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#249E – London Journal #15E – Million Dollar Cash Game #5 – The Quiet Man
Allen Cunningham has not been heard from much in this game. I don’t even think I heard him talk when Erick Lindgren made fun of him for taking his dog on vacation. (In fairness to Allen, it should be noted that he and Melissa Hayden rented a house in Santa Monica for six weeks. Why keep a dog if you’re going to move residences for six weeks and not bring the dog?)
Erick, I imagine, doesn’t get it because you can’t make bets with a dog. And how’s a dog going to pay off? And then there’s the canine’s superior hearing; you have to handicap for any angle they’d shoot based on that.
Phil Ivey is riding Uncle Tilty between hands, for “making” him come here and “making” him come to Germany. “Anything else I can do for you? Maybe make Germany a six-week thing?” I want to get a Props Scorecard Update from Phil and we meet eyes between hands, but he’s eating a sandwich and I didn’t feel like interrupting him. But I’m hearing that he’s ahead and I’ll try to get a score out of him.
At 3:38 PM, Mel Judah walks in and takes a seat at the bar. As he gets comfortable among the crowd now developing off camera, a big pot is played between Erick Lindgren and Tony G. There’s betting on every street, with Lindgren betting $10,000 on the turn and $16,000 on the river. He shows a straight and Tony mucks. “I was drawing dead.” There’s over $60,000 in the pot.
In the next pot I notice, there’s a lot of checking and a lot of small-denomination chips in the middle. Oh, it’s Seidel and Ferguson.
Brian Townsend, waiting to get in the game, is getting some shit from Erick Lindgren. “Did you write in your blog today? Ivey reads your blog, you know.”
Phil, of course, does not read Brian’s blog on Cardrunners.com, nor does he read Daniel’s blog “but he talks about his dogs a lot, right?” Ivey allows that a friend of his reads Negreanu’s blog regularly.
Andy Bloch leans back toward Townsend, seating on a couch in front of the bar, and says, “I’ll sell you might seat for $27,000.”
Lindgren and Tony G talk about starting up another game. Erick asks, “Is there a table in the back where Tony G and I can play heads-up for some big money?”
Ivey: “I’d sweat that game.”
They start talking about the variety of forms of poker they’d play, and Phil concludes, “Sweat it? I’d want to play it.”
