Pseudonyms
He totally made this all up. Here's the scenario/hand he wrote up the night before the auditions:
The player’s name is Jason Richards.
His nickname is “Rare Local Disease.” The origin is unknown to PokerNews.
Although 26 (slightly old for a “new face on the tour”), Jason has just broken onto the scene as of late. He is from Philadelphia and placed 2nd in the first $10,000 event he ever played in at the 2006 Atlantic City World Series of Poker Circuit event. Also towards the end of 2006 he won the $2,500 preliminary event at the WPT Borgata in Atlantic City, and days later made another final table (4th place) in the $10,000 WPT Main Event at Borgata.
He came to Vegas for the first time in 2007 for the World Series and made 2 televised final tables (2nd and 5th place) in the $2,500 No Limit event and $5,000 No Limit event. Along with a number of other cashes, his friendliness with the media, and his seemingly always good mood and positive attitude, he was featured in a number of video interviews with PokerNews and was a guest on a very popular poker podcast during that summer.
Jason still has a part-time job with a website owned by one of his friends, writing a weekly blog/article about everything from how to beat 1-2 No Limit, creating the perfect table persona (different than table IMAGE), and also very often writes his “My Favorite” lists (consisting from Songs, Movies, Fast Food Places, Casino Cardrooms, TV shows, Comedians, Actors, etc) which he has become well-known for in the blogging/writing community.
Jason still lives in Philadelphia and plays all the big Atlantic City tournaments, and travels to the Vegas tournaments about 5 times a year.
Still looking for his first big win, Jason has made day 2 of one of the $2,000 No Limit tournament (the third tournament of the 2008 WSOP) and is 4th in chips coming into the day. Just before this break, Jason lost about 1/2 of his stack (which is a substantial amount since he was among the chip leaders)on the following hand:
Jason – 256,000 in chips
vs.
Marc Seif – 102,000 in chip
Blinds at 500/1000 with a 100 ante
- Justin raises from middle position to 3,200
- The small blind (random player, pretty loose, medium-short stack) calls
- The Big Blind, Marc Seif, re-raises to 11,000
- Jason thinks for about 30 seconds and re-re-raises to 32,000
- Small blind folds
- Marc stares Jason down for a good minute, asks something like “you knew the small blind was going to fold too I guess.” Checks his cards, and then moves all-in making it 102,000 (another 70,000 for Jason to call)
- Justin caps his cards, sits back in his seat, folds his arms, and exhales. He then stands up with one knee in his chair, counts the pot, counts Marc’s chips. Sits down. Checks his cards again, looks at Marc for a while. He finally calls and tables J-J. Marc is disgusted as he flips over A-10 offsuit. This pot will put Jason in the chip lead if his hand holds up.
- An ace falls on the turn and Marc wins the pot. It is the last hand before break, Jason pushes the chips to Marc, grabs his water and walks off to talk to some friends, who are also friendly with PokerNews.
- You wait for a lull in the conversation and ask Jason for an interview. He gladly agrees and you walk to a quieter part of the hallway and the interview begins.
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