No LA Poker Classic thread?

[irish79]

Ungoliant,

I think your missing the fact that he was an 80% fav. with 2.3 mil on the line.

Yes, its poker and things like that have happened to all of us from time to time. The sick part was not that the card hit, the sick part was it happened at a WPT final table with major cash and prestige on the line.

[bruce]

Alan should be an inspiration to most of us on this forum. If he can win, the way he played, than ANYONE of us can. He demonstrated some of the most dontakular play I've seen in quite somtime. The last hand had to be one of the worst calls I have ever seen. I wouldn't expect to see a call like that in a nickel dime game.

Bruce

[olivert]

The WPT final table structure turned 4-handed play into a crapshoot.

The blinds were up to a ridiculous 150K-300K with no player having 5 million or more chips when the 150K-300K level started.

Because there were slightly more than 14 million chips in play, the entire table had less than 50 big blinds total.

When you combine the fast WPT final structure (designed to keep TV production cost low), the continuing decline of WPT viewership in the US, the image rights release issue, and declining sponsorship opportunities for WPT event winners (Playboy covergirl Joanna Krupa will make more money on poker endorsements in 2006 than Michael Gracz, The Grinder, John Phan, and Tuan Le combined), you have to wonder why so many of the newer players are still acting like lemmings and are choosing to play WPT events instead of the televised WSOP Circuit events or the Trump Taj Mahal US Poker Championship on ESPN.

[shaniac]

I don't know who Joanna Krupa is, or what she has to do with poker, but Grinder recently signed a totally sick longterm endorsement deal with Absolute Poker. You keep talking about the lack of ancillary potential that poker players get to enjoy now, so you must not be aware that people like the Grinder and Takeoever still have a lot of marketablility.

[THEOSU]

olivert,

do you have another trick or is this it?


all,

Goehring does this weird floaty [censored] with air because he does the weird floaty [censored] with hands, too, and then people push hard at him trying to get him to fold his air and whoops.

[Kevmath]

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I don't know who Joanna Krupa is, or what she has to do with poker,

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http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_news...l.php?p_id=998

She signed some sort of deal with Titan Poker.

[Yaboosh]

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olivert,

do you have another trick or is this it?


all,

Goehring does this weird floaty [censored] with air because he does the weird floaty [censored] with hands, too, and then people push hard at him trying to get him to fold his air and whoops.

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That floaty crap is fine early, but committing 1/4 of your chips doing it oop is icky.

[olivert]

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I don't know who Joanna Krupa is, or what she has to do with poker, but Grinder recently signed a totally sick longterm endorsement deal with Absolute Poker. You keep talking about the lack of ancillary potential that poker players get to enjoy now, so you must not be aware that people like the Grinder and Takeoever still have a lot of marketablility.

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Shane:

I stand corrected with respect to "The Grinder", whose
deal with AbsolutePoker has NOT been officially announced or implemented given that "The Grinder" hasn't appeared on any of AbsolutePoker's marketing material, not even in the weekly emails to the VIPs or on AbsolutePoker's websites as of May 25.

"The Grinder" should have gotten an online poker endorsement deal A LONG TIME AGO, long before the likes of "Blackjack Babe" Erica Schoenberg and Playboy cover girl Joanna Krupa have gotten their online poker endorsement deals.

I do know that Kenna James recently signed with SunPoker.com.

As for Nick "The Takeover" Schulman, I don't believe he has a longer-term deal yet even though he wore a "Full Tilt Poker" logo at the WPT Battle of Champions IV.

[liquid]

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"...chipped away at more than Michael Jackson's nose."

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Paled in comparison to the "Sets-Quatch" comment.

[shaniac]

Oliver:

My point was that marketting opportunities are available for SOME players, i.e. the markettable ones. Problems with marketting asian males aside, I've heard Tuan Le doesn't want the responsibility of an endorsement deal.

As for Grinder waiting this long to ink a deal, I don't think it was such a bad move considering the size of the deal he eventually secured, which is significant by real-life standards, not just "Hot-girl-signing-on-to-represent-some-unheard-of-online-pokersite" standards.

And while The Takeover hasn't signed onto anything longterm afaik, I'm pretty sure the opportunity is or will be there for him.

I'm just trying to contradict your doom-and-gloom attitude. Of course, there ought to be a natural thinning-out of the ancillary opportunities you love talking about, but it's not like they are dissapearing entirely.

Also, any word on ESPN's schedule for WSOP prelims?