Six Deadly Questions with Pirate Lawyer

LivePokerRadio : Pirate lawyer you made a great effort to win the LPRT last week. What made your mind up to play the LPRT?

Pirate Lawyer: Whimsy + begging by host + chance to defend the prestigious title.

LivePokerRadio : How are you feeling about your game?

Pirate Lawyer: I'm not playing my "A" game at the moment. My patience and discipline is not where it needs to be for a variety of reasons.

LivePokerRadio : What do you need to do to change your game around?

Pirate Lawyer: Some time away from the tables to get my head in the right place. And some good luck wouldn't hurt!

LivePokerRadio : Are you ready for the most painful period in your career?

So lets get into Six Deadly Questions:

Pirate Lawyer: shoot

LivePokerRadio : Which would you play more often 89s or the Hammer

Pirate Lawyer: My favourite hand 89s.

LivePokerRadio : #2 Best Phil Ever?

Pirate Lawyer: Hmm. I'll say Laak because he has a celebrity Canadian girlfriend.

LivePokerRadio : #3 Poker Tournament that you could dominate if you could get your act together (either online or B&M)

Pirate Lawyer: The big buy-in mixed hold'em event at the WSoP.

LivePokerRadio : #4 Blogger that you respect the most and blogger you hate the most...

Pirate Lawyer: (can I be totally frank here?)

LivePokerRadio : Sure and don't call me frank

Pirate Lawyer: For most respected I'll say CK (BWoP) because she's living her dream and taking bold adventurous steps away from the beaten path; and .... Donkette, for reasons that should be very obvious to most everyone.

LivePokerRadio : #5 If you were in a courtroom with any Blogger Lawyer, who would you dominate?

Pirate Lawyer: I'd own Hoy in a courtroom. No contest!

LivePokerRadio : and finally ROAR or BOOM?

Pirate Lawyer: Definitely BOOM!

LivePokerRadio : Thanks for having fun with six deadly questions and for playing the LivePokerRadio.com Tour

Pirate Lawyer: ty Tragedy sir

LivePokerRadio.Com Tournament Four Blog

11:45 and after a 20 min Heads up battle Waffles is DOMINATED when his 98 is dominated by A6, ace on the flop , six on the turn and RaisingCayne is your week 4 LPRT Champion!

Congrats Cayne!

For our cast of thousands, my spotter OhCaptain, my partner in poker Riggstad, I'm Instant Tragedy reminding you that the only nuts you have is when you get to say BOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!
Good Night from LivePokerRadio.Com

11:25 After one of the brutalist beats when Waffles A9o> Instant Tragedy's A10o Tragedy leaves the parade grounds in third place and RaisingCayne and SirfWalgman go at it heads up.
Still respectable showing for Tragedy, moving closer to TwoBlackAces in the money standings and a first and two thirds in four tourneys. Could third place be the Tragedy position?

11:18 Lots of tournament chips in a pot with IT and TheCloserX5, a paired board with a flushed board chases the CloserX away with what looked to be a river value bet.
1st Cayne 18K 2nd IT with 13k Waffles hanging back in 3rd.

11:15 A lot of pushing and folding going on.

11:13 InstantTragedy has a case of the Astin's as his Aces stand up against 10h9h and he takes out Astin who goes out in 5th place. We are now on the money bubble. RaisingCayne is the Chipleader with 15K 2nd is the CLoserX5 with 12K IT is in 3rd with 10k Waffles is in 4th with 8k

11:10 First hand after break and the CloserX5 doubles up Waffles and he is now in 3rd place.

11:07 We're at break and TheCloserX5 is your leader, RaisingCayne 2nd, InstantTragedy 3rd, Astin 4th and Waffles SirfWalgman in the Dude In Last Place (DILP) Position.
We are now at break!

11:00 Congrats to RaisingCayne and Surflexus who are deep in the Full Tilt 28k. Good luck guys and bring home the moolah!

10:57 From Chipleader to chump After mondo hand 1, TBA pushes with AQo. Waffles calls with pocket 4's. TwoBlackAces hits his ace on the turn but loses when waffles hits his two outer on the river. Waffles is up to third place.

10:54 Tragedy wins a 2900 chip pot when he flops trips and pot bets out. No callers and he is up to 2nd place. TBA is solid chipleader.

10:53 TBA is the chipleader by 55 chips Tragedy is in the DILP position with 6700 chips.

10:50 Astin's AK hurts Ddionysus' 7's with one king on the flop and one on the river to smack him around. DD's is left with a chip and a chair. TwoblackAces Kings bitch slap DD's K8 os and we are down to 6.

10:46 The Taunting of InstantTragedy continues: Astin: feel free to give me your chips
Astin: before she just lounges back topless Astin: I'll get you just like Sean isn't getting Jo right now. Astin: or something like that Astin: hey Tragedy - bigger bre asts - Waffles or Joanna? InstantTragedy: Joanna, she is the most beautiful woman in the world. Astin: here that Waffles? You're not the most beautiful woman in the world

10:44 According to Waffles, IT's Girlfriend teasing him is a plan perfected by the toasted and covered with buttered and syrup.

10:32 Lots of action and the top 2 money winners on the tour are duking it out with TBA and IT looking for money. If IT wins and TBA doesn't cash we wll have a new cash leader on the Livepokerradio.com tour.

TBA and IT in a war and IT is all in with Aces, TBA calls with 9's. Oh no, will the two outer come? NOOOOOoooooooo and IT is up to 11k and is your chip leader.

10:28 And DOWN GOES PVANHARIBO. The player who has a bet out on Waffles on the Mookie Tournaments pushes with J6 os. Waffles calls with A10 and with an Ace and a ten on the flop sends her to the rail. GG LJ!

10:24 Didn't take long to have our first bustout, JoshuaCarlsens two pair is no goot to the Horse Trainer that is Astin (Horseshoe not included)'s trips.

Congrats to everyone who made it so far!


10:23 The new girlfriend is distracting me... But not enough to see the CARNAGE that is RaisingCayne's Queens CRACKING Neo3gs's Aces and we are at the final table.

10:22 Ddionysus drops the hammer to Waffles amusement.

10:21 Pvanharibo is fighting back as back to back pushes have netted the Turbo Fitty warrior a couple of blinds.

10:18 We have Whitewater as InstantTragedy and Pvan go to war. Tragedy has the 8 high flush and Pvan's seven high straight is no good. Still on the final table bubble.

10:16 Table 2 has the action as it's buying the blinds time on table 1.

10:15 Racing all around and this time Pvanharibo loses one and doubles up Neo3gs. Pvan is down in the DILP position.

10:14 Lightning36 can't win a race either as the TwoBlackAces Ramrod continues with pocket 7's the board doesn't improve Lightning's hand and it doesn't strike twice. Down to the Final Table Bubble.

10:12 DQB for DDionysus and TwoBlackAces donates. Tragedy gives up a ton of his chips when he races with Pvanharibo. Pocket 9's are ALWAYS good and Tragedy is approaching the DILP!

10:07 HighonPoker is all in wuth QsAc3d the board. TheCloser goes all in with AA , and even the river 5 can't help HighonPoker who is out in 12th.

The following hand neo3gs double's up when his pair of aces dodge bullets baby and Raising Cayne doubles him up. Down to 11 players. TBA is dominating with 14.6K

10:05 Happy Birthday to JamyHawk who is officially old, neo3gs who is 30 today, and also to Tragedy's father : SilverEagle.

9:59 As we hit the break, I can remind you that 1st place $64, 2nd $38.40 and 3rd will take home $25.60

9:55 Approaching first break and I'm pushing with KsQc Neo calls with 7s8s. And I double up.
Note to self. Stop believing Waffles. After being as high as first, I was down to 1000 chops. Lightning36 doubles through Waffles and its a whole new ballgame.

HighonPoker is in the DILP. Top 5 are TwoBlackaces with 14.8K

9:52 Twoblackaces is making everyone his bitch, taking a significant chunk of joshuacarlsen's chips and now has 15k.

9:50 Twoblackaces is dominating with 9540 chips, neo3gs is in second with 5640, joshuacarlsen has 4800 in chips in third, RaisingCayne with the miracle hammer is in 4th with 3590 and InstantTragedy is in 5th with 3155. The DILP is SmBoatDrinks with 1200.

9:44 No help for defending champ PirateLawyer pushes with Jc10c. smBoatdrinks calls with JsJh. The CloserX5 calls with AsQc. TheCloserx5 catches a queen and takes most of the pot. Smboatdrinks takes the rest. Piratelawyer is down to 430.

9:42 RaisingCayne miracle push of the Hammer doubles through TheCloserx5's AKo who is now in the DILPosition.

9:37 BIG Hand on table two as Pirate Lawyer and HighonPoker go at it. With a pair of nines and an open ended straight draw, Highonpoker pushes and PirateLawyer calls with aces. No miracle hand and HoP is close to DILPing it.

Tragedy's Queens and Eights are no good versus JoshuaCarlsen's NUT BOAT. Down to 3000 for tragedy and Josh is up to 7k

9:34 The two chipleaders are at Table 1, Twoblackaces and InstantTragedy. Tragedy's flopped set is good to take some of TBA's chips but he is still above 10K

34 min in and here are the standings.

1st twoblackaces 10,340
2nd InstantTragedy 6,570
then it takes awhile to get to the chipleader on table 2
3rd HighonPoker with 4330
4th is Astin on table 1 with 3645
and 5th is JoshuaCarlsen with 3550

The DILP is Lightning36 with 1800 chips.


9:31 Numbbono was dude in last place (DILP) and he pushed with 8s6s. Unfortunately for him JoshuaCarlsen wakes up with aces. Board doesn't help and Numbbono is gone in 15th place.

9:23 HighonPoker may be swash and debonair, but his Ks10s is no good to the mighty KQo

9:21 When Skidoo and Twoblackaces go at it, its a war until all the chips are at the table
Skidoo's pocket 9's versus tba's powerful JACKACE.
Ad 10d Jh Ks 2H and Two pair is good enough to send skidoo to the rail. GG sir.
TBA is your definitive leader with 7800 in chips.

9:17 Big hand on table one as Twoblackaces gets all his chips in the middle after a 4d2d10h flop. Iam23skidoo goes to the time bank to calculate odds. Not enough as he folds and we have a new chip leader.

9:13 Top 5

1. InstantTragedy 4050
2. Iam23skidoo 3590
3. Numbbono 3550
4. twoblackaces 3510
5. Highonpoker 3430
ILP. Lightning36 2365

9:09 Pvanharibo makes a late registration and is in to my left. Pvan has been KILLING the Turbo Fitty on Full Tilt. 16 player is how will end up tonight.

9:01 Sirfwalgman is here as well as the dashing HighOnPoker

8:51 9 min to action and 11 players. Will we have Shorthanded donkey fun tonight?

8:42 18 min to chips and still no Wawfuls, the defending Champ Pirate Lawyer is here and we will have 6 deadly questions with him later in the show.

8:30 30 Min to chips in the air and nine people are in so far

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James Woods Interview at 2008 Borgata Summer Open Part 2

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Here is part two of the James Woods Interview

James Woods Interview at 2008 Borgata Summer Open

Photos by flipchip / LasVegasVegas.com

James Woods came by the Live Poker Radio booth and sat down with us to talk. Listen to part one of our interview.

Final 18

Here are your final 18 for the 2008 Borgata Summer Open. Listed with chipstack and starting seat assignment.

1. Vineet Pahuja - Hicksville, NY - 1,925,000 - Table 1 seat 8
2. Karim Bevans - Gaithersburg, MD - 1,710,000 - Table 1 seat 4
3. Mark Herm - Royersford, PA - 1,640,000 - Table 2 seat 4
4. William Phipps - Union City, NJ - 1,465,000 - Table 1 seat 7
5. Allen Bari - West Orange, NJ - 1,415,000 - Table 1 seat 9
6. Paul Kitsos - Manhassett, NY - 1,230,000 - Table 1 seat 1
7. Alex Nepomnyaschiy - Staten Island, NY - 955,000 - Table 1 seat 2
8. Michael Glick - Bala Cynwyd - 855,000 - Table 1 seat 5
9. Boris Kravets - Elizabeth, NJ - 825,000 - Table 1 seat 6
10. Jeremy Schoenberger - Glassboro, NJ - 810,000 - Table 2 seat 9
11. Hoa Minh Nguyen - Fairfax, VA - 780,000 - Table 2 seat 3
12. Barry Leventhal - Brooklyn, NY - 780,000 - Table 2 seat 7
13. Guy Maxtone Graham - New York, NY - 760,000 - Table 2 seat 2
14. Jason Stuken - Stamford, CN - 615,000 - Table 2 seat 8
15. Brian Allen - Hicksville, NY - 495,000 - Table 2 seat 1
16. Allan Colon - Oceanside, NY - 450,000 - Table 2 seat 5
17. Joseph Hammerman - Bedminster, NJ - 415,000 - Table 1 seat 3
18. Benedetto Bianco - Franklin Square, NY - 140,000 - Table 2 seat 6

Payouts for the last 18:

1 - $500,250
2 - $289,800
3 - $143, 175
4 - $120,750
5 - $103,500
6 - $86,250
7 - $69,000
8 - $51,750
9 - $34,500
10 through 12 - $22,425
13 through 15 - $17,250
16 through 18 - $12,075

Level 23

Level 22 ended with some fireworks between Mike Kalfa and Mr. Bensonhurst. Kalfa had been showing down nothing but monsters and was in another pot with AKh. Mr. B (who has been big leaguing every decision, every hand) decided to put his tourney life on the line with ducks. A deuce hit the flop but Kalfa picked up a wheel draw and a flush draw on the turn. A useless King on the river and he was crippled. Mr. B also picked up his first official warning when he decided to do combo chicken dance-mosh with the player in seat 4.

We're down to 19 players. ~91k average stack and the blinds are 15k/30k/5k.

Update: That didn't take very long. Two short stacks were battling on separate tables trying to add $2k to their bankroll, the difference between 18th and 19th. Table 1 shorty found a late double up then quadruple up to squeak into the final 18.

Last 18 show up tomorrow at 11am and play down to the $500,000+ payday for first.

Now I think I saw the craps tables sitting right outside the poker room.

Level 22 update

The TD's tell me we've been sitting on 21 players for well over 90 minutes. I missed a chunk of action due to an overabundance of vanilla gelato and red bull.

This might take awhile to get down to 18. The average chip stack is around 820k and the blinds are at 12,000/24,000 4,000 ante. The TD's are keeping a close eye on Mr. Bensonhurst who is in full TV personality mode with chatter and antics. I thought he was about to go on uber-tilt but dialed it back down and still seems to be in full control of his facilities.

My main decision when we get to 18 is whether to play craps while drinking heavily or play craps heavily while drinking. My inner-degenerate is beginning to itch.

3 more players and we call it a night

At 9pm we are sitting at 21 players, only 3 til we hit the magical number of 18 when everyone leaves the table for the night. Action has slowed down a bit with the deep stacks and slow structure. We do have one live player who wished it to be known that he was on his 19 vodka for the day. Pretty impressive from my point of view. When pressed for his name all that anyone could come up with was Screwball from Bensonhurst.

The guy has been having a great time and playing some solid poker to reach the final 22.

Payouts from 19th to 27th are $10,350

DOWN the stretch they come

With 23 left and it being only 8:30 here on the right coast, it seems tonight will be an early night when they finally halt play at 18.

Alvin Delgado went out when his pair of Jacks were run down by the nutter flush.

Stacks have seem to have changed location since I came back from dinner and I will gather chip amounts for the remaining players.

The Bubble Burst

Nick Frangos was the unfortunate bubble boy missing on his nut flush draw when his opponents set of nines became a boat on the turn. Southpark Ned finished in 42nd.

28th through 36th will bank $8,625. Here come the pushing from the shorties.

Update at break 2

Following the second break we're only 9 from the money and SouthPark Ned is beginning for his table to get broke. The rest of his table completely agreed but they are stuck at table 2 which will last the night.

There were some bizarre moves over the last two levels. One player decided he wanted to go broke just short of the money with top pair only to hit his three outer on the river. Table 4 was the action table and some poor lemur had the clock called on him when he didn't even realize he had a hand. He about pissed himself when he realized the action was on him. Riggs wrote earlier about the guy who blew his shot at the big payday and staked his tourney life on the all powerful 95o.

Riggs is no longer worrying about his man-crush. Lacey Jones (seen here with Dr. Pauly) is sitting at the media table so we're back to good ole' fashioned hetero fun. Perticelli just spent 30 minutes getting her interview and it should be good to go as soon as he edits out all his stuttering.

BOOOOOOOOOM!

Brian Gillman sitting on just under 500k in chips makes a middle position raise with 9 4 of spades. Joseph "betco" Hammerman reraise to 90k with QQ. Gillman repops to $190k and Hammerman calls.

The flop comes 9 high with two spades. Gillman shoves and Hammerman calls. Gillman doesn't improve and Hammerman scoops a pot worth over $1,ooo,ooo and takes the chip lead for the tournament.

Mouths are open as some agree and others disagree with the move by both players.

Wither way Hammerman takes a huge lead and players at that table will certainly be letting him walk in the blinds for some time.

Matt Stout is out

Just after the break Matt "allinat420" Stout is out when his KK ran into chipleader Karim Bevans and his A7d.

Down to 54 players already and the shortstacks are looking at the payout board between every hand like it might change. Southpark Ned is the closest but the entire room just had a reprieve from him when they decided it was time to test the fire alarm system. I've never been so glad for flashing strobe lights and blaring sirens.

At the break

Yesterday seemed to be a pretty calm day considering the $1.7 million prizepool that was on the line.

The room was very well behaved with only a few exceptions and the staff is running a fine game. Only one serious incident involving an older gentleman losing his mind and calling a female player at his table a few choice words that deserved a thrashing. Between the floor staff and the other players at the table, it took about 2 seconds for grandpa to be humbled into silence. 1am this morning he was still steaming and doesn't seem to have untilted starting Day 2.

Today tensions are running much higher. The floor is being called often to make decisions as the remaining 90 players try for the $500k first place money. Plenty of gross suck outs and a lot of cursing. A bottle thrown or two but the staff is keeping everyone in line. More importantly I'm pretty sure every cocktail waitress is flirting with me since Riggs professed his undying love for Diggstown. He still hasn't stopped smiling.

"Little Nicky" is still cruising along, running his table from the 5 seat, while Matt Stout has been doing battle with the 10 seat who sounds like Ned from South Park. From what I can tell, Ned hasn't stopped talking once since the first hand and it's like sandpaper to my ears.

I've been in the house for nearly 24 hours and only have one double shot to show for it. I can't use booze as my excuse for waking up on the floor of my hotel room. That blame falls squarely on Sasquatch falling asleep in the room at 5 this morning and making sounds like world class chain saw. I run goot.

Standby for Riggs interview. They spent 40 minutes talking about all things poker, unfortunately he did not ask which was his favorite cartoon cameo.

Adam Gerber, Brian Gillman and the break

Brian Gillman is sitting on over $450k in chips taking small pots and stealing BB's like its his job.

At his table just before break, 2 players get into it when one shoves all in with QQ. The BB tanks for 10 minutes as the break starts, and the original shover asks if he can go to the bathroom. He leaves the table to find the floor, and the rest of the table starts to yell a little about the hand being dead because he left.

The guy comes back and and states that the dealer told him to find the floor person to ask. The floor personnel shows and calls it a live hand with the BB still yet to act.

The BB finally calls, and opens up KK. The flop comes 9 T J. The turn brings a 4, and the river comes a Q. Obviously some very short lived expectations of having a winning hand from the guy holding the Q's is squashed when the dealer auto shoves the pot to the guy with the K's as the river gave him the straight.

Coming back on break and things are looking good. Lots of movement as they try to get down to 18 players before the end of the day.

Adam Gerber is sitting on $235k as he doubled through with, surprisingly enough, the best hand as it went all in preflop.

Live Update

"Little Nicky" Frangos took a sick beat early on with his AQ versus AJ preflop but turned around later to double back up with running hearts for the nutter flush. Much cursing was heard by the two seat.

No long after and he doubled again. The money went in on the QJx flop two hearts. A8h versus QJo and the river heart is good again.

90 minutes into Day 2 and we are down from 131 to 100.

Riggs will be back later with his James Woods man-crush interview.

Aaron Dugay

After a succession of hands Aaron is now sitting on just over $330k in chips. His stack grew when he fired 3 bullets with air into a pot totaling about $120k on the river and his opponent folded. The opponent was apparently a guy who liked to limp and shove ragged flops and did this in three consecutive hands. The very next hand, Aaron picked up QJ and fired out $12k. The same guy, and 3 others called. The flop came Q x x and Aaron fired out another $12k. The "offender" shoved all in and Aaron instantly shoved back (out of turn) and the rest of the table looked surprised as he acted out of turn. The rest folded, and and the villain showed Q 5. Aaron's Jack played and he doubled up to the $330 mark.

C'MON!!

Alvin Delgado raises to $11k from the high jack with 99. The BB calls and the flop comes 4 6 9

With 37k in the pot, Alvin raises to $50k deciding that he wanted to take it down right there. (he only had $14k behind him)



The BB calls and Alvin puts his last $14k in before the turn comes and with him last to act. The BB calls and shows 23os... Alvin shakes his head and then turn brings a K and the river bricks a 7, giving Alvin a nice $160k pot.