Last night UB.com (aka the cheating poker site formerly known as Ultimate Bet) launched a new TV show called Poker2Nite. The show is hosted by Joe Sebok and Scott Huff and is supposed to be some kind of poker talk show. For the very first episode they brought on former real-world hot tub three-way specialist (according to her wikipedia page), Trishelle Cannatella.
The interview started off with the 3 chatting about Trishelle’s last name, then Sebok asks why she is dressed so modest. Trishelle gets extremely “upset” and storms off the set. While on her way out, Huff says to her, “Maybe you’d be more comfortable if we did this in a hot tub”.
After watching this video, it looks like this is purely a marketing ploy for the show considering all 3 of these characters have ties to Ultimate Bet. As Trishelle is walking off the set the look in her face is more of a smirk then actual anger, and Sebok himself seems to have a smile on his fase as well. Here is the video here:
Cannatanella also seems to be the latest AP/UB “hot chick” poker player as she was seen playing the WPT Celebrity Invatational sporting an AbsolutePoker.com patch seen here. To her credit she did end up coming 3rd in the tournament winning $20,000.
Ranger’s keeper Allan McGregor was recently interrogated by the police about an incident where he was left black and blue in an alleged assault. When the police showed up at McGregor’s door he happened to be in the middle of a “serious” poker session and didn’t that get in the way of his interrogation.
The police questioned McGregor for a total of 2 hours, while all the while he continued to play at his favourite online poker site. Which site he was playing on, and whether he cashed big has yet to be confirmed.
The fight was also rumoured to begin after another poker related incident. Rumours state that McGregor was pestering Kellyann Heffernan (a babe at his local poker club) for a date. He bombarded her with texts and x-rated images all in an attempt to whoo her over. Unfortunately for him, Heffernan told media: “There’s more chance of him playing for Barcelona than hooking up with me, but he doesn’t know how to take no for an answer.”
McGregor’s interest in poker began after dating Canadian poker player, Bronwyn Campbell (shown in the picture above in Las Vegas). McGregor isn’t the first sports celebrity to make the news around poker. Poker Stars boasts several big name sports stars in their list of pros including Boris Becker and Mats Sundin.
Like many people accross the world yesterday, Doyle Brunson put down a bet on football’s biggest game of the year: The Super Bowl. In his blog Doyle said he placed $50k down on New Orleans. Brunson posted on the 4th, “This will be an enjoyable event this year as I made a 100k bet on picking the winner of the championship game. I took the Colts and my opponent took the Patriots. I think I’ll bet 50k on the Saints +4 1/2 and lock up a nice win. If Indy wins by 4 or less, I’ll win 150K. Nice position to be in huh?”
If you were watching the game, or even picked up a newspaper today, you would know that the Saints went on to win the game in a massive upset giving Doyle a lock on his bet. After watching the first quarter Doyle must have been thinking he just threw his $50k away, but with a decent 2nd quarter and the onside kick that was recovered to start the 2nd half, he probably started to feel a bit more comfortable about his bet. Most people had the Colts as a lock, but the Saints came through with a massive upset.
As for the Super Bowl commercials, for the most point they were pretty dissapointing compared to years passed. My favourite one was probably the Budlight Stranded one:
Or, the HomeAway.com one with Chevy Chase:
Did anyone else make some money on the Super Bowl? If so, post your bets below.
Well, maybe that is just a small part of the story, but it was an easy way to shorten the title from “Lacey Jones is the new face of the Canadian Poker Tour”, which is the actual story here.
Yesterday the CPT announced in a press release that Jones will be the new “face” of the CPT. For those who don’t know who Lacey Jones is, she has been voted the sexiest poker female poker player many times has appeared in this poker music video and has even won a few games too!
Here is the full press release along with a sexy pic of Lacey:
CALGARY, Alberta, Feb. 1, 2010/– The Canadian Poker Tour (CPT) owned and operated by HeadsUp Entertainment International Inc. (STOCK SYMBOL: HDUP.PK) is pleased to announce that it has signed Poker pro Lacey Jones as the “new face” of the CPT. Recently voted the “hottest girl in poker”, Lacey will be featured on the cover of the upcoming issue of Canadian Poker Player Magazine as well as having a pictorial spread and feature. That issue is scheduled to hit poker rooms across the country in February.
The deal was set when Lacey and CPT President Kelly Kellner met in Costa Rica in November 2009 at the CPT/WPS Costa Rica Challenge. “Here is a girl that loves hockey, loves Canadian beer and is an amazing poker player to top it off. I told her she has been picked up off waivers and claimed by Canada and the CPT’, stated Kellner. “We believe that by having Lacey attend many of our events and the fact that she is about to move to Vancouver, the partnership couldn’t be stronger.”
With female poker players in CPT tournaments on the decline over the past 2 years, the CPT believes that having a strong female role model will attract the female player base back to live tournament action and that she will be a strong draw for the player base in general. Lacey will also be featured on the new online poker television network, Canadian Poker Player Television, about to be launched by the Company. Full details on the network launch will released soon.
“I truly love Canadians and am so happy to be a part of the Canadian Poker Tour”, stated Lacey. Having recently played at the 2010 CPT Kickoff Poker Series, Lacey will be returning to Canada for the Winter Freezeout to held at Cash Casino in Calgary, February 24 through February 28, 2010. For complete details on the upcoming event please go to www.canadianpokertour.tv.
For the record Lacey, I am Canadian and I love you too! For more info about her, check out this Lacey Jones profile.
The headline sounds like the lead-in to a bad joke about T.J. Cloutier’s craps habit, but in this case it’s the literal truth. Word leaked out on various poker forums and poker rooms about an eBay listing from a pawnshop in Plano, TX that was auctioning of T.J. Cloutier’s WSOP bracelet from his win in a 2005 $5,000 NLHE WSOP event. In subsequent interviews the pawnshop confirmed that they’d bought the bracelet (along with another championship bracelet from a non-WSOP event) directly from Cloutier, but they wouldn’t say how much they paid him for it.
Cloutier’s WSOP bracelet was originally listed at $2,500, but it eventually attracted 12 bids, with the winner ultimately paying $4,006 for it. No details have surfaced yet on who purchased it, although discussion on some forums floated the possibility a poker pro friend of Cloutier’s buying it and returning it to him. At which point he might very well pawn it again, considering the fact that anyone who’d pawn a WSOP bracelet is likely facing some serious cash flow issues.
It makes us wonder if T.J. knows about some of the poker bonus offers out there for sites like Pacific Poker and others. Grinding signup bonuses isn’t sexy, but neither is pawning off WSOP bracelets and having the whole world (ourselves included) make jokes about you and the perils of craps and other pit games.
Last night UB.com (aka the cheating poker site formerly known as Ultimate Bet) launched a new TV show called Poker2Nite. The show is hosted by Joe Sebok and Scott Huff and is supposed to be some kind of poker talk show. For the very first episode they brought on former real-world hot tub three-way specialist (according to her wikipedia page), Trishelle Cannatella.
