Ray Romano Poker Royal Flush
Anyone who has spent a decent amount of time playing poker knows that bad beats happen – maybe your aces get cracked, or you lose some important coin-flip hands. Sometimes the deck just runs out in such a way that you’re forced to go broke with the second-best hand. It happens.
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It rarely happens quite like this, though.
Aces vs. aces for a cool $1 million
Everything is magnified when a World Series of Poker bracelet is on the line. With millions of dollars changing hands on the drop of a card, some of the craziest hands from the WSOP Main Event and Big One for One Drop will live on in poker lore forever. For the viewer and the player alike, these are the spots that define what the WSOP is all about. December 6, 2017 1:26 pm Actor and comedian Ray Romano witnessed one of the most unlikely World Series of Poker hands of all time at the 2008 main event, when one player at his table with a massive. Ray Romano live updates from poker tournaments. ABOUT CARDPLAYER, THE POKER AUTHORITY CardPlayer.com is the world's oldest and most well respected poker magazine and online poker guide.Since 1988. Is Poker Losing Its First Flush? The Web is a distinctive sugar daddy in all of this. PartyPoker.com, a leading Web site, is host for about 32 hands of poker play per second.
What’s the biggest buy-in tournament you’ve ever played? Ever taken a shot at the $215 Weekly Sunday Guarantee on WSOP.com? (You can’t play PA online poker or at PA online casinos yet, but you may be be able to next year, if the legislature passes a law this fall.)
Well, imagine playing a tournament with a buy-in almost 5,000 times that. A hefty $1 million entry fee to the World Series of Poker’s Big One For One Drop made it the largest-ever WSOP event.
Playing in that tournament is really, really, really not a great time to offend the poker gods, which is what Conor Drinan must have done to have been on the receiving end of this extremely cruel bad beat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO86oLN3ZsU
Straight outta Hollywood
Often, poker movies get a lot of stick from fans of the game for their unrealistic showdowns – quads against full house against flush, more straight flushes than you can shake a stick at… it would just never happen in real life, would it?
Don’t tell that to Justin Phillips, who scooped a huge pot at the 2008 WSOP Main Event after rivering a royal flush against nothing less than four aces. To top off the Hollywood vibe of the hand, Ray Romano was there to witness this 1 in 2.7 billion event.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XunAlp2azhA
The moment poker went mainstream
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It seems like poker has always been on TV, and that the game has always been a staple of online casinos.
Before 2003, poker was pretty niche – that all changed with the man bearing the aptronym to end all aptronyms, Chris Moneymaker. The amateur player made it all the way to the heads-up stage of the 2003 WSOP, playing for a first prize of $2.5 million.
Playing against Sam Farha, who looked every bit the poker professional with his sharp suits and cigars, Moneymaker proved a more than formidable opponent as this ballsy bluff shows.
Chris went on to win the whole tournament, and it’s him you have to thank for being able to play online at WSOP.com.
A million-dollar cold deck
In this super-high-stakes showdown, with blinds of $1,000/$2,000 and six-figure chip stacks, action was inevitable.
What no one expected was the largest pot ever televised, as Phil Ivey and Tom “durrrr” Dwan contested a hand worth $1,108,500 in real dollars. It took the world’s most fortuitous card to give both players a monster hand, and the fallout was immense.
For the fourth consecutive year, Ray Romano played in the World Series of Poker main event. Unfortunately for the comedic actor, it also marked the fourth consecutive year he failed to make the money as he was unable to make it through day 1.
However, Romano took time out of one of breaks to talk to Card Player about his home poker game, the rambunctious Brad Garrett, and his new show on TNT.
“I played as a teenager,” Romano said about his start in poker. “I would play with my buddies in Queens, and now we’ve got a home game with the boys once a month.”
That home game includes Garrett, who played Romano’s brother in the hit CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond.
Garrett has become a bit of a regular at the high-profile, celebrity poker events in recent years, often stealing and securing the spotlight with his booming voice and provocative jokes.
Romano admits his former co-star isn’t exactly that way in their home games.
“He tweaks it a little. Once there’s a crowd, it’s his energy source,” said Romano. “He goes in spurts. But we have to censor him sometimes, even in our home game.”
Everybody might love Raymond, but no one seemed to have a problem taking his chips. Romano drew a tougher than average table draw on day 1A, sitting to the right of last year’s $40,000-event winner, Vitaly Lunkin.
After his pocket jacks failed to hold up against an opponent’s A-K, Romano got the last of his chips in with middle pair against an opponent’s straight-flush draw. That straight flush came on the river with ESPN’s cameras rolling, making it likely that the TV star gets some added face time on ESPN later this year.
Romano was sporting a hat with the title of his new TNT show, Men of a Certain Age.
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“It’s about three men my age, which is about twice you,” said Romano, accurately guessing the interviewer’s age. “Take your age and double it, it’s just [about] life.”
Romano says it’s certainly different to star in a TNT show, as opposed to one of the major networks.
“Money-wise, it’s like going from the World Series event to pitching pennies against the wall,” said Romano. “But that’s not to say it’s not where I want to be, because creatively they give us our freedom and they take care of the shows. In that aspect, we haven’t sacrificed anything.”
The second season of Men of a Certain Age begins in the fall. According to Romano, the show is under contract for four seasons.
The TV star is just one of many celebrities to play in the World Series of Poker. Seinfeld (and more recently Curb Your Enthusiasm) star Jason Alexander made a deep run in last year’s main event, and NBA star Shawn Marion also joined Romano in this year’s day 1A field just one year after the L.A. Lakers’ Jordan Farmar competed in the event.
A plethora of celebrities once again showed up to support the WSOP’s Ante Up for Africa charity event this year, including Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Shannon Elizabeth, Jerome Bettis, Don Cheadle, Evander Holyfield, Montel Williams, and Jeff French.