Comments on: RE: All Hopes Hinge … Go Dallas (Online) Poker! http://pokerati.com/2008/07/14/re-all-hopes-hinge-go-dallas-online-poker/ Texas Hold'em and Las Vegas WSOP Poker Blog, now with PLO too! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Johnny Hughes http://pokerati.com/2008/07/14/re-all-hopes-hinge-go-dallas-online-poker/comment-page-1/#comment-153465 Johnny Hughes Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:11:20 +0000 http://pokerati.com/?p=4039#comment-153465 Craig is carrying the flag of the Lone Star State all by his lonesome. In the earliest days of the World Series of Poker, it was nearly all Texans. At the final tables, it was Texans and Puggy Pearson. When Johnny Chan won it two years in a row, he was a Texan. Bobby Balwin was and Okie, but he had paid his dues on the road in Texas, like all the early players. After a few years, there was an even money prop bet: a Texan against the field. Then much later, Amarillo Slim had a list of three sets of twenty-five pros. You could bet Texans, Amazing Asians, and others. He and Shaun Rice were booking it. I went out to write a Texas angle for Texas Monthly some year. It was a watershed wake-up call that Texan dominese was over The only Texan at the final table was the permantly angry Johnny Bonnetti. An Iranian won it! Mansour Manloubi. I am pulling hard for Craig. I do hope he and that beautiful lady both make the final table. Johnny Hughes Craig is carrying the flag of the Lone Star State all by his lonesome. In the earliest days of the World Series of Poker, it was nearly all Texans. At the final tables, it was Texans and Puggy Pearson. When Johnny Chan won it two years in a row, he was a Texan. Bobby Balwin was and Okie, but he had paid his dues on the road in Texas, like all the early players.

After a few years, there was an even money prop bet: a Texan against the field. Then much later, Amarillo Slim had a list of three sets of twenty-five pros. You could bet Texans, Amazing Asians, and others. He and Shaun Rice were booking it.

I went out to write a Texas angle for Texas Monthly some year. It was a watershed wake-up call that Texan dominese was over The only Texan at the final table was the permantly angry Johnny Bonnetti. An Iranian won it! Mansour Manloubi.

I am pulling hard for Craig. I do hope he and that beautiful lady both make the final table.

Johnny Hughes

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