This weeks blog is going to be short but sweet. I’m in the process of moving, literally as I type I am in packing HELL. Long story short… house sold, have to move before tour starts. Crazy. Pretty much found all this out last week while we were in Mammoth on a board/ski vacation. Sooooo, I’m [...]

AAAAAHahaha you know blogging is just a unique experience. A clean and honest communication channel made to express just what you feel right on the Spot [like in poker lol] That’s it that’s why I like it so much when I have the chance of doing it here in UB.Com Rai$e  VIP. Many changes are coming [...]

Last week I played the Los Angeles Poker Classic main event at Commerce Casino also referred to as the LAPC. Even in a faltering economy people came out of the woodworks for this event for a total of 745 players. That’s pretty remarkable for a ,000 event. As well, there were tons of satellite winners [...]

Yesterday the World Series of Poker announced that they are bringing back their Tournament of Champions event. The WSOP is putting up million for this newest incarnation of the TOC and 27 players will be invited to play. Five spots are already locked up–the three previous Tournament of Champions winners (Team UB’s Annie Duke, [...]

Hi all, Let me tell you my Wynn 2k experience: It’s Sunday evening and I just busted from the final table of the Wynn 2k. The tourney had 135 players, including a surprising number of amateurs. For several years now, the tournies in Las Vegas have gotten tougher and tougher. So it was a pleasant surprise to [...]

Monday morning I was up at 5:45 am to drive over to Half Shell and hop on a bus with my brother and a bunch of other dudes headed for Long Beach to get on a Carnival cruise ship. We drank all the beer on the bus by the time we got there. [...]

I started off thinking I was going to blog about the NAPT High Roller K Invitational tournament. 49 players played in that. You bought in for K and you got a K bounty for every player you knocked out. The format was turbo shootout style and I drew JC Tran, Joe Hachem, Jennifer Tilly, Vanessa [...]

Here’s your weekly roundup and we have a big list the week so let’s get right into it! Congratulations go out to POOLI, T LAZER, COMEONPHISH_, A_THEKEVLAR_2, XTHESTEINX, ARGENTINABOY, FOOLISHGOLF, MERLIN231, HOYAZO, JEZUSWOW, RITAMITSOUKO, DEVILTRUCK, DEVILTRUCK, AKAT11 and JBLAZE20 for taking down the big guarantees!

I spend a lot of time writing about poker, reading about poker, watching poker. Yet last week I found myself playing poker for the first time in ages, and as I tossed my seat card on the table I tried to think of the last time I took the felt. OK, played with my dad [...]