WSOP Facts - Funny World Series of Poker Facts
Howard Lederer paid $3,500 for a Ghost Busters
Zippo.
The Zippo belongs to Doyle Brunson, its
his good luck charm. Doyle has it willed
to Howard Lederer.
The name for the aforementioned zippo is
"Casper ". It's a black zippo
with the Ghost Busters Logo and "Dolly"
engraved across it.
Although it is the Ghost
Busters Logo, it's still named Casper,
go figure.
A record field of 5618 Players
took part in the biggest land based poker
tournament in history (so far).
Scott Fischman knows a super secret
bathroom that no one else knows
about. Woo.
You can't say the word 'f@ck',
or variations there of, loud enough for
anyone else to hear or you get a 10 minute
penalty away from the table.
People played a lot of garbage hands.
I couldn't believe how many players were
playing pure junk in the early stages of
the tournament! Any ace was common, calling
raises with QTo and even worse. A lot of
players would way overplay these hands.
I'm suprised.
 Mike
Matusow was released from prison in April,
2005. (Many mispell his name as
Mike Matasow).
He was arrested when he went to pick up
some drugs for a 'friend' and got busted
by an undercover cop. He was sent to prison
for 6 months.
In the early stages of the main
event, a dealer accused Mike of
throwing his cards at him and called the
floor.
(As a side note, Mike
used to deal poker professionally before
he begain playing full time, so he should
remember what it is like on the other side
of the table.)
The Floor arrived, and sided with Mike,
after a number of others players at the
table vouched for him. But it wasn't meant
to be, as Mike 'the mouth' Matusow had one
of his infamous break downs.
15 seconds after Mike wins the decision
from the Tournament Director, he starts
talking with the player to his right, about
what just happened, saying that he was about
to "go to War"
if he recieved a penalty. While saying this,
he uses the word "f@ucking".
The dealer again calls for the floor and
this time the tournament director gives
Mike a 10 minute penalty, to which Mike
responds:
"F@ck That"
Floor: "That's another 10"
"F@cking Joke"
Floor: "Thirty"
"F@ck you too!"
Mike even cursed once more according to
the ESPN bleeps, but he must not have said
"f@ck"... it looks like he only
recieved 30 minutes worth of penalties.
Why can't you use the word
"f@ck" in a poker tournament?
And why does ESPN bleep f*ck and g*d, but
not damn?
 Jennifer
Harmon lost a huge hand to a rivered straight
flush. She had Queens over Tens
boat.
When she moved all in on the river, her
opponent, who is sitting with the nuts ponders
the call and says "Well if you
can beat this hand then I guess I'm going
home early."
Harmon was not happy and she said "I
knew you had that hand."
When she arrived back at the table she chastized
the player for saying what he said, sitting
with the nuts. I honestly think her opponent
didn't realize he had the nuts for sure
at first... he had to think about it for
a second.
The oddest thing was, after the hand was
over, he wanted a big applause from the
crowd for his straight flush.... whatever
dude, you got lucky and were a donk about
it.
News travels fast. There
is a very active grapevine at the World
Series.
Greg Raymer had heard about the Harmon
hand shortly afterwards and he was at a
totally different table.
Phil Hellmuth checked in the dark,
numerous times. (I guess Jae's
long time APC strategy was right afterall!)
Very odd for Phil, as he usually likes to
control his opponents.
Phil's wife is a Psychiatrist.
He's been married 17 years.
Sam Grizzle was the verbal nemesis
to Phil in the 2004 WSOP and this
year that role was filled by Brent Carter,
a long time player who made many final tables
back in 2001. Brent outjabbed Phil verbally
in the ESPN footage.
X-22, aka Paul Magriel
knocked out Phil Hellmuth with pocket 7's
vs Phil's AQ. X22 looks at Phil and goes
"Off to the Races..." with
a huge, teethy smile. If you caught the
episode on the World Poker Tour you'll remember
'X-22', he is hard to forget. Phil didn't
look happy when Magriel called. Phil had
taken a horrible beat earlier and left the
table for a couple of minutes to calm down.
Here is a transcript of the Phil
Hellmuth Rant after he took a bad beat
for a huge pot just before busting out to
X22.
"I've busted a million europeans."
- Phil Hellmuth.
For more insane quotes check out the Phil
Hellmuth Quote Page.
William Rockwell plays poker with
his feet after loosing the use
of his arms in a motorcycle accident. He
uses a very cool pyramid looking device
to manage his cards. GoldenPalace.com bought
an advertisement on his foot. They are outrageous
for their marketing ideas, including the
numerous stunts with streakers running across
football fields, buying the right to name
a new species of money found on Borneo and
even paying Jeremey
Enke play in a Pink Bunny Poker Outfit
in the 2005 WSOP.
William also sucked out on the river in
one of the hands shown on TV. I do wonder
how he managed his chips. Good luck to you
Mr. Rockwell.
Barry Paskin, former actor and comedian
is very annoying. He was the guy
with the crazy hair often found shouting
at the top of his lungs. He put tape over
his own mouth, but still shouted, loudly
and often. No, no, no, no......yes! Hey
Barry, shhh..
Marcelle Luske, The Flying Dutchman, was
not donning his traditional suit and tie,
instead he was decked head to toe in Full
Tilt Poker Gear. He also got heavily
involved with marginal holdings early on
and bluffed a huge portion of his stack
in a very early hand. He won the hand, but
I was suprised to see him get involved in
a big hand against weaker players so early
when he didn't have anything but a gutshot
draw and an overcard Ace... but then again
who am I to question the great Marcelle
Luske.
Marcelle spent his time grooming (literally
cleaning) Brett
Jungblutt, who normally dresses in 'relaxed
stoner' attire. Thanks to Marcelle, Brett
got a nice makeover and sported a coat and
tie. Brett's a top online player and has
been seen hanging with the crew and Dutch
Boyd. Brett's new suit didn't help out,
he still got owned. Better luck next year
Brett.
The 2005 World Series of Poker
was an amazing experience. A group
of Atlanta Poker Club members made the trip
to Vegas, check out the pictures
from the APC's 2005 WSOP Trip.
Thanks and we'll see you at the tables!
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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 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!
* Here is another article with even more
facts about the 2005 World Series of Poker.
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