Creeping zombie jesus. I am officially calling shenanigans: The entire Ultimate Bet superuser scandal is all over everyone's face right now. First off this post on ghey ass 2+2 sums everything up fantastic. Sklansky is still a creepy fuck and Mason is a hothead egomaniac but damn those nerds have their shit together. Anyway, read that shit, it got me up to speed b/c Druff is shitting the bed on this one. So now it appears that Russ Hamilton, winner of the 1994 World Series of Poker Main Event and previous (and possibly current) shareholder of UB rolled everyone for infinite. Nat Arem is getting physical threats for digging up the dirt on this (I will avenge you for sure Nat).

Micon's note: Just received this via email from Tiffany Michelle regarding the Pokernews situation. Enjoy.

Tiffany Michelle Official Statement
Thursday, July 17, 2008

It is with great sadness that I’ve had to see my accomplishment of finishing 17th in the WSOP Main Event clouded by slanderous accusations and inaccurate information. I have been humbled by the overwhelming support from friends, fans and the media and for their sake as well as mine I feel as if I must respond and bring clarity to the situation.

There is no denying the positive press and exposure I brought Pokernews by wearing their logo and being their representative during the 2008 World Series of Poker main event. After such a successful series, I am greatly dismayed by Pokernews' subsequent actions. No one has ever questioned my integrity before this and I am so distressed that Pokernews is using their powerful public forum to spin such a negative recounting of the facts of what occurred during the final two days of the main event.

Rushstreet07 from 2+2 wrote:

I have been a member of Pocketfives since I started playing online poker, I had over 1200 posts there. PocketFives just banned me over the UB issue

I started a thread on Pocketfives and asked if they have information that we don't have regarding UB, IOTW - giving them the benefit of the doubt that they wouldn't promote UB given what is known *unless* they had information that proves without a shadow of a doubt the company is under new ownership - I went on to say that if they did not have proof of new ownership I would be very disappointed they are promoting UB (basically every page you click on has UB link right at the top of the page)...

The Integrity of Poker

While the game of poker is normally considered to be played across the green felt with chips in hand, the game encompasses a whole world of deals, situations, complexities, and extremes that are never placed in view on the felt. I am deeply distressed over a situation that I feel did not need to happen and it goes against the integrity and trust that I placed in someone that I considered to be a friend and an employee at PokerNews.com and I need to air the events to help myself deal with what has just happened.

Just before the $1K re-buy event at the WSOP, I held a celebration at the Naked Fish and invited many of my friends, including Tiffany Michelle.

Official Thread For Tonight's Show

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So I was playing aguskb heads up 200-400 limit when all of a sudden our table froze. I told him I think we must be on the millionth hand milestone, which awards 22x pot+2xbb at 120% since I am a supernova. A host came in and said congratulations and then unpaused our game. I raised and aguskb immedaitely timed out and folded. The 7 seconds must have already been almost 0 so I took the pot of 300 and was awarded 10,560 and he was awarded 7000. I am certainly not going to complain about free money however it was still unfair that were not able to play the pot out. Our avg pot at the time was 1570 and they told us to email vipclub@pokerstars.com about the situation. Hopefully Stars will make a good decision and at least compensate us with something reasonable since we were unable to play the pot out which was no fault of ours but a stars software glitch. I emailed them and see what happens. Not sure what the fair solution is but we will see soon.

Micon's note: Obviously we get invaded by Lithuania occasionally on the home page of NWP. Tiffany Michelle is a good friend of mine and this release by Pokernews is just a tilt, as anyone can see when they read:

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One time ever in your life just once ever Tiffany Michelle. **Official** Tiffany Michelle 1x Thread Here. Top 27 and infinite featured table time guarantees that we will be hearing a whole lot more about Tiffany "Hot Chips" Michelle in the very near future. GL / 1x girlfriend. Also check out the new Phil Laak Old Man pictures from ProPokerSchool.com! Obv dig around the gallery for the bonus Sklansky pix. They are both amazing. Also I promise Druff is hard at work on a writeup on the UB scandal and the recent developments involving Russ Hamilton. Tiffany Michelle 2008 WSOP 1x.

Shockingly, Reggin Killa actually did a good job explaining this.

I wasn't staking -- I was buying a piece. Basically I am turning a $5k event into a $4k event for Micon. This means his cost is 20% lower, but his winnings are also exactly 20% lower. That's a completely even deal for both of us. I take the same risk for the same reward, and he gets to enter a tournament cheap

Okay, so today is apparently the main event of the Venetian deep stack tourmament. It's a $5k buyin, and you get something ridiculous like 25k chips, and the levels move up really slowly.

Basically, it's like a poor man's WSOP Main Event.

Micon played some satellites yesterday and basically pwned them silly, so he won a seat to the event.

He asked if I wanted 20% of him. Sinc

Sportsbook is a skin of Cake. I also hear they are on the shady side and REALLY bad (worse than Cake) with payouts.

Basically avoid any skin of Cake and play on Cake itself. In fact, skins are almost never good to play on. Stick with the main site if possible on any network.

Regarding the $15-30 Limit game at Bellagio:

It's probably one of the best mid-limit games in town, due to it

Wow.

There's more to this story from an NWP angle that meets the eye, which I'll talk about in more detail later.

Basically, when we were investingating the AP Superuser scandal (in the fall of 2007), a confidential source told me that Russ Hamilton really still owned AP and UB, and that the "sales" were pretty much a cover-up in post-UIGEA times.

I posted it as an NWP front p

For once I agree with the fat man.

There are plenty of places to play heads-up limit hold 'em on the net. Pokerstars isn't one of them. I could just be a dickhead to everyone and say, "You want hu? Go play somewhere else", and be perfectly within my rights.

However, I try to respect heads up games WHERE REASONABLE.

I don't feel it's reasonable to "respect" a heads-up request if only one of the two people wants it.

I don't feel it's reasonable to force me to clear out of a game just because a donk switches virtual tables and someone else beats me to the first seat.

I don't feel it's reasonable to make me have to sit out of the game if there's no other action at comparable limits anywhere on the net.

Micon appears to have rescued himself from a 9k shortstack during Day 2 of the WSOP Main Event.

That doesn't mean NWP Radio has to go silent. I'll still be hosting it tonight with special guest FckVwls!

Check out the offical thread for the show and post your suggestions!

Ok best possible description of what Phil Laak did is over on Cardplayer's The Scoop where he explains it all. From my perspective I was chillin' on a break late in the day with Gank and his brother Bo and Bo's wife Thais. Old man comes up to me and Gank and says that he loves the radio show and wanted a picture. Thais took the picture and then she noticed something was fishy about the old man... so she followed him with a camera into the Poker Player Kitchen and started asking him if he was an impostor. The old man basically ran away, and I told Thais not to follow b/c I thought it could be an internet kid <21 yrs old and she may cost him $10k. Obviously we find out recently that the old man was Phil Laak + 5 hours of hollywood quality makeup that wanted to roll around the Rio incognito talking to people. Pix coming as soon as I can get a hold of Gank. Ty to Michele Lewis' poker blog for the pic.