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Sam Farha: Poker’s Latest Scourge

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Thanks to a very eloquent reader e-mail, we’ve been informed that we should back off our Cinnabon lashing and focus our nail gun at another allegedly more asshole-ish professional card player unleashing his boorish personality all over card rooms everywhere. Most of you will remember Sam Farha as the nattily-dressed, cigarette sucking pro that lost to Chris Moneymaker during the WSOP 2003. Some(like this reader) cannot speak of him without hate:

I’ve got a real job, but I had a dead month after working for the Kerry Campaign during the election cycle, and I got a chance to deal to at the World Poker Open in Tunica. I never dealt anything besides a home game before, I haven’t dealt since, and I probably never will again unless I can manage another month off from real life again someday. I say this with no overwhelming bias in favor of dealers or against professional poker players in general. In fact the great majority of the “name pros” I met were gentlemen who I enjoyed watching play from the best seat in the house while pushing them $100,000 pots. But there was one…

Sam Farha is the cancer that forms on the rectum of life due to years of improper wiping. To describe him as a cocksucking cannibal is offensive to Jeffrey Dahmer…

For the rest of the anonymous e-mail, proceed to the jump…

I’ve got a real job, but I had a dead month after working for the Kerry Campaign during the election cycle, and I got a chance to deal to at the World Poker Open in Tunica. I never dealt anything besides a home game before, I haven’t dealt since, and I probably never will again unless I can manage another month off from real life again someday. I say this with no overwhelming bias in favor of dealers or against professional poker players in general. In fact the great majority of the “name pros” I met were gentlemen who I enjoyed watching play from the best seat in the house while pushing them $100,000 pots. But there was one…

Sam Farha is the cancer that forms on the rectum of life due to years of improper wiping. To describe him as a cocksucking cannibal is offensive to Jeffrey Dahmer. He treated me and every other person around him (that wasn’t female with a nice rack) like absolute dog shit. The only time he ever tipped me is if a crowd was watching and he dragged a big pot (exactly twice). At one point he pulled the ultimate bush league move and tried to get me to “drop the deck” when there was still one card to come in and he didn’t want to call a raise (no, I didn’t fall for it). Let’s not even mention that’s he’s a terrible player who is the biggest fish in the “big game” with Brunson, Ivey, Chan et. al. All he needs is a purple turban and he could fulfill Nostradamus’ premonition on who the third anti-Christ is.

Also, one major player (who I’ll keep nameless for now because he was very kind to answer my email, I’ll tell you if you agree not to reprint) paid a “complement” to Farha on his site. I wrote him and basically said “you and I both know that’s bullshit, so besides wanting to keep him swimming in your waters, why be nice?” His answer was that as a new-found celebrity, he finds he really can’t say anything too bad about anyone, but yes Farha is a bastard and everyone knows it.

Sam Farha [Offical Website]