 Phil
Ivey's used to be known as "Jerome".
Phil used to sneak into casinos before he
was 21. He rented the ID of a co-worker
of his named Jarome for $50 a month. When
Phil turned 21 he went to the casino and
introducted himself as "Phil Ivey"
and apologized for using the fake ID. Now
that he was 21 he was legally able to play
poker there and the casino let him continue
playing... what could they really do?
Mel and Pat Humphries are
the die-hard Phil Ivey fans that show up
every year to cheer him on, wearing custom
made Phil Ivey shirts. They met Phil playing
poker 10 years prior in Atlantic City. They
seem like good people and we wish them the
best. The home-made shirts looked well,
home made. Hey Mel and Pat, get some Free
Full Tilt Poker Gear. 
The "Unfortunate Last Name"
award goes to James Butt. Yes,
James Butt takes home first place in the
most competed race in the past 4 years.
We had three top contenders getting decent
airtime on ESPN sporting really bad last
names. Derek Dix takes
a close fought second place with third place
finisher Bing Wang rounding
out the top three.
It was a tough contest this year, with three
top level contenders, congratulations, your
last names suck.
Andrew Black broke down crying for an um...
odd reason. Here is what happened.
One of the players at the table, Bing Wang
(third place finisher in the Unfortunate
Last Name Challenge), was late coming back
from a break.
Andrew asked his table to slow down to give
Wang more time to get back and play. The
other players decided to play at a regular
pace and to not slow play for Wangs benefit.
Andrew is a devout buddist (go buddah!)
Well, this must have majorly messed up some
buddahistic zen thing because Andrew became
extremely distraut. He teared up, broke
down and started crying. He had to stand
up from the table and work to compose himself.
Shortly later, Bing Wang returns to the
table completely oblivious to what has just
transpired. Wang, still gloating over his
finsh in the crappy last name award was
actually jovial upon his return. He was
chuckling about how he just moved up two
spots in the money because he was late getting
back to the table. .
Mr. Wang was ko'd shortly after returning
and didn't give Andrew Black a second glance,
after Andrew had fought so valiantly for
his benefit. Ah.... zen.
 23
year old Adam Friedman also cried and had
a 'breakdown'. Adam looses a $700,000
pot with the 2nd nut flush and proclaims
"I've been playing perfect poker for
three straight days! waaaa....!"
Adam later tells Mike Matusow "You
wish you were half as good as me at my age.
and "I'm probably the only 23 year
old who actually thought he was going to
win this tournament."
You can't say he lacks confidence...
James Pollack went from $7 in his
bank account to $46,245. James
finished 159th. The ESPN cameras watch him
as he gets paid in cash. James is standing
there and he is figuring out what to say.
"This is my school, my car, (something
unaudible) and then he says ... "get
Married." Come on dude, you just graduated
college and you've in Vegas with fourty
six thousand dollars. Have some
fun for a day or two. I'm sure you'll find
something to do with all that money.
James made friendly with Phil Ivey, plus
he was a braves fan. Good luck James.
 Dutch
Boyd had a respectable showing in the World
Series, making it very deep through
the 5600 players. Earlier in the coverage
we learned that Dutch was bi-polar. He also
said he had a dream that he was supposed
to go to a casino to play poker against
the Devil.
Dutch runs a blog over at DutchBoyd.com.
He also used to own one of the first poker
rooms, PokerSpot.com which went thorugh
some 'rough
times' with players not getting their
money backplayers didn't get their money
back.
Thanks and we'll see you at the tables!
KAP
P.S. The other day
we caught a handful of Professionals
Poker Players at Full Tilt. Check out
the hand that developed between
Phil Ivey and Layne Flack, also
what a horrible river card for Hoyt Corkins!
The funniest thing about the screen shots
is the timing of the question in the chat
box compared to what just happened in a
huge hand between a session ending huge
No Limit Cash Game between Phil Ivey and
Layne Flack....
The hand sent one of the pro's logging off
without comment after pulling an all nighter.
Thanks to Lasvegasvegas.com
for the pictures.
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