Are you kidding me???

[Mike Gallo]

http://cardplayer.com/poker_magazine/archives/showarticle.php?a_id=14667

This has to be one of the worst articles I have ever read from a "world champion".

[IronDragon1]

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http://cardplayer.com/poker_magazine/archives/showarticle.php?a_id=14667

This has to be one of the worst articles I have ever read from a "world champion".

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The best way to describe that article is a JOPKE

[onegymrat]

When I read it, I thought there was going to be a punchline at the end of the article.

[DemonDeac]

what??

1800FLOWERS is a legitimate business. the article was very interesting.........











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[youtalkfunny]

CardPlayer has had an array of "champions" writing for them over the years. I don't read it any more (it went down the toilet after Linda left), but I'm sure they have more than a few "champions" writing for them now.

But when you wrote,

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This has to be one of the worst articles I have ever read from a "world champion"

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...I had a hunch which "champion" you meant before I even clicked the link.

[youtalkfunny]

Just read it.

All I can say is, "Wow."

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For 30 minutes, I raised every pot in the dark to the max before the flop, and bet out on every street all the way to the river, unless someone else bet or raised, and then I would look. I have used this routine before, and I’ll use it again. I believe that this is a good thing for all players to try at some point in their poker careers (it’s called experimentation).

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Can a poker columnist be sued for malpractice?

[fluff]

Ah...good ol' Phil. Always spiking the fish ponds.

[ttleistdci]

I read the first paragraph and had no desire to continue.

[Ulysses]

This definitely explains some of his play online.

[wall_st]

Hey by the way did I mention this great IPO Im getting in on.....opps here's the ticker symbol and a description of the business, what is this poker you speak of ?

[imported_CaseClosed326]

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I read the first paragraph and had no desire to continue.

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[smoore]

"Cocaine is a powerful drug!" -- Rick James

What a rambling POS that "article" is. He must get paid by the word.

[Spook]

I read it waiting for the punchline.
hopefully a lot of fish will read the last part of it. or skip to the last part of it.

[MicroBob]

I don't understand what this has to do with anything.

Is Phil really hurting THAT much for poker material to write about? (not that the poker material is worth reading anyway)


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On a recent trip to Palm Springs to visit my buddy Carl Westcott, we found ourselves playing together in an $8-$16 game at a local casino. Carl and his wife, Jimmy, are great people, and I can usually find them in Palm Springs, Vail, or Dallas. I really enjoy their company and the way they think, and Carl has a ton of wisdom that he freely shares with me.

In 1979, Carl was in L.A. and couldn’t find a way to send flowers to Jimmy in Dallas. Carl asked himself, “Why isn’t there a way to do this?” So, he called the phone number 1-800-FLOWERS, and tried to buy that number for $1,000. When the owner wouldn’t sell, Carl sent an employee of his off to negotiate and get the job done. Pretty soon, Carl bought the number and launched 1-800-FLOWERS. With his usual uncanny timing, Carl sold the business, only to watch it fail four times before it became the success it is today.

Carl’s main business used to be car dealerships throughout the country, but mostly in Texas and Oklahoma. During this time, he noticed a trend regarding the amount of money people spent in relation to how old their cars were. The next thing he knew, Carl had invented the extended car warranty, and took it out to thousands of other dealerships around the country. He named this company First Extended Service Corporation, and he did quite well with it, as inventors of successful new industries often do. Of course, GM and the other major auto companies eventually copied the idea.

As if these two big ideas weren’t enough, Carl then became involved with communications satellites when he saw that they were the wave of the future; thus, “Westcott Communications” was born. Carl sold this business near its peak in 1996 when he saw that the Internet could pose a problem — which it did. Next, Carl was one of the early investors in XM Satellite Radio, and he holds shares in both satellite radio companies — XM and Sirius. (Carl said, with his Texas twang, “Phil, this is a good place to invest, as these companies have a duopoly.”)

Finally, Carl now has another thriving business — he cannot help himself — called “Digital Witness,” which has 700 customers and is growing by leaps and bounds. Digital Witness puts cameras all over restaurants and other businesses to monitor employees, and can be described as “Tivo on steroids.”

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[whiskeytown]

he seems to top himself every week in that category - kind of astounding -

I liked Paul Phillips' snippets of chat at Phil's UB table earlier - go to extempore.livejournal.com and look for the screenshots of it - pretty damn funny.

RB

[MrMon]

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Finally, Carl now has another thriving business — he cannot help himself — called “Digital Witness,” which has 700 customers and is growing by leaps and bounds. Digital Witness puts cameras all over restaurants and other businesses to monitor employees, and can be described as “Tivo on steroids.” Now, let’s get back to poker!


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I don't know which is scarier, this business or the fact that Phil likes this business.

No Phil, it's not TiVo on steroids. It's Big Brother on steroids.

[MicroBob]

I'm more annoyed by the fact that Phil talking about some friend of his who has a bunch of business ideas or ventures somehow belongs in an article that presumably is supposed to be about poker.


I have been known to stray from the topic quite a bit within these threads on 2+2...but I'm also not paid to write for cardplayer magazine.


My sister's boyfriend sounds kind of like the Carl guy in Phil's article. He has all these business ventures going on and has about 4 projects too many at all times.
If I was paid by cardplayer to write articles on poker I don't think it would occur to me to say, "Hey....why don't I tell everyone about all the businesses that my sister's boyfriend has going on. I bet all my readers would find that to be so much more interesting than...oh...say...an article about poker."

[Mikey]

i love finding ways to disagree with you on certain topics, gimme a few hours I know I'll find something within this article so I can come up with a rebuttle.

[Asufiji2004]

I would also like to nominate any article written by Fischman and Keller. What a bunch of schmucks.

[chucksim]

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http://cardplayer.com/poker_magazine/archives/showarticle.php?a_id=14667

This has to be one of the worst articles I have ever read from a "world champion".

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Amen. God they're getting worse and worse. If it weren't for Roy Cooke's usually excellent column, I wouldn't ever visit cardplayer.com.

[adios]

This one is no great shakes either. Nada for poker IMO. Worse than mediocre.

No Regrets (http://cardplayer.com/poker_magazine/archives/showarticle.php?a_id=14698&amp;m_id=65561)

[Klepton]

this almost beats that ridiculous article written by robert varkoni about the future of the WSOP 10 years later.

i remember it had something to do with lazers and a cyborg dan harrington.


awful.

[Mike Gallo]

i love finding ways to disagree with you on certain topics, gimme a few hours I know I'll find something within this article so I can come up with a rebuttle.

An entire day has passed, no rebuttal??? /images/graemlins/tongue.gif