Ultimatebetrakeback.com reveals brand new UB.com screenshotsAfter a decade, online poker room Ultimatebet.com has been rebranded to UB.com. The new look, which is not unlike famous Bwin.com logo shown in Lady Gaga’s Poker face video, is still in keeping with the old yellow and black logo. But the UB site is much sleeker now and has lots more for Ultimatebet players to enjoy.
The poker room’s logo has changed from the lowercase “ub” poker chip followed by “ultimatebet.com” (depending on the size of the logo) to a stylized, uppercase “UB.” The “B” has what initially looks like a tail protruding from the upper-right, but upon further inspection, the letter has been designed to look like a tilted spade. It is an upgrade from the old logo, which, while solid, was much busier compared to this one. The color scheme for UB.com is still black and yellow, but light blue has been added as an accent color and the yellow has been lightened just a bit, making the site look brighter and cleaner.
The other primary change is the lobby. The basic layout is still the same: tabs for different games are at the top, tables listed in the main window. UB.com has made the different table variations easier to see, however, with color-coded icons on each table listing, where appropriate. For example, a turbo tournament with re-buys will have a “T” in a green circle and an “R” in an orange circle in its row. One subtle thing that’s nice about this is that the icons are smack-dab in the middle of the row so they stand out. There is also an icon legend at the bottom of the screen.
Pro Poker Player and spokesman for the site; Phil Hellmuth said of the rebranding:
“In the ten years since I have been involved with the UB brand, I have never been prouder to represent the company as much as I am right now. We have great people captaining the ship, we have a great vibe and some serious swagger. I look forward to the day when we are the largest poker site on the planet.”
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Vincent Diver wins PKR Live IIILONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — 11/26/09 — $5 satellite qualifier Vincent ‘vd12345′ Diver made history by scooping the biggest ever PKR Live payout when he won the PKR Live III main event at London’s Loose Cannon this weekend.
The 21-year-old community favourite from Surrey followed in the footsteps of previous winners Karl ‘discomonkey’ Fenton and Philip ‘escalope’ Conneller to win the main poker event title at PKR’s third ever live event and take home a $33,500 first prize.
In the toughest PKR Live field to date, the youngster showed his quality from the off, busting the very first player out of the poker tournament out when his pocket aces saw off ‘HYPERGAMBLER’s Q-Q to gain an early chip lead. Vincent continued to show his class throughout the two day event before eventually finding himself heads-up against UK tournament circuit regular Toby ‘badboy579′ Lewis. Buoyed by the huge support from the buzzing rail of followers, the Brit played solid poker – slowly taking chunks off his rival’s stack until the decisive hand brought him victory and a significant bankroll boost when his pocket twos held up for the win.
The PKR forum members were rejoicing once more when the $200 Bounty tournament was taken down by another well-known player in the PKR.com community – Irishman Karl ‘karlthekiller’ Sinnott who outlasted a strong field to scoop $5,778 and priceless bragging rights.
PKR.com CEO Malcolm Graham said,
“We are delighted with the turnout. PKR Live has become a regular fixture on the PKR calendar and both players and staff alike look forward to a fun filled event, with top-quality poker.”
Get 30% PKR Rakeback when you sign up at PKR Poker here.
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10 Free seats to Poker Heaven’s €100,000 guaranteed tournamentPoker Heaven is feeling generous and are giving away 10 free seats to the €100,000 guaranteed tournament running on the 29th of November.
Here is your chance to qualify for free:
1. Play poker and acquire at least 200 FPPs from the 1st – 23rd of November
2. Receive your invitation to the 10 seat €100,000 Free Qualifier on the 25th of November at 19:00 GMT.
3. Register to the tournament and play, registration opens 4 hours prior to start time.
Always finish on the bubble? Don’t tilt, PokerHeaven will award the bubble boy with a €50 cash prize.
Prize structure – €100,000 Free Qualifier:
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Trishelle Cannatella is newest celebrity endorsment for Absolute Poker 
Many of you will know Trishelle from shows such as Punk’d and fear factor but she is infact also a serious celebrity poker player.
The first tournament that she entered was the Ceasers Palace Poker classic and she won that tournament and continued playing ever since.
Cannatella says that she is so happy to be joining such a great team and looks forward to her poker experiences. Poker has always been a passion for her and she is happy that she will get to dabble in the online poker scene and have the experience of playing with such great players as well!
We have included a picture of the lovely lady – Wonder if this was taken during a game of strip poker?
If so life could become a lot more interesting for the Rakeback players at Absolute Poker!
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€10,000 Guaranteed Headhunter every Sunday at Poker HeavenNovember 17th, 2009 
Look up promotions at Poker Heaven and you will find a few new gems.
Every Sunday at 18:00 GMT Poker Heaven is guaranteeing €10,000 in their brand new Sunday Head Hunter Tournament.
The Buy-in is €30 + €3
More Tournament Details:
• - Pay-out: Fixed – 45 players
• - Type: Head Hunter, NL Hold’em
• - Structure: 12 min blinds, 3000 starting chips
• - Min/Max players: 46 / 1500 players
• - Satellites: Running daily from €3 with at least 1 guaranteed seat
The bounty prize pool is split evenly on all players heads. The aim of the game is to knock out as many players as you can to collect the €12.50 bounty prize but at the same time avoid elimination to win the tournament. When you knock out any opponent you immediately win the full €12.50 bounty cash prize on their head.
Poker Heaven Rakeback is available at http://www.heavenrakeback.com
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You should check the Page Rank of the sites where you bought links and see if they have decreased. If so, they have probably been "busted" by Google and you might think about removing the links because they have decreased in SEO value (probably being worth close to nothing).
Also, buying links is against Google's guidelines. Though, in my opinion, there is a huge grey area in what is a link that is an advertisement and what is a link that is only for raising your organic search rank or paying a blogger to review your product (and link to you). Google has to tread a careful path here, since they make BILLION$ from paid search ads they can't get too mad at others for making money on advertising. But, they do hold the keys to the castle. Overall, the best linking strategies are to build natural links to your website by having great content that people want to link to.
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PageRank has nothing to do with the "freshness" of you content. It has to do with the quantity and quality of inbound links. It is a measure of link popularity. Period.
If you are using "cheap", low quality link building techniques like forum sigs, blog commenting, article submissions, etc. AND slowed down your link building, your PR will fade. The very nature of these types of link building techniques causes their effectiveness to fade over time. So if you rely on low quality links, you have to ALWAYS continue to build them... unlike natural links whose effectiveness does NOT tend to fade over time.
For example, when you first submit an article, it likely appears on some Recent Articles page that has a decent PR and backlink profile and provides a decent boost. But once your article rolls off of the Recent Articles page and can only be found deep in the article site's archives, the archive page that links to it likely has very few if any backlinks, so the boost that the backlinks in your article provide to your site diminishes greatly. And if your article didn't get any direct backlinks while it was on the Recent Articles page then it stands a very good chance of eventually getting deindexed. So when you submit articles for back links, build links to your article as well to keep it indexed.
Blogging has the same paradigm as posts move off the home page, and eventually off the category page, and is only accessible deep in the archives... Same goes for forum posts...
There could be a number of reasons. But, from looking at your site, you have a number of pages labeled "resources" or "partners" which seem to be a list of links to other companies in your industry. Following these links takes me to other websites which have similar pages and also link to a number of other websites, including yours.
These are "reciprocal links" established primarily to trick the search engines into ranking you higher. Linking specifically to increase your rank in search engines is against the Google webmaster terms of service. I believe that part of the changes in this Page Rank update reflect the growing ability of Google to distinguish link exchanges from genuine "natural" links.
You probably lost the value of those links, which were a key part of why you were a 4 before. Starting today, you should focus on building links into your site more naturally.
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