One form of marketing includes paying the buy-ins for random players and "celebrities" in order to increase media coverage of an event for which one has a large presence. At the $10,000 + $300 main event in Wednesday's PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, 8 lucky schmucks will find themselves across the table from these poker badasses.
1. Joseph Kahn
Joseph Kahn is a big shot music video director best known for directing Britney Spears' "Toxic," Lady Gaga's "Love Game," and Muse's "Knights of Cydonia." He has not, however, directed any runs at tournament titles. Total earnings: $0
2. Orel Hershiser
This Golden Glover, CY Young Award winner, and World Series MVP winning pitcher has infinitely more poker experience than Joseph Kahn. A regular at the $2-$5 live tables in Vegas, Hershiser is still vastly weaker than most players at a big buy-in event. A home run off this former sinkerball master could get 2010 off to an amazing start.
3. Sautron Ralph
Sautron Ralph is listed on the pokerstars website as one of several players who managed to parlay a freeroll tournament into another tournament into a few other tournaments to get into the main event. These players inevitably suck. Really badly. Those with actual poker skill rarely invest time on these types of freerolls. A Google search for "Sautron Ralph" and poker netted zero results. Zero! Who the hell is Sautron Ralph you ask? He is no one. He is not Chris Moneymaker. He is dead money.
Also playing: Boris "Bankroll Buster Becker, Fatima "The other Melo" De Melo, Mats "I check harder" Sundin, Teddy "Footballin" Sheringham, and about 10 no-name freeroll winners.
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3 comments:
Hahaaha, nice post. Especially love Fatima "The other Melo" De Melo.
Kahn directs all the Pokerstars commercials and is a pretty good player. He posted a couple online wins on his twitter page including this tourney where he came in 3rd out of 3,000: http://twitpic.com/oqjg1
Fatima played at my table for a while on day one. She seemed fairly solid. Orel made the money.
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