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Let’s just cut to the chase here. Steve Martin is a superb poker player and a better con man. He operates under the cover that he knows nothing about the game, yet I saw him make an extremely canny play, then correct me when I didn’t get the percentages right.
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Tonight’s FTOPS #8 is $200 + $16 Pot Limit Hold ‘Em (PLHE). The guarantee was for $150,000, or 750 players. Despite PLHE NOT being NLHE, it got a good turnout. 1,072 players entered, creating a prize pool of over $214,000. First place receives almost $41,000. The final table gets you at least $3,300. Bottom-dollar money, 153rd place, is $321. Nine Full Tilt pros put up $1,944 to play this one, including tonight’s host David Singer.
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I am an appreciative outsider to the worlds of Manhattan, the literary scene, and the media powers. Up close, the flesh and blood characters that inhabit and sometimes rule those worlds fascinate me. Spending an evening with them exceeded my lofty expectations.
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I am late for dinner.
The day started beautifully in Manhattan. I went shopping and bought two notebooks for $60 each. (Or, rather, Full Tilt bought two notebooks for $60 each.) I had lunch outdoors with Tony Holden and Peter Alson, two of the four men responsible for me becoming a poker player and poker writer. (The third, Al Alvarez, is in England, resisting my entreaties to come to the World Series of Poker on the 25th anniversary of the articles he wrote that became THE BIGGEST GAME IN TOWN, the book that put the World Series on the map. Harrah’s is ignoring its obvious duty to honor Alvarez with a place in the Poker Hall of Fame. The fourth, editor Colin Fox, was invited to pick up the check and somehow managed to squirm out.)
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I’m back from New York and in a writin’-gambin’ mood. I had a great time, saw some remarkable stuff, met up with some incredibly people, and have a lot written and notes for much, much more. Here’s what’s coming over the next few days:
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I was CERTAIN I wasn’t going to be able to make it to tonight’s FTOPS #5, $200 + $16 HOSE, hosted by David Grey. But thanks to the understanding nature of Tony Holden and Colin Fox (with no small measure of help from New York cabdrivers), I have miraculously made it back. Let’s hope my poker can do justice to the effort to get me to the table.
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Addendum to Part I – Jo Anne doesn’t have the Nissan Murano any more. Convinced it had become haunted, we traded it for a cherry red Volvo S60 Turbo. Concerned that the car would attract unwanted attention in the parking lot of the school in which she taught social studies and English, I encouraged her to tell people I won it in a poker game.
In Part I, I demonstrated why it was appropriate for ME to be at Fletcher Jones Imports. On any given day, odds are pretty good that I’m buying or selling something involving cars. And with all the experience I have, my services as advisor should be much in demand. (Frankly, dealers should be happy to see me show up in the company of a prospective buyer; with me, a prospective buyer loses perspective.)
But why is Ted Forrest here?
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I sat behind Clonie Gowen when she played Kristy Gazes in the first round of the NBC Heads-Up Championship back in March. The match was much anticipated (as much as something can be anticipated in the short period between the pairings party and the match itself) because both were women, both attractive, both friends, and both affiliated with Full Tilt. They even upped the stakes by buying identical pairs of Jimmy Chu high-heels after the pairings party and declaring that the loser had to pay, or pay for the winner’s next pair.
Clonie was feeling good about the state of her game, and she tends to shine when the spotlight is on. So it was disheartening when nothing went right in the match against Kristy. Gazes played great, both in that match and throughout the Heads-Up Championship, but she was also foiling Clonie with good cards. When Clonie made a move, Kristy had a hand. When Clonie had a hand, Kristy had a better one. Gowen was immediately behind, the margin soon became large, and the match was quickly over. The disappointment was evident on Clonie’s face when I approached her a moment later.
“I feel like I just had bad sex.”
Now I know what she meant.
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We’re just a few minutes before starting FTOPS #4, the $1,000 + $60 buy-in NLHE hosted by Gavin Smith. Well over 800 starters, including yours truly. First prize may exceed $200,000.
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I returned from my Dad’s birthday party in time to catch the final table of the second FTOPS event, Pot Limit Omaha with rebuys.
But first, the tease.
My Full Tilt tournament-director buddy, Disco Stu, dropped this tidbit in my lap: the winner of FTOPS #1 last night, get_that, has made the final table of the WSOP Main Event within the last three years.
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