It occurred to me while watching an episode of Poker after Dark that Sammy Farha was the only guy not wearing any sort of online poker room logo. And that made me wonder … why the heck isn\’t he sponsored? Sang came up with the gayest possibility ever: \”I\’ve noticed he wears a lot of couture clothing. Maybe he just thinks it would look bad to have a logo on his [sweet threads].\”
OK, so what about Phil Laak, then?
Considering the pros and semi-pros who are all-but-desperate to turn their bodies into stock cars (looking at Tom Schneider and Michele) and that David Lee Roth is back together with Van Halen, it got me thinking about who is and is not with each poker team. Would love to figure out why certain folks are not sponsored — perhaps it\’s by choice? — and when are non-online-poker sites going to get in on the Nascarization?
Below is a not necessarily comprehensive list of who\’s decked out in whom\’s paraphernalia:
PokerStars
Greg Raymer
Chris Moneymaker
Joe Hachem
Vanessa Rousso
Barry Greenstein (also with Doyle\’s Room?)
Tom McEvoy
Wil Wheaton
Isabelle Mercier
Victor Ramdin
Lee Nelson
Humberto Brenes
William Chen
Full Tilt
Howard Lederer
Chris Ferguson
John Juanda
Phil Ivey
Clonie Gowen
Jeff Madsen
Andy Bloch
Rafe Furst
Phil Gordon
Perry Friedman
The Hendon Mob
– Ross Boatman
– Barney Boatman
– Ram Vaswani
– Joe Beevers
Jennifer Harman
Erick Lindgren
Eric Seidel
Mike Matusow
Gus Hansen
Allen Cunningham
Andy Black
Richard Brodie
Michael Craig
John Cenuto
John D\’Agostino
David Chiu
Lynette Chan
Layne Flack
Roland DeWolfe
Eric Froehlich
Kristy Gazes
David Grey
Berry Johnston
Toto Leonidas
JJ Liu
Robert Mizrachi
Carlos Mortenson
Huck Seed
Mark Vos
Lee Watkinson
Steve Zolotow
Gavin Smith (for some reason he is not listed on the Full Tilt site … perhaps he is just wearing the clothes because he likes the colors?)
Max Pescatori
Doyle\’s Room
Doyle Brunson
Todd Brunson
Minh Ly
Chad Brown
Chau Giang
Mike Caro
Cyndy Violette
Eli Elezra
Billy Baxter
Barry Greenstein (also with PokerStars?)
Hoyt Corkins
Dewey Tomko
Tom Franklin
Jennifer Leigh
Ultimate Bet
Annie Duke
Phil Hellmuth
Jim \”Krazy Kanuck\” Worth
Antonio Esfandiari
Shawn Rice
John Vorhaus
Bodog
David Williams
Josh Arieh
Evelyn Ng
Jamie Gold
PartyPoker
Mike Sexton
Linda Johnson
Mike O\’Malley
Interpoker
Kathy Liebert
Robert Varkonyi
Juha Helppi
Absolute Poker
Lacey Jones
Michael Mizrachi
Shirley Williams (David\’s mom)
Mark Seif
Martinspoker
Martin DeKnijff
Patrik Antonius
Harry Demetriou
GoldenPalace
Scotty Nguyen
William Rockwell
Independent
Sammy Farha
Marcel Luske
Phil Laak
Jennifer Tilly
Kenna James (formerly with the Gaming Club, SunPoker)
TJ Cloutier (formerly with about three poker sites that no longer exist)
Liz Lieu
Jamie Gold (formerly with Bodog)
Robert Williamson, III (formerly with Full Tilt)
Amarillo Slim
Men \”the Master\” Nguyen
Can Kim Hua (formerly with 888)
Dutch Boyd (formerly with Ultimate Bet)
Semi-Independent
Johnny Chan – Chanpoker
Tony G – Tony G Poker
Daniel Negreanu – Full Contact Poker
David Ulliot – Devifishpoker
Scott Fischman – theFishtank
Unknown
Freddie Deeb (formerly with House of Deeb, Doyle\’s Room, and Ultimate Bet)
Did I miss anyone?
