I gotta say, @Phil_Hellmuth really is turning into one of the best poker reporters out there … I read his blog, follow his tweets and generally occasionally love his vids; you can tell he is actively working on his 21st-century media game.
Most recently, at his own TASER Foundation charity tourney in Phoenix — the biggest high-society charity poker shindig of the year in Arizona — he was there to report on Brandon Cantu\’s being shot with a taser gun … Cantu was paying off a prop-bet he lost at last year\’s event with Clonie Gowen.
Damn, ouch … but cool … didn\’t realize you could bounce back so quickly from those things.
BTW, an extra-funny … @DonkeyBomber was there as one of the \”star poker players\” who help make the event extra fun for the Big Charity donors who play … but even on his home turf, our favorite business-exec-turned-author-turned-2007-WSOP-POY-turned-struggling-poker-pro is no Layne Flack or even Roy Winston:
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/globenewswire/177471.htm
Included on the WSOP celebrity roster for the events are: 11-time WSOP champion Phil Hellmuth, Layne Flack, Antonio Esfandiari (\”The Magician\”), Greg \”Fossilman\” Raymer, Jennifer Tilly, Phil Laak, Kenna James, Erica Schoenberg, Jeff Madsen, Roy Winston, Clonie Gowen, Brandon Cantu, Todd and Pamela Brunson, and Arizona\’s own celebrity players, Kevin O\’Donnell and Jim Schneider.