Tidal Wave of Poker News!

Alright Poker Surfers and Surfettes here is you Tidal Wave of poker news

First and Foremost here is an update on the Aussie Millions

• Erik Sidel took down the Super High Roller Event for a cool AUD$2.5 Million, Sam Tricket came in 2nd for AUD$1.5 Million and David Benyamine finished 3rd for AUD$1 Million. Why call it the Super High Roller Event? well b/c the buy in was a staggering $250,000 yeah so only 20 people entered and 3 got paid. Notables were Tom Dwan busting out in 18th place rather quickly and Phil Ivey finished 8th
• Aussie Millions Main Event Won by an Aussie! David Gorr  the 68 yr. old aussie showed that he could take out the likes of  Patrik Antonius aka Adonis (seriously someone ugly that guy up some and give us regular hot guys a chance) who finished at 8th place for AUD$130k and the other younger guys. David Gorr will take home a nice AUD$2 Million.

Now the UB.com UBOC 6 Series, just this weekend left for some major play and pay

• Event 27 is today. at 4pm and is a $100+9 buy-in NLH Turbo w/Unlimited Rebuys with $100,000 GTD hosted by P0kerH0...and look for that event to have a much bigger prize pool than the GTD for sure.
• Sunday at 4pm, skip the Pro Bowl game and look to play UBOC's Championship Monster Stack NLH w/a buy-in of $1,000 +50 and $1Million GTD hosted by the newly signed Prahlad Friedman
• Then on Sunday at 6:30 look for the UBOC $100k GTD NLH Deep Stack Turbo w/a buy-in of $300+20  hosted by TEAM UB bust the pro's out for prizes!

And don't forget the MINI UBOC Events

• Today at 4pm Mini-UBOC27 NLH Turbo Unlimited Rebuys $10,000 GTD buy-in $10+1
• Sunday's Events----at 4pm Mini-UBOC Championship Monster Stack NLH $50,000 GTD buy-in $50+5 and at 6:30 Mini-UBOC CLoser NLH Deep Stack Ultra Turbo $10,000GTD buy-in of $30+3

And John Racener twitted that Full Tilt Poker is running a promo this week where you can buy into every tourney up to 4 times, however we've yet to see anything on this. Meanwhile you can view his twitter at twitter.com/racener

COWABUNGA!

Tidal Wave of Poker News!!!

COWABUNGA, SURFS UP!!!   it's a Tidal Wave of poker news coming straight at ya!

Ok Poker Surfers and Surfettes I know we've been gone way to looooong but we're back with some cool ass poker news for you! Here we go! (not like the bud light commercial, more like Tag-Teams "Whoop der it is!")

• UB.com's UBOC series has been off the charts with major events, but most recently we saw a 3-way chop in the $162 buy-in No Limit Hold'em Deep Stack Sniper event, then a secret 4 way chop in the $2,100 buy in  Super High Roller Event that saw a very cool 387 players with a prize pool of $774,000! 1st place JARFISH scooped a nice $124,000 WOW!
• GSN's High Stakes Poker is back for season number 7, but not without some sort of controversy.  PokerStars had swung in awhile back and bought up the sponsorship rights to the show, right out from under former sponsor Full Tilt Poker. So the question in the air is "will FT pro's be playing on the show" b/c if not we'll miss some of the games biggest names like Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey, and Patrik Antonius. Not to mention Howard Lederer and EDOG! Erik Lindgren.  We do know that Doyle Brunson, Barry Greenstein and Danile Negraneu, negranu, neg ...how do you spell is freaking name, even google's confused..uh grown man Kid Poker will be returning to the show which will air on it's new night Saturday at 8pm Feb.26.  and for the record it was filmed in the Bellagio.
• Aussie Millions is underway and at the Aussie Millions Cash Game Patrik Antonius has been killing it! Patrik also had a killer weekend at the Full Tilt Poker tables raking in around $447,000
• Grown man Kid Poker has said that he's trying to get passed the 50,000 VPP (points) he earned last year on Poker Stars and go for Poker Stars SUPER NOVA or also know as reaching 100,000 points. Read more here Grown Man Kid Poker
• And Team Cowabunga Poker is still in it at the Global Poker League.

  Go Get 'em Poker Surfers and Surfettes!!! COWABUNGA!!!

UBOC 6 Underway

YO! Poker surfers and surfettes Absolute/UB pokers series UBOC 6 is officially under way!

Look for  UBOC 1 to have some serious action w/the $500 buy in and the Mini UBOC 1 for $55 they're starting in about half an hour!

We'd like to take this time to wish our players JOHNNYKAHUNA & EZMONEYFISH  good luck today at the tables. Look for EZMONEYFISH to be playing in the Donkament and JOHNNYKAHUNA  to be scouring the GPLnow.com tables for team Cowabunga Poker.

Good luck today boys! Get'em!

Rip Curl of Poker News

Yo! poker surfers and surfettes here is a quick Rip Curl of poker news

• Aussie Millions has officially started and we expect to see some major players like Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan at the tournament. Here's a link to the official schedule http://www.aussiemillions.com/schedule/
• PokerStars PCA (PokerStars Caribbean Adventure) Main event is set to air on ESPN3.com  and ESPN2 at 10pm EST according to www.Pokernewsdaily.com here's a link PokerStars PCA Main Event Live
• PokerStars offers "Home Games" where players can create their own tourneys for friends and let them log in via a "code". Other sites have had this option before, however they only offered it to players once they reached a Status or Level. SOOOO will those poker rooms now start to offer it to all players? we hope so

Cowabunga!

Tidal Wave: Poker News Update

Surfs Up poker surfers and surfettes! here is a Tidal Wave of Poker news!!!!

• Today may be 1/11/11 but yesterday was 1/10/11 and on that day Intrastate Internet Gambling Bill  passed New Jersey legislation! The bill, now on the desk of Gov. Chris Christie, could become the first of it's kind in the US. It would create ways for casinos like Trumps and Harrahs to operate games online.  for the full story check this link at PokerNewsDaily.com New Jersey Bill
• "Isildur1" was revealed to be none other than who we all thought he was...yep Chuck Norris! nah just kidding (please don't kill us Mr. Norris) it's Viktor Blom (sorry we thought it was Bloom for awhile, that would've been cool)
• Peter Jetten became a Full Tilt Poker Red Pro! and much congrats to him. He started off playing freerolls then went on a tear online and in a year turned it into just over $100k!!!  He announced his status like many other do..via the Tweet. He joins the like of another Red Pro, you might have heard of him.....Micheal "the grinder" Mizrachi
• PokerStars announced it's new "Home Game" feature. This feature allows players to create private clubs and hold their own tourneys with friends or whomever they decided to invite. While this is cool and all, it's not really new. This concept and structure has been around for awhile on sites like UB/Absolute and Full Tilt. The only major difference is that you do not have to maintain a status level to do so on PokerStars like you did on the other sites. Hopefully though now the other sites will do the same and offer it to all level of players
• Cowabunga Poker Pro Johnny Kahuna has started his own blog at JohnnyKahuna.com and seems to have re-dedicated his determination to success and we appreciate it...COWABUNGA Johnny! hang in there! we believe in you

Isildur1 is Viktor Bloom!

Yo poker surfers and surfettes it has been officially confirmed by PokerStars that "Isildur1" is actually Viktor Bloom.

Of course everyone kinda already guessed that it might be Viktor Bloom (how cool is that name) and at the PokerStars PCA High Rollers Championship they revealed that he was the online super high stakes player.

Nick Schulman Poker Pro back in it!

You may remember Nick Schulman from MTV's famous tv show World of Jenks. A show where the host, Andrew Jenks, follows someone around in a documentary style of filming and sees what it's like to be in their "world".  Nick Schulman's episode was a rags-to-riches-back to-rags kinda story. In brief he talked about winning the WPT No-Limit Holdem Chapionship at Foxwoods for just over $2million and afterwards going broke(see video below). Having said all of that we'd like to say Nick Schulman is back at it!!!

PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100k buy in Super High Roller Event is down to 7 players and 5 get paid.  Who leads the table right now...that's right Nick Schulman! Here's the chip break down

1. Nick Schulman           2,990,000
2. Daniel Negreanu         2,160,000
3. Eugene Katchalov       1,476,000
4. Bryan Kenney             1,390,000
5. Humberto Brenes           756,000
6. Sandor Demjan              379,000
7. Andrew Lichtenberger    373,000

Good Luck Nick, but be on the look out for Daniel. He wants that win so he can take over Phil Ivey's spot on the all time money winning list.

World of Jenks - MTV Shows

Phil Hellmuth Interview about leaving UB.com (Ultimate Bet)

That's right surfers and surfettes. In a interview with CardPlayer.com Phil Hellmuth discusses his recent departure from UB.com and what my lie in store for his future....Dancing? Aria? Full Tilt or PokerStars?

here's a small excerpt:


JR: Can you tell us about your other endorsements?


PH: I already represent the WSOP Academy and Aria. Those deals are already in place and won’t be affected by any decision I make in regards to an online site. I mean, I wore the Aria logo on the front of my hat for three or four international shows for Poker After Dark. Now, those shows are going to be shown in more than 50 countries. Those episodes are going to be played over and over again simply because for some reason, people like to watch the craziness that is Phil Hellmuth, the poker brat. That’s millions of dollars of unexpected exposure for Aria simply because they happened to be my primary sponsor after I started moving away from UB in November.


For the rest just click this link Phil Hellmuth's Interview about leaving UB

Poker Tracking Software

PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier said today via Twitter that he does not use a poker tracking software such as Holdem Manager. Holdem Manager is as you probably know a poker tracking software that is used by many online poker players. (Poker Tracker is another name brand and is very good too.)  In the near future we will be posting graphs from resident Cowabunga Poker Pro Johnny Kahuna's Holdem Manager. This software is used to import your hand history from a poker site that you play on and is much like having a "replay" button for every hand you were in. (it is not to be used for data mining, most sites have fixed this problem anyway) 

Holdem Manager also allows you to see stats on other players that you might not typically remember. Such as how often a player limps in the pot, how often do they 3 bet pre-flop or do they fold to 3 bets etc... These are stats that you yourself could keep up with if you could write down at about a million times per hour. Programs like this come in very handy for looking at your game play and fixing any leaks you may have in your game.

For more information feel free to contact us.

Cowabunga New Year!

Happy New Year!

YO!!! I know I've been a way for a bit but I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year! and hopefully a great Poker Year for Team Cowabunga Poker.

---- Johnny Kahuna