{"id":16272,"date":"2011-11-11T11:51:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T10:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=16272"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:07:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:07:14","slug":"premier-league-what-i-really-think-about-my-so-called-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/premier-league-what-i-really-think-about-my-so-called-rivals.html","title":{"rendered":"Premier League: What I really think about my so called rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/premier-league.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16293\" title=\"Premier League Poker\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/premier-league.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/premier-league.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/premier-league-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Back in London getting ready for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/premier-league-poker-mixed-game-championship.html\">PartyPoker.com Premier League Mixed Game Championship<\/a> to start at the Playboy Club in London on Sunday. Being the playboy that I am I&#8217;m heading off to meet some Egyptian and Lebanese friends for a double apple shisha on the Edgware Road. I love the line-up, I will smoke them all! I just wish my good friend Joe Hachem was playing, I nearly choked on my smoke when I saw his tweet today:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>\u2018@JosephHachem poker and chilling in Club 23 with boys from Kings of Leon. Haven&#8217;t been this relaxed in ages. Cool guys btw!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Is he entering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/best-phil-hellmuth-twitter-impressions.html\">my twitter competition<\/a> for impressions of a certain poker player? If so the $25 is on its way to you Joe \u2013 see you at the Aussie Millions!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Anyway to the NLH\/PLH\/PLO fest and the \u00a32,000 cognacs at the Playboy Club. I think it is great that games other than NLH are going to get tv exposure \u2013 this is a positive step forward for poker. Here\u2019s my take on the line-up for the $25k event.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Luke Schwartz<\/strong> \u2013 still needs a trike and not a bike. I have taken all Bordy\u2019s money \u2013 no harm in taking more!<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Mike Sexton<\/strong> \u2013 a legend, he\u2019s got gamble but I am going to punish him for failing to secure the delivery of the wine pallets he ordered on our extensive tour of vineyards at WPT Slovakia.<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Max Pescatori<\/strong> \u2013 this Italian is going broke \u2013 he may not be a pirate anymore but I am. Avoid the horn of Africa Max. Bunga! Bunga!<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Matt Giannetti<\/strong> \u2013 he\u2019s good but not as good as Martin Zasko. Hellmuth loves him too much, he talked about him every second in the live stream at WPT Malta. I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s a good thing Matt.<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Andrew Feldman<\/strong> \u2013 he used to be a paper boy \u2013 I gave him his break in tv poker. Don\u2019t try and bum hunt me online at 4am in the morning Andrew.<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Andy Frankenberger<\/strong> \u2013 smart guy but you cannot run good forever \u2013 you know i was a forex trader once Andy?<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Ben Carpenter<\/strong> \u2013 no idea, supposed to be mouthy \u2013 he\u2019s qualified? We\u2019ll see.<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Yevgeniy Timoshenko<\/strong> \u2013 unlike Schwartz he\u2019s progressed from a trike to a bike. Glory days over Timmy?<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Sorel Mizzi<\/strong> \u2013 is he cut from the top or bottom of the pack? He could do with the guiding hand of Tony G.<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">James Dempsey<\/strong> \u2013 I remember him from Australia. He just needs to remember that I was pushing the organizers to pick Martin Zasko instead of him.<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Jennifer Tilly<\/strong> \u2013 she said in <a style=\"text-align: justify\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aoltv.com\/2011\/11\/09\/jennifer-tilly-wants-give-up-poker-get-back-into-acting-video\/\">this clip<\/a><span style=\"text-align: justify\"> why she is quitting poker. Like Hellmuth I think her more mainstream appeal is great for the game, whatever the purist might say. I don\u2019t want to push her into retirement quicker than she anticipated but it will probably be unavoidable.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in London getting ready for the PartyPoker.com Premier League Mixed Game Championship to start at the Playboy Club in London on Sunday. Being the playboy that I am I&#8217;m heading off to meet some Egyptian and Lebanese friends for a double apple shisha on the Edgware Road. I love the line-up, I will smoke<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/premier-league-what-i-really-think-about-my-so-called-rivals.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[158,172,32,205,63],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77054,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16272\/revisions\/77054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16272"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}