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This Girl is Playing the EPT Polish Open in Warsaw


EPT Polish Open is underway with French-ie Alexia Portal among the fieldAlexia Portal (at right, on the left), the French actress you don’t know from the film Autumn Tale but may remember from our “This Girl is Playing the EPT Dublin” post, is among the 168 players who ponied up the 21,000 Polish Zlotych buy-in today to start Day 1b at EPT Polish Open.

Also among the field today at the Casinos Poland: 2004 WSOP Main Event champ Greg Raymer and serial EPT-ers Luca Pagano, Pascal Perrault, Thor Hansen, Andy Black, Soren Kongsgaard, Thierry van den Berg, Rolf Slotboom, Mark Teltscher and William Thorson.

Also, also there at the EPT Polish Open today are:

Dave Colclough, whose wife is Rhowena, if you didn’t know and like you didn’t know.

Sorel Mizzi, who says he’s sorry again and creepily has a poster of Annette_15 on his wall.

Mel Judah, whose Vegas lap dances last summer are scarred into our brains.

Johnny Lodden, who was apparently the poker pro that got Trojan’d out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Liz Lieu, who is hot.

The second flight draw of 168 players puts the total field at 359, a decent increase from last year’s debut event in Warsaw which drew 284 to the Casinos Poland. The total drives the prize purse up to 7,180,000 Polish Zlotych if our math is correct, and it probably ain’t.

Surviving Day 1a yesterday were 72 players including the chip leader Robert Flink, a Swede, who amassed 113,000. Second in chips was Spaniard Anio Alcaraz (78,000) and third but first in weird foreigny name was German Alp Okumus (62,100).

For full chip counts, go here and scroll down.

Our WCP tip of the day: Don’t do a Google Search of Ewa Sonnet or a Google Image Search of Ewa Sonnet (NSFW). Unless you’re your own boss, and even then, only if you have an hour or so to kill. Ewa Sonnet by the way is Poland’s 36E answer to Keeley Hazell, but more pornish, because she’s Polish.

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Negreanu Rips Raymer’s Response, Says Its Ridiculous


J_alba_bikini_6Responding to Daniel Negreanu’s recent comments to the Las Vegas Sun, in which the all-time WPT money winner singles out Joe Hachem as an exception to the “flash-in-the-pan types” who’ve won the Main Event the last few years, Greg Raymer had this to say over at the 2+2 forum:

“If I wanted to get catty, I’d say it’s better to beat 400-800 (which I have done consistently in mixed games) than to lose at 4000-8000.”

To which Negreanu replied, over at FCP:

“The Raymer makes some ridiculous post saying, ‘It’s better to win at 400-800 than lose at 4000-8000.’ I post my results on my website in all games. I’m wnner in all forms of poker outside of online poker and the High Stakes Poker cash games on television. I am winner in the 4000-8000 game.”

Ok, this just isn’t interesting to us anymore, hence the pic above of Jessica Alba trying to catch a football on the beach, which you can see lots more of after the jump (our favorite is the first one with the audience…like watching Jessica Alba on the beach is some sort of spectator sport, which it is).

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Greg Raymer to Run for Vice President of the U.S.?


Danielle_lloyd_bikini_1In an interview with our favorite Lithuanian-based poker news site, PokerNews.com, 2004 WSOP champ Greg Raymer claimed he’s considering a run for the VP spot in the 2008 election, saying, “I am currently talking to some people who run the Libertarian Party about the possibility of running to be the party’s official candidate for Vice President of the United States.”

Raymer, as you know, was very active in the PPA’s fight against the likes of Bill Commu-Frist and his cronies who eventually pushed the UIEGA through the Port Security Bill, so no doubt his election, which would be as likely as John Kerry not coming across as a pompous, elitist ass during a presidential campaign, would be good for online poker. Raymer is also a very large man who would kick the living shit out of anyone who fucked with his money or family, which probably means he’d be tough on terrorist folks, like Al Qaeda and other people with funny beards and dark skin.

It’s worth noting that Raymer has apparently improved upon his diplomatic chops after his notorious feud with Daniel Negreanu. When asked in the interview why Jamie Gold hasn’t garnered the same level of respect he and Joe Hachem got, Raymer deftly said, “Joe and I did not get respect from our peers with respect to our poker skills until we proved ourselves in later events. Jamie has not had time to do that yet. If he does, he will get that respect.”

In other 2008 election news, Phil Gordon, who is as tall as Raymer is large, has yet to announce whether he’ll run for President, as we called for more than a year ago. We suggest the two run as a ticket for the sole purpose of shining the spotlight on the online poker issue. And to give us something other than the Jamie Gold lawsuit to talk about.

By the way, the photo above is of Danielle Lloyd. Because she isn’t Greg Raymer or Phil Gordon.

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