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#053 – FTOPS Main Event B – “I missed sympathy and love.”
We’re at the first break in the Main Event. I have 4,465 chips. Clonie has 6,230. I’m trying to figure out the reason for the disparity. ”Clonie, I’ve seen 25% of the flops. That’s not too many, is it?” She checked her stats: 9%.
There are 2,812 players left with an averageof 5,720 chips. The leader has 22,000. Toto Leonidas is the only Full Tilt Poker pro over 10,000.
Clonie Gowen is reading my issue of PSYCHOLOGY TODAY between hands. (The Mulligan hasn’t started yet.) I was only too happy to give her the magazine. Though I read a variety of magazines when I’m shopping for an idea for a next book, PSYCH TODAY simply wasn’t it. For one thing, I’m probably the only male in the United States who laid hands on the magazine. I thought the magazine was not gender-specific, but that’s not what the advertisers say.
Next thing I know, she’s taking the quiz, “Match the Emotion with the Kind of Touch.” She scored four of six, correlating anger, disgust, fear, and gratitude with their kind of touch. “I missed love and sympathy. I got them mixed up.”
I don’t mean to act so ga-ga over Clonie Gowen’s presence – though, frankly, I should be forgiven – but she’s been incredibly entertaining company. Like when she mentioned to me, in passing, that she got bought by the kicker for the Seattle Seahawks for $5,000.
“I was playing poker in London when a friend asked me to donate something for a charity auction. I was going to give him a jersey but there wasn’t time to get it to him for the auction. So he said, ‘How about if I auction a date with Clonie Gowen?’ I told him, ‘I’m not looking to date anyone.’ He said, ‘It will get great publicity and I’ll bid on it and win it.’ So it turns out my friend is nowhere to be found during this part of the auction and I get a call from the kicker for the Seattle Seahawks at 2 AM, telling me that he bought a date with me for $5,000.”
