Patrick - I agree. David basically made one mistake with his Q7 off suit and that spelled disaster.I am glad Daniel finally won a WPT event.
He is one of the nice guys.
Next up: Grand Prix de Paris
Not including the Hollywood Home game on Sunday. Includes:
Mark Walberg (The Big Date, Joe millionaire) Bob Eubanks (The Newlywed Game) Michelle Clunie (Queer as Folk) Michael Vartan (Alias) Eric Palladino (Joan of Arcadia, ER) David Sutcliffe (Gilmore Girls)
The Hollywood Home Game was surprisingly amazing to watch as Sutcliffe whizzed away a big chip lead and then got so lucky numerous time facing elimination going heads-up, but somehow eeked out the win over Michelle Clunie.
Palladino was riding high on that bluff wave for a while, but finally got put out of his misery.
Patrick, I missed the Hollywood Home Game I forgot about it. sounds like I missed a go show.
Tonight's Episode: WPT Grand Prix de Paris
Seat 1: Surrinder Sunar $ 202,000 Seat 2: Tony G $ 442,000 Seat 3: Dave Colclough $ 338,000 Seat 4: Peter Roche $ 615,000 Seat 5: James Overman $ 358,000 Seat 6: Ben Roberts $ 99,000
Time for the weird 10K plate chips. Well don't know what to say about this one, except look out for Tony G., the man is very brash and cocky and likes to get his chips into the pot no matter what kinda of hand he has.
I absolutely hate Tony G but I do in some ways respect him for his attitude in that "it's only a game". I bet the guy is not as brash in RL as we think he acts at times.
Seat 1: Carlos Mortensen $2,523,000 Seat 2: Thang Pham $ 608,100 Seat 3: John Juanda $ 723,000 Seat 4: Hung La $ 815,000 Seat 5: David Pham $ 486,000 Seat 6: Erik Seidel $1,081,000
Should be another good one. With Carlos being the chip leader starting out it will be interesting if he holds onto his chip lead, he plays very aggresive and likes to get his chips in the pot. The second stack Eric Seidel he is one that plays very tight and I am picking him as my winner. Look out though for 5 time WPT finalist John Juanda, I don't know what it is about him, I like him as a player.
This week we saw the Poker Open in Aruba where we had an interesting final table.
I'm sorta going for Juanda but he just can't seem to get any luck. I was somewhat giggling when Matusow mocked the others when he won on a miracle draw yet lost on the same type of miracle draw.
Lane Flack played to win and should have but a miracle draw on 4th street buried him. In the end, the brother of the Costa Rican champ won and took down 2 opponents with his pocket ducks.
Holy bad beat, Batman! You had to feel for Layne Flack for that beatdown (though I don't much care for the guy's playing style, even seeing his vignette on losing his heart didn't quite enamor me to him any more than before). OUCH!
Matusow deserves whatever beatdown he gets on the poker table. I don't know who I'd root for in a showdown between Matusow and Josh Arieh.
Funny thing was when Flack had A9 and Matusow had A8, and an ace came on the turn, Matusow some how rationalized that Layne beat him on a two outter...
Just caught up with the WPT Grand Prix De Paris episode... IIRC, Tony G had Howard Lederer - who came in 7th and just missed the final table - on tilt in season 1 of WPT and gave Howard the "it's only a game, I don't mean it personally" farewell. The most annoying aspect of his chatter is that he keeps it up even when he's not in a pot.
You have to have Phil Hellmuth at that table as well (a better "bad boy" table than the one I saw a couple of weeks ago on the Sunday edition of the WPT, probably a repeat).
Marcel Luske would be good at that table. You know the guy that wears his hat upside down and glasses upside down. He's from Amsterdam and was featured alot on the World Series Tournaments.
Man that was a pretty good final table. Tuan Le was playing pretty agressive, but when you have the cards and the chip stack you can do it. Felt bad for Bradley with pocket kings and getting knock out with an Ace on the river and then later Humbeto also getting knock out on the river.
Next week I will be in Vegas for the WPT Final Championship Tourney and I will try and give an update don't want to spoil it, The final table will be on the 24th and the championship starts on the 18th. Show date will be June 29th. I will try and give out next weeks final table info. Includes some great players.