Controversy at the Playboy mansion

[WutRUTryin2Hit]

There is a story in "Positively Fifth Street" about Annie Duke at the world series grabbing someone's cards after he threw them in the muck. She looks basically like a huge bitch in the entire book.

There was also an issue about 2 years ago when UB held their first million-dollar guaranteed tourney, and Annie Duke, who was an employee of UB at the time and actually scheduled and planned all the tourneys, commentated the webcast, and yet guess who's account won the whole tourney? Her second one. Couldn't find a link on 2plus2 about it, but here is one:

http://www.thepokerforum.com/forum/ubbth...ite_id/1#import

[MaverickUSC]

Just posted a blog on this.

http://news.pokerpages.com/index.php...ew&id=2149

Here's the full text:

In other news there has been some controversy brewing over the end of the poker tournament at the Playboy mansion. I had left shortly before this, but I saw all the set-up. We had to be off the mansion grounds by a set time, and to accomodate this the tournament directors were forced to end the tournament by chip count rather than playing it out. I heard that they did not get a lot of time, but again do not know the details for sure. The player who took third basically could not win by picking up the blinds and antes, so Steve and Shannon simply folded their hands to lock up first and second.

He's not happy about this at all, and is taking aim at everything, including the charity, not just the parties involved - the two other players and the tournament directors. I am not sure when they went to number of hands, but the player who took third is livid. First point: no reason for him to have conflict with anybody other than who was responsible for that final table period.

But wait, here's some more gasoline on the fire! Steve was drunk as a skunk (as were 99% of the people in attendance... but that's besides the point). Annie Duke was sweating him in at the end. I have a great picture of them both in my previous blog, and that is basically what it looked like. Two drunken idiots having a great time while this drunken idiot laughed along and took pictures. The bad news is that Annie was telling Steve that he really should not be playing a hand While drunk Steve protested and said he wanted to at least look at his cards, and she said no way. This is a pretty blatant violation of the "one player to a hand rule".

Maybe Steve was serious about looking at his cards, maybe he was joking because it would sound funny, or maybe he was just there having a great time at the playboy mansion. I still think that it would have been pretty impossible for it to slip beyond his conscious realization that if he folded every hand he would lock up a seat in the main event. The place was a zoo - just look at the pictures! There were at least 50 people within five feet of the felt on that final table. Further, if the guy had a problem with Annie sweating Steve, or suspected foul play, why didn't he say anything Saturday night?!? This just came up recently.

Nothing obviously can be done now as the event has concluded, but lots of damage to many reputations of individuals and orginazations can be done if this is made public without all the facts and circumstances out there.

Just my two cents.


Shortly after writing this, I received this e-mail and thought I should pass it along.

"We are obviously so sorry that Terrence feels he was slighted in any way. I obviously would have prefered that everyone was happy, as we raised even more money this year than last, which was our goal. The kids in inner cities that benefit from this program and the hundreds of lives being saved in Africa as a direct result of people donating and attending this event I'm sure are more than thankful for everyone's support. I am more than happy to refund Terrence's monies that he paid to attend the event if he feel he was wronged in any way by winning a $15,000 prize. I cannot in good conscience split up a prize after the event when Steve and Shannon won, and I believe one of them is going to re-donate the prize back in order to benefit the Urban Health Institute." - Joy Miller, Urban Health Institute Tournament Consultant

Any questions, concerns, or interest in where the monies raised for the 501C3 non-profit organization go can be directed to Joy Miller at [email protected]

Devo

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He's not happy about this at all, and is taking aim at everything, including the charity, not just the parties involved - the two other players and the tournament directors. I am not sure when they went to number of hands, but the player who took third is livid. First point: no reason for him to have conflict with anybody other than who was responsible for that final table period.


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Where exactly did Terrence take aim at the charity? In fact, he also spared both Dannemann and Elizabeth from blame. Way to misrepresent his post. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[M.B.E.]

MaverickUSC, you owe Terrence an apology for writing on PokerPages that he “is taking aim at everything, including the charity”. He never criticized the charity.

[Tuco]

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MaverickUSC, you owe Terrence an apology for writing on PokerPages that he “is taking aim at everything, including the charity”. He never criticized the charity.

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[Emperor]

I also posted on the PPA forum that Annie Duke shouldn't be representing the PPA, nor should they EVER have anything to do with Joy Miller.

[MaverickUSC]

You are right actually. About an hour ago I posted this in my comments thread:

"Good times here. I wrote the blog at first from what I had heard and seen firsthand... the night there, talking with Steve Monday on the same table, and through other various avenues. After that point I found Terrence's blog and the 2+2 thread and posted the blog links accordingly.

This really is a sucky situation and I want to remain completely neutral, but I will do my best to give my opinion and the facts as I see/find them."

I had heard from several sources that he was taking aim at everything including the charity and wanted to make a public post as quickly as possible to do whatever I could to avoid the damaging of any reputations.

This issue has quickly gained plenty of legs on it's own and I really want to absolve myself of the "good times".

I will be posting this on my pokerpages blog as well soon.

Devo

[whittiphil]

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I had heard from several sources that he was taking aim at everything including the charity and wanted to make a public post as quickly as possible to do whatever I could to avoid the damaging of any reputations.


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Except Terrence's of course?