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The Poker Grapevine – Galfond’s AMA Session
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Tue, 2013-11-19 06:01
For a true poker fan, there are few things more enjoyable than finding out a few hard-to-come-by and doubtlessly hilarious details on some of their favorite green felt heroes. This is why AMA (Ask Me Anything) sessions involving poker players are so popular these days, especially so when the target of the AMA is as great at it as Phil Galfond.
One of the fans asked Galfond if he could tell something the public didn’t yet know about himself, about Viktor Blom, about Tom Dwan and about Ben Sulsky. While he skillfully tiptoed around the bit about himself, Galfond did deliver some interesting pieces of information on his fellow poker professionals.
Apparently, Blom likes to play for high stakes in his apartment, while eating Pringles and sipping apple-juice. He’s also a big movie fan and he has a massive comedy collection.
Dwan on the other hand, once tried to give someone a $100 tip to get a bowling lane early, he mistakenly held up a $1 bill instead, and he got put in his place.
He apparently also keeps an unusually large number of unread text messages on his phone.
Galfond spoke highly of Sulsky, calling him one of the most intelligent and talented poker players, who – rather uncharacteristically for his trade – has a rather lowly opinion about his own skills and intelligence. Sulsky has been known to place major bets on Starcraft results.
In other news:
2013 WSOP Main Event runner-up Jay Farber never denied that he had a lot of backers to pay out and – unlike some other past big winners – he made good on his word, paying out $1 million in cash to Dan Bilzerian, who didn’t waste the obvious photo-op, promptly posting a picture of the huge pile of money on twitter. Bilzerian had apparently staked Farber to the tune of $2k.
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