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December 7, 2007

For those who haven't watched you play, you down quite a few Corona beers during a tournament. When I first took him out to Vegas, Benny said, "Teach him whatever you want to and give him time." He wound up being one of the best hands there. Anything you'd like to say to the partypoker stars public? I've called it a "bingo" structure. You wrote about him when you covered the Sam Boyd Partypoker Classic last September. Dutch seemed incredibly confident to me, and I remember thinking that he was a lot more humble than I'd have guessed. He dropped out of grade school and enlisted in the Army at age 15 by assuming a false identity. He found some to be a bore, but said he particularly enjoyed TJ Cloutier and Tom McEvoy's book, Championship No Limit and Pot Limit Hold'em.

I was trying to protect my chips. To slice through a field of more than 6,000 players, and come within a gasp of not only making the final table, but winning it all, is nothing short of phenomenal. Like a lot of players, I started at a very young age playing family and friends for nickels and dimes. I'm not happy about the way they changed things, either. I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living. When Harrah's sent out an all hands listing for people with hollywood playing partypoker, I came forward with a little over 20 yrs.

There we were, reporters and friends and casino employees all huddled around a tiny partypoker card player table with just two opponents remaining out of the nearly 9,000 that entered. Not only is it validation of a partypoker player's ability, it's proof. January 19th), he wouldn't have entered the $1,000 buy-in NLHE tournament that started at noon the 19th. He used to always grill me on that, always coming in second. Breathe. If he was wrong... What do they do with their chips when they have a good hand, and what do they do with them when they have nothing?

I'm a total believer in satellite participation. When I was 15 years old, I turned professional. He had 49 heavyweight fights and won them all. This year I feel really good. Most of the casino's patrons are preoccupied with their own games, and they don't seem too concerned with the world-class action going on at the next table. The stakes may change, the type of games and limits may be different, but the game is the same. Someone said "a chip and a chair." It was the first time I ever heard that expression. How about the scam with the "partypoker psychic?" Ty had a deal back then where he'd be sitting around partypoker places that he'd never been to before and he'd say, "Guys, I know this woman who's a psychic. Even against Phil Ivey, even though he taught me the game, when we sitting at a table he's trying to bust me as bad as I'm trying to bust him." Despite his recent slump at the tables, Darden has remained visible on the partypoker scene.

Any casino will do that. He was a varsity second baseman at North Druid Hills High School when he discovered he could wield a cue stick as skillfully as a baseball bat. It's hard to believe that just a few years ago I was so uninformed and naive about the world of partypoker; but again, I had never lived in an area where I would have been exposed to it. Has it paid off? "If there's one person who helped elevate my game to where it is now, it's Erick," Arieh says." It's something I haven't really given much thought to.