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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.

Ah well, I guess everyone has their price.

Here is a hand from Tom “durrrr” Dwan’s Million Dollar Challenge (Sponsored by Full Tilt Poker) where Dwan lays down a sick beat on Sammy George with poker’s worst hand: 72 offsuit.  Dwan even starts the hand off by telling George that he is holding a 72.  Prior to the game starting, the two made a side bet that if anyone won a hand from the other while holding a 72 the other would have to pay the winner $10k.  So, in an attempt to make an easy 10k Dwan put almost half a million dollars on the line… without giving too much away, check out the video here:

Sammy George never recovered from this hand, and in the end lost a total of $750,000 to Durrrr.

When you decide its smart to play it in the middle of a bull ring with an angry bull running around you!  I was watching one of those “World’s Wildest Videos” shows and came accross the sport of Bull Poker, or Cowboy Poker.  The rules of the game are a bunch of players get in a ring with a pissed off bull running around.  If the bull hits your chair, you are eliminated and have to leave the ring.  The last person standing (well, sitting in this case) is the winner.  The downside of this game is you can possibly get killed, or have the side of your head ripped off like this guy:

WARNING: It gets a little graphic near the end…

I was going to start this off by saying “If preists are playing poker, how bad could it be?” but then I remembered they have also been caught molesting little boys.  Anyway, Father Andrew Trapp literally has the poker gods on his side and has gone on to win $100,000 so far on the Pokerstars.net Million Dollar Challenge.

Known by friends as “Father Rambo” (due to his love for paintball), Trapp first beat former NBA Champion John Salley in a heads-up match after even turning to his rosary beads for help one point during the match.  Next, he took on PokerStars.com pro and new GoDaddy girl, Vanessa Rousso and came out victorious yet again.  Lastly he dominated Pokerstars Pro Daniel Negreanu, who although is known for his amazing reads, misread the priests’ cards.

Here is the video of Trapp taking down Salley:

After winning the $100k Father Trapp immediately donated the money to his St. Michael’s Church in Garden City, South Carolina.  His goal is to win the $1 Million grand prize so that he can help St. Michael’s build a new church.

To qualify for the Pokerstars Million Dollar Challenge you need to:

1. Enter a free-to-enter qualifier on PokerStars.
2. Finish anywhere in the top ten to be pre-qualified for casting.
3. Read your winners email and follow the instructions on how to submit your audition video
4. Submit the two minute video telling them why you should play for $1,000,000 on TV.  (You can see Father Trapp’s video here)

Once on the show, to win the Million Dollars players will need to:
1: Take on a celebrity defender such as reigning Playboy Playmate of the Year Jayde Nicole, Super Bowl Champion, four-time NBA champion John Salley, six-time Pro Bowl selection Jerome “The Bus” Bettis or MMA champion Tito Ortiz with the help of Daniel Negreanu. (Win a Trip to the Bahamas)
2: Face a top Team PokerStars.Net Pro 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Chris Moneymaker, three-time WSOP bracelet winner Barry Greenstein, rising poker star and newest Go Daddy girl, Vanessa “Lady Maverick” Rousso with help from Daniel Negreanu. (Win $25k)
3 and 4: Win back-to-back heads up matches against four-time WSOP bracelet winner Negreanu.

Here is the video of the final hand with Daniel:

There are four more episodes left, airing Sundays Nights on FOX on October 18, November 22, December 13 and ending the series off with the heads up finale against Negreanu for $1,000,000 on December 27.

There is a new poker reality show set to launch about 4 online poker pros trying to make the big bucks in a short period of time from playing poker on the G4TV network.  Their goal is to make $2 Million Dollars playing poker in just 2 months.  The 4 pros in the show are: Jason “pr1nnyraid” Rosenkrantz, Brian “Flawless_Victory” Roberts, Emil “whitelime” Patel, and Dani “Ansky” Stern.

Here is a trailer for the show with some sexy playboy girls: