17 Things Not To Do If You End Up Playing Poker On TV
It takes a lot of work and/or luck to end up playing poker on tv. The competition these days is fierce, the fields huge and the buy-ins large. Still, more people now than ever are getting their chance to play in front of millions. Unfortunately for them, some of these players just don’t realize how they’ll be rememberd, and that if you do dumbass things you’ll like just that: a dumbass. Here’s a list of seventeen things NOT to do if you happen to end up on the telly.
1. Act, resemble, mimic, or appear anywhere in the vicinity of this guy:
2. Insist they broadcast your “nickname,” particularly when your nickname is something like HOLLYWOOD, POKER BANDIT, TEX, CRAZY JOEY, or the like.
3. Wear a faux-hawk or appear in any way like you are the frontman of a rap rock band.
4. Act ‘thug.’
5. Act ‘artsy’.
6. Act like a badass when you luck into a suck out.
7. Shriek like a small girl when you luck into a suck out.
8. Shriek like a small girl when you get sucked out.
9. Show up sweating and shove all your chips in on the first hand with A 9 offsuit.
10. Wear a leather jacket and sunglasses and act like you did something requiring artistic output and the world dreams of your spit.
10. Talk to your wife who’s sitting offstage about what a great player you are.
11. Get caught staring at your opponent’s chest.
12. Physically cry.
13. Wear Greg Raymer glasses after Greg Raymer already made them look as silly as possible⎯now you too?
14. Drink so much water before the show that you have to get up and run to the bathroom between every hand.
15. Punch yourself in the face and speak aloud about how you can’t believe you folded that hand before the flop when you would have flopped the straight.
It takes a lot of work and/or luck to end up playing poker on tv. The competition these days is fierce, the fields huge and the buy-ins large. Still, more people now than ever are getting their chance to play in front of millions. Unfortunately for them, some of these players just don’t realize how they’ll be rememberd, and that if you do dumbass things you’ll like just that: a dumbass. Here’s a list of seventeen things NOT to do if you happen to end up on the telly.
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