perkdog and stevek played hold'em last night....
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I read that headline and just assumed you were talking about their pre-scheduled I told you so battle over whether or not Sheduer will be the Browns starter by week 5. Some things are worth more than 15M 😎
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Bad beat, no question about it. But Jungleman even with the ace on the river, only had the fourth nuts.
He of course was beat with the quads, or aces full, or tens full. Sometimes those baby boats can be stack killers. Yes it's a pretty hand, but sometimes not pretty enough.
If I played poker heads-up against Perkdog, within an hour he'd own my house, car, everything, including my card and coin collection.
But as I'm heading out the door to walk to the homeless shelter, I'd ask him please can I keep the Chuck Bednarik rookie card, it means so much to me.
Perkdog is a nice guy, I think he'd let me keep that.
It would be a fun time going up. against your skills and smart gambling mind against my gunslinger ways lol
It would be fun no matter who won and of course we would finish the session with a handshake
Pic of stevek after a poker session with Perkdog:
I'm still trying to figure out who is who in the video?
One of us is the shady looking character and the other is the creepy flamboyantly dressed fella 😂😂😂
The one player Jungleman, real name Daniel Cates, I've seen him play in quite a number of high stakes games. Paste his name into Youtube search, and I'm sure a lot of videos will pop up with him.
I only enjoy watching the high stakes games. Other than that, I don't follow like "every" poker player out there. So I don't know who is the young kid in that video. He might be really good, and he did play that particular hand extremely well to extract maximum value with the stone cold nuts.
I never watch poker, I'll. watch slot and table game gambling on you tube which is obviously based on luck but poker I just don't get enjoyment watching it for some reason
One of these days we may have to chip-in and sponsor Galaxy to play at the 10k buy-in WSOP main event. If I'm remembering right, I think a few years ago, Galaxy posted a screenshot of an online poker tourney he won. I think it was from the Ign website which is known for poker.
Sure would be cool if we all bought in for say 1k each, and Galaxy made the final table. Forget about the money for a second, it might turn out to be the top thread ever at Sports Talk. And we would insist that Galaxy please bring back some WSOP chips, so we can send them to PSA to be slabbed.
If he's a nice guy, and he won the tourney, he could sign the chips for us for free. Might be worth some good money selling it on Ebay, a WSOP chip, PSA authenticated sig of the winner. 😉
true story
about 18 years ago i met a guy at a sports bar i frequented that had nightly hold'em tournaments. i befriended this guy primarily because we shared similar backgrounds. at the time, i knew more poker than he did. he was a genuine neophyte, but he took the game way more seriously than i did. fast forward almost two decades and the guy won a circuit event in Oklahoma for 6 figures, he's played in the WSOP Main Event on multiple occasions and made the money twice, and probably the most surreal thing i've ever witnessed in my life -- his game has evolved so much over the years that i've personally watched clips of him on youtube draining Phil Hellmuth in cash games here in Houston
i actually sent him a message on Facebook not too long ago........"from nightly tournies at SRO for points to cash games with Phil Hellmuth & Nick Wright. quite an ascension brother!"
he's a very sharp internet entrepreneur who plays poker on the side. he told me in that same conversation, "i'm smart enough to know that i could never play poker full-time for a living."
you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet
Does your friend ever play in the televised games at the Lodge? If so I may have seen him.
Beating up on Phil Hellmuth, a double digit bracelet winner. That's some dam good poker. And winning a six figure tourney, as well as getting in the money, past the bubble twice in the WSOP, speaks for itself.
I've thought about one day playing in the WSOP main event. The entry fee is no problem. The problem is, and perhaps your friend was alluding to this. To win the WSOP, you really have to be willing to use amphetamines. I've never popped a single amphetamine in my entire life, despite the fact that in my high school, amphetamines were a plague. College wasn't much better, but I still refused to do it.
If I were to enter, it would have to be played without the pills. Hence the problem. I'm confident that I would play well and be competitive, even dominant in the early rounds against the many fish. And build up a nice stack. However hours and hours later, one lapse in judgment because I'm dog tired, one mistake, and poof, I'm felted. I see all that coming, so I haven't gone and probably never will.
Your friend mentioned the pro thing. It's a similar scenario as I just mentioned. Countless hours of poker each week, and unless you're popping the pills, you could actually be a better player than the others, but not when you're tired. That's when you get beat, even by lesser skilled players who are swallowing the pills like candy.