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Girls on the Rail

2011 Wicked Chops Awards: Girl on the Rail of the Year Goes To…

by Wicked Chops Entity on 12.12.2011 in Girls | 4 comments

Above: The first time our lenses caught The Girl Chainsaw Tweeted About

…it all started with a simple tweet.

Monday, July 11, 2011 by @AllenKessler:

@wickedchops girl on the rail alert table 70 white

So we headed over there. By the time we arrived, Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler was already eliminated, but we immediately figured out who he was talking about.

After we took the pics, we let Chainsaw know, to which he responded in typical Chainsaw-fashion:

@wickedchops did u get there in time she’s gone now. Hey, why aren’t u following me?

Perfect.

We put the pics up, and most immediately acknowledged she was the top girl we snapped all year.

Then fate intervened.

Turns out that the The Girl Chainsaw Tweeted About–our runaway winner of our Girl on the Rail of the Year Award– was the daughter of eventual November Niner Badih Bounahra. Her name is Amal. She railed her dad pretty much every day during his run. And she might’ve had her entire home country of Belize vote for her.

When we opened polls, it was a fairly even contest between her, Jean Shorts Girl, Tatty Tats, and Xuan Liu. Then, about two days before we closed polling, Amal surged, captured about every vote, and closed with a ridiculous 84% of the tally.

Xuan Liu came in second.

So congratulations to The Girl Chainsaw Tweeted About. She joins the exalted air of previous Girl on the Rail of the Year winners Ass Girl and Rachel Nordtømme. Unlike those two though, we expect to see her again next year.

Tagged as: Allen Kessler, featured, Girls on the Rail, Wicked Chops Awards

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Best of 2011 WSOP Girls on the Rail Friday Night Parting Shot Gallery

by Wicked Chops Entity on 9.23.2011 in Girls | no comments

We'll be looking for Badih Bounahra's daughter/girlfriend/wife at the November Nine final table.

We’ve had it. Can’t take it any more. Something needs to be done.

Wicked Chops Poker has been taken over by pictures of non-hot girls. In fact, there have been practically no photos of girls on the site for weeks. Like downloading a Nickelback song, believing that 9/11 was an inside job, not knowing how the fuck to use the self check-out at the grocery story and fumbling around like a goofball for 30 minutes while people behind you in line quietly swear to themselves, using a Bluetooth in any situation other than driving you douchebag, getting married before you’re 30, not segregating player funds and then paying dividend payments to shareholders even though you have a $130M short-fall due to payment processing issues, or not watching The Sing-Off or Community on NBC, we find this inexcusable.

So it’s time to remedy that situation and pretty things up a bit.

We’ve combined a long overdue Friday Night Parting Shot post with an even longer overdue 2011 WSOP Girls on the Rail Photo Dump to make a…wait for it…2011 WSOP Girls on the Rail Friday Night Parting Shot Gallery.

Some highlights worth noting:

We’ve learned that 49 year-old businessman Badih Bounahra will have a contingent of about 200 friends from Belize (basically the entire population of the country) railing him at the November Nine final table. Among them will likely be one of our top GOTR from the 2011 WSOP who is either Badih’s hot daughter/wife/girlfriend (i.e. The Girl That Chainsaw Tweeted About), pictured above and in our gallery.
November Niner Ben Lamb‘s girlfriend (fourth picture top row, on left).
Daniel Negreanu‘s now girlfriend, Krisztina Polgar (fourth row, far left).
Xuan Liu (fourth row, far ~~east~~ right) providing some Asian flavor for the Greensteins and F-Trains of the world.

Enjoy the gallery and click away. We’ll do our best not let this inexusable lack of hot girlness happen again.

Tagged as: Badih Bounahra, featured, Friday Night Parting Shot, Girls on the Rail

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Erika Moutinho Girls on the Rail Gallery

by Wicked Chops Entity on 7.18.2011 in Poker Tournaments | 2 comments

Erika Moutinho (center foreground) is still grinding her way up the pay scale at the 2011 WSOP Main Event.

With the eliminations of Erik Lindgren in 43rd place ($196,174) and Fabio Sousa in 42nd ($196,174), as of 5pm PT we’re down to math math math 41 remaining in the 2011 WSOP Main Event.

One of them is Erika Moutinho, a woman, with about 2.5M. That puts her towards the bottom of the leaderboard but still with around 50 big blinds. Her boyfriend David Sands is a little worse, with 1.9M. In related news, Erika Moutinho is dating David Sands, and THEY’RE BOTH STILL IN THE MAIN EVENT. Can’t believe nobody has reported this or that it hasn’t been discussed on TV. It’s gone, like, completely unreported.

Ryan Lenaghan is still chip leader with around 15M. Ben Lamb still follows with around 11M. Get full chip counts here.

Tagged as: 2011 WSOP, 2011 WSOP Main Event, Erika Moutinho, Girls on the Rail

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2011 WSOP Main Event Days 5 & 6 Girls on the Rail

by Wicked Chops Entity on 7.17.2011 in Girls | no comments

Ben Lamb (not pictured) even runs good in the girlfriend department.

We always like when the WSOP Main Event field narrows. Packs everyone in. Creates real buzz. Means the WSOP is almost over. And condenses all of the Girls on the Rail to one small, definable area.

Here’s a look at some GOTR from Saturday (and no, unfortunately Chainsaw’s girl has not returned- CHECK THAT–UPDATED PICS SHE’S BACK TODAY). We’ll update the gallery throughout the day.