A thread to talk about poker

[rjs246]

I would like to do gross things to Shannon Elizabeth.

[phattymatty]

yeah smokin hot, she actually came in second in the big celebrity charity tournament. phil gordon won.

[phattymatty]

came in 2nd out of 392 players in a $10 tournament this weekend. won $800. boom.

[hbionic]

so i did not win my world series event but it was a farging awesome experience.  sat at the same table with a few pros and saw a whole bunch of celebs.  matt damon, don cheadle, shannon elizabeth and a shteinload more.  i lasted almost until dinner break and saw a bunch of people lose before me, phil ivey, moneymaker were the only ones i actually witnessed get busted. and came in about 700ish out of the 1900 that signed up for my day, over 3800 for the whole tournament.  which is not that good but it was still worth it. definitely playing again next year, hopefully with better results.

Do you have to qualify to get into that tourney or just simply sign up? What's the buy in?

*I may or may not have used correct terminology.

[phattymatty]

Either...seems like it was about 50/50 in the one i played in. lots of people won some kind of online entry but i just paid my way in. there's 50+ tournaments in the World Series ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 buy-ins.

[Munson]

Delaware Park has a real nice tourny schedule now...

[SunMo]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2011/04/fbi-cracks-down-on-3-biggest-online-poker-houses-poker-stars-full-tilt-poker-absolute-poker/1

damn, PokerStars, FullTilt, and Absolute Poker shut down by the feds, hope people got their money out

[Sgt PSN]

FBI Assistant Director in Charge Janice Fedarcyk added: "These defendants, knowing full well that their business with U.S. customers and U.S. banks was illegal, tried to stack the deck. They lied to banks about the true nature of their business. Then, some of the defendants found banks willing to flout the law for a fee. The defendants bet the house that they could continue their scheme, and they lost."

I see what she did there. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

US Government hard at work with bullshtein investigations again.

[Sgt PSN]

Since the gambling industry was formed by criminals and run by criminals, I have no doubt that these guys here aren't doing some shady shtein.  Although I'm not much a gambler so I really don't give a shtein one way or the other since they haven't made a dime off of me. 

Wonder what happens to the money in peoples' accounts?  Guess it doesn't really matter though...they were probably going to end up losing it all anyway. 

[phattymatty]

i'm playing in a tournament with this guy tomorrow.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Mike "the mouth" Matusow is playing a tourney at Parx at noon today. In case any of you locals have nothing better to do.

[rjs246]

I stayed up until 3 playing cards and now I'm awake to play in a lacrosse tournament. Because I'm still young and this is totally a good idea.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Drink heavily during and after your tournament.

[Diomedes]

One of the few things that recommend rjs as an entertaining internet personality in this godforsaken shteinhole corner of cyberspace we call home is his natural inclination to punish himself. 

farg jocks.