Poker Blog and Poker Gossip

There has been quite a bit going on lately, so I figured it would be easier to just do a summary post of all the things.

Jennicide Is Off For Jury Duty
Jennifer Leigh (aka Jennicide) had to leave the WSOP early this year to attend jury duty.

In her blog she recently wrote:
“I have been having a chain of nightmares of being sequestered to a long murder trial, in which I feel sorry for the 11 other jurors that would have to be witness to my bantering and childlike snootiness for the terrible circumstances.

I need to be in Las Vegas during these times! Yet, I am stuck in Delaware! I have to wake up at an unreasonable hour too! Reporting to the courthouse at 8:30 a.m.?!”

Ernest “The Murderer” Scherer Playing WSOP Events
Ok, we made the nickname up, but Gambling911 released an article that Sherer is the main suspect for the murder of his parents.

Hookers Get Rolled
Pauly posted a great story about how some poker players rolled some hookers with tournament chips…

“Benjo told me a hilarious story about how Bellagio hookers were trying to cash tournament chips at the cage.
Apparently, a couple of horny and angle-shooting poker players removed $1,000 denomination tournament chips out of play. They used those chips to pay off hookers, who were not very bright and accepted the chips in return for sexual favors. Of course they did not read the fine print on the chips where it said it’s not legal tender and only a tournament chip.

Horny Poker Players 1, Dumb Hookers 0.”

Joe Hachem Might Be The Next Joe Hachem

As if Lacey Jones wasn’t hot enough when we first wrote about her on BankrollBoost.com. Here is a very recent video of her at the 2008 WSOP talking to Amanda Leatherman of Pokernews.com:

Today will be one of the greatest final tables ever at the WSOP for the conclusion of the $5k Rebuy Pot Limit Omaha event at the 2008 WSOP.  Let’s take a look at the line-up:

Seat 1: John Juanda 694,000 - Over $6.3 Million in live event earnings and 3 WSOP bracelets, Juanda will not go down easy.
Seat 2: Phil Hellmuth 119,000 - 11 WSOP bracelets and argued by many as one of the best poker players of all time (though we find him more annoying).
Seat 3: David Benyamine 1,041,000 - Known for playing in the highest stakes poker games online, Benyamine’s specialty is PLO.
Seat 4: Kirill Gerasimov 558,000 - Cashed in 4 of the Omaha events at the 2006 WSOP, he knows the game well.
Seat 5: Phil Galfond 1,393,000 - Another high stakes online poker player, Phil plays online as OMGClayAiken and is often seen dominating the PLO tables at Full Tilt Poker.
Seat 6: Daniel Negreanu 460,000 - Just won his 4th WSOP bracelet the other day, Negreanu is already in this event for $85,000 worth of rebuys.  He wants to win, and he wants it BAD!
Seat 7: Brian “tsarrast” Rast 1,176,000 - Another online player, Brian goes by the handle tsarrast on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker and has had some experience playing the highest stakes games online.
Seat 8: Adam Hourani 300,000 - The least known of all the players, though Hourani did win a Bellagio Cup II Tournament in 2006.
Seat 9: Johnny Chan 624,000 - Currently tied with Doyle Brunson with 10 WSOP bracelets, Chan wants this bracelet bad to get back tied up with Phil Hellmuth for most WSOP wins ever.

So, if you don’t get the point yet, this table is full of some of the best poker players in the world, all of whom want this win REALLY bad.  We’ll let you know what happened after it plays out.

After 4 years of not winning any bracelets, pokerstars pro Daniel Negreanu is back!  Yesterday he took down the same event where he won his last bracelet, the $2000 Limit Holdem event.

Daniel beat out a table of players who had never played in a WSOP final table before.  That doesn’t necessarily mean they are bad, just did not have the experience and comfort level that most seasoned pros have at these tables.

For his win Daniel cashed $204,874, but rumour has it that he also had some side bets with Ted Forrest and Phil Ivey for $200k per bracelet (which he briefly touches on in his latest video blog entry).

Here are the final 9 from that event:

1. Daniel Negreanu - $204,874
2. Ugur Marangoz - $126,671
3. David Baker - $78,624
4. Richard Li - $63,335
5. Fu Wong - $51,542
6. Jeremy Kottler - $51,542
7. Greg Wohletz - $31,886
8. Derek Lerner - $25,334
9. Hien Tran - $18,782

Everyone’s favorite poker player, Mike Matusow, talks about his thoughts on the WSOP Final Table Delay. Mike thinks that the delay is a bad idea and basically just a cashgrab for the WSOP. One thing that he says that makes a lot of sense is that when those players make the final table they are really in the zone and playing the best poker of their life. By throwing a huge amount of time in between the game, they lose this “zone” and it suddenly becomes a completely different game. Anyway, here is the video of Mikey:

The WSOP is always full of suprises, and this is probably one of the biggest stories ever….

By now, everyone is familiar with Potripper (aka AP’s 7-Million Dollar Super-User), but I bet you didn’t really expect him to be a big story at the WSOP! Well, thanks to some great reporting by our good friend poker-prop, we have since learned that the winner of WSOP Event #11 was non other than Potripper’s (Scott Tom) own father Phil Tom!

Players’ discovered Tom’s true identity after a conversation with him and Full Tilt Poker’s Howard Lederer. Lederer asked him if he was any relation to Absolute Poker’s Scott Tom, to which Phil stupidly replied, “yes, I am his father”. I guess he doesn’t know how hated his son is by the poker community.

The best quotes came from the CardPlayer.com website where it stated an onlooker said:
“[Tom played] absolutely ideal poker” and “his raises and reraises worked so often, it was almost as if he could see everyone’s cards.” Funny enough Cardplayer.com made no mention of the relationship between Phil and Scott.

Scott won the $5,000 no-limit hold’em shootout after winning 3 consecutive sit n gos. Here are the rest of the results from the final table:

1st - Phil Tom - $477,990
2nd - Greg “FTB” Mueller - $298,638
3rd - Leo Wolpert - $187,812
4th - Sirous Jamshidi -$118,440
5th - Tim West - $63,450
6th - Thomas Roupe - $38,070