Potripper Dad Wins WSOP Event 11
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
gtycoon said
am June 9 2008 @ 6:14 pm
“Luke, I am your father. Join the dark side.”
I guess he can go to his son and say…”See, I didn’t have to cheat to win this.” or “See, that’s how you cheat without getting caught.”
When the Ultimate Bet scammers are revealed it’ll suck if we find out they picked up a WSOP bracelet or two as well.
More Questions Raised in Absolute Poker Cheating Scandal said
am August 23 2008 @ 8:53 pm
[...] are beginning to come to light in the Absolute Poker cheating scandal. It has been reported that Phil Tom, father of Absolute Poker founder Scott Tom, has been indicted in connection with the scandal and [...]