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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (119812)	10/28/2009 12:32:12 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Many of them lose their poker winnings at other games, too. Blackjack seems to nail a lot of them. Some are great blackjack players. Andy Bloch was a member of the MIT team and was arrested in Monte Carlo for counting cards. Blair Rodman, co-author of "Kill Phil," is a top player on the Ultimate Blackjack Tour. But most think they are great blackjack players because they are poker experts, and poker is a much more complex game. Wrong! <G> I agree with you about the $20 mil. They were going to have an ultimate tournament in Australia where each player bought in for $10 million. Only Phil Ivey signed up. Others either didn't have the money or didn't want to risk it against a bunch of players of Phil Ivey's caliber. However, in the famous head to head games against Andy Beal of Beal Bank, a group of players regularly came up with millions of dollars. The story is that Johnny Chan lost $20 million, but Doyle Brunson's son won it back the next weekend. That may be overexaggeration.