Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Monday, August 18 2008 1:55:46
Uruguayan H0----
My wife, Christy, and I started our day, Tuesday, Aug. 5th, at the airport in Madison, WI, around 2 pm. After a long layover in [...]
Posted By: Scott Ian On: Monday, August 04 2008 4:29:20
How are ya my UB friends? I've been on the new platform for a few days and I'm really stoked on it. Loads more features and a lot more people to play with. I've been all over the 50-100 Sit & Go's [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Monday, August 04 2008 10:56:11
Getting close
Finally I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. On Saturday I get to move into my new house. This weekend was a killer for me. [...]
Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Friday, July 25 2008 10:40:38
A HO Lot of Traveling
After a month in Vegas, I thought it would be great to be hanging home for a while and playing poker at my bar and in some [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Friday, July 25 2008 10:35:11
Back home
After spending the better part of 7 weeks in Las Vegas it sure is nice to be home. I wish I could say things have slowed down in my life, [...]
Posted By: Shawn Rice On: Thursday, July 24 2008 5:48:35
The WSOP is finally over and it was a little disappointing as I never cashed in seven tries. I did very well in the cash games, satellites and sit and goes, but it's always disappointing when you [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Friday, July 18 2008 12:20:24
WSOP Main event day 2
Sometimes in poker there are bad days. Unfortunately day 2 of the main event was one of these for me.
I entered day [...]
Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Wednesday, July 16 2008 1:31:15
What a month
This month by far was the most exciting, hectic, chaotic and fun month that I can remember. To begin with in the 1k rebuy I was [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Sunday, July 13 2008 1:20:48
Yesterday was my starting day for the WSOP main event. All things considered it was a fairly smooth day. We played five 2 hour levels that started at noon and ended around 1:30 am. I ended the day [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Friday, June 27 2008 12:52:49
That time again
The World Series Main Event is almost here. Other than the Aruba poker classic this is the tournament I look forward to most every [...]
Posted By: Shawn Rice On: Friday, June 27 2008 12:49:12
It's that time of year again, WSOP Time. Another killer party is planned by UB! This year will be at the Palms July 1st, I heard it's a [...]
Posted By: Shawn Rice On: Sunday, June 22 2008 1:15:32
Hello fellow UB'ers
After finishing up on our Cross Canadian Tour with Ho, Debo, Phil, Annie and Alex and I got to spend three weeks at home in Texas with my babies (my two labs) [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Tuesday, June 17 2008 12:40:19
Nugent, Angel, Tyson
Saturday night in Vegas I got to get away from poker for an amazing night on the town. Scott Ian invited me to go out with [...]
Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Monday, June 16 2008 11:37:47
The WSOP isn't the only game in town
The World Series of Poker runs for about a month and half. One could get pretty caught up in all the WSOP hype [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Wednesday, June 11 2008 1:23:55
PLO Bubble
We have all been there many, but it never seems to get easier. The bubble is just a painful way to go especially in a WSOP event. [...]
Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Tuesday, June 10 2008 2:05:22
0 for 2 H0
I played the $2500 NLHE on Saturday, I was really excited when the day started to get my first wsop tourney of the year under my belt. I [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Tuesday, June 10 2008 12:22:52
Yesterday was the $1500 WSOP shootout event. This was an event I was really looking forward to. For those who don't know, a shootout is where you start at a 10 handed table and play down to 1 [...]
Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Wednesday, June 04 2008 11:35:59
It's that time of year again, Vegas baby! 40 days of non stop poker. If you love poker, this is living the dream. Even as I pack for the month long stay, my heart starts pounding and I get all [...]
Posted By: Annie Duke On: Tuesday, June 03 2008 5:03:23
My Best WSOP Moment
As a poker player you can gauge success many different ways, titles money, sponsorships and so on. This is of course the natural progression of success. It does [...]
Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Tuesday, June 03 2008 10:45:58
For the last few months I have had the great pleasure of traveling a lot with Annie. She has really motivated me to loose weight and get into shape. So last month I made a bet with Debo and Shawn [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Monday, June 02 2008 11:27:38
In the spring of 1990 I was a senior in high school in Bend ,Oregon. My good friend Kurt and I drove a few hours away to Salem Oregon to see two of our favorite bands play, Anthrax and Iron Maiden. [...]
Posted By: Scott Ian On: Wednesday, May 21 2008 8:23:07
How the hell is everyone? All is well here. I'm home in LA getting ready for the Anthrax/Iron Maiden shows next week at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine. Two nights of metal mayhem!! It's [...]
Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Tuesday, May 20 2008 3:22:37
UB recently auctioned off a round of golf with "the 11 time WSOP champ" and "the great P0ker H0", at the Pasatiempo golf course in Northern California.
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Posted By: Debo34 On: Monday, May 19 2008 9:52:21
I always seem to talk about how busy I am or have been. In general this isn't a complaint, only a statement. Life is very good to me and despite being gone a lot; poker has afforded me a great [...]
Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Tuesday, May 06 2008 2:05:40
For the last month I haven't been able to think about anything but poker. I played in the Bellagio 25k event and even though nothing exciting happened there, the next 2 weeks made up for [...]
Posted By: Shawn Rice On: Monday, May 05 2008 4:55:10
Hello UBers
We finished our Cross Canadian Tour up in Calgary and Vancouver, the turn out was awesome and the people where overly nice.
On the flight from Vegas [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Sunday, May 04 2008 11:41:15
If you have logged onto Ultimate Bet this past week you've undoubtedly seen a wholesale change in the tournament schedule, as well as a bunch of pretty sweet promotions. This is due to a commitment [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Wednesday, April 23 2008 4:56:25
I am on the tail end of a vacation trip that has seen a lot of action. The first few days I participated as an instructor in the WSOP academy camp at Caesars palace. This was a two day camp with a [...]
Posted By: Shawn Rice On: Tuesday, April 08 2008 3:47:03
This had been a long and eventful 2 months. The LA Poker Classic was a really fun time. A group of 20 or so UB players and qualifiers made it to LA and Victor had us all set up to go to a LA [...]
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[...]Posted By: Debo34 On: Tuesday, April 01 2008 4:16:29
I just arrived back home after spending 15 days playing poker in Reno, Nevada. The WPT stop in Reno is one of my favorites of the year. The Grand Sierra Resort is a decent hotel with tons of stuff [...]
Posted By: KrazyKanuck On: Sunday, March 16 2008 10:48:06
Well this weekend was a fun filled weekend in downtown Toronto when UB's Cross Canada Tour hit the Sheraton Hotel on my home turf. We had Phil Hellmuth, P0ker H0, Debo34, Shawn Rice and yours truly [...]
Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Friday, March 14 2008 12:06:08
I am on my way home from Toronto Canada stuck in the airport with a flight delay. It seems like every time I fly there is some kind of a problem. I like to fly, I just hate the airports. UB should [...]
Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Friday, February 29 2008 10:20:55
I just got home from the WPT L.A. classic. It was a great time thanks to UB senting all of its online qualifiers to the LA Kings hockey gameThursday night, hanging out with some old fiends, [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Tuesday, February 26 2008 9:43:59
I just arrived back home from 5 days in Los Angeles. I was in L.A to play the main event of the L.A Poker Classic. The first night we met up with many longtime UB players for a few hours for some [...]
Posted By: KrazyKanuck On: Monday, February 25 2008 6:45:40
Last year I did more travelling than in many years before, and as fun as that was, it was starting to wear on me. I was missing out on many things at home and decided to step back a bit and refocus [...]
Posted By: Shawn Rice On: Wednesday, February 20 2008 3:10:58
I flew into Vegas from Lubbock on Thurs. Jan. 31th for Super Bowl weekend and to to go to the Sammy Hagar concert at the Pearl Theater at the Palms the day before the big game. I had [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Tuesday, February 19 2008 4:41:39
Well it's about that time again, time to hit the road. My schedule is about to get very busy. I leave Wednesday for the LAPC in Los Angeles. I'm looking forward to getting back into playing some [...]
Posted By: Shawn Rice On: Friday, February 01 2008 7:38:00
Hello Ub'ers
This has been a wonderful break. I have been home since the Five Diamond in Las Vegas in mid December. I was going to play the event and decided not to at the last [...]
Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Thursday, January 31 2008 1:36:00
This is the longest I've gone in my poker career without going somwhere to play live. It really gives me a chance to look back and think about how fortunate I am, and how lucky I am to have some [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Monday, January 28 2008 4:28:22
I've been lucky enough to have a long stretch at home before I gear up for a busy upcoming travel schedule. I've been home for about 6 weeks and it has been great. I love spending time with [...]
Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Monday, January 14 2008 4:26:58
Last Thursday, I came home from a week at the PCA in the Bahamas,then on Saturday my wife, Christy, some friends, and I went to the Packers-Seawhawks playoff football game at Lambeau Field in [...]
Posted By: KrazyKanuck On: Tuesday, January 08 2008 3:52:06
I have very mixed feelings about 2007 in many regards. The year certainly had it's ups and downs. Most of all it was a learning experience. Everything from poker, to life to arranging priorities. [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Monday, January 07 2008 4:54:49
DEBO'S Top 10 UB Moments of 2007
10. Phil Hellmuth makes his grand entrance at the WSOP.
A day after crashing the UB racecar in the RIO parking lot, Phil [...]
Posted By: Annie Duke On: Monday, January 07 2008 4:42:22
It's Been an Amazing Year!
When people ask me how things are going they always seem to expect a poker answer. I think because I am a professional poker player that there is an [...]
Posted By: Shawn Rice On: Monday, January 07 2008 4:30:48
Early in 2007 I was out in Vegas a lot playing many of the Ultimate Poker Challenges. I was lucky enough to win a couple of these and made several final tables. These were not really big fields [...]
Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Thursday, January 03 2008 8:23:14
Every Year around Christmas, Phil Hellmuth comes back to his hometown of Madison, Wisconsin to spend time with his friends and family. When its time with friends, take one guess what we [...]
Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Tuesday, December 18 2007 2:15:36
After filming the show in Temecula, Debo34 and I, along with Wiscomurray, Fatcats, and Jon Green, all drove to Vegas for one of the best parties of the year. Phil's annual x-mas party. [...]
Posted By: Shawn Rice On: Monday, December 17 2007 5:39:21
This has been a really exciting and busy 10 days. I started off by landing in L.A. on the 3rd and off to Pechanga Casino in Temecula California. That evening we all had a fun dinner party and [...]
Posted By: KrazyKanuck On: Tuesday, December 11 2007 2:41:50
Well, the past few weeks have been fairly quiet for me. I decided pretty much last minute to fly out to Vancouver to play in the BC Poker championships. I flew out in time to hop into the super [...]
Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Monday, December 10 2007 8:15:42
While in Aruba, UltimateBet held auditions for a reality T.V. show. The show was going to be similar to many reality formats. A group of contestants, competitions, and [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Monday, December 10 2007 8:01:51
I just spent 5 days in Temecula
Posted By: Debo34 On: Monday, November 26 2007 12:28:54
Well it's nice to be home. I've been gone the better part of a month and was really missing home. I was in Madison for a weekend of football and fun, then in Costa Rica for 5 days. This was my [...]
Posted By: Shawn Rice On: Monday, November 26 2007 12:26:51
The last 6 weeks have been a little crazy since Aruba, which was by far the best time I ever had in Aruba in the 5 years I been going. When I got back I decided that having a poker room in Houston [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Monday, November 12 2007 11:54:15
Well it's Monday and we have started our recovery. The 3 of us met in Madison, the home of p0ker h0 on Friday for a weekend of fun. [...]
Posted By: KrazyKanuck On: Monday, November 12 2007 1:08:39
Well, I was hoping to carry some momentum from my 2 previous WPT tournaments in terms of my play into this years' Niagara WPT event. I had made it really deep in the Turks and Caico's Islands and [...]
Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Wednesday, November 07 2007 12:34:06
God I love Sundays! Online poker and football, what could be better? Well winning at both, that's better :)
Go-Pack-go! The Packers crushed the Chiefs and I crushed the 3 [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Tuesday, November 06 2007 3:31:21
I just arrived back home after 10 days on the road. I went to Reno to meet up with some friends and play a series of small tournaments. I needed to get away for a series like this to work on my [...]
Posted By: KrazyKanuck On: Tuesday, October 30 2007 7:11:51
Well, my road trip continued after having such an amazing trip to Aruba.
I've been to Aruba the past 5 years in a row and nothing compared to the fun times that this trip held. I wasn't too [...]
Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Tuesday, October 30 2007 6:44:37
Over the years I have been known for, lets say playing "questionable cards". But let the truth be known that 99% of the time, the players at my table give me the right odds to [...]
Posted By: Shawn Rice On: Sunday, October 28 2007 10:42:37
I think what separates Ultimate Bet from other sites is the sense of community. This has been done by having exciting events like the Aruba Classic where you visit many of the players you been [...]
Posted By: Shawn Rice On: Sunday, October 28 2007 10:33:10
This was my favorite Aruba trip so far of the five years I have gone down to play this event. I got there a few day early to enjoy the calm before the madness and it's like true paradise for those of [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Monday, October 22 2007 8:26:52
I had one of those weeks that from a poker player's perspective I'd just as soon forget. Seems every time I'd gain momentum in a tournament something would go wrong, or the wheels would just fall [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Monday, October 22 2007 11:43:41
After getting back from Aruba, it was time to get back into the swing of online poker again. I had only played 2 online tournaments in a 15 day period and I was ready to go. My week started off [...]
Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Friday, October 19 2007 12:12:06
Ever have one of those days that no matter how many times or how good you get your money in, it doesn't matter? This last Sunday was one of those days for me. I always wonder how someone who will [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Wednesday, October 10 2007 4:33:13
Well, I finally made it home after 13 days in poker paradise. Once again Ultimate bet put on a great show. Melissa and crew went over the top this year offering [...]
Posted By: P0ker H0 On: Tuesday, October 09 2007 5:52:30
3 weeks ago, I wrote about how every year I look forward to Aruba, and let me tell you. This year did not disappoint. This year I decided to go a couple days before all the action [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Friday, September 14 2007 1:31:18
Well, it's been a week or so since my last blog entry. I took a couple days off from poker, mostly to spend time with my family. My son started 8th grade and had his first soccer game of the [...]
Posted By: Shawn Rice On: Thursday, September 06 2007 10:19:18
It's kinda funny when people want to come up to you and talk to you about poker cause they have seen you on TV, when it was only a few years ago if you told someone you played poker for a living [...]
Posted By: Debo34 On: Wednesday, September 05 2007 2:03:20
All poker players need time away from the game and I am no exception. Sometimes, I like to step away for a week or two, spend time with family, and do anything besides play [...]
