December 04, 2007
PokerStars Sunday Million Tourney.
Yes, it's an ad. Yes, I think I get beer money for it courtesy of the folks at Mad Crowd Media. (Actually, my kid brother, who people constantly mistake for my elder brother when we're in the same room, is managing director of the outfit.) Yes, I'm about to totally ramble because I don't know how to make this ad post count.
I've never played poker online myself, and I think I've played Texas hold-'em exactly once, at a graduation party in Milpitas, CA. (The city is 15% Filipino, so: clearly a connection there.) I can't bluff, which is why I'm bad at a) dates; b) telling students I loved their work; c) convincing players to raise their bets. Ah, but the joy of card games. I did use to play Pusoy Dos back in the day, and can happily admit to bringing the game to Ithaca, NY -- okay, to one household in Ithaca, anyway, where its name was met with skepticism. "Pussy Doze? What sort of perverted game are you teaching us, Vergara?"
How these PokerStars folks figure out your Filipino identity is a mystery to me -- a Philippine address? A nickname like Cookie, Bongbong, or Doods? A particularly wily way of bluffing? Do Filipino Americans count? What if you're only a permanent resident alien and have a Philippine passport? Beats me. But check out that phallic stack of chips anyway, and marvel at the wonder of a champion poker player actually named Chris Moneymaker. I'm off to bed.
--- AD BEGINS HERE, JUST IN CASE YOU WEREN'T SURE ---
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Posted by the wily filipino at December 4, 2007 02:15 AMWTF, you're running ADS?
Posted by: bjr on December 4, 2007 09:24 AMyao, I hope you beefed up your spam filter because you are going to be bombarded by the online casino bots/ads :)
Posted by: Lunamania on December 4, 2007 09:38 AMI'm running one ad, dammit. And there'll probably be no more because prospective advertisers will discover I make snarky comments about their product anyway.
Posted by: the wily filipino on December 4, 2007 11:21 AMExcuse me, but your Pussy Doze was actually a modified version of Joker Karo, and you lost most of the time.
Posted by: Historical Memory on December 4, 2007 01:14 PMIt's a variant of Big Two, which is reported as far back as 1980 in Hong Kong, so I'm sure the other international students beat me by a decade.
I think I actually walked out once because I was being a sore loser. It was cold and there was snow on the ground.
Posted by: the wily filipino on December 4, 2007 02:48 PMThose kids up in Cornell like to talk smack about their Pusoy Dos. But along comes a UP undergrad who took 5 years to finish his degree, and you're all emptying your pockets wondering what the hell happened.
I still have all those CDs I bought the next day.
Posted by: Happy on December 5, 2007 06:08 PMGEEZ. I remember when I taught 680 a bunch of groups were interested in presenting Texas hold 'em in their ethnographies of gambling establishments. I still don't get it.
Posted by: brown on December 5, 2007 06:49 PM