» Fantasy NL Hold’em Tables http://www.pokapaloma.com Musings while learning to play no limit hold'em Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:38:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 My Fantasy Actors NL Texas Hold'em Table http://www.pokapaloma.com/478/my-fantasy-actors-nl-texas-holdem-table http://www.pokapaloma.com/478/my-fantasy-actors-nl-texas-holdem-table#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:40:39 +0000 PokaPaloma http://www.pokapaloma.com/?p=478 This edition of My Fantasy No Limit Hold’em Tables includes me playing with actors who play poker, and, specifically, actors who play no limit hold’em.

Once again, skill aside, if I could choose an “actors” table in my fantasy life as a No Limit Texas Hold’em poker pro, I’d choose to play with these actors, in no particular order:

  1. Don Cheadle
  2. James Woods
  3. Jennifer Tilly
  4. Ray Romano
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  6. Tobey Maguire
  7. Brad Garrett
  8. Shannon Elizabeth
  9. Jason Alexander
  10. Gabe Kaplan
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  1. Kathy Liebert
  2. Vanessa Rousso
  3. Jennifer Harman
  4. Cyndy Viollette
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  6. Kristy Gazes
  7. JJ Liu
  8. Maria Ho
  9. Marsha Waggoner
  10. Annie Duke
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Who would be playing at my Funnest No Limit Texas Hold’em table?

  1. Phil Laak
  2. Juan Juanda
  3. Scotty Nguyen
  4. Daniel Negreanu
  5. PokaPaloma
  6. ________________
  7. ________________
  8. ________________
  9. ________________

 

Four seats still available.  Who’d make us topple over with belly-jiggling laughter and snort beer?



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  1. Mike Matusow
  2. Phil Hellmuth
  3. John-Robert Bellande
  4. Tony G (Antanas Guoga)
  5. PokaPaloma
  6. Men “The Master” Nguyen
  7. Freddy Deeb
  8. Sean Sheikhan
  9. ___________________

How about you? Who’d be at your Nightmare No Limit Texas Hold’em table?



]]> http://www.pokapaloma.com/216/my-nightmare-no-limit-texas-holdem-table/feed 0 My Dream No Limit Texas Hold'em Table http://www.pokapaloma.com/214/my-dream-no-limit-texas-holdem-table http://www.pokapaloma.com/214/my-dream-no-limit-texas-holdem-table#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:33:40 +0000 PokaPaloma http://www.pokapaloma.com/?p=214 So, if my skill didn’t matter and the universe shined on me for a day and I could pick all the players at my table… I’d choose (in no particular order):

  1. Daniel Negreanu
  2. Scotty Nguyen
  3. Doyle Brunson
  4. Jennifer Harman
  5. PokaPaloma
  6. Kathy Liebert
  7. Chris Ferguson
  8. Johnny Chan
  9. Gus Hansen

I think I’ll have to revisit this and switch some out and others in. I had to leave off a number of players that I really would enjoy [in my dreams]. Phil Ivy, Allen Cunningham, Barry Greenstein, Cindy Violette, Ted Forrest, Howard Lederer… 

How about you? Who’d be at your Dream No Limit Texas Hold’em table?



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