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News: Annette wins WSOPE - World Series of Poker Europe

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APAT:
I interpret "unlucky" in this sense as "so near, yet so far". 

To play for several days, beat (and school) some of the best in the world and still miss out by a nano, is unlucky - although I would prefer to call it a fantastic achievement. 

And of course, the achievement of doing this as a relative unknown and at 22, will be lost in the reporting of Annette"s unbelievable performance. 

Still, we do have high expectations of APAT members, and John has been one of us for nearly a year.  

yousefian:
of course i"m biased, and i do agree anette was awesome. but deep down, including most of people there that week will tell you that john played the best poker and derserved it more. Hence many of pros including marcel luske, gus hansen,todd bronson and jamie gold were all there rooting for john. I watched the action since thursday and saw how lucky anette was. Course john got lucky a couple of times, but my point is John deserved it more and 80% of people there believed that too. Hopefully when it comes to screens, it will show a fair reprensentation of how well he played. You know how production companies can manipulate things. e.g jamie gold this year at wsop. every hand was his worst hand. I can tell you know the battle on the final table should be a good one, as the guy from the poket cam said he couldnt believe the junk the both of them were playing. It must of been brilliant to see, cant wait to watch it on t.v

Jon MW:

--- Quote from: APAT on September 17, 2007, 23:32:18 PM ---
I interpret "unlucky" in this sense as "so near, yet so far". 
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I have a more statistical idea of luck :)

Not to belittle John"s achievement, it was the concept that Annette got "very lucky" to win that I objected to.

I have no links to either player, I was just basing my judgement on what I saw reported in the live updates.

Great achievements all round.

kinboshi:
Absolutely.  To come first or second in a tournament like this is brilliant.  Luck is in involved, but it takes more than that.  Both have a great poker future ahead of them (or they could both stop playing now and be happy - but at their ages, I sincerely doubt they"ll be hanging up the gloves).

Swinebag:

--- Quote from: kinboshi on September 20, 2007, 10:15:59 AM ---
Absolutely.  To come first or second in a tournament like this is brilliant.  Luck is in involved, but it takes more than that.  Both have a great poker future ahead of them (or they could both stop playing now and be happy - but at their ages, I sincerely doubt they"ll be hanging up the gloves).



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What is the correct phrase for retiring from poker?

You could say "hanging up the sunnies", or

"hanging up the rod" in my case

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