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Jan/Feb
2007
Roy Brindley keeps us up-to-date on the Poker
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Alternative Poker Awards 2006
Never Ending April
Fool’s Award goes to…
Mansion Poker who managed to attain nine
months of unprecedented coverage with their yarn about a $10 million sit-down
6-seater speed poker crap-shoot staged in a spaceship. Talk about having a
laugh!
Porky Pie Award
Des Wilson’s book ‘Swimming
with the Devilfish’ featured a chapter on Paul Jackson who boasted how he
took on Roy Brindley in an online $10,000 heads-up match and beat him by
“playing like a robot.”
Umm, problem was when he was
supposedly playing “like a robot” in ‘that $10,000 match-up the
history books show he was actually engaged in the later stages of a tournament
in Barcelona..
Playing two tables at once on the Internet is relatively
simple but a ‘live table’ in a Spanish casino where laptops are
barred and a heads-up game online concurrently? That really is taking poker
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 Disappearing Act Award
Professional poker player and
chairman of Corals Poker, Jim ‘Celtic Tiger’ Britain, seems to have
disappeared off the face of the planet. No one is complaining though.
Award for Avoiding both Arrest and the Monopolies and Mergers
Commission
At a time when non-US directors and board members of online
gaming sites could not set foot in the USA for fear of arrest – and those
that did were indeed arrested and charged – the all-American share holders
and sponsored players of FullTilt continued to walk the streets and strip
without an apparent concern in the world.
IMeanwhile just how their
collection of tournaments – featuring only FullTilt sponsored players
wallpapered in FullTilt attire, sat at a FullTilt branded table overseen by a
FullTilt employed tournament director, commentated on by FullTilt sponsored
players signing the praises of their FullTilt sponsored compatriots on a
television broadcast paid for by FullTilt either-side of advert breaks
purchased by FullTilt – passes regulators is the eighth wonder of the
world.
Number nine is how FullTilt sponsored Mike Matusow enters Europe
without an apparent immigration hassle incidentally!
I Believe it if
it is on a TV Screen Award
I laughed until the pee ran down my ankles on
learning US Congressman Jim Leach was ousted from his Iowa office when losing
out in the mid-term elections.
Leach was responsible for the
anti-gaming legislation which was tagged onto an anti-terrorism bill and signed
by the President. Many argue the law infringes civil liberties by blocking
banking transactions between US citizens and online poker/gaming sites.
Regardless, it [the law] has had absolutely no effect on the likes of FillTilt
or Poker Stars.
It has taken a while but I have finally figured the
grounds for his ferocious objections to online poker. I’m wagering he saw
a sneak preview of the latest James Bond offering, Casino Royale.
Just
consider… The storyline features a rogue called Le Chiffre who is an
international money launderer for the terrorists of the world. Bond is supposed
to defeat Le Chiffre in a high-stakes poker game, a game which if lost would
result in twice as much terrorist money in circulation.
Make the
connection? Surely way too many similarities to be pure coincidence and
irrefutable proof that television allied to a fertile imagination is, in some
cases, a very dangerous thing.
Complete
U-Turn Award
Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott would be amongst the
first to tell you he is the best poker player in Europe and he was also the
first to tell William Hill that, with his superstar status, he should receive
free entry into their televised Grand Prix event.
When that was not
forthcoming he decimated viewing figures by not taking his place in the line-up
in the 2005 rendition. However, a year on the Fish made a full u-turn deciding
not to disappoint his fans or his ego further and pulling up £6,000 for
his seat.
Award for Industry and Sales
Paul ‘Mouth of
the South’ Parker who is believed to be single handedly responsible for
the vast majority of iPod and MP3 Player sales amongst the poker playing
community is a clear cut winner in this category.
Outstanding
Journalism Award
The Racing Post’s ‘Pick of the Day’ TV
column which in winter months reads:
IMonday: Football
Tuesday:
Football
Wednesday: Football
Thursday: Football
Friday: Football
Saturday: Football
Sunday: Football
Of course the summer months
are different with its weekly calendar looking like this:
Monday: Tour
de France
Tuesday: Big Brother
Wednesday: Tour de France
Thursday:
Big Brother
Friday: Tour de France
Saturday: Big Brother
Sunday:
Tour de France
It has been promised that come the summer of 2012 Poker
will get a mention but only when Channel 4 is on strike and all, not most, of
the riders in the French bike race have tested positive for drugs.
The
BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year Award
The general public have
become accustomed to the winner of his prestigious much-touted television
extravaganza ‘Sports Personality of the Year’ being devoid of
‘personality’.
However, as with the Racing Post, poker, a
game which is quickly becoming the countries number 1 pastime has been
completely blanked once again.
Congratulations to the winner – I
happen to enjoy Gymkhana – but with Britain’s top poker-playing
talent earning over $2 million in a year, surpassing the vast majority of
successful sportsmen in the process, a small mention is
warranted.
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