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2006 WSOP Reports

Girl on Girl at the 2008 WSOP: Gloria Balding

by The Cougar on July 13, 2008 TweetThis

in 2006 WSOP Reports, Girl on Girl at the 2008 WSOP, Girls, Michele Lewis

The below is WCP contributor Michele Lewis’ latest interview in her "Girl on Girl" series at the WSOP featuring interviews with some of the coolest, hottest girls in poker. Check out Michele’s blog at michelelewis.com.
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2008 World Series of Poker goes from serious to seriously serious this week, I somehow managed to get in a few minutes with Bluff’s super busy producer and occasional on-air talent Gloria Balding. A regular fixture at the WSOP and tournaments around the world, Gloria got her start in the poker world after a chance visit to Las Vegas to see this year’s The Last Woman StandingTM Tiffany Michelle during the 2006 WSOP. That trip landed her an administrative job with Bluff, which evolved into production.

Don’t fret if you’re unable to catch Balding on the floor at the Rio as you can find her on ESPN 360, Bluff and the World Series of Poker site. In our chat, Balding shares how WSOP commish and famed blogger Jeffrey Pollack busted her checking out Wicked Chops Poker’s Girls on the Rail, and why she’s qualified to be a cougar.

Hump to the jump to read more about Gloria Balding in this series of Girl on Girl at the 2008 WSOP

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One Week Until 2008 WSOP + We’re Off Memorial Day Weekend

by Wicked Chops Entity on May 23, 2008 TweetThis

in 2006 WSOP Reports, 2007 World Series of Poker, 2008 World Series of Poker, Dancing with the Stars, Doyle Brunson, Jamie Gold, Poker Tournaments, Shannon Elizabeth Dancing with the Stars, WSOP '05 Reports, joanna krupa, joe hachem, shannon elizabeth

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Barring some crazy breaking story, Wicked Chops Poker will be off Memorial Day Weekend. With the 2008 World Series of Poker just a week away (meaning six straight weeks of unrelenting poker coverage), and 2/3 of the Entities in Ireland right now, and 1/3 of the Entities staggering drunk for three-days, let’s be honest, not much is going to get done.

But to get in the mindset for the 2008 WSOP, here’s some recommended reading from WCP coverage of WSOP’s past.

2005 WSOP
Before going down on Dancing with the Stars’ Derek Hough, Dancing with the Stars’ Shannon Elizabeth went down in four-way action.
Wily Brit Barry Baskin
smelled like shit.
Whatever happened to
Johnny Rockets from Daytona? That guy seemed to have the total package.
Brad Garrett
was urinating and so dork had an Elmo head.
The
longest massage ever?
Some dude
got real creepy around Greg Raymer.
Tiffany Williamson
that bitch is crazy!

2006 WSOP
Where to even begin? How about some Card Player Like You Were There Moments (TM) here here here here here here and here.
Phil Hellmuth wins a then
record-tying 10th bracelet.
Clearly us at
our absolute most bedlam ensuing.
Some chick
played in a nun outfit which probably blew Gank’s mind.
The
Milwaukee’s Best Light girls need to make a comeback.
Somebody told us that Bill Gates
has a regular call girl he sees in France.
Our Sweats did OK in Day 1B.
Mean people applauded when
Doyle Brunson busted.
Our mutual
love-affair with Anna Benson began.
Joanna Krupa (above) officially became the
hottest girl to ever play the WSOP.
Some more
hot girls from the 2006 WSOP.
Vaughn Sandman (where ya been, bud?)
absolutely toys with "Salty" Joe Hachem.
We were the first to
introduce the world to Jamie Gold.
And we were the only ones to get
a pic with Jamie Gold and Crispin "Don’t Call Me Bruce" Leyser.

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No-Namer from the Netherlands Wins LAPT Rio

by Wicked Chops Entity on May 5, 2008 TweetThis

in 2006 WSOP Reports, Latin American Poker Tour, Poker News, Tournaments

Poker player Julien Nuijten wins LAPT Rio, Raica Oliveira wins hottest model who dated a trannie lovin soccer playerJulien Nuijten, a 19-year-old total relative unknown from Amsterdam, Holland, has won the first event of the Latin American Poker Tour, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Nuijten, who reportedly played the $2,500 buy-in poker tournament on a whim, started final table play as the chip leader and commanded his way to the title and $222,940 payday, which should be enough to buy him some sweet clogs, a field of tulips and loads of hash back home. And maybe a windmill or two. According to the PokerStars folks, Nuijten is a high-stakes poker player online and is a former Magic: The Gathering world champion, thus joining the ranks of fantasy wizard geeks turned cardtossers like David Williams, Noah Boeken, Dario Minieri, Eric "Efro" Froelich and Adam Levy.

Finishing in second for $117,750 was Russian-American Vitaly Kovyazin, who isn’t a cab driver like we had assumed earlier but we were right that he is from Brooklyn where he is a "construction manager." So we probably got the Red Mafia part correct too. Which means we’ll shut up now.

Alex Brenes, the brother of the insufferably annoying Humberto Brenes, finished fourth, earning $62,800.

The results from the final nine below:

1st — Julien Nuijten (Holland) — $223,000
2nd — Vitaly Kovyazin (United States) — $117,750
3rd — Nikolai Senniger (Germany) — $86,350
4th — Alex Brenes (Costa Rica) — $62,800
5th — Oliver Kugler (Germany) — $47,100
6th — Eduardo Henriques (Brazil) — $31,400
7th — Rafael Pardo (Colombia)  — $23,500
8th — Juan Carlos Burguillos (Venezuela) — $15,700
9th — Severin Walser (Switzerland) — $11,775

The next LAPT event is in San Jose, Costa Rica, scheduled for May 22-24.

Gratuitous Brazilian supermodel above is Raica Oliveira, who famously dated soccer star Ronaldo before he was into the whole transvestite hookers thing See lots more of Raica here.

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Jamie Gold’s Personal Videographer Pissed, Will Auction ‘Negative’ Footage on eBay

by Wicked Chops Entity on April 29, 2008 TweetThis

in 2006 WSOP Reports, Jamie Gold, Poker News

Jamie Gold's videographer auctioning video footage of the WSOP Champ
Rae Valentine, the videographer who followed Jamie Gold around pretty much everywhere the WSOP Main Event champ went for several months before, during and after his controversial win in the summer of 2006, is set to auction off all of the video footage he has of Gold on eBay which he claims will “validate some of the negative imagery surrounding the life of Jamie Gold.”

Says Valentine on a website he created recently:

“On August 10, 2008, the 2-year anniversary of Jamie’s World Series Of Poker 2006 win, I will end a 5-day auction on Ebay providing the winning bid with all video content associated with the Jamie Gold Project, in its entirety. Maybe this day will prove to be lucky for me. I truly hope whomever ends up with this content has the same passion I once had of making a compelling movie documentary, even in it’s moments of controversy, as interesting and entertaining a story, I know it to be.”

Valentine claims that he was hired by Gold per a “gentlemen’s agreement” (Jamie’s good at those) to produce a behind the scenes movie documentary and had followed Jamie “through airports and hotels, limos and casinos, from Los Angeles to New York.”

Valentine alleges that their friendship soured after Gold’s win and that he has lost “an estimated $150k” because apparently Jamie no longer wishes to use the footage for a documentary, which we can’t really blame Gold for considering how sucky poker movies are doing at the box office.

According to Valentine:

“A majority of the footage shows Jamie as an arrogant, paranoid, at times over-the-top individual who through all of his imperfections can be quite entertaining as he plots strategies (while in the comfort of his hotel bed with two plain clothes security guards posted just outside his door) on how he will defeat each of his opponents in the final days leading up to his poker world series victory.”

Arrogant, paranoid, at times over-the-top, and with security guards? No, not the Jamie Gold we know. No way.

Check out all of what Rae has to say on his website, including a few transcripts from the footage featuring none other than our good pal Crispin Leyser, here.

In related Jamie Gold eBay auction news, no one paid $5,000 for Jamie Gold’s urinal mint.

Semi-relatedly, Jamie Gold thinks Wicked Chops Poker is “awesome.”

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NewPoker Poker News

by Wicked Chops Entity on August 29, 2007 TweetThis

in 2006 WSOP Reports, Girls, Poker News

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:: Old man Mel Molnick, the CEO of Home Gambling Network and all-around pain-in-the-asser for online gambling sites, is reportedly the guy behind the swiping of Bodog’s domain names in connection with a default judgment 1st Technology LLC obtained on Aug. 1, 2007. [Gambling911, Points-Spreads]

:: In related news, looking at Poker Site Scout just a second ago, Bodog poker players seemed to have made the transition over to newbodog.com just fine. [PokerSiteScout]

:: Maxim’s 2007 Hometown Hotties is down to its Semifinalists and we’re picking Catalina (photo, far left) from Ft. Lauderdale as the early favorite. No, make that Erin from Port Orange. Or maybe Ashton from San Francisco. Yeh, let’s go with her. Ok, Jennifer from Toronto is going to win. [Maxim Online]

:: Apparently Canadians don’t just watch hockey while eating maple syrup flavored beavers at the curling rink. They also play poker in industrial malls and get busted doing so. [Toronto Star]

:: Candice Swanepoel is our favorite model from South Africa, today. [Horny Oyster]

:: Poker is going to the dogs in Florida as residents in Orange Park, a nice town near not-so-nice Jacksonville, are looking to add a poker room to its kennel club. [News 4 Jax]

:: If Heidi Klum is what you should look like after giving birth to three kids, WCP fave since puberty Elle McPherson is what you should look like when you’re 43-years-old. [WWTDD]

:: “Could any girl be hotter than 22-year-old Aussie actress Isabel Lucas?” is the Wicked Chops poker rhetorical question of the day. [FHM]

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Jamie Gold’s Urinal Mint from 2006 WSOP for Sale on eBay for $5,000

by Wicked Chops Entity on April 24, 2007 TweetThis

in 2006 WSOP Reports, Jamie Gold, Poker News

UrinalcakeNo shittin’ ya, click here to see for yourself.

Starting bid is $5,000.

And you only have five days to act to be the proud owner of this “ultimate poker collectible” that, according to its auctioner “poker-kitty“, was “used” by 2006 WSOP champion Jamie Gold “just prior to winning the biggest cash prize ($12 million) in all of sports history.”

Poker-kitty, who has a 100% positive feedback rating on eBay and is a 100% douchebag, goes on to say: “The mint in question was acquired (via rubber gloves) from a hotel men’s room attendant (close friend of the family; can’t disclose his name for obvious reasons), immediately bagged and labeled and stored for safe keeping.”

“While this item is DEFINITELY different, that peculiarity and rarity makes it the absolute ultimate piece of poker memorabilia of all time,” says poker-kitty. “Heck, you could even use it as a dealer button if you really wanted to, although I’d strongly suggest washing it first!”

There’s really nothing we can add to this, except that if this person nabs $5,000 for Gold’s piss mint, which is about as likely as it is the real deal, Tao of Poker’s Pauly, who loves to write about the pros he whizzes next to at tournaments, has a whole new income stream, so to speak, available to him to pad his bankroll.

Thanks to Michael T. for the heads-up on this one.

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