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All three Entities who comprise Wicked Chops Poker will be playing in the WPT Invitational Saturday night.
Our one and only goal: to win the Blue Diamond Almonds Bold Player of the Day.
Book it.
Follow the action (we think) over at WorldPokerTour.com starting around 10 PM EST.
Who better to be this week's Friday Night Parting Shot Girl than Chloe, the girl from that video the other day and the day before. Enjoy.
This post is for Cornel Andrew Cimpan's two kids and any other family he may have because we're pretty sure those are the only people who care that he won the 2009 WPT LA Poker Classic early this morning. The Romanian immigrant (we're guessing here) takes back to Somewhere, Texas a pretty payday of $1,686,760. Cimpan (seen at right, pic from this page) also wins a $25k entry into the WPT World Championship this April.
In the players you may care about department, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson came in the short stack and was the first to go to finish 6th. Chris Karagulleyan will keep his charter member status in the Temp Hutter Club as he blew his chip lead to finish 4th. And in third was Mike "SowersUNCC" Sowers.
For Amanda Leatherman's interview with Cimpan, click here.
For Owen Laukkanen's recap of the final table, go here.
For video of a bodypaint fashion show, go here.
So we're not too into gimmicky shit but this is pretty cool.
BLUFF Magazine is ready to kick off the Bluff Online Poker Challenge (BOPC). The gist is they've assembled 20+ of the best online poker players in the world, give them a $200 starting bankroll on Lock Poker, and see who can it up the most playing MTT's and SnG's during the month. If you go bust, no reloading, you're out.
The winner gets a Bluff cover (and of course, their winnings).
Participants include 2008 BLUFF Magazine Online Poker Player of the Year David "The Maven" Chicotsky, Shaun "shaundeeb" Deeb, Kevin "BeLOWaBOVe" Saul, Gank, Brandon Cantu, Maria Hooooooo!!!!!!!! and more.
Get the full details here. Check back on WCP (or Bluff) over the month of March to see who is doing how.
In unrelated news, below is a video of a hot asian chick getting ready for work on a subway.
The website Starpulse is reporting that Celine Dion's kind of creepy perv husband Rene Angelil is teaching their eight-year-old son how to play poker, hoping that it will give him a healthy attitude towards gambling.
Says the site:
"Record boss Angelil has battled the vice for more than 30 years and fears young Rene-Charles will inherit his gambling genes if he doesn't learn to play cards responsibly. So the pair spend evenings playing poker together. In an interview with Canadian publication Le Journal de Montreal, Angelil reveals, "Our son has superior intelligence, and it's good that he's learning in a good way."
In one way this is pretty cool. Kids should learn poker. Teach them early that life is cruel and unfair.
And it isn't really surprising that Rene is doing this since he has a track record of getting in the pants intimately involved with the lives of young people. We're just not sure a gambling addict teaching his young son to gamble is the right way to go about doing it. Isn't this kind of like Danny Gokey teaching a group of kids how to exploit the memory of their dead wife one day? Regardless, this kid is going to be fucked up any way you slice it. His parents are Rene Angelil and Celine Dion. He would have a better chance growing up to be normal if he was raised by a herd of goats. Or Layne Flack. Same difference.
Read in full here.
Here's another hot video from that girl who was fun to watch yesterday. Her name is Chloe if you're into details like that. We're guessing that's her stage name, and if you're guessing we don't care, you're right. By the way, if anyone can explain why this video has like only 300 views but one of paint drying has 75,000 views, we'd love to hear it.
Those of you watching Season 1 of the World Poker Tour on Fox Sports recently or who have memories on par with elephants are probably familiar with Chris Karagulleyan. He was the guy in the suit with the facial ticks who won the second ever WPT event back in 2002.
Those of you not watching Season 1 of the World Poker Tour on Fox Sports recently or who have memories on par with trout have no idea who Chris Karagulleyan is, because after he won the second ever WPT event back in 2002, he pretty much went the way of Temp Hutter and was never heard from again.
In fact, Karagulleyan is one of the charter members of the Temp Hutter Club. However, he may be playing himself off that list today. [copy + paste] Karagulleyan brings the chip lead to the LAPC final table, stacked at 4,080,000.
[copy + paste] Karagulleyan is followed by Mike Sowers with 2,405,000. Joining them and making his first ever WPT final table is Chris "Jesus" Ferguson with 1,565,000.
Get full chip counts and reports (and follow the final table action starting at 4PM PST) here.
Hmm, the title is "red palms"? Is that because...nevermind.
We just found this video like 5 minutes ago and have already watched it three times. Make that four. Going for a world record now. Wish us luck.
Day 5 is now underway at the LAPC and they're down to 19 players already. Among them is noted hustler and regular on the poker scene Teddy "The Iceman" Monroe, who was in his usual form yesterday at the Commerce. Check out this video of The Iceman boasting he's the best player in the world. Or at least one of them.
While Iceman is hanging in there today at the bottom of the count, Chris Karagulleyan, Payman Arjang and Chris "Jesus" Ferguson lead the field, or as we like to say, they're winning. Play will stop at 6 for the final TV table. WPT is still on TV right?
Follow the action here.
Semi-related to the above, how to tell if diamonds are fake.
Photo of Teddy "The Iceman" Monroe courtesy of PokerListings. Check out Owen Laukkanen's Teddy write up from yesterday here.
As many of you know, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson didn't play World Poker Tour events for years, as he and a group of other (mostly) FTP'ers filed a pretty ridiculous lawsuit against Lipscomb & Co.
The parties settled said suit, and now Full Tilt more or less covers the production costs of WPT broadcasts. Maybe the Israelis and Palestinians could learn something from FTP and the WPT.
Maybe.
Ferguson, who is arguably one of the best no-limit hold'em tournament players alive and already makes more money than most of the highest paid athletes do in a year, is looking to add another milli plus to his sizable warchest, as he ended Day 4 of the LAPC as chip leader, stacked at 1,721,000.
Ferguson is followed by Payman Arjang with 1,488,000, and Chris Karagulleyan with 1,146,000.
Other notables remaining include Nick Schulman (850,000), Mike Sowers (626,000), Nordberg (423,000), and Teddy "The Iceman" Monroe (264,000).
Get full chip counts here.
All right, so a couple of days before the pictures were published of him smoking a bong, we were going to break the news that Michael Phelps was set to play in the 2009 NBC National Heads Up Poker Championship.
Then the aforementioned photos of Michael Phelps smoking a bong were published, and now his "handlers" won't let him even come to Las Vegas for paid speaking engagements, or even worse bang slutty cocktail waitresses. So let's just say the announced field is lacking poker player/Olympian Michael Phelps and acknowledge we won't be seeing him around for awhile.
On the card this year are far more Euros, including Bertrand Grospellier, 12 year-old fem phenom Dario Minieri, Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies, Glen Chorny (Canadian but whatever), 2008 WSOP Main Event champ Peter Eastgate, and Ivan Demidov.
For the first time ever the NBC National Heads-Up will have a lesbian contestant in Vanessa Selbst. Not a lesbian but one half of the best lesbian scene in a movie ever (well in a non-hardcore-porn movie at least), Jen Tilly is back on the line-up.
Not making it on the list this year is Dancing with the Stars' Shannon Elizabeth. However, Celebrity Apprentice's Annie Duke will of course be present.
Finally, Huck Seed is again playing and again our perennial pick to win it all. One time Huck. One time.
Look at the full line-up here.
Every single cab driver we've ever had
He's followed by Mike Sowers (741,500), who is known by most of the general poker public as the kid who made the 9-4o "hero play" on Mike Sexton at the 2008 WSOP $10k Pot Limit Hold'em event.
Play concluded after the money bubble burst, as 63 remain for Day 4. Among other big stacks is Chris Karagulleyan, who awkwardly ticked his way to fifth overall with 543,000. Chris "Jesus" Ferguson (468,500), Nick Schulman (321,000), Nordberg (302,500), and Hoyt Corkins (233,500) are all above the average stack.
Get full chip counts here.
Doyle Brunson is tired.
Famous blogger/poker player Doyle Brunson should be writing for us. Seriously. The guy pens sheer gold almost every time.
In his latest and greatest, Doyle gives his argument on why torturing is OK:
"I just watched a clip about the terrorists that were being held at Guantanamo Bay... I can’t believe anyone would object to anything that might save thousands of American lives. It’s not that I believe torture should be used in most cases, but my gosh, if we can prevent another 9-11, anything should be accepted."
Better put than our argument, which is just us repeating "U-S-A! U-S-A!" over and over.
He then also says that Harry Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bomb while playing a poker game (maybe Doyle was the one who tilted him into it? Doyle was like 40 when that happened, right?)
He also explains why he didn't go to the LAPC, saying, "Maybe old age really is sitting in. Whatever it is, I sure don’t like it."
Is his kick the bucket prop bet actually in play now? And why does it feel kind of gross just typing that?
Read in full here.
Photo of UFC Octagon Girl Arianny Celeste in lieu of some hot Danish ring girl at the Hansen vs. Jorgensen bout. See more of Arianny in much less here.
The headline above is really all we have to say about the Theo Jorgensen vs. Gus Hansen boxing match that took place this weekend and was a PR stunt to promote Hansen's new online video channel GusHansenTV.com. Apparently it was a real snooze fest. No one was killed, maimed, bloodied, knocked out or ran around the ring like a girl. We hear the fight did have the requisite ring girls there, who we assume were Danish so we assume were hot but we haven't found any photos to verify this. We looked over at Hansen's new site and came up with nothing. Literally. Not even a video. Great start there Gus.
In other not-so-exciting news, some Fin named Jens Kyllonen won the EPT Scandinavian Open in Copenhagen. We're pretty sure the only people who care about this sound like aliens when they talk. Seriously, you ever hear a Fin talk? We'd have an easier time understanding a deaf dolphin.
Semi-relatedly, video of a Finnish guy teaching you how to disco.
Just kidding about that headline.
Antonio Esfandiari burst onto the poker scene 19 years ago when he won the LAPC and a WSOP bracelet just a few months apart.
He's poised for another deep LAPC run this year, as he takes the big stack into Day 3 play with 405,000.
Esfandiari is followed by every cab driver we've ever had Kofi Farkye with 395,000.
In all, 170 remain. Among those are Bertrand Grospellier (190,000), Haralabos Voulgaris (188,000), Jeffrey Garza (172,600), Phil Ivey (150,900), Greg "FBT" Mueller (145,000), Toto Leonidas (140,000), where the fuck you been Chris Karagulleyan (129,400), Paul Wasicka (129,000), Chris "Jesus" Ferguson (128,000), Peter "Nordberg" Feldman (125,700), and John Phan (125,000).
Get full chip counts here.
The Celebrity Apprentice premieres tonight, which means there's about a zero percent chance that we'll actually be watching it since the Oscars are on (whatever, fuck you, like you're not tuning in too).
So we'll get out in front of this one and report that, according to Entertainment Weekly, "Poker queen Annie Duke is the Omarosa..."
Duke, who we know definitely made the final two of Celeb Apprentice and possibly won the whole thing (and who we have a standing steak dinner bet with), can't be too excited about the Omarosa comparison. Omarosa is basically considered one of the biggest c-u-next-tuesdays in the history of television. Fill in the blank with your Annie Duke/Ommarosa joke here: [ ].
UPDATE: We messed up. Looks like the premiere is next Sunday. Hey, look over there!
The LAPC Main Event got underway yesterday with 695 entrants, making the total prize pool just shy of the $7M Jamie Gold decided to skip out on to play his charity tourney (fyi, seats are still available, go here to sign up).
Lots of big name big stack among the 412 survivors. Not included among them is overall chip leader Kasey Nam with 141,000. He's followed though by Daniel Negreanu (128,000, more on him in a moment), Jeff Madsen (112,500), and Bertrand Grospellier (86,000). Nick Schulman (79,000) and defending champ Phil Ivey (75,000) are also among the people you probably have heard of and care about with fairly large stacks.
There are about 407 other people we haven't listed still alive, so get their chip counts here.
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We sort of have this thing for Keeley Hazell and ...
We're kind of digging the snorgtees girls. You should buy their shirts. Check 'em out.
