The Rake: My Left Foot, Anna Benson Has Big Cans & Filthy Mouth, and Psychic Hooey

filed under Poker : The Rake

· Disabled man plays WSOP with his feet. No sympathy here, we’d check-raise a grandmother on a respirator if we hit our flop. [Send2Press]
· Newspaper breaks story that Moneymaker’s 2003 WSOP victory started a poker craze. Give them a break, it is an Alabama newspaper. [Decatur Daily]
· Buxom former stripper and MLB wife Anna Benson given time-out for excessive cursing at WSOP. Screw the news article, here’s her website with pics. [Anna Benson]
· Los Angeles Times explains Texas Hold ‘Em in five sentences. Takes us two sentences to look down our noses at the arrogance of this over-simplification. [Los Angeles Times]
· Ph.D. in letter-to-editor refutes claim that being a geek makes you a good gambler. We here at Oddjack are fantastic gamblers and have never worn a pocket protector, held a 20-sided die, or know pi past three digits. Maybe the secret is sarcasm instead. [News & Observer]
· Magazine publisher answers question, “What is the poker lifestyle?” Considering we haven’t seen sunlight in over three weeks, our Domino’s outlet is running us a tab, and we’re up over $100 playing $.50/$1 online, we couldn’t begin to guess as to what “lifestyle” is supposed to mean. [The Star-Ledger]
· Psychic admits that on “rare occasions” her “powers” help her poker game. Message to “spiritualist” Nancy Garber of West Roxbury, Massachusettes: Your dead cat Bosco appeared to us in a dream last night. He asked us to tell you to knock off the bullshit. [Newton Tab]