Anyone that knows me or that has followed my blog for the past two years knows my love of redheads.   Well, it looks like PokerJunkie likes my taste in women as they have asked me to start bringing you a monthly redhead for your viewing and "poker" pleasure. This month's redhead I ran across while doing a piece involving Jennifer Tilly.   As you can see, she has a spinner's body with a set of hips that don't make you feel you are going to break her.

Prahlad Friedman has officially signed as a UB sponsored pro. The announcement was made on UB's blog earlier today with a video of Friedman pointing out that he is joining the "new UB. "[assets/Uploads/Blog/Ted-Dibiase. jpg]Among the initial reaction were cries of "sellout" from both fans and pros.

Unless you have been living under a rock, or trapped in an airport over the holidays, you know that Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth have both left UB.   When Hellmuth's departure was announced on December 30th, UB also hinted that new pros would be added to the roster.   Later that night, Allen Kessler pointed out on twitter that Annie Duke's bio page now had Prahlad's Friedman's name on it.   Here is a shot of the page: With that, everyone has assumed that Friedman has indeed signed a deal with UB.

From all of us at Poker Junkie to all of you out there in the poker world, Happy New Years. I would like to give special props to Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi[http://www. facebook. com/TheGrinder44FanPage?]who posted on his Facebook page that he will give $20 to the first five people that show proof after Midnight tonight that they took a cab home.

Holy crap, that didn't take long.   The following came in from UB. com: "The poker pro who is famous for his grand WSOP entrances is making one final exit.   Today we are announcing that UB.

I was awakened earlier today by a text message from @merchdawg stating the following: "Annie leaving UB. " I then logged onto twitter and saw the tweet from Annie herself saying that she was leaving UB and that she had posted a new blog.   I logged on and the first line said it all: "It’s bittersweet, but I’ve decided to leave UB. " Annie Duke leaves UB to "explore and pursue other business opportunities on a full-time basis.

I have noticed an interesting, but odd trend at the WSOP Main Event Final Table.  Since 2003, 6 of the 8 Main Event Champions were PokerStars players / patched by PokerStars.   While it is true that PokerStars sends more Main Event players than any other site, you would think that there would have been more than 1 Main Event Champ from Full Tilt in the last 8 years. The only two Main Event winners since 2003 that were not with PokerStars were Jerry Yang and Jamie Gold.

In yesterday's blog, I started counting down my list of the Top 10 Poker Moments of 2010 by giving you #10 through #6.   Today, I will give you the my top five moments. *#5 - Phil Ivey Wins 8th Bracelet* * ** * Many of you would figure that Ivey's 8th bracelet win would be the #1 moment in poker for me this year, but I expect him to win every year, so this was not a surprise.   However, the way he came back against Bill Chen was definitely news worthy.

Since we are entering the final week of 2010, it is time for me to be a lemming and do my year in review posts like every other poker blogger and writer in the poker media.  However, you all know I love to put my own opinion on this, so over the next couple of days, I will give you MY Top 10 Poker Moments of 2010. *#10 - Annie Duke Wins NBC National Heads-Up Championship* * * **** * * Annie Duke does not play the same schedule as many other pros due to her family.   As such, she really has to try and take advantage of the live events she plays in.

Among all of the Christmas tweets yesterday on Twitter, the following came across: @AnnieDuke[http://twitter. com/#%21/AnnieDuke] I said yes! http://yfrog. com/h6nplnj The happy couple It appears that poker's "favorite" single mom is now engaged to boyfriend Joseph Reitman, also known as "Joe Ugly".  Many players and fans from around the world dropped her congratulations.