Comments on: Could Men Be the Master of L.A. Poker?

By: Oliver Tse

Oliver Tse — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:15:33 +0000

BJ:

The WPT Invitational is actually an “open” event (of sorts) for poker players because anyone who pays the $25,500 buy-in to play the WPT Championship by the time the WPT Invitational will get a seat to the WPT Invitational as a bonus.

The “invitational” in WPT Invitational refers to those celebrity players who did NOT have to pay $25,500 buy-in to play the WPT Championship.

By: donkey

donkey — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:48:31 +0000

“there are people (not them)”

Chump, you stupid Tard, I wasn’t saying that they are psychics. It’s no point explaining to an idiot, but I was implying that they have someone that they go see, kinda like a Muse. And it doesn’t matter that you don’t believe. I was just pointing out that they have more unusual good luck than most people,and I don’t think it’s a coincident.

By: change100

change100 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:36:56 +0000

Yup, as long as his horses keep folding to his bets and keep passing him chips at the breaks… well, you know.

By: Champ

Champ — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:30:57 +0000

Chip dumping, colluding, staking agreements (side stepping), positioning, signaling, marking, and don’t forget….HE’S FUCKING PSYCHIC!

It goes back to the “fire alarm incident” (at the commerce?)

It goes back Daniel Negreanu’s aligations on NVG (Rec Poker) circa 2004.

It continues onto Justin Bonomo’s (of all people) alligations.

Phucking Phsychic!

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By: California Jen

California Jen — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:22:18 +0000

Donkey:
I see some very strange responses to your comment in the future.

Shronk:
I know.

BJ:
Post amended. Thanks. And yeah, I was hoping someone would bring up the cheating allegations to keep me from doing it.

By: BJ Nemeth

BJ Nemeth — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:25:06 +0000

I thought Donkey was going to make an allegation of cheating. But an allegation of psychic powers helping poker players? Really?

You got one thing correct, when you called their psychic abilities “unbelievable.” I don’t believe in them. (If someone really had supernatural powers, why would they waste them on poker? Why not become a Nobel Prize-winning superhero?)

One correction to this post: The WPT Invitational isn’t an open event, it’s a *mixed* event. If it were an open event, anyone who paid could play, rather than being an invitation-only affair. Van Nguyen is the first woman to win a mixed WPT event, but there will still be a separate record if and when a woman wins a truly open WPT event. (While the WPT Invitational is mixed, it does feature a much higher-than-normal percentage of female players.)

Men Nguyen plays a ton of the smaller buy-in events, which is one of the reasons that he has so many Card Player POY awards. (Personally, I think they award too many points to smaller events against weaker competition.) Regardless of that, you’re 100% correct when you say that the Nguyen family is on an incredible run in 2008.

By: shronk

shronk — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:43:24 +0000

Certain gifted Lithuanians can fly.

By: donkey

donkey — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:18:58 +0000

You may find this entertaining or somewhat amusing, but it’s not coincidental that this husband/wife team is doing well. And it’s not because they are the best poker players. In the Vietnamese community, there are people (not them) who have unbelievable psychic abilities. I’m not talking about the ones you go see in some broken down shack for $20. These people only work through referrals only, and they can touch you and see your past, present and future (I mean “tomorrow future”)..I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Vietnamese are very spiritual people, and they rely on these psychics to predict exactly when and where they will have success or failure. That’s why they are so “lucky”, they always seem to win at the right time. I can elaborate on what I’ve seen, but if you are there, your mouth would drop the whole time.