UB Women in the News
Two female brand ambassadors associated with the online poker room UB.com have been in the news this week. Both are completely different from each other, have different roles to play and have been in the news for completely different reasons.
Trishelle Cannatella is the poker babe face of UB.com. Known as a “hot tub three-way specialist” it is her role to bring the punters to the UB tables. This is what she is doing in UB.com’s Online Poker Championship Series, which guarantees over $4 million in prizes. On Tuesday she hosted several events, which had about 500 players each. They were vying for a share of the prize pool but were also there to “hang and chat” with the vivacious Trishelle. UB player Discomonky will never forget the evening because he succeeded in knocking out Trishelle, something he could only do at the poker table, and winning the bounty. Players at UB.com will be missing their poker babe for a few days because she has decided to spend time with the seals in an Alaskan cruise. But in her last post before signing off she said, “Hope to see everyone playing the UBOC million dollar championship on Sunday.”
The other UB woman in the news is Annie Duke, who represents the professional face of the poker room. Her spat with Daniel Negreanu, in which he called her a f****** c***, seems to be splitting the poker world into two groups. Negreanu is the brand ambassador of rival poker room PokerStars. When some women players at PokerStars spoke against Negreanu, the poker room stood up for their ambassador. Katja of the support team responded to the protests by stating that there is bound to be some friction between outspoken poker players. The response went on to say, “Although Daniel Negreanu is a Team PokerStars Pro, he is an entity to himself and as such will always be encouraged to express his views and speak his mind as he would otherwise do so, PokerStars Pro or not.”
Annie was not amused. Her response to the matter earlier had been a dignified one, but she really let fly at PokerStars in an open letter. She pointed out that the words “f****** c****” were not a view or an opinion but an “abusive epithet”. The least that PokerStars was expected to do was distance themselves from Daniel Negreanu’s remarks. She also drove home the point that a Nike sponsored NFL footballer would have been thrown out by both Nike and NFL for using such language at a female reporter.
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