Hollay
11-16-2005, 11:39 AM
Enter our Write to Win contest for your chance to win a Hollywood Poker tournament ticket!
Here's how it works: Write (in any genre you like) on the weekly topic and send it to hollay@hollywoodpoker.com. If your entry is selected as a finalist, it is posted here with the other finalist entries. Your fellow players then vote for their favorite and the person who's submission gets the most votes wins!
Don't have time to write? You can still win when you vote! Every week, we randomly select a voter to win Hollywood Poker gear. :waytogo:
Next week's topic is posted at the bottom of this thread :)
Here are this week's finalists:
Entry #1
CELEBRITY SURPRISE
The world of poker includes some well-known celebrities. In playing against them, I have often found them to be greatly different than I expected.
Telly Savalas, television’s Kojak, was a frequent and respected tournament player. Unlike his TV persona, Telly was a quiet, low-key, and courteous man. He was one of 60 players that I was competing with in the Commerce Club (LA Open) $120 buy-in super-satellite for a $5000 entry fee into the No Limit Hold’em final event. Second place would get $2000. After playing some of my best poker for over three hours, everyone was eliminated but Telly and me. The two of us then played for 40 minutes before a sizable crowd. It was exciting and great fun as the lead changed hands several times. Finally, I bet all my chips. Telly called without hesitation and turned over AK. He smiled as I turned over QQ. (It was a classic no-limit confrontation). But before the dealer could put out the next three cards, Telly suggested we split the first and second place prize money since “neither of us deserves to lose.” I accepted his offer and we shook hands. When he got his $3500, he popped a lollipop into his mouth and headed into the LA night.
It was Saturday fight night at the Mirage Casino in Las Vegas in the early 90’s. After the fight, comedian Richard Pryor took an empty seat in the 30-60 seven-card stud game that I was in. He softly said hello and put down in front of him his drink, a pack of cigarettes, and $10000 in one hundred dollar bills (considerably more than anyone else). When his Atlas-type bodyguards pulled up seats on either side of him, our eight-player game appeared to be 10- handed.
Over the next 2 hours, Richard smoked all his cigarettes, had 4 or 5 drinks, played 90% of the hands, and lost $5000. At all times he was a perfect gentleman. He tipped generously when he won and complimented the winner when he lost. Never did he crack a joke. Much to my chagrin and frustration, he only seemed to win when I was in the pot. When he left, everyone at the table except me had substantially more chips. I had lost over $800.
~SBTrue
Entry #2
Celebrity Sightings?
Here are my celebrity sightings for one week's worth of the tourneys and, in a word, they were few and far between.
Sunday the 6th, the Celebrity Classic and there were none at my table. Of course that could be due to the fact that I only lasted a couple dozen hands as I put the *** in classic.
Thursday the 10th, the MWCI. It's the second hour and finally a celebrity at the table. It's Erin Muller and she is AWAY and being blinded off. There was some amusement though when finally she was put all in as BB and 5 or 6 people called trying cash in on the cheapest bounty of all time.
Sunday the 13th, back in the classic and get put at a table with the lovely and talented Ashley Dorenzo. I am pleased, even more so when, preflop, I raise small with aces, she reraises, I go all-in and she calls with AQ. She has way more chips so I can't win the bounty but I'm figuring a nice double up when the cards fall 8-6-4-7-5 and we chop. Ashley Dorenzo sent apologies which was nice and unnecessary and I couldn't really complain cause I cracked a guy's aces with fours earlier and had little business still being around.
So it was three big celebrity tourneys, 1.5 celebrities. This week, I'm playing the Ronny Cox!
~Icebanger1
Next week's Write to Win topic: Your best bluff ever.
Here's how it works: Write (in any genre you like) on the weekly topic and send it to hollay@hollywoodpoker.com. If your entry is selected as a finalist, it is posted here with the other finalist entries. Your fellow players then vote for their favorite and the person who's submission gets the most votes wins!
Don't have time to write? You can still win when you vote! Every week, we randomly select a voter to win Hollywood Poker gear. :waytogo:
Next week's topic is posted at the bottom of this thread :)
Here are this week's finalists:
Entry #1
CELEBRITY SURPRISE
The world of poker includes some well-known celebrities. In playing against them, I have often found them to be greatly different than I expected.
Telly Savalas, television’s Kojak, was a frequent and respected tournament player. Unlike his TV persona, Telly was a quiet, low-key, and courteous man. He was one of 60 players that I was competing with in the Commerce Club (LA Open) $120 buy-in super-satellite for a $5000 entry fee into the No Limit Hold’em final event. Second place would get $2000. After playing some of my best poker for over three hours, everyone was eliminated but Telly and me. The two of us then played for 40 minutes before a sizable crowd. It was exciting and great fun as the lead changed hands several times. Finally, I bet all my chips. Telly called without hesitation and turned over AK. He smiled as I turned over QQ. (It was a classic no-limit confrontation). But before the dealer could put out the next three cards, Telly suggested we split the first and second place prize money since “neither of us deserves to lose.” I accepted his offer and we shook hands. When he got his $3500, he popped a lollipop into his mouth and headed into the LA night.
It was Saturday fight night at the Mirage Casino in Las Vegas in the early 90’s. After the fight, comedian Richard Pryor took an empty seat in the 30-60 seven-card stud game that I was in. He softly said hello and put down in front of him his drink, a pack of cigarettes, and $10000 in one hundred dollar bills (considerably more than anyone else). When his Atlas-type bodyguards pulled up seats on either side of him, our eight-player game appeared to be 10- handed.
Over the next 2 hours, Richard smoked all his cigarettes, had 4 or 5 drinks, played 90% of the hands, and lost $5000. At all times he was a perfect gentleman. He tipped generously when he won and complimented the winner when he lost. Never did he crack a joke. Much to my chagrin and frustration, he only seemed to win when I was in the pot. When he left, everyone at the table except me had substantially more chips. I had lost over $800.
~SBTrue
Entry #2
Celebrity Sightings?
Here are my celebrity sightings for one week's worth of the tourneys and, in a word, they were few and far between.
Sunday the 6th, the Celebrity Classic and there were none at my table. Of course that could be due to the fact that I only lasted a couple dozen hands as I put the *** in classic.
Thursday the 10th, the MWCI. It's the second hour and finally a celebrity at the table. It's Erin Muller and she is AWAY and being blinded off. There was some amusement though when finally she was put all in as BB and 5 or 6 people called trying cash in on the cheapest bounty of all time.
Sunday the 13th, back in the classic and get put at a table with the lovely and talented Ashley Dorenzo. I am pleased, even more so when, preflop, I raise small with aces, she reraises, I go all-in and she calls with AQ. She has way more chips so I can't win the bounty but I'm figuring a nice double up when the cards fall 8-6-4-7-5 and we chop. Ashley Dorenzo sent apologies which was nice and unnecessary and I couldn't really complain cause I cracked a guy's aces with fours earlier and had little business still being around.
So it was three big celebrity tourneys, 1.5 celebrities. This week, I'm playing the Ronny Cox!
~Icebanger1
Next week's Write to Win topic: Your best bluff ever.