Tiffany Michelle officially responded to the \”clock-calling\” incident with Paul Snead on her website today:
I’ve had several people asking about MY SIDE of the story in regards to calling the clock on Paul Snead in the WSOP Main Event which has now become an infamous clip on ESPN. This is my response…
Really? None of you have EVER under any circumstance called the clock in the middle of a poker game…ever? Trust me, I don\’t make a habit of calling the clock on people. I think in four years of playing tournaments that was probably the second or third time I\’ve ever done that.
Obviously ESPN doesn\’t show or tell you how long Paul Snead was taking to make a decision (it was a looooooooooong time) and if it appeared that he was anywhere close to making a decision I would have stayed silent…. but you weren\’t there, I was and he wasn\’t anywhere close to a decision. I had been at the table with him for awhile and this was his typical process to make a bit of a fuss over his hands and his calls. He\’d get up, pace around, talk to the audience and his friends on the rail. People forget that we\’re all on camera, we\’re at a featured table, player\’s games change soooooooo much under those settings and it becomes more \’acting\’ and soaking up your five minutes of fame than actually playing a game of poker. I can guarantee you that if the TV cameras weren\’t rolling it wouldn\’t have taken him half as long to make a decision there. So yes, I chose to hold him accountable to the game of POKER even if it made me look less classy than humor another \’Hollywood-er\’.
Please don\’t forget that the two of us were playing the same game for the same stakes. He was taking his time to decide and I was practicing my right (within the rules people) to ask for the clock since I was getting short stacked and the blinds were increasing… MY tournament life was at stake just as much as his.
More love… less hatorade!
