Anna Wroblewski

[Dan87]

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I'm a dealer and I've dealt to Anna quite a bit. REally a nice, down-to-earth person. My impression of her game is a lot of the players are generally intimidated to play a pot with her. Quick story.

I remember coming into my shift, it was a Monday Morning and I saw Anna with about 1K in front of her. I go into the box and half way through Anna gets involved with a loud-mouth "know it all" who talked a big game, but didn't have the game to back it up. It was 1-2 NL. Anna makes a small raise of 10, called by two players, then this "Know it all" (KIA) re-pops for 45....all fold to Anna who calls. Other two players muck so it's heads up. The flop comes 9 K J. Anna checks. "KIA" bets 75..Anna calls rather quickly. Turns comes J of diamonds. There was another diamond so it put two diamonds. Anna comes betting 75, "KIA" goes all in for about 200 total. Anna thinks for a long time then calls. River brings a K, bring the final board (9KJJK). KIA has pocket 3's. Anna has Q8 diamonds!! So the Queen played!! KIA went ballistic basically calling Anna the worst player he's ever seen. Anna showed a lot of class by not answering back as she raked in a huge pot.

A few hands later, Anna left the table for a moment. The rest of the players started berated Anna saying, "Don't worry she'll give everything back. She's the worst..blah Blah!!! Another 3 hrs later, she finally cashed out for about 2300!! She busted a few of the loud mouths along the way. GOOD STUFF! I remember telling Anna as she was cashing out how she had that entire table in the palm of her hands. She gave this sly grin as if to say..."I know"

I really happy for Anna's accomplishment...she should be very proud of herself.

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cliff notes: nice girl but huge degenerate, busto to come soon

[TroutMaskReplica]

lol at "tipping the media". "not expected but always appreciated" - LOLOLOL

[FatalError]

she's no degen

she was playing 5-10 NL with ~1k at caesars last night so obviously she's not going to donk it all off asap

seemed like a smart sensible person well aware of how lucky she is

[foureightsuited]

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she's no degen

she was playing 5-10 NL with ~1k at caesars last night so obviously she's not going to donk it all off asap

seemed like a smart sensible person well aware of how lucky she is

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before the 3k event her main game was ballys 1/2 and she was almost completely busto

[jogsxyz]

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I think any reporter who accepts money from a player should be fired and blacklisted. Then again known plagiarists aren't even fired in what passes for "media" in the poker world. *Gulp* I've never been leveled before I hope this isn't it.

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You're not being leveled, and I don't agree with your sentiment. There's at least a vague tradition of tournament winners tipping out certain members of the media, but it's not quite as standard as dealer/floor tokes.

Also, the poker media mostly exists to promote the game of poker itself in a biased/favorable way, and it doesn't have to live up to the same objective standards of the mass media, so save the righteous indignation...when a player who won the event tips a reporter/photographer, it's usually just a token of gratitude resulting from a bond that one tends to form throughout the course of the long, big tournament--it's a nice, but also relatively insignificant gesture. The reporters are working for you in a way just like the dealers and floorman are. Everyone has his own tipping policy, but tips to the media are certainly not unheard-of, nor are they unethical.

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That must be why the cops get such bad press. They never tip the media.

[fizresh]

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I think any reporter who accepts money from a player should be fired and blacklisted. Then again known plagiarists aren't even fired in what passes for "media" in the poker world. *Gulp* I've never been leveled before I hope this isn't it.

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You're not being leveled, and I don't agree with your sentiment. There's at least a vague tradition of tournament winners tipping out certain members of the media, but it's not quite as standard as dealer/floor tokes.

Also, the poker media mostly exists to promote the game of poker itself in a biased/favorable way, and it doesn't have to live up to the same objective standards of the mass media, so save the righteous indignation...when a player who won the event tips a reporter/photographer, it's usually just a token of gratitude resulting from a bond that one tends to form throughout the course of the long, big tournament--it's a nice, but also relatively insignificant gesture. The reporters are working for you in a way just like the dealers and floorman are. Everyone has his own tipping policy, but tips to the media are certainly not unheard-of, nor are they unethical.

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there's no righteous indignation there.

of course tipping the media is UNethical. just because some writers take the money doesn't make it correct.

if "everyone does it" is the benchmark for right and wrong then nothing would improve.

anyone accepting tips from players (or expecting them) works in marketing, not reporting.

[IvanXDurham]

The kicker for me was the vid up on cardplayer when she does the *shrug* "I two-outted Barry Greenstein" face. I think the WPT site has a vid-blog saying that she was broke up until her preliminary win. Who knows, but i'm gonna have a fun time watching.

[Al_Capone_Junior]

Yeah, I can see it now. "Thanks so much for twisting the truth, reporting complete falsehoods, and consistently putting jerkoffs like chan and farha on the cover of your crappy magazines and making them smell like roses. Here's a thousand bucks."

When pigs friggin' fly.

Besides there's far more of a tradition of being a total jerk the entire tournament, then stiffing everyone.

Then cardplayer puts them on the cover and makes them out to be real nice folks.

I couldn't report for such a publication. It's the people magazine for poker players. Except people magazine SUCKS.

Al

[Al_Capone_Junior]

I'm not sure I'm reading you right but it seems you're seeing only the negatives in Anna's success.

Let me just ask you this:

What really matters most? That she sucked out on greenstein? That she was broke at one time? (Who hasn't been broke before, let alone at 21?)

Or that she's a young girl who's happy, doing well, having good fortune and living life and loving it?

If all that matters are the negatives and the dirt and the skeletons in the closet then I feel sorry for you. Perhaps you should watch Anna to learn something about life, not poker

Al

[FieryJustice]

Pretty much, I think most people here dont like it when a random lucksack appears and people start thinking they are the greatest person alive. Lets be serious...can anyone who tips 5% on top of the redic vig actually be a winning player? Can someone who goes busto and then buys into a sat for their bankroll be a winning player? What makes someone a good person? Lucksacking a big name pro then laughing about it on tv? You say everyone has been broke at some point...I know a ton of poker players that have never been broke and probably never will be simply because they arent retarded. If you should be (edited) about their success at the bellagio mtts, its clearly thewacokidd. Other than that, no one has done anything that impressive.