised MMA promotion, has announced that they have formed an exclusive sponsorship deal with UB.net. The deal comes as Bellator is going to be broadcasted on FOX Sports Net, NBC and Telemundo beginning April 8th.
“We’re super excited to tie the new UB logo to Bellator - the hottest MMA success [...]

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High Stakes Poker, poker’s highest rated and most discussed TV show, will return to GSN with its sixth season. Slated to premiere on Valentine’s Day, February 14, at 8:00 p.m. EST, HSP brings back poker’s biggest stars and promises an action packed season.
Season six brings back familiar faces and a few players making their first [...]

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Nearly a year since his last tournament win Jeff Madsen won the Borgata Winter Open Championship Event. He took down the field of 766 players after securing the chip lead in day 2 and remained near the top of the leaderboard throughout the event. The win boosted his career earnings just over the $3 million [...]

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It may not be eight tables of heads-up battling with Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey all at the same time, but Isildur1’s opponent at the Full Tilt Poker tables was certainly high profile enough to take note, even if the stakes were slightly smaller than we’ve grown accustomed to at $25/$50 and [...]

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The following article appears in the February issue of BLUFF - on newsstands now.
Each year BLUFF Magazine seeks the opinion and input of the poker industry in hopes of putting together a comprehensive list for our readers of the most influential and powerful people in the poker industry. In years past the Power 20 has [...]

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If you follow the WPT circuit or kept track of the 2009 WSOP at all, the name Darryll Fish ought to look familiar to you. Fish, known to his friends by his online screenname “DFish”, has spent time at the top of the chip counts in just about every WPT event he takes part [...]

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Our latest issue of BLUFF will regale you with the story of how Jason Mercier came to be our 2009 BLUFF Player of the Year, but if you want to stay ahead of the game, here is your chance to get in on our 2010 Player of the Year race from the starting line. [...]

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The Super Bowl is still a week away, but Sunday at the virtual tables certainly felt like the Super Bowl of online poker as three of the biggest online sites threw massive marquee tournaments with millions of dollars on the line. Between UB Poker’s UBOC Main Event (you can read more about that here), the [...]

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Sunday brought the final day of UB Online Poker Championship (UBOC) action and to say that the series went out with a bang would be quite the understatement. A total of 1,307 players ponied up the $1,000 buy-in to take part in the UBOC Main Event, easily breezing by the $1 million guarantee [...]

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Railbirds rejoice, we have an Isildur1 sighting!  After laying low virtually all of January, the mystery Swede made a couple of rare appearances at the tables this past week.  In addition to logging some time at the $25/$50 PLO tables
The last time we saw Isildur1 was on January 3rd, when he logged some time at [...]

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Saturday’s UB Online Poker Championship (UBOC) action was fast, furious and over in a flash. The site offered up only one tournament, a $100 buy-in No Limit Hold’em turbo events with rebuys. In less than five hours the starting field of 514 players was down to one, who took home the biggest piece [...]

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On Thursday something amazing happened. Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Patrik Antonius played a second Durrrr Challenge session in as many days. Could our kindhearted but ceasless ribbing finally be having an effect? We can only hope…
Thursday’s session was a little shorter than Wednesday’s, lasting only a couple of hours and 892 hands. [...]

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When Stewart Scott won the Crown Casino’s Aussie Millions Main Event title in 2009, he was the first Aussie to claim the tournament crown in the tournament’s history. Now Oz has another local boy to be proud of: Tyron Krost. Krost defeated an incredibly difficult final table line-up to keep the crown near [...]

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The 16th event of the UB Online Poker Championship (UBOC) was the kind of stuff online poker kids’ dreams are made of: a 6-handed deep stack No Limit Hold’em event with a guaranteed prize pool of $100,000. With 206 entrants, the prize pool ended up just breaking that number with $103,000 up for grabs [...]

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