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Recently, Aaron SaulGood Surbeck proved that his game was still “all good” by chopping the 20th event of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS), a $216 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament. Heads-up against fellow PocketFives.com member Steven PiKappRaider Burkholder, Surbeck forged a deal and earned $85,000 for second place. He’s been a member of the online poker community since its first months in existence and sat down with PocketFives.com to recap his run. After battling against Surbeck heads

Recently, a leaked draft 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) scheduled appeared in a thread in Poker Discussion on PocketFives.com, compiled from a post on TwoPlusTwo. In it, a 57-event series was outlined, highlighted by a total of eight $1,000 buy-in tournaments , including the perennial Seniors’ and Ladies’ Championships. Also appearing was a $50,000 buy-in Player’s World Championship , which replaces the high-stakes HORSE event. Instead, a $10,000 buy-in HORSE Championship will play out. During

In case you missed it, the internet gambling and online poker industries took center stage on the CNBC program “ Closing Bell ” last week. Joining the show were Andrew Parmentire of Height Analytics and David Katz , Gaming Analyst for Oppenheimer. Both appeared as part of a four-minute segment discussing the future of the internet gambling industry in the United States with the backdrop of the 2009 Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas, which has attracted some of the world’s heavy hitters. Parmentire

If you’ve been perusing the PocketFives.com forums lately, then you’ve noticed a thread called “ Growing Epidemic in Online Poker: A Letter to the Community .” In it, Dylan ImaLucSac Linde pleads with readers to avoid upsetting softer players by berating them verbally and with stats at the tables and on online poker forums like PocketFives.com. He candidly explained, “When I first got into poker, the idea of ‘not tapping the glass’ was in a lot of poker literature and just seemed to make a lot of

On Tuesday, UB.com was launched, replacing Ultimate Bet . The new site, which features a revamped logo and retooled lobby design, went live as part of a software update issued during the early morning hours. PocketFives.com fired up our Mac version and we were met with an 8,600 KB update, which took about two minutes to pull from the UB.com servers upon launch. You can check out the new yellow and black UB.com logo to the right of this paragraph. Let’s take a look at what else is new. 2009 marks

This week, the PocketFives.com Podcast sponsored by Carbon Poker is pleased to welcome the youngest champion ever of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, newly-minted millionaire Joe jcada99 Cada (pictured at right), who took down the 2009 installment over Darvin Moon . Cada earned $8.5 million at the tender age of 21 and celebrated his 22nd birthday on November 18th. He resides in Michigan and has been the buzz of the poker world ever since his victory in the early morning hours of November

In the November 13th running of the Full Tilt Poker Friday Night Fight , PocketFives.com member ACDollar emerged victorious from the pack for a smooth $29,000. His largest online poker payday ever, the Friday Night Fight marked the latest in a string of scores that include a final table appearance in the Full Tilt Poker $1K Monday for $17,000 and a runner-up performance in the site’s Fifty-Fifty for another $7,600. So what’s the secret to his success? PocketFives.com virtually headed to the East