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This is a discussion on US poker championship within the online poker forums, in the Poker Rooms section; anyone catch this on ESPN 2 tonight? This guy Lance Funston stops the tournament and calls the director over to ask him this... "does a ...
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  #1
19th June 2006, 5:26 AM
Dingodaddy23
 
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Game: hold'em
US poker championship

anyone catch this on ESPN 2 tonight? This guy Lance Funston stops the tournament and calls the director over to ask him this...


"does a flush beat 3 of a kind?"

director tells him yes i believe it does, Funston quickly calls with a flopped flush, his opponet flips 3 of a kind, lol. Hes either really smart or really dumb. These are the people that play 10k buy-in tourneys.
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  #2
19th June 2006, 10:40 AM
starfall
 
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You can potentially believe questions like this in a celebrity game (when you've generally got people who are being paid just to turn up, rather than paying to play in the tournament), but in a normal tournament you'd tend to expect this as just being a way to indicate that they have a good read on their opponent.
  #3
19th June 2006, 12:29 PM
blankoblanco
 
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Funston is so goofy and clueless it's hard to know whether to believe him or not.
  #4
19th June 2006, 2:18 PM
smd173
 
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Quote:
Originally Posted by combuboom
Funston is so goofy and clueless it's hard to know whether to believe him or not.
"I call your two orange and one purple and raise you an orange." "No sir, it has to be double his bet, 4 oranges and 2 purples".

Notice that he kept hitting these amazing gutshot straights? But also notice they showed his stats where he played 28/34 hands, won 16 of them but had a net loss of $5500. Meanwhile his friend Brian Haveson played 11/34 hands, won 4 and made $10000.
  #5
19th June 2006, 2:23 PM
blankoblanco
 
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Game: NL Hold 'em
re: US poker championship

Hahaha, yeah, the betting colors thing was priceless. Regardless of how much of it is an act or not, he sure entertains me.
  #6
19th June 2006, 3:28 PM
t1riel
 
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Game: Holdem/Hi-Lo
I saw that too. I think he did it to rub it in his opoonents face. I didn't like that at all.
  #7
19th June 2006, 6:23 PM
MaximusBets
 
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hes Brien Haverson's protege'..........I guess, if you can call him that. but I think some of it is an act. I mean c'mon, you dont just say hay, I just started playing poker....let me buy into a $10,000 event with some the best players in the world. Unless he's just some rich guy that thinks hey I'm pretty good because I got lucky a bunch of times.
  #8
19th June 2006, 6:44 PM
smd173
 
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MaximusBets
hes Brien Haverson's protege'..........I guess, if you can call him that. but I think some of it is an act. I mean c'mon, you dont just say hay, I just started playing poker....let me buy into a $10,000 event with some the best players in the world. Unless he's just some rich guy that thinks hey I'm pretty good because I got lucky a bunch of times.
They showed him at his job. I think he's some kind of lawyer. So he has the $10K to throw around. I think it's more that he's friends with Haveson and figures if he can do it, I can do it too.

He is entertaining though. The interaction with Fischman was priceless (especially when he bluffed him off the full house)
  #9
19th June 2006, 6:54 PM
wsorbust
 
Poker at: Stars
If you missed it. . . Funston is a Harvard graduate. . . So he's not "really dumb"...I think this guy knew exactly what he was doing before he entered...


This is from Last year's U.S. Open right? I thought they played this in October.. .Or is this the Newest one?

Last edited by wsorbust : 19th June 2006 at 7:00 PM.
  #10
20th June 2006, 12:33 AM
tranqxility
 
Game: NLHE
re: US poker championship

Yeah, I was gonna say Funston isn't that stupid. He knows what he's doing. I mean, he may still not be able to play with the professionals, but he does definitely try to act stupid to get more action.
 



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