All right, let’s wrap this all up with some pictures (below) closing thoughts on the NBC National Heads Up Poker Championship red carpet/draw party last night.
First, job well done to Jon Miller of NBC for growing this event to what it is. This was easily the biggest red carpet crowd with the most excitement around it we’ve seen in the three years we’ve been covering it. Plus adding GoDaddy.com as a sponsor brings yet another big name mainstream advertiser into the fold (which = good for the game).
Now some random notes: Not sure if it was because he saw Phil Hellmuth talking to the RawVegas.tv crew or not, but Layne Flack couldn’t have exited stage left into the party (and by-passed the video crews) any faster than if his ass was literally on fire and the only bucket of water within a three mile radius was in PURE Nightclub itself. / Congratulations again to Vanessa Rousso for landing a spot in that GoDaddy.com commercial with Danica Patrick. Also congrats on rocking a skin tight outfit that revealed a remarkably clear, um, something that rhymes with “mammal doe.” / Speaking of Danica Patrick, while not super-model pretty, in person she’s definitely better-looking than you’d think. Kind of “take-home-to-mom” pretty. / Jamie Gold had no problem immediately admitting he screwed up on getting a fake tan. / And while Annie Duke kind of makes sense on why she’s not switching to FTP, we’re still standing by our steak dinner offer.
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Tagged as: Annie Duke, Danica Patrick, GoDaddy.com, nbc national heads up poker championship, Poker News, vanessa Rousso
We have no idea whether or not Jamie Gold still uses the same monkey-fucking-a-football PR squad he did back during the BruceCrispin Leyser days, but all current evidence points to "yes."
In an extremely poorly crafted press release with multiple spelling/grammatical errors, Gold's team let's us know that on Oscar night this Sunday you can play in a charity tournament as:
"ACED [Gold's new online sponsor] has donated an [sic] very generous award…the lucky winner will have a once in a lifetime priceless opportunity: a $10,000 seat into the world's most prestigious poker event, along with an all-expense paid trip to Las Vegas, private dinner and complete coaching by champion Gold prior to the main event, the best chance our winner can cash in for over 10,000,000 dollars and be poker's next world champion! The CUN Viewing event is to raise money and awareness for foster and at-risk youth through schools and mentorship programs."
Gold is quoted as saying:
"Some things are more important than trying to win $7 million dollars! These kids need our help."
Ok, no one is questioning Gold's charitable bonafides. He's done a great deal for a number of philanthropic organizations and should be applauded for it. However, where in this press release does it say howhe is giving up a shot to win some mythical 7 mil prize? Wtf? Sure, the LAPC Main Event is going on then, and maybe it'll have a $7,000,000 total prize pool, and maybe the winner will see around $1.5M or so. Is that what they're talking about? If so, that's about as misleading as a stripper pretending she really likes you and is even considering your offer to take her to dinner some time…while she's giving you a lapdance of course.
You know what they say about history…You know what they say about history.
Read the full press release here.
Tagged as: Jamie Gold, Poker News
Figured we needed to bring some sexyness back on the homepage since you've been staring at Russ Hamilton's ugly mug the past few days. Enter Suelyn Medeiros, a Brazilian model who is so hot, that if it came out she was implicated in the UB super-user account scandal too, we'd be like, "Well, so what? What's the big deal? Who wouldn't do the same in her situation? Did you see her ass, btw?" View more below or the full set of pics here.
:: Tom Schneider's entertaining rant on Russ Hamilton sums up most people's thoughts on the guy pretty well. [link]
:: Jamie Gold signs with Aced.com, whatever that is. [link]
:: Among those who are victims of the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme: Lyle Berman. [link]
:: Man it's a fucking slow day if we're fucking linking to this story. [link]
:: And Annie Duke, a woman, who we broke finished at least in the top 2 (pretty sure she won it) on Celebrity Apprentice and who we still have a standing offer of a steak dinner, is finally showing up in some Celebrity Apprentice clips. [link]
Tagged as: Annie Duke, Jamie Gold, Poker News, Russ Hamilton, Suelyn Medeiros
by Wicked Chops Entity on May 23, 2008 
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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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Tagged as: 2005 WSOP, 2006 WSOP, 2007 wsop, 2008 WSOP, joanna krupa, shannon elizabeth
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| 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.” |
Tagged as: 2006 WSOP Main Event Champ, Jamie Gold, poker, Rae Valentine, video, video footage, WSOP
Neil Channing, a ginger, so he has no soul and may kill you in your sleep if he gets the chance, has won the 2008 Irish Poker Open in Dublin, Ireland.
After working his way through a field of 667 players, the 40-year-old from London entered the televised final table with more than a third of the chips in play and steamrolled over his competitors in a manner reminiscent of the way Jamie Gold dominated the final table at the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event.
For the win, "Bad Beat" Channing takes home €801,400. Runner-up Donal Norton, the sole Irishman at the final table, walks with €420,000.
The rest of the final table finished as follows: Thomas Dunwoodie (€275,000), Tim Blake (€220,000), Danilo Paulsen (€175,000) and Edwin Tournier (€135,000).
While we weren’t there in Dublin to cover the event as we’ve been banished from the Emerald Isle ever since the naked leprechaun tossing debacle in Kilkenny ten years ago, our pal Owen Laukannen was there and you can read his full wrap-up here.
Speaking of leprechaun tossing, for a video showing what all Canadians do to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day besides freeze their asses off, go here.
Photo above of Neil Channing, a ginger, and last year’s Irish Open champ, Marty Smyth, also a ginger.
*UPDATE: There’s a good chance based on people who have played against him that Neil isn’t an actual ginger although he does show some ginger tendencies. Perhaps it was just the photos Owen took that made him look pretty ginger-y to us. Same goes with Marty, although the dude’s pretty much bald so it’s hard to tell. Regardless, being labeled a ginger is a serious matter and if we’re wrong, our apologies.
Tagged as: Irish Open, Jamie Gold, Neil Channing, poker, Poker News, poker tournament
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