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A True Story

07*7*10

The following is a true story:

A young pro is relieving himself in the restroom of the Rio during a break of one of the preliminary WSOP tournaments. While he’s taking care of business Eskimo Clark wanders in and says, “Hi,” to Sam Grizzle who is washing his hands.

Sam replies, “Hey Eskimo, You still in the tournament?”

Eskimo responds: “Yea, I’m doing well have 28,000 in chips.”

Sam replies: “Cool, I have 30,000, want to swap 10%?”

Eskimo quickly says, “Yea,  book it.”

At this point Sam wishes him good luck and exits the washroom. At which point the unnamed pro wanders up to Eskimo and says, “Eskimo, I was at Sam’s table and I have to tell you he busted out over two hours ago.”

Eskimo smiles and responds, “It’s okay kid, I didn’t even play.”

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WSOP Madness

06*26*10

WSOP Madness!

Sorry for the lack of recent updates – I’ve been in the middle of the WSOP grind!

So far I’ve played in 5 events and cashed in 3.  Not a bad record, but I havn’t  been able to go on a deep run once I’m in the money.  This is quite frustrating for a number of reasons.  First off once you get in the money stacks are normally so short that there isn’t a whole ton of skill left. And add this to the top-heavy prize pool payouts and you have to get lucky to make any serious money.  I’ve planning on playing in the $2500 8-game tournament tonight and hopefully I can make something happen.  I should have a big edge in this event as very few people are competent in every game.  I’m really looking forward to it!

Beside that I’ve played some 25/50/100NL at the Bellagio and some 100/200 PLO.  I’m about a 20k loser in the 25/50/100 game in limited action.  The game is very good at times with some rich amateurs coming in and mixing it up but you have to wade through countless hours of playing with nitty pros while waiting for these amateurs.  Most of the time I’d rather multi-table online.  In the 100/200PLO game I’ve broken about even – I played a fun hand where I get it all in a 60k pot with AA93 vs Sammy Fahras QQ3d2d and 5587 on AQ5r (with the 5 of diamonds).   The turn brought the Ad giving me quads but the river brought the 4d giving Sammy a striaght flush.  Sick!

Non-playing wise I’ve been writing and co-hosting a new pokernews show called “The Poker Industry” (with Jessa Hilton) that is going to be airing weekly on www.twoplustwo.com.  This show features interviews from some of the top players in the world – watch out for both Observer84 and Durrrr on early episodes along  with advanced strategy from some of the top poker minds in the world – FoxwoodFeinds, Keith Gipson, Odonkor1 etc. etc.  In addition to this it will also recap weekly poker news, and have some of the hottest models on the planet!  What more could you ask for.

Recently I’ve done two shows at http://www.Pokerstatic.com with my boys Mikey Stoz and Phil Galfond.  Check them out here: http://www.pokerstatic.com/on-the-table/on-the-table-phil-mikey-vanessa-and-guest-host-andrew-robl/

I also played on the new pokerstars show “The Big Game”:  Check out my episode (Week 2 episode 5) here: http://thebiggame.pokerstars.net/episodes/

People have been asking me where they can get rakeback on victory.  I’d reccmond using http://victorypokerrakeback.com as if you sign up through them you get rakeback straight from victory.

Sorry if this blog wasn’t up to my normal standanrds.  About to go play the $2500 8-game mix and didn’t have much time!

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PARTYING IN PRAGUE

06*13*10

One great thing about being a sponsored player on VictoryPoker is the travel. Officially, I crisscross the globe to represent at online poker conferences – which, of course, I do; but these are conferences where most of the booths have open bars and the attending affiliates can handily out-drink your average degenerate poker pro. Inevitably, though, whenever the guys and I go on a trip for the site, we wind up hitting some of the most outrageous parties imaginable.

Such was the situation in Prague. The conference there ended with an exclusive party thrown by Calvin Ayre, best known for being the founder of Bodog. The Victory team managed to score 8 out of 200 tickets that were being distributed – and that, right there, should tell you how much fun we are. The party was pretty cool – flamethrowers outside, costumed acrobats walking around on stilts, an absinthe bar – but the only problem was that guys there outnumbered the girls by a pretty sick margin.

Lesson learned for the next Victory party: Make sure that there are at least twice as many girls in the house.

Sara Underwood was a victim of this terrible ratio. While it should be noted that Sara is very cool and didn’t really care, I did not like seeing her continually getting hit on by dudes who were blackout drunk! I remember seeing one guy come up from behind and start petting her hair. I had to swoop in and save her by convincing the guy to have a drink with me. Even Calvin wasn’t too crazy about the lack of females. When somebody introduced me to him, he didn’t look very thrilled. I think he was trying to figure out where all the girls are and wondering why he was talking to a male poker player.

After the party I went out for drinks with Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies and his friend Jasper Paakkonen. They met up with a whole posse of czech girls, a nice change from conditions at Calvin’s party, and I ended up getting pretty drunk. But not so drunk that I couldn’t stack some of the affiliates who were playing in a little $5/$10 no limit hold’em game at the casino where we were all staying.

A funny moment came after I busted one of the biggest affiliates in the business. He asked me to loan him $1,000. I had no idea who he was, and I had no interest in loaning him that kind of money. He swore he’d be good for it and gave me a wallet full of IDs and credit cards for collateral. I fronted him the cash and later found out that he’s a multimillionaire! Obviously, he paid me back pretty quickly.

I had such a good time hanging with Jasper and Ilari that I am going to meet them at the end of next month on their home turf.  Victory is going to do a charity event in Finland, and my understanding is that those guys are so plugged in there that going out it with them is like bar-hopping with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.

Can’t wait!

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