Archive for April, 2009
The ASSME Files: Eat the Press
by Jefe Von Stanley on Apr.30, 2009, under Journalism, On the Road
Poker legend Dan Negreanu trains the USA's media elite. Photo by Jefe Von Stanley.
A favorite repost of mine from ASSME, now MediaElites.com.
The European Poker Tour tournament held in breathtaking, transgender prostitute-saturated Monte Carlo concluded for most of the press corps with a “media tournament” in which we were each provided with $1500 in chips and got to sample high stakes poker. Earlier in the day a few colleagues and I took a Texas Hold ‘Em tutorial with Canadian poker legend and pokerstars.net spokesperson Daniel Nagreanu, a terrific and personable teacher who showed great patience.
Unfortunately most of us poker-challenged press dorks thought this “tournament” was one in which we’d play each other kindergarten-style in good, clean fun for a few rounds so during dinner beforehand at the delightful Il Terrazzino we stuffed and drank ourselves silly on wine and limoncello… They didn’t tell us until we’d arrived back at The Sporting that we’d be sitting separately at tables with seasoned cutthroat (and stone cold sober) players in a real tournament without quotation marks… continued here, http://mediaelites.com/2009/04/30/eat-the-press/
The ASSME Files: Nelly Likes Poker
by Jefe Von Stanley on Apr.30, 2009, under Journalism, On the Road
Nelly (left) plays it cool in Monte Carlo. Photo by Jefe Von Stanley.
A favorite repost of mine from ASSME, now MediaElites.com.
