So funny!
I also mentioned this in chat, but for the rest of you, there is yet another poker show here in the states on NBC called "Poker after Dark". Basically a nightly hour show that seats 6 "professionals" in a $20,000 buy-in sit and go. Each week is a new rotation of players, edited so the heads-up finishes up on Friday night.
Last week the "professional" Jamie Gold was on with Mortensen, Doyle, Jesus, Chan and Moneymaker. The show is a forgettable one and will likely join allot of the others on the cancelled list, so I find it unlikely you can get clips of it, anywhere.
Anyways, Jamie was showing his now laughable poker prowess and was quickly eliminated (I believe on Tuesday night of the Monday through Friday show). While this was funny enough in its' own rights, a statement that he made on the show was all the more gaffaw producing.
He attributed his first poker lessons to none other than... Chris Moneymaker. Yes, according to Jamie, he recently picked up the game and took his first tutorials from Mr. Moneymaker in the past year.
He then read a few books, hooked a few of his hollywood friends up with sponsorship seats to the WSOP in exchange for a seat of his own from BoDog, and then proceeded to take those skills all the way to the 2006 title.
While we may not have been given the opportunity to see some of those skills due to ESPN's editing, one thing was quite apparent to allot of poker players' out here in the real world, Jamie Gold had one hell of a horseshoe up his but last July. And since then he has replaced that anatomical anomaly with another, a foot deeply implanted in his big mouth.
Whether its' his arrogance in trying to re-nig on his verbal agreement with BoDog, his ineptness at doing something beyond the lucky run at '06, or his faulty belief in "Blueberry Power" (he was trying to cram another mouthful as he was eliminated by Ferguson on that show), Jamie Gold is quickly joining his mentor in the "just scoot your lucky ass back out the card room door" club.
As a post-script to all of this, Chanappeared to me painfully embarassedto be seated at a table with the goof-nut he gave advice to at the WSOP. I got to believe he now deeply regrets ever having been seen on camera even talking to Mr. Gold.
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