Here’s how ya know
April 15th, 2006… that you’re nuts.
I just watched the final table of the 1998 World Series of Poker for about the sixth time. At about 5:00 in the morning. What a show. Eights full of nines on the board on the final hand… and that wasn’t good enough. Scotty’s still the man after all these years. (And damn you for continuing to replay it, ESPN!)
I’m rambling again.
But I realized just now while watching it that this might be an illness. It’s one thing to watch the modern WSOP tournaments or the WPT. It’s a whole ‘nother thing to sit through a tourney before they had “hole cams.” Back then, you didn’t know what anybody held unless there was an all-in bet. For a freak like me that’s almost more fun; I can test my reading skills.
But then I wonder about my sanity when I’m watching the same show for the sixth time. I could lay out every hand for you card by card, but it still draws me like moth to flame. I didn’t know what they had the first time I watched it… but maybe I have a problem now.
If you’d like to help, I’m looking for someone to stake me for this year’s WSOP. The main event will probably pay over $10 million and I’ll cash a couple of times before that. I only need about $50,000 to get me through the whole six weeks. They’ll probably have over fifty events and I’m a well rounded player. I can handle myself just as well at Seven Stud or Omaha as I do at no-limit Hold ‘Em. I can even do Razz if I’m forced to.
So, how ’bout it? Who’s got $50k they wanna turn into millions with no effort? C’mon! You’ll get to see your money on TV.
