Rip Curl

     Yo! Poker Surfers and Surfettes (especially the surfettes) how ya'll doing! well you'll be doing better after
you get your poker news fix so here's the
RIP CRUL:

• Starting off with the positive. Gus Hansen is still up for the year online, right now he's hovering around the $820k range
• Victor Ramdin beat out Joesph Hachem in the Bicycle Casino's "Big Event" and took home $500k while Hachem still got a nice chunk of $300k!
• XWINK lost $878k at the Full Tilt tables and is now down to around $600+ but that's from his starting roll of just $4,000
• Dan the "Jungleman12" Cates is loving life after not only taking most of XWINK's money but also after taking some from Dwan the "Durrrr" man who is now down over $878k in his own challenge
• Daniel Negreaneudueduer (what ever his last name is, I have to have google spell it for me) "Kid Poker" lost around $214k to online player SAUCE123
• And in ACC News the DUKE Blue Devils wiped out UNC for the ACC Tourney Championship, which make that 3 in a row for DUKE!
• Be sure to text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10 to the relief fund to help out Japan!
• NCAA March Madness is underway so here is a nice link for your betting needs NCAA-Time

Good luck riding the waves at the poker tables, until next time here's a real Surfing video fix

http://blog.quiksilver.com/surf_blog/quiksilver-pro-gold-coast-snack-pack-video/

NBC's 2011 National Heads Up Championship

Yo Poker surfers and surfettes! the NBC 2011 National Heads Up Championship has finally gotten down to the "Elite Eight" and will resume in just a few hours at 10:45 PST. Here are your match ups:

• Clubs: Olivier Busquet vs. Jonathan Duhamel
• Spades: Chris Moneymaker vs. David Oppenheim
• Hearts: Andrew "Good2cu" Robl vs. David Benyamine
• Diamonds: Vanessa Selbest vs. Erik Seidel 

and our pick for the final is Moneymaker vs. Robl with one of them winning it!

UB.com/Absolute Poker Bad Beat Jackpot Winning/Losing Hand ODESSA99

YO! Poker Surfers and Surfettes as you may or may not know Absolute/UB's Bad Beat Jackpot was hit last night Feb.28th around 10:58pm EST and the loser/big winner was a player named ODESSA99 and we have the hand and stakes they were hit at!

The Bad Beat Jackpot was over the $1MILLION mark when ODESSA99 lost with Quad Queens in the big blind against Quad Kings from FARFLUNG in early position. Here's the play by play:

The stakes were $.50/1.00 Limit Hold'em

• FARFLUNG was in early position with KK and just called, then it was folded around to
• ODESSA99 who woke up in the small blind with QQ (of suit too!) and raised to $1 the big blind
• ROSTER XXX called with who knows what and FARFLUNG called then the flop was
• Kd Jc Qh and ODESSA99 bet out $.50 and big blind ROSTER XXX folded (probably to go watch some xxx) and FARFLUNG in early position raised to $1 then ODESSA99 re-raises to $1.50 and FARFLUNG calls. 
• Turn is a Qd and ODESSA99 checks it while FARFLUNG bets out $1 and ODESSA99 re-raises to $2 and FARFLUNG calls, now the....
• River is a K of spades (not the Kd like in The Micros) now ODESSA99 bets $1 and FARFLUNG re-raises to $2 and ODESSA99 re-raises to $3 and FARFLUNG caps it to $4 and ODESSA99 calls..
• FIREWORKS!!!! & ODESSA99 takes down over $340,000!!!!! for the loss COWABUNGA!!!

not sure how much everyone else was paid yet but will let you know as soon as we find out!