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Poker Tournaments for You This Week
There is never a dull moment in a poker player’s life. Obviously, the main reason for that is the constant existence of poker tournaments and poker events that one can participate in. These events are not just for making money, but also to have some fun and get better at the game in the process. Several live poker tourneys are lined up for this week and the coming weeks. Here is a note on some of the tournaments you can … Read the rest
2012 PokerStars Macau Poker Championships Announced
PokerStars is one online poker room that never takes a break from hosting tournaments. The poker room recently released details about its upcoming event, the PokerStars Macau Live Tournaments. The Macau tournaments hosted by PokerStars is one of the biggest and richest poker events held in Asia. It includes 4 major poker series – Macau Poker Cup (MPC) Red Dragon, Asia Championship of Poker, Macau Poker Cup Championship or MPCC and the yearly Asia Pacific Poker Tour event at Macau. … Read the rest
The $30,000 Winner Wednesday Dozen Unveiled
Winner Poker has partnered with pokernews.com to bring a new promotion to its new members. The online poker room announced its new promotion called Winner’s Wednesday Dozen Freerolls, which literally lets you win free money. The new promotion is open to all the new players who register with Winner Poker and make a deposit. The promo will run for three months, and all you need to do is play poker and earn as many Winner Points as you can. Here … Read the rest
Annie Duke on The Celebrity Apprentice
Saturday, April 4th, 2009 by Phil
I hate to admit this, but if you could see me right now you would see me watching The Celebrity Apprentice with Donald Trump on Hulu. The truth is that I don’t know why I’m watching this show. This isn’t the first time this has happened either. I saw the show a few weeks ago when Joe Sebok and a few other poker players showed their faces briefly to donate some money and help Annie Duke. I just saw an episode where Perry Friedman flew in to donate $10K and buy a wedding dress.
There was some rumors that Helmuth would show his face which did make me want to watch the show a little bit I suppose. Not because I like Phil Helmuth, but I just wanted to see if he made an ass out of himself. I’m guessing he probably tried to, because they never aired the footage of him. He probably showed up wearing some jackass outfit. The producers probably don’t want to be associated at all with UB/AP and I’m sure Phil was plastered with logos.
Anyway, I’ll be stunned if Annie Duke is able to win this reality show, but I really wouldn’t be surprised to see her go deep. She is not going to make a lot of mistakes. I hate to admit it but she’s actually somewhat smart. I guess I’m routing against her because I just don’t like her for some reason. Maybe it’s the UB/AP thing, maybe it’s because she cried after she won a poker tournament, who knows really. But I’m not afraid to say that she’ll probably go deep in this thing.
I’ll tell you exactly why she is going to go deep in this show. All of the other celebrities on the show are what I would consider real celebrities. You don’t need to be into a certain hobby or niche to know who these people are like Joan Rivers, Herschel Walker etc. There are a few people like Joan Rivers’ daughter who is probably hoping to gain some stardom from this show, but for the most part I think that Annie Duke is the person with the most to win here. If she can gain an extra month or two of air time I think it would be great for her career and I’m sure she knows this.
I also think it would be a great thing for the poker world if Annie Duke won The Celebrity Apprentice. Perhaps I should take back the prediction of a late-round loss by her. I hope she wins the f@#$ing thing; more fresh fish at the tables and more money for all of us.
