The Water Cooler: Poker News for the Weekend of February 27
by Bodog Poker | Feb 28 2011
Los Angeles
Another weekend, another World Poker Tour event, this time at the Commerce Casino. The bubble popped this weekend and payouts began in the 2011 World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic and Jason DeWitt is leading the pack with over a million in chips, but he’s going to have some very stiff competition to earn that $1.6m first-place prize, including Richard Toth, James Carroll, David Baker, Shannon Scorr and Carlos Mortensen among others in the top ten.
Atlantic City
He’s 102 years old but he still loves drinking beer, eating poorly and playing poker and that’s why Andrew Amatrudo got himself written up in the Atlantic City newspapers. The centenarian can be found “just about every day” playing poker at the Trump Taj Mahal, and despite his advanced age, he’s not succumbing to the online poker boom. “I’m not going to sit home. If I sit home, I’ll go bezerk,” he told a local journalist. “I love to play poker. That’s all I live for.”
He’s outlived all of his close friends and he lost his wife in 1998 when she was 86, but the retired hairdresser still has a 74-year old daughter, five grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren.
Amatrudo’s favorite game? Stud poker. And apparently he’s pretty darn good at it, according to those who have lost a hand to him. Good on ya, Andrew, and it’s nice to see that some people can still kick ass and take names at the table once they hit triple digits.
Texas
Doyle Brunson revealed on his blog that he recently had a brush with something nobody particularly wants to meet: cancer. Docots found a melanoma on the Texas Dolley’s arm and he flew to Houston to be treated at the same hospital where he was first treated for the disease some fifty years ago. It got removed, they ran some more tests, and Doyle wrote up the experience in his usual blunt style:
“Whoopee! I just got the call from the hospital that the surgery had removed all the cancer from my arm and it hadn’t spread. They said come back in 6 months for a check-up which I’ll certainly do. I ducked one more bullet and I’m grateful again.”
Best of luck to Brunson and we hope to see him hitting the tables again soon!
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