Poker From The Rail

More than $8 million

Just under $700K

What’s money got to do with it? $8 million, $700K, it’s all the same to us (but, then again, we do get paid in pesos). To be fair, Booth makes a majority of his winnings in cash games, so who knows how much money he’s really made? That little caveat aside, Seidel takes down the first category.

Eight WSOP gold bracelets

Booth’s main focus is obviously not tourneys, so it’s hard to fault him for being so far behind Seidel. But we will anyway. Chalk another one up for Big-E.

Yes please!

When does the side game start?

Seidel is one of the greatest living tourney players in the world and Booth is, well, Canadian. Guess where we’re going with this one. Seidel three, Booth zero.

Maybe later.

Let’s get it on!

Booth is one of the best cash game players out there. Plus, we hear he might be Canadian. And while Seidel can certainly hold his own in any cash game, we’re going to have to channel our inner maple leaf and give this one to Booth.

American Pie

Canadian Mongoose

Thus we arrive at the portion of this post where I have to start making stuff up (for the sake of my own amusement, of course). The Captain informs me that a mongoose is one of those critters that eat cobras, so that seems pretty cool. On the other hand, American Pie makes me think about that crappy movie where the kid sticks his Jerry Yang in the pie (or maybe I’m just bitter because I lost my virginity to a Danish). At any rate, let’s give this one to Booth because, well, he’s Canadian.

Ball and Cup (the Canadian national pastime).

No, I will not be making any comments concerning balls or cups – let’s just say I had a bad experience once (OK, maybe twice). On the other hand, I’m a hell of a Yahtzee player. That’s the one where everyone runs around and kicks the crap out of the smallest kid in the class, right? Or am I thinking of Monopoly? Oh well, the point is… there is no point. And this has absolutely nothing to do with poker. Hey, at least I tried. I’m going to give this one to Booth because, well, he’s Mexican (note: Booth may or may not be Mexican, we can’t confirm this).

We need to give a nickname to Seidel. How about Erik “Sly” Seidel; that would be cool. I wish my nickname was Sly. Instead I seem to be stuck with “Useless lump of crap.” This round goes to Booth because, well, he actually has a nickname. Yukon Brad has now taken the lead, four to three.

Featured in the movie Rounders.

Booth once declared that he’d played poker every day for 14 years straight, so we’re gonna go out on a limb and say he doesn’t do much outside the world of poker.

Rounders is one of the quintessential poker movies. How could we go against Worm and Teddy KGB here? We will splash the pot anytime we feel like it! Notch one up for Seidel, the score is even going into the final frame.

… to America, the greatest country that ever was or ever will be!

… to Canada, um, what can we say about Canada? Oh yeah, we like your maple syrup. It goes quite well with a nice Danish.

USA! USA! USA! Need we say more? Mission accomplished! Seidel takes the match thanks to the greatest country on earth. God bless you America, from sea to shining sea (I think a tear just rolled down my cheek).