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The Nightly Turbo: Fertitta Interactive Makes Big Purchase, AP/UB Still Mum, and More
Thursday was a great day for poker ambassadors as Barry Greenstein and Linda Johnson were selected to join the prestigious Poker Hall of Fame. It was also a great day for "Jungleman" fanboys as Daniel Cates pronounced his greatness to the world. In this edition of the Nightly Turbo, we'll also touch on a big purchase by Fertitta Interactive, the ongoing silence from Absolute Poker and UB, and more.
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If Daniel Cates business manager had been working on this, he would have gotten a few online sites to host qualifiers so that REAL people could qualify and play Cates heads up for a few thousand.
That would have made Daniel Cates more of an everyman's poker player as opposed to a high-rolling 20-something putting money first rather than poker. Come on Daniel, take a real risk with an amateur player (which, I would like to point out, you were once ...) and for one day take on qualifiers for a few thousand. If they win, they get a few thousand, you get a ton of publicity (real publicity in that 99% that do not play of $100K daily ...) and throw in a few T-Shirt "I beat Daniel Cates Heads Up for $5,000 ... not that you plan to give away any T-Shirts ha ha.
flintsword
"The lucky player is usually the player that knows how much to leave to chance."
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10-28-2011 09:25
flintswordI am so glad that PokerNews has started talking about UB & Absolute Poker, who in very real terms are worse than FullTilt. The long-time sponsors Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke need to be brought to task in the same way as the FullTilt pros that were in the know. In fact, no serious digging has been done as to what kind of management input Phil Hellmuth and/or Annie Duke had in UB & Absolute Poker. What we do have is years and years of both players assuring everyone that their money was safe (sounds like FullTilt ?). Now how about that burning question to both Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth: "How much money did you have on UB and Absolute when you were "SURPRISED" by the indictments?" My first guess is "a lot" and my next guess is that their long term status made sure they got paid out. Just a guess but let's get them on the record on this because UB and Absolute have significantly worse chances of getting money back to their players whereas to their credit (their ONLY credit ...) FullTilt has been working hard to get money back to the players and have some reasonable signs of progress.
flintsword
"The lucky player is usually the player that knows how much to leave to chance."
www.myspace.com/flintsword
10-28-2011 09:33
I completely agree with Flintsword about more focus ON AB and UB. What did Phil and Annie know prior to making one of the best laydowns in history and quietly leave UB. This has been quietly swept under the rug with everyone's attention on Full tilt hitting front page poker internet news for the last few months.
Horrible Hank
10-28-2011 23:35
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