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Poker Player Michael Phelps Is Back to Playing Poker


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Michael Phelps is doing well at the $2k Borgata Heads-Up event. We think. Pretty sure.

Guess who was playing in the $2k buy-in Heads Up event today at the 2010 Borgata Winter Poker Open in Atlantic Craphole?

No really guess who.

Give up?

We’ll give you a hint. 8 Gold Medals at the Beijing Olympics. Likes Subway. Hangs with Phil Ivey. And likes hot little A’s with tramp stamps.

No, it’s not Barry Greenstein. You only read the last two sentences there. Completely breezed over the headline/photo/8 Gold Medals/likes Subway. So then yes, it’s Michael Phelps.

Phelps has been doing well in the Heads-Up event, we think. Kind of hard to follow on this site. From what we can surmise, he lost to 9/11 conspiracist and rapper Jeff Madsen. Then in the loser’s bracket, Phelps defeated 2007 NBC National Heads-Up champion Paul Wasicka. So now Phelps will be taking on the winner of a match between Robert Fikac vs. Adam Gerber sometime on Friday. We think. Pretty sure at least.

Anyway, try to follow the action here. And good luck with that if you do.

* Photo above courtesy of the Borgata Poker Blog.

UPDATE: Phelps won another match but just missed cashing in the event.

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It Was Carter ‘ckingusc’ King’s Bong


2008 World Championship of Online Poker Main Event winner Carter 'ckingusc' King has come forward and said it was his bong that Michael Phelps was snapped taking a pull from last November.

King is now facing a marijuana possession charge from South Carolina police.

Says King in a 2+2 thread:

“thats funny cause thats my house my bong and my computer in the background and the only thing that story got right was that its him in the picture. there i said it.“

King also said he did not try to sell the bong on eBay. Read more at Bluff Magazine here.

In related news, Phelps apparently is finding safe refuge in strip clubs now (link). In further related news, below is Bill Maher's take on the Phelps bong story. Thanks to reader Gravity King for the link.


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Michael Phelps’ Bong (Briefly) For Sale On eBay


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The bong that poker player/Olympian Michael Phelps was photographed pulling from was briefly for sale on eBay before "authorities" pulled it down.

The bong was listed around $100,000 (or as Phil Ivey likes to call it, "about 12 big blinds") before it got yanked. This is substantially more money than the urinal mint that Jamie Gold pee'd on was going for back in '06.

Between snapping and selling a cell phone pic of Phelps hitting the bong to the highest bidder and actually trying to fetch a brick for the bong itself, these are the most industrious/capitalist stoners we've ever heard of. What ever happened to just selling grilled cheese sandwiches at Dead concerts?

Source: NY Daily News

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Michael Phelps Likes to Gamble


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2009 SI Swimsuit model Lucia Dvorska is a little bit more appealing in a bathing suit than Michael Phelps.


Not unlike his New Year’s Eve party companion Phil Ivey, poker player/Olympian Michael Phelps likes to gamble.


Reports NY Post Page Six:

At the same South Carolina house party where he was snapped sucking on a bong, the Olympics hero lost a pile of money betting in a high-stakes session of the drinking game beer pong, in which players wing pingpong balls into plastic cups. “I saw Phelps pull out a roll, a bank-wrapped $2,000. He said, ‘I’ll match the $2,000,’ ” onlooker Michael Whitworth told the State newspaper. “Good ol’ Phelpsie lost it, too.”

Phelps, come on over here. Let’s talk. You’re a degen. Embrace it. Instead of holding back and just being a poor man’s Gavin Smith, come on over to the dark side and embrace being the Michael Phelps we all know you want to be. Leave the whole “swimming” thing to Aquaman. He’s got it covered. We know you have it in you, Phelpsie. And if you don’t do it for yourself, then do it for the kids. Be a role model. Atta boy.


In related Phelps news, looks like his “people” are trying to keep him as far away from Vegas as possible. Read here

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Michael Phelps Gets the “Really?” SNL Treatment


Not sure if you've heard this yet, but Michael Phelps was caught hitting a bong recently. 

Let's face it, Phelps probably isn't going to go within 50 metres of a bong for the rest of his life (fortunately for him, Dr. Pauly probably has a 50 metre bong, so hook him up good doctor).

Piling on the Phelps bong bashing bandwagon is SNL and Seth Meyers. This "Really?" segment is actually really funny, depriving us of the chance to make the requisite "SNL sucks…" jokes everyone feels compelled to make even though the watch the show anyway.

Get cougar Michele Lewis take here.


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