"Can Stupak play or is he fishy?"


I remember a few years ago, the E! channel (or some phony-baloney "network" like that) was doing a show about the WSOP. They featured a heads-up, $100,000 NLHE freezeout between Stupak, and defending WSOP champ Russ Hamilton. We had this on in the sportsbook.


"I'll give you Stupak at +300," I offered one of the clerks.


"No, YOU take Stupak! You can have +400!"


We never made the bet, because neither of us wanted to back Bob.


Bob got him.


As Hamilton walked off, looking like he just got kicked in the gut (don't we all make that face after a crushing loss at the tables?), the E! crew stuck a microphone in his face. Russ tried to let it roll off his back, but had a tough time of it.


"Oh, well," he said. "You don't get paid by the day in this job, you get paid by the year, or the month."


Then he added, somberly, "This ain't gonna be good month."


Bobby


(Apologies to all if I didn't get the quotes exactly right.)