I was on national TV!! (OT)
 

Well - I already mentioned this is in the WPT forum...but the Zoo is kind of my 2+2 home so I thought I would mention it here.


That dork on his cell-phone at the beginning of tonight's ESPN WSOP main-event episode who said "Johnny Chan is at my table" was me.

It was 40 minutes into the event when Chan showed up (it looks like it was the very beginning...but it really WAS about 40 minutes in)...and I was overdue to call my blog-updater for my first WSOP update.

so the cameras came running to our table to show Chan's arrival...and then pointed them at me for my national-TV moment.


Thankfully, I didn't look or sound quite as bad as I thought I would (I had a hunch they might actually use the footage they had of me).


I didn't have anyone around to take a pic of me with Chan at the same table....so I'm kind of glad I can video-tape one of the re-runs to capture the moment forever.

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Wow, I didn't realize you were such a dork MB.

Just kidding. Congrats on your 15 minutes. I did see it when it aired and thought it was very funny.

EDIT: I must add you look and talk nothing like I had pictured.

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Somebody in the WPT thread mentioned that I look like I lost 30 pounds compared with my blog-pics from the PPM cruise.

I guess I'll look at the positive side of that (since my national TV debut will be seen more than my blog-pics will) but I'm pretty sure that my weight was about the same.

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Nice, Bob!.In every picture of me this year, I have a scowl on my face [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

Oh well...........

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I must add you look and talk nothing like I had pictured.

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actually - me too (meaning that seeing and hearing yourself on TV one tends to look and sound different than they think they do).


Yeah...my voice is pretty low for someone who is a towering 5'6" and it sounds a bit (or VERY) dorkish.
It worked back in the days when I was in rado (for 10+ years) but overall it just sounds strange.


As far as my looks are concerned.
pics of me are on my blog (bobspokerblog.blogspot.com) and there are more from the PPM cruise in the archives under 'April 24'.

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Congrats Bob. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

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Congrats Bob! I will have to watch and tell my friends 'I know that guy'!

Thank you,

Jim Kuhn
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Crap! I missed it! When is the replay this weekend?

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Actually...I bet it's on again later tonight (they usually are) and will probably be shown about a zillion times throughout the week (and then on and on throughout the year...and then on ESPN classic too....oh crap....I'll be trying to live this down for the rest of my freaking life!!).


Sooner or later I'll set up a fresh tape in my VCR to capture the memory.

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nice bob, i got a good laugh outta that. Why don't u just buy the DVD when it comes out. What's a VCR??? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]