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Heads Up: Huck Seed Versus Keith Sexton

Published on 13:29:36 on May 08, 2008
Posted by One Angry Monkey

Welcome back for another round of the heart-pounding, heart-stopping, heart attack inducing action that we like to call the Full Tilt Poker Heads-Up Challenge. This week’s match is another 4 seed versus 13 seed clash, with Huckleberry “Tall, skinny, and dazed is no way to go through life” Seed taking on Keith “I might be the only person alive who thinks 7-card stud is cool” Sexton. This match should be, umm, really exciting. I can’t wait, really. I might’ve just pissed my pants a little bit I’m so stoked for this one. Let’s get it on:

Category	Huck Seed	Keith Sexton	Survey Says
Career Earnings	Almost $4 million	More than $520K	This category is getting a little stale, don’t you think? It’s just too straight forward. I’m thinking of replacing it with something like “if this pro was an animal, what animal would he be?” On second thought, let's not.. Oh well, some ideas are better left unsaid. Seed leads 1-0.
Major Titles	4 WSOP bracelets, including the 1996 Main Event	None	If 7-card stud were as popular as NLH, Sexton might be ahead in this category. Then again, if I took a writing class I might be a better blogger, but that ain’t never gonna happen neither. Seed takes down another category.
Tournament Play	Yes please!	Is it 7-card stud?	To be fair, Sexton really only started getting in on the NLH action a few years ago, so he’s a bit behind in the game. On the other hand, Seed is one of the most dangerous tourney players out there when he’s on his game. Don’t call it a beat down, Seed leads 3-0.
Cash Game Play	Why not?	Is it 7-card stud?	OK, so you might’ve guessed by now that I don’t know much about Sexton beyond the fact that he’s an avid 7-card stud baller. And yes, I just said 7-card stud baller – sue me. I’m also pretty certain that he makes most of his poker profit playing the cash games, probably 7-card stud. Let’s be nice and give this category to him, the score is now 3-1 in favor of the Seeded One.
Best Game	NLH	Do I even need to say it?	Well, by this point we should all know my feelings toward any poker game that isn’t No-Limit Hold ‘em. If you can’t push all your chips into the middle on hand one it ain’t poker, it’s just boring. Sorry 7-card stud, you lose again. Seed now leads 4-1.
Nickname	When your real name is Huckleberry, do you really need a nickname?	I don’t believe Sexton has a nickname, so we’ll have to make one up. I know! How about Keith “7-card stud” Sexton? It’s original, right?	Maybe Seed’s nickname should be “Huckleberry Hound.” Then again, maybe not. There’s something not quite right about a blue dog with a Southern drawl, it’s kind of freaky. Super freaky (cue Rick James – thank you). At any rate, since neither of these players actually have a nickname, the winner is naturally Seed. He’s on cruise control as we head into the final frame.
Outside Poker	Insane prop bet partaker.	Fathered Full Tilt Poker pro Paul Sexton.	As great as a contribution that Paul Sexton (and thus Keith) has made to the world of poker, this one has to go to Seed. He’s been involved in many a great prop bets in his time, including standing in the ocean up to his shoulders in water for eight hours (he bailed after three hours) and playing four rounds of golf in one day with only three clubs and having to break 100 each round. Simply put, the man is insane and will do anything to take your money.

So that’s that folks, Seed takes down Sexton by a score of 6-1. Be sure to check back next week for more breath taking, mind blowing action. Until then…

Category: Heads Up | Author: One Angry Monkey | Keywords: Huck Seed Keith Sexton

The Week at FTP: LOL CardRunnerments

Published on 13:48:01 on Mar 10, 2008
Posted by Big Donkey

In the absence of one of our red pros winning a legitimate live donkament this week*, we’ve had to dig deep to find some news that’s up to the standards you, our loyal reader, have come to expect. So after five minutes of reading NVG and seeing what promotions we can pass off as informational tidbits, we bring you the week at FTP.

Team CardRunners Joins Full Tilt Poker

We may just be getting older and crankier (it’s certainly not wiser), but it seems that every day there’s some new Internet whiz-kid tearing up cash games and earning more in a month than the GDP of some small Caribbean countries. Frankly, it’s getting hard to tell them all apart because:

Everyone looks the same on the Internets and
We’re much too uncool to understand all the pop culture references and l33t h@X0r language embedded in all their screen names.

Thankfully, some of these young whippersnappers have gotten themselves organized into an easy-to-identify group, which means the big wigs upstairs wasted no time in adding them to our roster of red pros.

So please join us in giving a big Poker From The Rail welcome to Team CardRunners who we hope will provide us with better advice than the Captain, who suggests taking a shot with each new orbit. (Don’t get us wrong, the Captain’s games are fun, but our bankrolls and our livers seem to suffer a little bit more after each session.)

Anyway, look for Taylor Caby, Brian Townsend, Mike Schneider, Brian Hastings, Cole South, Andrew Wiggins and Eric Liu playing under their real-life names on FTP.

Rumored Scandinavian Porn Star Wins $300K Pot at PLO

Ziigmund (believed to be Finnish pro Ilari Sahamies, who looks like this) is the proud winner of our biggest pot of the week at FTP. The hand went down at one of our $200/$400 Pot-Limit Omaha tables when Ziigmund clashed with TheOcean0 in a hand worth a tidy $319K. Take that lol donkament players.

Happy Birthday Chuck Norris

Just in case you’re wondering what this has to do with poker, Chuck Norris is a real-life poker player. Of course this profile seems to be a little inaccurate, seeing as Chuck Norris would have roundhouse kicked his way to every WSOP, WPT, EPT and any remaining poker tournament titles known to man.

We also found this fact about his poker ability on the Internet – which means it must be true:

"Chuck Norris owns the greatest poker face of all-time. It helped him win the 1983 World Series of Poker despite him holding just a joker, a 2 of clubs, a 7 of spades, a green number 4 from Uno, and a monopoly 'get out of jail free' card.”

If that’s not proof, I don’t know what is.

Well that’s it folks, stay tuned for next week when we sign Mikey the poker-playing monkey, and reminisce about our favorite scenes from Walker: Texas Ranger.

*Huck Seed did win the Canadian Open Poker Championship Main Event this past week – a $5K buy-in Heads Up tournament that we would normally mention but then we realized, Huck was playing in Canada. Huck also recently finished third in the National Heads-Up Poker Championship – a proper poker tournament on which we congratulate him for his fantastic result.