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01-19-2005, 12:36 AM
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Met Ellix Powers on Monday.
I played in a rebuy tourny at the Hawaiian Gardens (near Long Beach, CA) on MLK day. I guess he's become somewhat of a regular there. I saw him the friday before wandering around. He was just hanging around the registration area looking for people to introduce themselves. From the looks of it he considers himself a pretty big star. He must have blown that 40 G's pretty quickly (hopefully not all in pennies), it looked like he was tryin to put some scratch together to play. Plus he's lost alot of weight (crack) since his WSOP. He looks like he already has a foot in the grave. On a side note I cashed in my first live tournament 20th..out of 337 entrants. Yay me.
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01-19-2005, 01:10 AM
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Re: Met Ellix Powers on Monday.
My girlfriend and I had the pleasure of running into Mr. Powers at the Peppermill in Reno a few months back. We were just tinkering around on a Sun night before coming back to Phoenix in one of the 3 games they had going - 4/8 LHE - He came in the poker room ranting something about "I brought the wrong KEYS!" and sat at an empty table with the room manager on duty. Sounded like he was looking for a marker to play (and they only had 2/4, 4/8 and 10/20 going).
The funniest moment was when he tried to walk past our table and there wasn't room to pass easily. He said "Excuse me can I get through?" to my girlfriend (she was sitting behind me not playing) and she spouted right out "NO!" (jokingly) and he got instantly irrate "Alright then, F**K you I'll go around this GODDAMN way!" She must have said "I'm kidding! I'll let you through!" 10 times as he mumbled his way around the table in the other direction. Rather odd encounter. Kids, don't do drugs... Drugs are bad...
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#5
01-19-2005, 01:24 AM
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Re: Met Ellix Powers on Monday.
Racists.
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01-19-2005, 02:17 AM
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Re: Met Ellix Powers on Monday.
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Racists. [/ QUOTE ] Haaaaa...Now that's funny! I do have a funny racist story from that day though. Top 27 in the tourny pay, 31 players remaining. This old timer gets busted out by the only remaining black guy left in the tournament. He finds out he finished just outside of the money. He storms out of the tournament area, but first yells "Well I guess in honor of MLK day, we outta let one ("N" word) make the final table. Needless to say he didn't get a warm reception. Now that's racist.
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#10
01-19-2005, 10:49 AM
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Re: Met Ellix Powers on Monday.
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congrats on your finish. he is a disgraceful bum, and belongs at the slot machines rather than the poker table. [/ QUOTE ] This kind of statement makes me physically ill. Are you Jim McManus? Bleh...
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