At the Bodog Life party at the Palms in Las Vegas last Friday night, Survivor: China’s Jean-Robert Bellande took on Charles Barkley in a game of HORSE. Except Sir Charles didn’t make much of a game of it. Unless the point of HORSE was to miss the rim…and backboard…by as much as you possibly can.
While Barkley was no Reggie Miller in his prime, he wasn’t Ollie from Hoosiers chucking up granny balls either.
Whether or not Barkley can own Bellande in the poker version of H.O.R.S.E. remains to be seen, but given Chuck’s rep around town, Jean-Robert probably doesn’t have much to worry about.
Charles Barkley air balls in HORSE against Jean-Robert Bellande
Tagged as: Charles Barkley, Jean-Robert Bellande, Survivor
Well, it looks like it all comes down the the Main Event this year to determine if the 2008 WSOP will forever be known as The Year of the ProTM or as something else. Fortunately, as reader "Mike" pointed out here, the man who won the $10,000 PLO tournament, Marty Smith, is in fact an Irish pro, which definitely helps.
:: Event #52 ($1,500 No Limit Hold’em) - Pro poker player David Daneshgar took this one down, winning his first WSOP bracelet and banking $625,443. Daneshgar defeated Scott Sitron (not a pro), for the title. Ginger pro Dan Heimiller finished third. Get full results here.
:: Event #53 ($1,500 Limit Hold’em Shoot-out) - Survivor’s Jean-Robert Bellande could’ve put away The Year of the ProTM race with a win, but he came up just short of his first bracelet. JRB lost heads-up to Matt Graham, who is arguably pro material with four cashes in this year’s World Series of Poker. Graham banks $278,180 for the win. Get full payouts here.
Main Event starts tomorrow at noon PST. Check back with WickedChopsPoker.com for regular updates.
2008 WSOP Band of Bloggers: Get full recaps and payouts from WorldSeriesofPoker.com here. Get Dr. Pauly’s take on WSOP happenings here. Please please don’t forget Pokerati here. And get Poker Prof’s recap and more photos here.
Tagged as: 2008 WSOP, Jean-Robert Bellande, Survivor, world series of poker
In a follow-up to an earlier post and an early front-runner for greatest poker news of 2008 so far, WCP fave Kimberly Lansing has lost a heads-up match against Survivor China’s Jean-Robert Bellande (not to be confused with Dancing with the Stars’ Shannon Elizabeth). For the loss, Lansing may have to dress up like Wonder Woman (said Lansing: "I’m down with Wonder Woman") at an upcoming tournament…or Snow White…or something equally as awesome.
According to the Bodog Beat:
"The match was the result of some tough talk between the two about who was the better heads-up poker player. The bet was that the winner got to select an outfit for the other to wear. Bellande was apparently looking down the barrel of a Tinkerbell ensemble."
[shiver]
Nice work JRB on pulling this one out.
While the Wonder Woman outfit has not officially been decided as *the* outfit, it is up for consideration. You can vote for Kimberly’s outfit via YouTube comments here, and we’ll take suggestions in our comments section below too. Keep it clean. Keep it clean.
Kimberly Lansing vs. Jean-Robert Bellande video
Tagged as: Dancing with the Stars, Jean-Robert Bellande, Kimberly Lansing, shannon elizabeth, survivor china, wpt
WCP fave Kimberly Lansing and new Bodog pro Jean-Robert Bellande, that guy with the French sounding name who was on Survivor China, are playing a heads-up match backstage at the WPT LA Poker Classic right now. On the line is a dose of humility with the winner getting to pick a costume for the other to wear at some future event.
Bellande is thinking Wonder Woman or Snow White for Lansing.
Lansing is thinking Tinker Bell for Bellande.
Please God, please let Bellande win. We promise we won’t post anymore photos of hot Danish girls on bikes ever again. Today.
UPDATE: There is a God. Bellande won. Stay tune for some video of the match. In the meantime, any photoshop-ers out there with a Wonder Woman pic and some time to kill?
ANOTHER UPDATE: After the jump, a video of Jean-Robert Bellande giving his prediction for NBC Heads-Up this week.
More Kimberly Lansing:
Kimberly Lansing video interview
Kimberly Lansing in Turks and Caicos, whose capital is Cockburn Town
Kimberly Lansing is fun to watch
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Tagged as: Kimberly Lansing, LA poker classic, poker
Day 1 of the 2008 WPT LAPC ended with 450 of the original 665 players remaining. Hats off to the WPT for keeping all numbers divisible by "5" this year. As faithful readers of this site know, we hate math, so the more that numbers can be dumbed-down for us the better.
Some big names top the leaderboard. The unofficial* chip count leader at the end of Day 1 is David Singer, stacked at 137,400. He’s followed by Antonio Esfandiari, who is stepping up after being named the new face of the WPT. Antonio brings 119,000 to Day 2 play. At third overall is Anna Wroblewski, a woman, with 116,550.
So many big names remain it would take a much more boring site that actually cares about listing them all to list them all, but some highlights include: Justin Bonomo (77,125), Action Dan Harrington (72,500), Montel Williams (59,000), David Williams (57,000), Phil Hellmuth (49,575), Johnny Chan (44,925), Phil Ivey (44,025), Vanessa Rousso who went to Duke (44,000), the insufferably annoying Humberto Brenes (40,300), star of Meerkat Manor Jeff Madsen (39,000), Todd Brunson (38,000), Lakers owner Jerry H. Buss (37,700), Survivor China’s Jean-Robert Bellande (34,000), Mike Sexton (33,000), 2007 NBC Heads-Up champ Paul Wasicka (31,875), and that should be more than enough for now.
Not making it to Day 2 include Vinnie Vinh, Vinnie Vinh’s chair, Jerry Yang (apparently he wasn’t praying hard enough this time), and Obama ‘08 supporter Daniel Negreanu. Question, would Daniel support celeb favorite Bam Obama if he knew the Presidential hopeful was not only swiping words from Deval Patrick, but was also plagiarizing Rocky Balboa?
And finally, not making an appearance at this year’s LAPC is Dancing with the Stars’ Shannon Elizabeth, as Shannon Elizabeth is busy getting in super-hot shape for Dancing with the Stars.
Get full chip counts and reporting from the fantastic WPT website.
* Official.
Tagged as: Antonio Esfandiari, Barack Obama, Dancing with the Stars, Daniel Negreanu, David Singer, David Williams, Jerry Yang, LAPC, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, poker, shannon elizabeth, vinnie vinh, wpt
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