2009 Poker Humor Roundup
Posted on December 22, 2009
Filed Under General
Poker, in general, is not really the humor breadwinner of the sports world. Sure we might get the occasional chuckle out of a Daniel Negreanu-delivered Scotty Nyguen impression, but that momentary brilliance is quickly buried alive by the often failed one-liners doled out in mass quantities from dry humor specialists like Norman Chad and Gabe Kaplan, who still think its hip to serve up jokes that were popular long before the majority of poker players were even born.
Humor at the table isn’t all that stellar either. Phil Ivey often looks like he’s ten minutes into a hypnosis experiment, and Mike the Mouth continues to fail at grasping at the difference between people laughing with you versus people laughing at you. Still, there certainly exists some element of funny stories and moments from around the poker community and I’ve taken the time to compile some of the more entertaining snippets that you may enjoying browsing through while waiting for your SNG to start.
Okay, while none of these are LOL funny, it gets the same chuckle out of me as when I see Phil Hellmuth playing dress up while prepping for a WSOP Main Event entrance. The first image shows you what life as a degenerate gambler would be like (though personally I could always ask any one of my Italian uncles), and ends with a Tony G look-alike losing at strip poker, in case you ever wanted to experience a living nightmare.
2. Clonie Gown vs. Howard Lederer: Bollywood Style
This one’s good for a quick laugh. The gang over at PokerJunkie.com use some old Bollywood footage to attempt to recreate what was likely a conversation between female poker pro Clonie Gowen when she took aim at online card room Full Tilt Poker concerning contract disputes. All that’s missing now is a traditional Bollywood group dance scene with Erik Seidel, Jennifer Harman and the rest of the Full Tilt crew.
Someone here took the time to act out what many would consider to be an impossible scenario, quad aces beaten by a royal flush. The hand is played out from the perspective of the player who holds pocket aces, flops a set, and continues to bet his most prized possessions on every street, all the way to where he bets his whole life once he makes quad aces on the river. He gets called and happily turns over his hand, but then devastation sets in when the other player shows a royal flush. When I watched this I figured it was a good, funny look at how we all should gamble responsibly, though such a hand could never happen in real life. Right?
4. Quad Aces loses to Royal Flush
When I first saw the title of this video pop up I thought for sure that it was going to be the same film that I had just watched. Nope. Just take a look at the face of the poor shmuck that couldn’t wait to get all his money into the middle of the pot with quad aces, only to have his opponent flip up a royal flush for the win. Yeah, that’s as real as it gets. Oh, and did I mention that this hand was played at the WSOP and ended up knocking the guy out of the tournament? We all have a bad beat stories, but that dude may be the first to have a tale to tell that involves quad aces getting cracked at the biggest poker series on the planet. Maybe I should write up an instructional piece on how to check down four aces just to be safe.
The title alone is intriguing, that is as long as Gavin Smith and Barry Greenstein aren’t listed as the hosts. The Naked Poker News is a UK-based site that appears to be in the beta stages of what will eventually become a poker news program where naked girls deliver industry-related stories. Not sure how a pair of bouncing boobs is going to make a story on Jamie Gold’s latest charity tournament any more relevant, but I’m not one to get in the way of progress.
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