High Stakes ESPN Golf Match
 

$9million golf match between some of poker's superstars and Vince Van Patten. Each golfer is putting up a mill, with some interesting twists in the formats.

From DN's blog (ignore the dog/period stuff at the end)
http://fullcontactpoker.com/poker-journa...&ucat=&

I think it's also in Hellmuth's blog.

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dog period stuff is [censored] gold

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Saw this today, and the teams look pretty intriguing.

From DN's blog:

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3 man scramble:
Daniel Negreanu, Josh Arieh, Erick Lindgren
Dewey Tomko, Doyle Brunson, ?
Phil Hellmuth, Russ Hamilton, Billy Walters

2 man best ball:
Daniel Negreanu, Erick Lindgren
Doyle Brunson, Dewy Tomko
Phil Hellmuth, Russ Hamilton
Vince Van Patten, Janet Jones
Phil Ivey, David Oppenhiem
David Grey, Huck Seed
John Hanson, Mickey Appleman
(I forget the last two pairings)


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The upfront money is $1M each for the scramble, and $100k each for the best ball. Given that and the players involved, the side action should be monumentally degenerate. GOGOGO!

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So much for DN being cash busto.
As well as Arieh.

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can I get a team together and join?

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dog period stuff is [censored] gold

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Agreed

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2 man best ball:

John Hanson, Mickey Appleman
(I forget the last two pairings)


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The first (and only) time I saw Appleman on TV, I seriously thought he was a she-male.

Is he any good at Poker?

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2 man best ball:

John Hanson, Mickey Appleman
(I forget the last two pairings)


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The first (and only) time I saw Appleman on TV, I seriously thought he was a she-male.

Is he any good at Poker?

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he plays tournaments well i don't know about full ring games. i used to see him, the takeover, noli fransisco, and abe mosseri play a pretty big mixed game in manhattan when the players club was still around...i haven't seen him much at any clubs since

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did daniel say he starts from the middle of fairway and gets to tee ball up at any shot? LMAO, this is not golf

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Is he any good at Poker?

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Mickey Appleman was interviewed/profiled in Al Alvarez's masterpiece about the 1981 WSOP, "The Biggest Game in Town". He has four bracelets (first in 1980, most recent in 2003) and according to his Wikipedia page has won over $1.5M in tournament play alone.

Mickey Appleman's Wikipedia entry.

Mickey Appleman's Hendon Mob profile

So yeah, he's OK.

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Saw this today, and the teams look pretty intriguing.

From DN's blog:

3 man scramble:

Dewey Tomko, Doyle Brunson, ?

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The third in that I'm guessing might be Hilbert 'Hillstreet' Shirey.

Super nice guy, super good poker player and golfer.

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2 man best ball:

John Hanson, Mickey Appleman
(I forget the last two pairings)


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The first (and only) time I saw Appleman on TV, I seriously thought he was a she-male.

Is he any good at Poker?

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I don't even think he has to be good at poker, b/c he's one of the most successful sports bettors of all time. Search Cardplayer's archives for a good interview with him within the last year.

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I've got a VIP pass for the event and will be blogging about it. If nothing else, I'll be posting at the end of each day.

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Really, keep us posted.

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I've got a VIP pass for the event and will be blogging about it. If nothing else, I'll be posting at the end of each day.

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Sweeeeeet.

If the ESPN producers are smart (who knows?), they'll follow the side action heavily. Let's hope so.

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did daniel say he starts from the middle of fairway and gets to tee ball up at any shot? LMAO, this is not golf

[/ QUOTE ]The part I am looking forward to the most is seeing all the different spots people negotiate.

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did daniel say he starts from the middle of fairway and gets to tee ball up at any shot? LMAO, this is not golf

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He thinks he's Stuey.

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Is the Janet Jones, Wayne Gretzky's wife? If that's true she really is a sick degenerate gambler.

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Is he any good at Poker?

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Mickey Appleman was interviewed/profiled in Al Alvarez's masterpiece about the 1981 WSOP, "The Biggest Game in Town". He has four bracelets (first in 1980, most recent in 2003) and according to his Wikipedia page has won over $1.5M in tournament play alone.

Mickey Appleman's Wikipedia entry.

Mickey Appleman's Hendon Mob profile

So yeah, he's OK.

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$1.5 million in 30 years is $50,000/year and thats before taxes AND before buy-ins. Live winnings never take into consideration the cost of buyins. He could very easily be a loser in tournaments.

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I'm headed to the golf course now with laptop in tow...(just put up a post on our site too). Stay tuned...

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Dewey Tomko, Doyle Brunson, ?


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I give this group a big edge. If you've read Rick Reilly's book "Who's Your Caddy" you'll know a match like this is right up Dewey's alley.

DN will be worried about trying to hit a 7 iron 142 yards and keep it fairly straight.

Dewey will be putting vaseline on the face of his 56 inch driver and knocking them dead straight each time.

This will make for some good viewing.

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According to this :

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/8...f-venetian.htm

Dewey and Doyle's third player is Vince "laying the twigs over the trap" Van Patten, and yes Janet Jones is the same Janet Jones Gretzky who played the WSOP and, according to reports, made an awesomely bad river call with Jack high.

No Ram Vaswani and Marc Goodwin ... and I'm not joking because the scuttlebutt I heard during the WSOP was that they would be involved.

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Dewey Tomko, Doyle Brunson, ?


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I give this group a big edge. If you've read Rick Reilly's book "Who's Your Caddy" you'll know a match like this is right up Dewey's alley.


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I once read that Raymond Floyd, who in his hayday was one of, if not THE best gambling golfers on tour, said that if he had to pick someone to put for any amt. of money (other than himself) he'd pick Dewey Tomko

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I was watching some internet clip about golf gambling and it said there would be weekly updates of the event, it was a few weeks ago I saw the intial clip, does this sound familiar to anyone? Is there golf gambling show on rawvegas?
thanks

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seriously, who is the best golfer of the bunch? Is it Lindgren? That 4 rounds same day prop bet still amazes me.

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seriously, who is the best golfer of the bunch? Is it Lindgren? That 4 rounds same day prop bet still amazes me.

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Seriously, best golf gambler in the group has to be Dewey and it can't be close. Golf gambling is his game.

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this makes me want to start golf gambling.

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seriously, who is the best golfer of the bunch? Is it Lindgren? That 4 rounds same day prop bet still amazes me.

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Seriously, best golf gambler in the group has to be Dewey and it can't be close. Golf gambling is his game.

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uhhhhhhhhhhh Russ says "hello".

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wow... just saw that Dewey was a former Pro Golfer... ok, question answered.

do they have handicaps in the high stakes match?

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Paging Blair Rodman. I can't remember his exact 2+2 name, but someone needs to PM him and have him come give some commentary on the pairings. I'm pretty sure he plays/has played golf with almost all of these guys.

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seriously, who is the best golfer of the bunch? Is it Lindgren? That 4 rounds same day prop bet still amazes me.

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Seriously, best golf gambler in the group has to be Dewey and it can't be close. Golf gambling is his game.

[/ QUOTE ]Dewey may be the best golfer but I don't know if he beats Russ Hamilton when it comes to being the best golf hustler


but then again pretty much everything in anyone, including me, says in this thread is like 6th hand knowledge

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...damn it was hot out there today...

...unfortunately i wasn't able to post as each hole went down, so i will be doing it in 3-holes at a time format. the first 3 holes are up.

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...damn it was hot out there today...

...unfortunately i wasn't able to post as each hole went down, so i will be doing it in 3-holes at a time format. the first 3 holes are up.

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Erick Lindgren and Daniel Negreanu—two-thirds of the "sucker" team—were getting their last practice drives in. There was a noticeable tension, not only in the air but also clearly written on their faces. I asked them how serious they were about their claims at being the “suckers.”

“Totally,” Daniel stated flatly. “I mean we’re playing with the most dishonest people in the world here.”

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LOL

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can I get a team together and join?

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No

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but then again pretty much everything in anyone, including me, says in this thread is like 6th hand knowledge

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Agreed...but it's fun to have an educated opinion. Similar to picking college football or basketball games vs. spread.

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...damn it was hot out there today...

...unfortunately i wasn't able to post as each hole went down, so i will be doing it in 3-holes at a time format. the first 3 holes are up.

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Just read the final report. Thanks for the updates. My slightly educated opinion was exactly a $0 winner for me.

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hello

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vikefan.... your avatar made me LOL IRL!

classic!

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Has there been any information posted about the best ball pairings?