This may look familiar:
Aladdin $1-2 NL
4 hours
+ $400
Another day, another $100/hr $1-2 nl session. See, that's how I roll.
Actually this was one of those nights it just came easy. Within 15 minutes of sitting down the following hand came up. There were three limpers to the cutoff seat, who raised to $20. I looked down in the small blind to AhAs. I reraised to $55. The early position limper cold-called $53 more, the next limper called (!), and the original raiser called. There was over $220 in the pot preflop. I had $130 back at this point and I was gonna push the flop unless it came something ridiculous like QdJdTd. I liked the Th8c2h flop. The original raiser called with pocket queens. After that I coasted and cashed out $600.
I narrowed the sidebet race with John by one.
Academy Award nominations are coming up, and it got me thinking that there may be other characters to think about other than Boss Hogg when making poker decisions. The "What Would Boss Hogg Do?" T-shirts are already in production (contact me for purchasing info), but what characters from this year's films would make the best poker players? I ask for your input here. My own nomination is for Alfred Borden, the Christian Bale character from "The Prestige."
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2 comments:
I haven't seen a lot of the 2006 movies, so it's hard for me to say. I suppose the easy/obvious answer is James Bond in Casino Royale (which I haven't seen, but apparently a poker game is a major plot element), but that's not very creative.
Best I can think of from a movie that I've seen is Aaron Eckhart's Nick Naylor character in "thank you for smoking" (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0427944/quotes)
Although the key is to be able to change up midstream, perhaps morphing into Sammy L.J's character from "snakes on a plane".
Well my nominee would have to be Leo's character 'Billy' in the Departed, although hihe is dead now, with his constant lying, agressive personailty and cunning character. I think he would be the best off the big screen poker player.
As for the series or sit com nominee hands down it would be Jeremy Piven 'Ari' from Entourage http://www.hbo.com/entourage/cast/character/ari.html
his characters ability to maniputale, would be great his outbursts are one of a kind. If I was to cast a movie on the life of Phil Hemuth he would be up for the lead role.
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