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ive played in the same NL game for about 1 hour at the wynn with the estenfari and his actor buddy - some dude from out there & used to be on er

obviously the only reason he was playing 2-5 NL at the wynn was to f**k around with his friend. He bought in for about $15,000 because of course it's uncapped at the wynn. He had two hot chicks behind him at pretty much all times.

Overall nice guy - let's just say if i didn't have a high pocket pair i was out of any hand with him, cuz he was just throwing the money in the pot with reckless abandon - or so it seemed. There was one old guy at the table - a grinder - that always got into heads up situations with him - i'll let you guys guess who came out ahead.

It was hella fun just to sit and watch - in this game - the 2/5 blinds became somewhere around 50/100 because of all the b***S***t raising by estenfari. My BR obviously wasn't supporting that - so all in all folding was hella fun.

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I've watched hellmuth play in AC, and what a surprise, he's a jerkoff in real life too, not just on TV.

al

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I've met Lederer, Negreanu, Jesus, Violette and Vahedi. Sweated Raymer for a while. Haven't actually played with any of them.

Negreanu is hysterical. I think it'd be fun to go out drinking with him. Vahedi too for that matter. And Layne Flack aparently is fun to drink with.

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I've had the pleasure to play a couple of times with Oklahoma Johnny Hale. Not real high on the list of current tv "greats" but he was a real gentleman and boy was he lucky. In a single table qualifier for the Friday Bellagio tourney he got AA twice, a straight, a flush, and two sets in about an hour. He went on to money in the Friday tourney.

He sat down at our little 3/6 game at the Mirage (mostly selling his book at a $5 discount to the cover price) and in an hour sold 3 books and took about $200 off the table with some strong hands and lucky draws.

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Played with live:
Layne Flack - 4-8 at Rio in late 90's
Vince Burgio - 10-20 Omaha 8 at Horseshoe during WSOP
Phil Laak & Hon Le (separate times during same 14 hour session) - 10-20 Hold'em at Horseshoe during WSOP
Adam Schoenfeld - 20-40 Hold'em at Mirage
Karina Jett - 15-30 Hold'em at Bellagio
Max Stern & Susie Isaacs - Orleans daily tournament
Jimmy Tran - Orleans Open
Andy Glazer - 15-30 Hold'em at Bay 101

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I played in a single table satellite with a Barbara Enright once and Hassim Habib once many moons ago. I knocked Enright out in a limit hold'em satellite with 10,8o when she was short stacked. She was rude to me upon leaving but with the trash she was playing I don't think she had anything to talk about [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]. Also the late Jack Keller showed up in the local card room years ago apparently on a trip of some sort. He was playing $4-8 Omaha/8 with a 1/2 kill for fun. What a truly class act and nice guy he was. Slim has shown up in the local cardroom many times and was a regular in the pot limit hold'em game for quite awhile. He seems ok and was a good sport when playing the low limit tournaments. I've seen many more play in Vegas although I haven't played poker in Vegas for awhile (passed through Vegas in December of last year on my way to northern Nevada on a non gambling mission).

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or played with yourself.

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Best post quote ever.

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ive played with syracuse chris

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the second one

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the late Jack Keller showed up in the local card room years ago

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Did the people start screaming and running out of the building?

At FW I have met Greg R., Paul Darden and Barry Greenstein.

(Greg Raymer is the nicest gentleman you could ever meet - before
or after his big win...and Barry G took time to stop and talk even after
a looong death session with Chip and Doyle earlier that day)

I have sightings of Phil Hellmuth, Doyle, Jen Harman, Scotty Nguyen,
Howard Lederer, Chip and Chau Giang.

-ZEN