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Fletcher and his poker face
By Will last year, mid-October, No Comments; be the first!
I just stumbled across a book with a very similar title to Duncan Fletcher’s forthcoming autobiography, Behind the Shades. It’s called The Man Behind the Shades: The Rise and Fall of Stuey ‘The Kid’ Ungar, Poker’s Greatest Player.
A little irony for you there; Fletcher has the best poker face since Steve Waugh.
Fletcher’s book is out on November 5 and you can pre-order it from Amazon which also gives me a bit of money - a good thing for all concerned, don’t you think?
No Comments »Warne’s blog: is it him?
By Will 2 years ago, mid-June, 2 Comments »
As Alan Sugar says, “I like winners, but I’m no gambler”. Warne is a winner and a gambler though, and his new blog is worth a read. I’m not yet convinced it’s him - how would he have the time to do it? - but judging from the style of the writing, it could well be. His latest entry is pretty interesting.
2 Comments »While answering these questions, I was involved in a game of poker with the journalists and one man from The Star fired a million questions at me and still won the first pot taking two thirds of my chips. There was not even a smirk as he raked in an arm full of chips from a four man pot. Dean Wilson is his name and one that I shall I remember as a bit of a poker player.
It wasn’t all bad though with the journos. One poker magazine, Total Gambler, was so short stacked that I went all-in blind and he called. He was confident - I hadn’t even seen my cards and I was a big underdog when I turned over a 6 of clubs and the big slick (ace king). At least I had flush chances and hoped for a straight but it looked liked Adios time until the flop (2,5,7) gave me an open-ended straight draw. He was still ahead and the flush was gone but I now had nines, fours, eights and sixes on my side and the turn came with a beautiful nine giving me a straight. Steve McDowell of Total Gambler is a reasonable player but he called me a Lucky ******* as the river came with nothing, winning me the hand.
