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Annie Duke has started her new show with the aforementioned title. You can watch the first, 59 minutes long episode here.

The show utilizes a simple, black backdrop before which Duke and her guests appear and talk. Whether this is gloomy or if Duke needs that kind of atmosphere to create tension, I leave to you to decide. At any rate, I, too, would be interested in an appearance by Daniel Negreanu on the show. 

In the recent This Week in Poker Jess Wellman gives some updates on the current poker news, and WSOP's last winner, WPT's presenter Mike Sexton joins the guys in the studio. They also talk to PokerStars' Pro, Daniel Negreanu, WPT's royal flush girl Melanie Iglesias, and the editor of PokerNews.com, Matt Parvis. Interesting lineup again, have a nice weekend to all!

More and more poker applications hit the mobile phone market with SwitchPoker’s recent development for the iPad/iPhone and the latest addition: Full Tilt Poker’s release for the Android.

Google Android applications: is Rush Poker to be added soon?

While the former currently offers only NLHE cash games, the latter will provide one of Full Tilt’s most popular formats, the Rush Poker. Following months of testing, it is assumed that FTP is ready to release the application in a few weeks’ time. What is more, this would be the very first real-money service provided by a major e-gaming company.

In June, Phil Laak set the world record for longest continuous poker playing, which I have been writing about. It seems it's a year for records, Paddy Power Poker have broken the the Guinness World Record for the world's largest chip stack.

The latest WPT Season 9 event at the Bellagio ended with yet another record set by 20 years old Randal ‘RandALLin’ Flowers: not only is he the youngest ever to win a WPT event (WPT Barcelona, June 2009) but now he is also the youngest to take down two.

The Festa al Lago Final Table

At the beginning of the event finale, Flowers already had a minor lead in chips. The stacks were as follows:

Tony G was always known for his style, trash talks and crazy decisions, he again did something amazing. In this week's PokerStars The Big Game he played heads-up against David 'Viffer' Peat, when he decided it would be a good idea to switch one hole card with him. Viffer agreed.

David 'Viffer' Peat

This is what happened. Tony G was dealt a K-7, Peat an A-7. Tony G raised to $1,200, Viffer called that. This is when Mr. Tony G asked him whether he wants to switch a hole card. Of course he liked the idea. The other players very very suprised to see such a stunt, Daniel Negreanu said "What the hell??" while Joe Hachem was asking whether this kind of play is legal.

A man called Jared Huggins lost his $100 bankroll in a heads-up match, his 3 jobs and has been evicted from his home. Really bad luck. After 6 months spent on the streets he was saved by none other than the Two Plus Two community.

Jared Huggins

It all started out by Huggins posting on Two Plus Two forums under the nickname 'RelaxedPrecision' last February. Being totally broke and having no friends in Los Angeles, he decided to live on the streets of Venice Beach. Some cynical Two Plus Two users suggested him to make funny videos for cash. Of course that was only a joke, but Huggins made the videos anyway, for example where he dances for money, gives free hugs on Venice Beach, or raps about alcohol.

As Gambling911.com reports, a new book entitled “Joran’s Murder Mysteries” by Dutch authors Bert Huisjes and John van den Heuvel is to be released soon, dealing with the murder cases associated with former poker pro Joran van der Sloot.

Joran van der Sloot

The disappearance of Natalee Holloway in 2005 and the alleged murder of college student Stephany Flores earlier this year are on his account, although he told several controversial stories regarding the former and recanted his confession on the latter. The new book is said to shed light upon these issues as it is expected to “contain never-before-released confidential police files and photographs.”

Van der Sloot is currently held in the Castro Castro Prison in Peru, awaiting the trial of the Flores case. See my earlier articles on his arrest and his attitude towards the jail.

You are not going to believe this. Illinois has some sick legislation, and as it turns out, many other states have too. Scott Crespo is suing some winning Illinois players on the basis of an old code that says all money above $50 lost gambling can be sued back.

That's right. If you lose more than $50 playing poker, you can sue your money back, according to this code. But Mr Crespo didn't say he lost money to the people he sued, oh no. The code also says, that if after 6 months the loser does not sue the winners for the lost money, anyone can. This is exactly what the Mr Crespo (who is a lawyer in Florida by the way) does.

WSOP announced the Poker Hall of Fame Class of 2010 yesterday morning.. The newest members of the Hall of Fame are 1995 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Dan Harrington and eight-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel.

I have already wrote the Poker Hall of Fame itself and also about Doyle Brunson's feelings about the 10 nominees. He also tried to guess who would be the 2 winners. Now we know, he got Seidel right, but missed about Harrington.

Two Plus Two forums are currently buzzing with Phil Ivey's latest scandal. If you missed it out, here's the deal.

Phil Ivey was seen at the Wynn Casino in Las Vegas at a craps table throwing a huge tantrum. According to eyewitnesses, the table employee made a mistake which the poker pro thought to be ridiculous. He stood up, and started shouting with 2 floor supervisors. Before leaving, he reportedly said to the first one "If you see me playing dice here again I’ll suck your D**k" then turning to the other supervisor "Yours too". 

High stakes pro Jay Rosenkrantz announced yesterday on his blog that he is about to collaborate with Taylor Caby and Ryan Firpo, making a "definitive feature length documentary about the online poker boom". Now this sounds interesting.

"Our goal: to use key events to chronicle the evolution of online poker and examine its impact on the lives of a handful of online poker players from around the world. We’ll be exploring the nuances of the subculture, from 2p2 to poker training sites, along with the psychological implications of the online poker lifestyle and the themes that have made poker so popular throughout time.  We are getting ambitious — it’s going to be a film about the pursuit of true freedom through the highs and lows of professional gambling, and the rare opportunity awarded to a generation of poker players: the opportunity to actually achieve it."  - Writes Rosenkrantz in his blog post.

Full Tilt is famous for its high-stakes games, many players hang around the high-stakes cash game tables all night to see if they can catch for example Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen or Tom Dwan play some real poker for huge amounts of money.

HighstakesDB shows some interesting stats to its registered users regarding the latest top 10 list of the biggest winning/losing players at Full Tilt tables. There isn't much surprise here, we could hear about durrrr's and jungleman12's amazing wins, and Gus Hansen's epic losing spree all year long. Let's see some numbers, shall we?

On the blog of the Swedish expressen.se site, high stakes blogger Sohello ’BankTheMan’ Shah claims that a “20 years old” person, who “has during the end of 2009 and the whole of 2010 become one of the poker world’s hottest topics,” is going to sign a sponsorship contract with one of the major online poker rooms.

While it is assumed that the deal is going to be completed in a couple of days, the identity of the player remains hidden, which leads many of the poker community to the assumption that he or she must be the (over)mystified ‘Isildur1’.

Texas Dolly keeps discussing interesting topics: after dealing on his blog with the nominees for the Poker Hall of Fame, now he asked the following (somewhat controversial) questions to his followers on Twitter: “Which poker player would you like to have sex with?” “Poker player u would like to kill?” “Which poker player would you most like to hang out with?”

Texas Dolly's followers voted the female players they would like to have sex with: Shannon Elizabeth, Vanessa Rousso and Jennifer Tilly