Actress and aspiring woman poker-pro Shannon Elizabeth was stopped in the door when trying to enter a casino in Australia recently.
Shannon Elizabeth is in Australia to play the 2007 Victorian Poker Championship. The event is taking place June 25 to Aug. 6, with a total of 16 tournaments scheduled to culminate in the three-day $3,000 No-Limit Holdem Main Event. Online poker.
The former actress and model was seen sporting PokerStars.com gear at the 2007 World Series of Poker Tournaments. Her most notable poker accomplishment so far is a third-place finish in the 2007 NBC National Heads-Up Championship, beating some of the best players in the world.
But she found out the hard way that being a celebrity won't always help you, especially if you are not recognized. Earlier this week she was denied access to the Victorian Poker Championship because she had forgotten her identification.
It did not help that she told the security guard who she was and that she is 33 years old - he refused to let her in without a valid ID. Whether she came back with her ID or not is unknown. Stay tuned to our poker blog for more updates.
$50,000 challenge sees computer fall short - but makers say they'll be back
They didn't blink. They didn't tell. Even after Polaris took the second round, the Unabomber and his accomplice stuck to their game. Finally, deep into the night, after four rounds of Texas hold 'em, Polaris folded once and for all. The game was over. The humans had beaten the machine. Just.
Far away from the kitsch glamour of Las Vegas, with not a showgirl or a hustler in sight, two professional poker players from Los Angeles took on a computer program in a hotel in Vancouver on Monday and Tuesday. Billed as the "First Man-Machine Poker Championship", the event staged at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence offered prize money of $50,000 (£25,000) to the winner of four hands of poker.
For Ali Eslami and Phil "the Unabomber" Laak - so named because he wears a hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses - the money was small change, but the stakes were high.
"I literally felt the same feeling that you would have if you beat 500 people in a poker tournament and won a million dollars," Laak said after the game, which ended to the sound of whoops and cheers from the watching crowd of hundreds as the humans vanquished the computer. "We won, not by a significant amount, and the bots are closing in."
Playing against the computer was more exhausting than any other game he had played, Eslami said. "I really am happy it's over. I'm surprised we won ... it's already so good it will be tough to beat in future."
Polaris has been 16 years in development at the University of Alberta in Canada. While computers have previously mastered humans at games such as chess and draughts - chess world champion Gary Kasparov was no match for IBM's Deep Blue a decade ago - researchers have been keen to develop poker software in the belief that it might be more applicable in other fields. Download poker wallpapers.
"I contend that poker is harder than chess for computers, and the research results that come out of the work on poker will be much more generally applicable than what came out of the chess research," Jonathan Schaeffer, the lead scientist behind the programme, told the New York Times. His team won the world draughts championships in 1994 and said earlier this month that they had developed a program that could not lose at draughts.
But poker is altogether more sophisticated. The computer, like its human counterparts, knows how to bluff. And unlike its chess and draughts counterparts, which require an enormous memory to consider every potential move, Polaris runs for weeks before a game, creating 10 different "bots" which have their own playing style. Online poker.
Organisers of the event attempted to remove the element of luck by putting the human players in separate rooms. The computer played both humans simultaneously, with one human and the computer dealt identical hands. If Eslami was dealt a royal flush in one room, Polaris would have a royal flush in its game against Laak.
The separation also eliminated one of the most important aspects of poker, the "tell" or giveaway signal when a facial tic or restlessness can reveal a player's strategy.
The first round - each round consists of about 500 hands - ended in a draw, although the computer's winnings were marginally higher than those of the humans. But Polaris won the second round heavily, leading Eslami to comment that "Polaris was beating me like a drum". Play $500 match poker bonus.
But on the second day things changed, and a strategic gamble by the computer's human handlers may well have cost Polaris its $50,000.
For the first two rounds Dr Schaeffer's team ran a single bot. But for the third round they substituted a more sophisticated program that was supposed to add a level of "learning", deploying different bots as necessary.
The strategy backfired. The humans easily won the third round, levelling the contest.
In the final round, although Polaris won a sizeable pot of $240 with a royal flush beating Eslami's three-of-a-kind, the humans again prevailed, winning $570. Play route 66 poker.
Darse Billings, a scientist on the Polaris team and a former professional poker player, thought the humans had played "brilliantly".
But he had a prediction from the future: "I wouldn't be surprised if we can beat them tomorrow," he said.
Fortune continued to smile on Jon "PearlJammer" Turner this year as he reeled in a win in the Bodog Poker $100k Guaranteed online poker Tournament on Sunday.
The online poker pro walked away with a $25,000 payout for his first-place finish in an 887-entrant field.
He started the final table second in chips, but by the time PearlJammer made it to heads-up against Henge, he was the underdog by two-to-one. Women poker players.
Turner has plenty of online and offline poker experience to fall back on, though, and help dig him out of that hole.
With four cashes at the 2007 World Series of Poker, including a final-table finish in the $5,000 World Chamionship Mixed Hold'em event, he is no stranger to the pressure that comes from making it deep in poker tournaments.
He also has a 12th-place finish at the World Poker Tour Borgata event, and a third place finish in a super satellite at the Borgata that resulted in more than $112,000 in winnings.
His online poker winnings this year are just as impressive so far.
At PokerStars.com, where he plays under the same online name, he won a Nightly Hundred Grand tournament to collect $29,506 back in May.
He also has two significant wins at Full Tilt Poker, where he plays as PearlJammed. He won a $1,060 buy-in event at the poker site in February for $44,820, and a $150 buy-in $55,000 Guarantee tournament July 2 for $14,813.
Combine all that experience, and it's no surprise that he came out on top of the Bodog Poker $100k Guaranteed tournament Sunday. Stay tuned to our poker blog for more updates.
One of the perks of being a Hollywood Poker player is the chance you're going to end up playing against one of the many celebrities who hang out at the poker site as well.
If you want more than just the "chance" of rubbing elbows with the stars at the virtual felt, players & women poker pros can also pay for the opportunity to play against a celeb heads-up. That's exactly what NzameII did, challenging David Zayas to a heads-up match and walking away $500 richer.
NzameII put up some of his hard earned player points for the match, and walked away the victor, though he admits, initially Zayas took the lead.
"By selective attacks on the turn and river, I succeeded in counterbalancing our stacks," NzameII said.
In one instance, NzameII flopped a set of nines, which should have meant victory for the online poker player, but somehow Zayas got away from the hand and stayed alive.
"At the end, two live cards were enough to call his all-in," NzameII said. "A pair of lucky sevens held up, and I won."
A former policeman turned actor, David Zayas likes to play poker as a hobby. He's appeared in several popular TV shows in the past few years and had a recurring role as Enrique Morales in HBO's Oz, and now plays Angel Batista on Showtime's Dexter.
Zayas is one of many celebrities Hollywood Poker players can go head-to-head with at the poker site. Play online poker.
Other players up for the challenge include: James Woods, Donnie Wahlberg, Ken Howard, Pamela Gidley, Meat Loaf, Kevin Nealon and Mimi Rogers.
All players have to do to take them on is rake in enough Poker Points and exchange them for this exclusive celebrity experience.
There are still plenty of events that bring out the celebrities as well with the weekly Celebrity Poker Tournament, Canadian Poker Night , the Michael Woods Celebrity Invitational and the Hollywood Poker Celebrity Classic.
"I had a blast at the HP Celebrity Shootout!" said mixerguy2 on the Hollywood Poker site. "I collected a bounty by knocking out Kellie Williams, but that wasn't even the best part."
After busting out of the tournament, mixerguy2 headed for the $20 sit-and-goes where he sat down at a table with Dule Hill, Willie Garson and Tom Everett Scott. Download poker wallpapers.
"It was perhaps one of the best matches I have ever been a part of," he said. "It came down to four of us left: Willie and Dule being two of them, plus myself and another player. We totally battled!"
This is the only picture we could get of Hevad Rain Khan that wasn't blurry since this new World Series of Poker chip leader just won't sit still.
The new World Series of Poker Tournament Day 5 Main Event chip leader is one Hevad "Rain" Khan and to say that this guy gets excited would be the understatement of the century.
Khan has been bouncing off the walls every time he makes a hand and take it from us folks, he's made more than a few.
Khan is an outstanding online poker player who has been known to play up to 26 sit-n-go's at a time. He was also a professional Starcraft video game player in which he was allegedly clocked at 500 apm's (actions per minute) - no we don't understand either but it sounds pretty impressive.
But Khan's skill is the least interesting thing about him. The real story here seems to be that Khan is insane. Play $500 match poker bonus.
He recently knocked out Adam White to take the chip lead. As soon as he won the hand he screamed and put his chair on his head and said, "Do you like my new hat? Does it look good?" Women poker.
We hope you like this kind of player as you'll be seeing plenty of Rain Khan when you watch the ESPN coverage of the World Series of Poker. Play route 66 poker.
The Bulls may run wild at the World Series of Poker but Carlos Mortensen is unafraid.
Carlos "The Matador" Mortensen is slaying suckers left and right. Ok, he's just picking up chips here and there but he's accumulated a massive stack in the process.
Currently sitting with $165K Mortensen is one of the top chip leaders of the World Series of Poker Day 2B. Online poker.
Jose Severino Takes Down Moster Pot at World Series of Poker
Team Bodog player Jose Severino makes a move at the World Series of Poker Day 2B. Holding A/J Jose "head2782? Severino called a $2,500 bet from seat 2. The flop came Qc/10d/6c.
Seat 2 checked and Severino bet out $2,500. Seat 2 called.
The Turn brought the Kh giving Severino the nut straight. Seat 2 popped it up to the $6K and Severino called. Women poker players.
The River brought a terrifying 4c putting a potential flush out there. Seat 2 bet $11K.
Severino thought about it for a long-time before calling. Immediately seat 2 said, "You got me," and mucked his cards. Play $500 match poker bonus.
Severino now sits at approximately $100K.
We'll keep you posted on the progress of Team Bodog, poker pros and celebreties as the day wears on. All live from the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event in our poker blog.
Phil Hellmuth started his weekend as a brand new member of the Poker Hall of Fame. He recently won his 11th World Series of Poker bracelet. It seemed he was entering the main event on a high.
Then everything turned sour.
First, on Sunday, he crashed a race car in the Rio parking lot. Losing control of the high-powered machine and smashing into a short pole.
"Well I really don't know what happened yesterday," Hellmuth told RawVegas.tv. "I'm just a guy, man, and when you get in a fast car and you're a guy you push it." Play $500 match poker bonus.
Hellmuth told the web site he was hurting, but hoped the pain would cease in a couple of days. He also said he was lucky because he wasn't wearing a helmet or seatbelt. Download poker wallpapers.
Hellmuth, also known as the Poker Brat, may want to rethink ever stepping into a race car driver's suit ever again. He wore just such and outfit while showing up two hours late to the main event on Monday, but ended up busting out within four hours. In typical fashion, he spent plenty of time berating his opponents for their poor play. Bracelet No. 12 will have to wait for next year. Play route 66 poker.
Among the other big-name bustouts as of 12:30 a.m. local time on Tuesday were Robert Williamson III, Chip Reese, and defending champion Jamie Gold, who was outlasted by his mother Jane. Actor Hank Azaria was also eliminated. Online poker.
Among the pros still alive late were Daniel Negreanu, Carlos Mortensen, Layne Flack and Ted Forrest.
UPDATE ON THE BOYS
Bryan Watkins, who you may have learned about in this story earlier today, had a change of fortune after busting out of the main event on Sunday. He entered a poker tournament at the Venetian and ended up taking it down, winning $35,000 and a bracelet.
Erik Seidel is huge, both literally and figuratively. The poker player stands about 6'5" and has amassed eight bracelets and $6.5 million in poker tournaments winnings over the course of his lengthy career.
His ego, fortunately, doesn't match. While a few bracelets and some network air time has swollen more than one lesser player's sense of self-importance, Seidel keeps his hubris in check - that is, if he has any.
Just prior to his Event 54 win Seidel spoke to PokerListings.com about being unenthused by his 2007 World Series of Poker performance. "I'm hoping to do a little better the last week," he said.
Did he ever. Seidel picked up his eighth bracelet in the penultimate tournament of the Series: the No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven Draw Lowball w/Rebuys. Don't expect this down-to-earth pro to let it go to his head, though.
In the following interview, Seidel explains how he copes with the grind of tournaments and life as a celebrity player. Play route 66 poker.
Do you set goals or things like that going into the tournament?
Well sure. You always want to win a bracelet. For me a lot of it is to have enough energy to compete. (Laughs.) Just waking up every day rested and eating well and stuff like that. If I'm rested I think I can play well and that's just kind of my goal - to play well.
So you're not like Devilfish; you're not a partier while the World Series is going on?
I don't know how those guys do it; it's amazing. They can go out at night - at the end of the day I'm exhausted and all I want to do is go home. I'm just amazed that these guys have the stamina to do that. Devilfish, Jesus does that too, although this year I think he hasn't been. Yeah, they'll play a full day then go out partying for a couple hours and drinking. I'm amazed by that.
Because Harrah's added more tournaments on, do you feel pressure to play in more events, win more bracelets, keep up with the rat race?
Well, I feel pressure to try and play almost every day but I haven't really been keeping up with some of these other guys who are playing two tournaments a day. I've taken a lot of days off. I do feel I should get in there and play. It's kind of a funny mix because my best games are the Pot-Limit and No-Limit games, but the best value is in the Limit games. So I kind of like to play those too. It's kind of strange, because whenever you're playing No-Limit, you're playing against 2,000 people so it makes it much harder to win one of these things. Download poker wallpapers.
It must be overwhelming.
It is, yeah. It's weird. You walk in a room and the entire room is filled with people you have to beat. That's a lot. It really is.
You've been around long enough to see the transition in poker and see the World Series grow. What's that been like for you?
It's been kind of a strange trip. It's weird that the people you've hung out with and spent time with for years, all of a sudden these people are recognized wherever you go. So you go out to dinner with people and they recognize these guys. It is very weird to be part of the whole blow-up and to watch all these people taking themselves very seriously.
Do people recognize you often?
Yeah. I don't have the problem that someone like Phil Hellmuth or woman poker player Annie Duke has, where wherever they go people recognize them.
Are you comfortable with your level of celebrity?
This is okay, yeah. I think I'd be concerned about it getting any worse than this. But it is kind of nice when you walk into a restaurant and people, you know, treat you well or whatever. But I don't think I'm in danger of it getting to the point where it's anything more than that.
I've seen your Full Tilt commercials and they're really funny. Were those fun to do?
I'm so proud of all the commercials they've done. We really have a great marketing team and, you know, each time they do the series of commercials I think that they do something surprising and something unique. I don't even know if they're the most effective commercials, but I'm proud to be part of the ones that they're doing because they're great; they're all great. They come on TV and they make an impression, I think. Play $500 match poker bonus.
Well you do a great job. I'm assuming you don't have any acting training.
(Laughs.) It's easy when you have to play yourself.
Was it fun working with Howard Lederer, seeing as you've been friends from way back?
We've known each other for so long and we've always been friends, so it's great to be part of the team with him and be included. All of these guys are people I enjoy being around. It's a fun group. I think that was a big part of it when we put it together was to find people we all liked and I think they did a good job doing that.
Poor Howard. With an eighth bracelet to add to his wrist, that jangling noise is going to get a lot louder in those Full Tilt commercials. Even so, it's impossible to feel anything but happy for Erik Seidel: humble, kind and, undeniably, a great poker player. Stay tuned to our poker blog for more updates.
So you headed to Vegas with a dream of winning the Main Event of the World Series of Poker. What happens when you find yourself without a chip or a chair after the first couple of days? You could take some cash over to the Small Town Poker Tour Pro Am Championship. Play online poker.
The STPT Pro Am Championship will take place at the South Point Hotel Casino and Spa in Las Vegas July 13. The buy-in is $260 with $100 re-buys.
In this case, poker players & women poker pros will also be giving something back to the community as they shuffle up and deal. The Small Town Poker Tour works to benefit local charities where it hosts events, and will be donating all proceeds from the South Point event to the Vegas-based Charity Corps of Compassion.
The Corps of Compassion works to provide food for homeless children.
"When I found out about the work the Corps of Compassion was doing, it only made sense to choose them as our charity for this event," said Mark Fracalossi, STPT executive producer. Download poker wallpapers.
According to the Corps of Compassion, there are more than 4,000 homeless and at-risk children in Las Vegas. Each weekend, the Corps fills more than 700 backpacks with food for the children.
"Children are our future and to help the most at risk children in our society with basic needs, what else can I say, the Corps is amazing," Fracalossi said.
The STPT travels the world putting on poker events that all in benefit charity in some way. Interested people can purchase tickets for this particular event at the South Point Casino.
"The entire staff at the South Point has been very supportive and helpful in bringing this event together, and not to mention the facility is immense," Fracalossi said. Play route 66 poker.
WSOP's top prize won't come easy for 2007 winner Bob Forrest
Later this week, hundreds of the world’s best poker players will suffer through their worst day of 2007.
The worldwide Texas Hold ‘Em explosion has spawned thousands of tournaments paying out hundreds of millions of dollars annually, and a win at any of those events carries with it a certain amount of prestige in the poker community. But for most top pros and leading amateur players, only one tournament really matters.
In the 30 or so years after the legendary “Amarillo Slim” Preston beat a handful of players to win the World Series of Poker at Binion’s Horseshoe Casino in downtown Las Vegas in 1972, the event grew steadily in popularity, stature and prize money. Since 2003, though, the WSOP Main Event — which begins Friday at the Rio Hotel and Casino and climaxes a month-long series of tournaments — has exploded into a national phenomenon. It has become so important, in fact, that virtually everyboy who’s anybody in the poker world admits that the day they’re eliminated from the Main Event is the low point of his or her year. Play $500 match poker bonus.
And, with thousands of amateur players now making the annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas each summer to try for the money and prestige that go with winning a World Series bracelet, the odds continue to mount against the pros, many of whom made names for themselves in the days when the WSOP was just a friendly little gathering of the world’s best players & women poker pro.
Although the national poker boom might have eventually happened anyway, Chris Moneymaker’s win in the 2003 Main Event was probably Ground Zero for the current explosion in Hold ‘Em’s popularity worldwide. A virtual unknown before his win over a field of less than 900 players four years ago, Moneymaker was the kind of Everyman who captured the imagination of the average poker player competing in a weekly home game and dreaming of someday knocking heads with heavyweights like Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan.
Moneymaker showed the poker world that those dreams could come true, and by the time he captured his record $2.5 million first prize, internet poker was also starting to take off. Dr. Bruce VanHorn, a pathologist at Valley View Regional Hospital who was runner-up to Huck Seed in the 1996 Main Event, said the two events probably combined to make the World Series of Poker what it is today.
“That (2003) was the year a lot of people started qualifying over the internet,” said VanHorn, who competed in the Main Event nine times between 1996 and 2005. “They had a few qualifying tournaments on the internet before that, but not a lot of people were playing on the internet.”
The year after Moneymaker’s win, more than 2,300 players competed in the Main Event, with another unknown, Greg Raymer, taking home a $5 million first prize, and in 2005 Australian Joseph Hachem beat an even bigger field to earn $7.5 million. Last year, Jamie Gold continued the parade of amateur winners, outlasting more than 8,000 other players and banking an eye-popping $12.5 million. Download poker wallpapers.
When the 2007 Main Event begins Friday, upwards of 10,000 players are expected, with a first prize estimated at $15 million, and VanHorn said this year’s winner — amateur or pro — can trace his big payday back to the aptly-named Moneymaker and his win in 2003.
“I think it was a combination of the fact that he had never won any money and internet poker exploding at the same time,” VanHorn said in explaining the increase in poker’s popularity since Moneymaker’s upset.
In the WSOP’s first quarter-century, the Main Event was dominated by America’s top pros, several of whom achieved legendary status.
Brunson, the “Godfather of Poker”
won back-to-back titles in 1976 and 1977 and, through a series of books, passed on some of his best secrets to the current generation of players; Stu Ungar, poker’s first young gun, won in 1980 and 1981, then, just over a year after making one of the most amazing comebacks in poker history to win the 1997 Main Event, he was found dead in a cheap Las Vegas motel room of heart failure brought on by years of drug abuse; Chan — who had a cameo role in the Matt Damon film “The Rounders” — won in 1987 and 1988 and finished second to Phil Helmuth in 1989; and current top pros Dan Harrington, Huck Seed, Scotty Nguyen and Carlos Mortensen all captured titles between 1990 and 2001. Play route 66 poker.
But since Mortensen won six years ago, amateurs have dominated the main event. Robert Varkonyi, who, like Moneymaker, Raymer and Gold, has never won another major title, rode an unbelievable string of cards to the 2002 crown, and VanHorn predicted that, no matter how skilled the opposition is, the 2007 Main Event winner will, in the end, probably be the guy who, like Varkonyi, Moneymaker and Gold, has the poker gods on his side throughout the marathon tournament.
“You have to be EXTREMELY lucky to win now,” VanHorn said. “I almost think to win any tournament you have to draw out once or twice when you don’t have the best cards, and in that thing you have to go in with the worst hand three or four times and get lucky. There are just too many people to wade through.
“It doesn’t matter how good you are,” he added. “You have to catch some cards to get in position to win. If you don’t, you’re going to go out.”
VanHorn won’t compete at the Main Event for the second straight year, but he has already cashed at the WSOP twice in 2007, finishing sixth in a pot limit Hold ‘Em event (his stay at the final table in that poker tournament will be telecast on ESPN during tape-delayed coverage of the WSOP later this year) and 35th out of over 2,000 players in a No Limit Hold ‘Em tournament last month. He said the World Series of Poker these days is a lot more than just the Main Event.
“They’ve probably added 40 or 50 tournaments (to the WSOP schedule) from when it was at Binion’s,” VanHorn said. “Back then, it was just 20 days of tournaments; now it’s 35 days, with two every day.”
I walked up on Greg Raymer's table in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Poker Tournament Championship and heard him say, "And then the adrenaline kicked in. I started chasing them. Then I thought, 'what if they have a gun?'"
Ah, yes, the Bellagio story. I've heard Greg tell this story all over the world. He rarely if ever brings it up. However, it's fairly common that people ask him about the night he got jacked at the Bellagio, and he always obliges them with the story. Play $500 match poker bonus.
In my previous life, I followed politicians along the campaign trail. I heard John Edwards give his "Two Americas" speech enough times that I could recite most of it word for word. The text rarely changed, but Edwards put his best into it in front of every new crowd. Greg, who coincidentally now hails from the same state as Edwards, does the same thing. Even though I first heard the story from Greg in January 2005, I still don't get tired of hearing it.
Don't think Greg is a man of foolish consistency, though. While I've watched him drink Diet Coke for years, in recent months, Greg has started pouring Green Tea mix into bottles of water and drinking that instead. When asked why, Greg explained he doesn't like Diet Pepsi (all they serve here at the Rio) and he's been trying to cut back on his caffeine intake. So, Greg won't be getting a sponsorship from PepsiCo anytime soon, but he doesn't seem to mind. He's still running strong in the event today, despite having Ted Forrest on his right and David Chui on his left. Best I can tell, no one has yet tried to rob him. Play route 66 poker.
"Where's Phil Hellmuth?"
That was Barry Greenstein a while ago. He had a sly look in his eye.
"Right behind you," I said and pointed to the Poker Brat.
Barry eyed Phil's stack and then said something under his breath. Nearest I could tell, Barry was trying to get action from Doyle Brunson on a Greenstein vs. Hellmuth final table challenge in this event and the upcoming 2-7 event. My notes don't reveal the exact details, but whatever Barry was trying to arrange made Doyle laugh. Barry sat back down saying, "Doyle, you won't give me 4-1?" That's the relaxed Barry Greenstein I enjoy. While building a nice stack in the tournament, he's running around trying to get in action.
Back in his seat, Barry had just checked in on Phil Ivey. He asked the table, "Has he played every hand?"
The table responded that Ivey had played all but one. "He was text messaging during one and they killed his hand."
Barry told me there's a lesson there. Ivey, he says, plays a lot of--if not all--hands in Omaha tournaments, where Barry plays a bit tighter. Barry said he once played an Omaha event online while teaching Mimi Tran to play. He kept both tables on his screen so she could watch the different styles. Ivey played nearly every hand while Barry played tight. Play online poker.
They had almost exactly the same amount of chips.
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John Duthie is killing the Omaha event at this hour, although you wouldn't know it by checking in on the table's demeanor. Duthie has been getting a massage and the topic of discussion has nothing to do with poker.
The line-up is insane. Duthie sits with Huck Seed, Dario Minieri, Mark Vos, Robert Mizrachi, Mickey Appleman, and Jeffrey Lisandro. With that kind of poker background, you might think they'd be discussing the less-than-subtle nuances of PLO. Instead, the non-Americans joined Mickey Appleman in railing against the American health care system and its handling of the non-insured. Download poker wallpapers.
Seed, perhaps hoping to defend his country, said "Mickey, once I was walking down the road with blood spurting out of my head. I jumped out of a cab doing 50 miles per hour down the freeway. They forced me to go to the hospital and fixed me up. I didn't have insurance."
I'm not sure if there is any corollary here, but woman poker player Duthie nearly has the chip lead. Seed...does not.
Actress and aspiring woman poker-pro Shannon Elizabeth was stopped in the door when trying to enter a casino in Australia recently.
