Re: WSOP PLO Max Pescatori
This year was very different for me. Right before the series, I found out that a penny player, another blogger, also had cancer. He made it sound like he was over it, it was in remission or whatever. He totally downplayed it.
The reality was that he was one of those people who doesn't get much, if any benefit from chemo. So unbeknownst to him, the surgery he had on his knee, followed by chemo, only slowed down the cancer, it didn't kill it. It came back in his lungs, and nothing could save him.
Anyway, his best friend got the bright idea that if some of his "poker heroes" called him during his last days, he would die a happy man. I rolled with the idea, and went around forcing everyone to call.
If you haven't read my journal about the experience, it was something else. I was completely shocked by the empathy of the poker community.
So during Charlie's last days, his stars made his time bearable. He was 26.
I'm not usually one to flit around, being a social butterfly, but this was beyond me, I was doing it for someone else, someone much less fortunate than myself.
Felicia [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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