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The Tao of Steve (Lipscomb)


Steve_lipscomb Twitter is a phenomom on par with Beatlemania, Fernandomania, Pac Man Fever, the Summer of the Shark, and idiots in 1994 who claimed that Killing Zoe was their favorite Tarantino movie. Yep, twitter pretty much dominates conversation right now.

While 1/3 of the Entities despises twitter about as much as Joan Rivers hates Annie Duke, the other 2/3's are all over it, and are particularly keen on WPT head honcho Steve Lipscomb's tweets.

Call them little nuggets of wisdom or moments of bliss. Call them whatever you want. Just count us as fans. Here are some of our favorites:

"God love southwest airlines. Sat next to flav o' flave on the way to vegas, doubt my return will be quite so colorful … Coaxed him to get on the plane mic"

"do you think someone will string all these twits together someday and make the monkey could write shakespeare argument?"

"Asking myself why the native americans didn't win — they were right about the curse of owning things . . ."

"Tired of "What are you doing?" How about "Who are you doing?" Twitter could still be the name of the site . . . with feeling . . ."

"Okay, I think we should limit meetings to 140 characters each . . . . any objections (keep them brief please . . .)"

"Who are the fucktards that keep voting for Danny Gokey? That guy sings like a grizzly bear. Rather sit next 2 Phil Laak on an international flight than listen to Gokey sing for 90 secs…"*

Enjoy more here.

* Possibly made that last one up.

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Steve Lipscomb on WPT’s Move to FSN


Earlier today the WPT announced it’s widely speculated move to FSN.

Moments before the announcement we interviewed WPT CEO Steve Lipscomb for his take on the move and on the potential of a World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker collaboration in the future.

For those looking for video of more hot girls doing Wii Fitness, go here.

VIDEO: Steve Lipscomb discusses WPT move to FSN

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WPT Picks a Brit Brunette with Big Breasts as New Hostess, Not Keeley Hazell Though


Layla Kayleigh - The New WPT HostessAlmost 20 days since we first broke the news that Sabina Gadecki got Friel’d just ahead of Season VI of the WPT, our favorite televised tour has finally announced her replacement, and she’s a brunette British model/actress with big boobs whose name is somehow not Keeley Hazell and who looks strangely like a cute, anorexic Nicole Richie on a very pretty day for the coke lovin’ orphan, if Richie donned a wig, had spectacular breasts and a really nice ass. Ok, she looks nothing like Richie.

Layla Kayleigh is her name, which we’re pretty sure was also the name of an 80′s song. She was born in London. She’s 23 and has already done Maxim, has pics all over the Internet in her undies, and she’s been an on-air correspondent for Fox Sport’s “Best Damn Sports Show Period”, The Vegas Insider, as well as a co-host on G4′s Attack of the Show and host of ‚ÄúThe Feed‚Äù news segment.

She also was on Al Gore’s Current TV, which some of us entities won’t hold against her.

Check out Layla’s official website here.

Ponder her Maxim photos here.

See her do the mic thing on video here.

And finally view a video compilation of all you’ll find on the net of her here.

After the jump, read the official press release from the WPT, sprinkled with photos of Layla. It includes Steve Lipscomb’s statement on her hiring, which is pretty much word for word what he said about Sabina last year. Love Steve Lipscomb, totally genuine guy.

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Sabina Gadecki Gets Friel’d, Not Coming Back for Season VI of the World Poker Tour


All right. We speculated wrongly.

Sabina_3_800x600_3In a post last week, we stated that someone was going to get whacked from Season VI of the World Poker Tour. It caused quite a stir around the Fontana Poker Room, with most of the players and media types we spoke with thinking Mike Sexton would be the one to go, as he simply doesn’t need the WPT. He’s set financially. Or maybe he wants to play more poker and high stakes golf matches. Who knows. 

We, on the other hand, assumed it was Vince Van Patten who wouldn’t be coming back, sex appeal and really good hair be damned!

But over the course of the week we have heard from multiple, well-placed sources that it is actually the show’s shamefully cute hostess, Sabina Gadecki, who after one season is departing just like her predecessor Courtney Friel did after hosting Season IV of the tour (Friel is now roving it as a part-time reporter for the Fox News Channel).

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Gadecki’s departure comes as a surprise to many who thought the aspiring actress/model and former Miss Polonii ≈öwiata and Miss Polonia World 2002 might just be able to fill the shoes (leopard print dresses, bikinis, etc.) of everyone’s favorite poker hostess, Shana Hiatt (seen at left from her spectacularly splendid Stuff Magazine spread).

Shana charmed us the first three seasons of the WPT, abruptly left due to some behind-closed-doors conflicts, then sued the WPT after they tried to Peacock-block her. Now she hosts NBC’s poker line-up, including its late night ratings winner “Poker After Dark.”

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Lawsuit Reveals Why Hiatt Left WPT and Other Things Steve Lipscomb Doesn’t Want You to Know


ShanavsteveWhen we got the inside word three weeks ago that Steve Lipscomb was Peacock-blocking Shana Hiatt from taking a gig with NBC, we were unable to get a comment from Hiatt herself, let alone from anyone at WPT or NBC.

But with the lawsuit she dropped yesterday, Hiatt is no longer silent, and she’s ready to take the WPT to task.

Indeed, Hiatt makes several damning allegations in her complaint including that she left the World Poker Tour because of harassment by WPT representatives and that Lipscomb himself called NBC to say they can’t have Hiatt and has been telling people he "owns Hiatt in poker."

First, on reasons for her leaving, which up until now she merely stated were personal, Hiatt claims that the World Poker Tour became a hostile work environment after she formally complained to them that a brother of a WPT exec was making defamatory statements about her. In the complaint she alleges:

"During the production of World Poker Tour in early 2005, [Hiatt] became aware that defamatory statements were being made about her and her husband by the brother of a senior executive of WPT. Plaintiff’s counsel drafted and sent on February 10, 2005 a letter demanding that the brother of the WPT Executive cease and desist from communicating further false and defamatory statements. After this letter was delivered, Plaintiff began experiencing harassment and a deliberate attempt by WPT representatives to make her extremely uncomfortable during production of World Poker Tour episodes. The conduct of WPT and its representatives created a hostile work environment."

So in the Spring of 2005, Hiatt couldn’t take this "hostile work environment" any longer and notified Lipscomb that she wanted out (word we have is this took place at the Bay 101 with Hiatt walking out of the meeting crying).

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