Seriously multiplying like gremlins in a swimming pool today.
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This can’t be good.
Uh oh.
It appears as if someone has woken them up from their post-WSOP slumber.
If the 2008 WSOP hadn’t been The Year of the ProTM, it very well could’ve been The Year of the GingerTM.
During the last few days of the Main Event, there were almost more gingers playing than non-gingers. It was out of control.
We admit, we were feeling safe lately. Let our guards down. We even lowered our Threat Assessment from "Orange" to "Blonde" or "Brunnette" even.
Then, seemingly out of nowhere, they’ve crept up again, and threaten to suck the soul out of all those remaining in the WPT Borgata Poker Open.
With just 27 remaining, Dan Heimiller, a ginger, is the chip leader stacked at 2,870,000 (view Heimiller’s Ginger of the Day profile
Lots of big names still remain though to halt this orange threat, including Vivek Rajkumar (1,756,000), Thayer Rasmussen (1,413,000), Nick Frangos (1,140,000), Mark Seif (1,087,000), Michael Binger (718,000), Ted Forrest (607,000), Nam Le (235,000), and Chris Bell (165,000).
Brandon Cantu was knocked out in 32nd ($21,000) and Tiffany Michelle cashed in with a 46th place finish ($15,000).
Get full chip counts here.
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Don’t hate on James "mig.com" Mackey. The kid’s got game.
We all know that being a ginger is one of the toughest things anyone has to endure in life.
The orange hair. The freckles. The lack of a soul.
While some gingers we featured during the 2008 World Series of Poker have embraced their gingerism, others are just coming to terms with it. (revisit our ginger super-thread
Take James "mig.com" Mackey. In a recent $100r tourney on Stars, Mackey was insulted with the following slurs after sucking out with As-9s (posted here on the Pocket 5′s thread tilted "I didnt realize people hated gingers so much"):
pykesgoinpro: lol the ginger wins it
BabyGrand [observer]: even a fkn ginger 12 year old can do it
pykesgoinpro: just dont like poepel with aids or gingavitus
On a side note, in the same thread, hats off to poster mathclub for this pmp comment:
"my friend has a ginger brother and sister but he is normal. talk about dodging bullets."
However, other gingers, like Jon "Pearljammer" Turner (a two-time Ginger of the Day by request) and Super Ginger Cory Albertson have embraced their God-given lack of having a soul.
In his awesomely titled "It’s Orange Not Red" blog, Albertson says:
"I take great pride in that my ginger hair, sunglasses, and track jacket were good enough for me to be dubbed the "Super Ginger" of the WSOP. Hey… it’s better than nothing!"
Even
We’ll keep tracking the progress of all your favorite gingers in upcoming tournaments. Why? Because someone has to.
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Sick.
All right, we prematurely called The Last Ginger StandingTM
But alas, what’s fair is fair, what’s right is right, and what’s ginger is ginger. So Gert Anderson actually was the The Last Ginger StandingTM at the 2008 WSOP Main Event.
Congratulations, Gert. You stole approximately 6,800 souls on your quest. Way to go.
Photo credit: WorldSeriesofPoker.com
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Andrew Bokos is The Last Ginger StandingTM at the 2008 WSOP.
So
Maybe it’s after midnight and he’s been fed. Maybe water got on him. Whatever the case, another ginger has popped up at the 2008 WSOP Main Event. It’s Andrew Bokos, a ginger.
Congratulations Andrew. He’s currently stacked around 1.4M.
And thanks to reader "Nick" for pointing this out to us. It’s readers like Nick that keep people like you safe at night.
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