HAVIN’ FUN AWAY FROM THE TABLES

Friday, March 20, 2009 - Tiffany M

February wasn’t a terribly exiting poker month so lets talk about the exciting things that are going on in my life away from the tables!

On the acting side of my career things seem to be picking up. I’ve had a few super cool auditions this week.  One was for a Matt Damon movie to play his leading love interest.  I mean, it’s no Rounders sequel but I don’t think any of us poker fans want to see them even attempt that!  At least if I shot a movie with Matt I know I wouldn’t be bored in between takes since I’d have a poker pal on set to play with.

My management just confirmed that I’ll be joining Erica Schoenberg and Evelyn Ng for a ‘sexy poker chick’ photo shoot in April for Knockout Magazine. .. in BIKINIS.  Yikes, I’d better stay away from the French fries and try to get some good workouts in between the long hours sitting on my butt at the poker tables.

Speaking of magazines I recently shot the March cover of Rounder magazine!  We did a sexy, fun and funky photo shoot in Vegas at Panorama Towers a few weeks ago.   I love getting all dolled up for a photo shoot especially since everyone usually only sees me hiding under a hat or hoodie at a poker table surrounded by a bunch of men.  It’s refreshing to step away from the game for a moment and be 100% girlie.  I’m definitely looking forward to doing more with the magazine in the future, possibly a special issue during the WSOP.   Be sure to pick up your March copy!

At the end of month I’ll be playing in the Dream Team Poker tournament at Caesars palace along with my girls Maria Ho and Lacey Jones.  We have given ourselves the team name “Yo Mama”… cracks me up every time I say it!  Anyone interested in creating their own team and participating is welcome to do so, you can visit the Dream Team’s website for more info.

Other than that I’m just gearing up for the World Series and will be popping in some events at the WPT Five Star tournament next month as well as the WSOP Caesars Circuit event to warm up my little fingers for a summer of poker!  Stay tuned!

Here’s a sneak peek of a picture I snapped real quick with my phone while on
set of my Rounder magazine shoot

Tags: Dream Team Poker, Erica Schoenberg, Evelyn Ng, Knockout Magazine, matt damon, rounders, world series of poker

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From The Felt: At The Movies, Sort Of.

Monday, January 12, 2009 - John Greene

The other day, a friend of mine popped Rounders into my DVD player for me. I’d actually never seen the movie, instead choosing to watch things that have nothing to do with what I consider “work,” and I knew that there’d be a few things in there that would drive me up the wall. I was right, of course.

John Malkovich plays Tony KGB, a supposedly amazing poker player who had a fatal tell. Now, I get that Hollywood has to play things up a bit, but really, would anybody who dramatically split open and ate an Oreo every time he had a strong hand versus just playing with it when he was bluffing even make it past Round Two of the local VFW’s Wednesday Night Poker Tournament? It’s so obvious, it’s laughable. If you actually ever see someone doing something that melodramatic at the tables, I guarantee they’re just messing with you.

Look to the (excellent) Casino Royale and how Le Chiffre plays Bond’s knowledge of his tells against him. While not everyone will have a Felix Leiter handy to feed bad information to the person playing opposite them, a player can set up their opponents for failure by creating a smokescreen of false tells. The mercurial table behavior of our own Phil Hellmuth is a fantastic example of how to do this: you literally never know what he’s thinking and while his flamboyance plays against my own table philosophy, I can see why it works so well for him.

Tags: james bond, john malkovich, Phil Hellmuth, poker tells, rounders

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