Wise Hand Poker

As the Final Table draws near and the much anticipated finale of the 2008 WSOP finally comes to a close, I had a chance to talk with Kelly Kim yesterday at Commerce Casino.
Kelly, as you all know is my choice for champion for several reasons.

Not to take anything away from any of the other players but as you know we all have our reasons for our favorites. Today being election day here in the USA we will go to the polls and vote for our favorite candidates for one reason or another.

We do the same thing when it comes down to a final table of an event and we choose(sweat,rail) our favorite.

Kelly is a little nervous and excited at the same time. He has been having a hard time sitting in one place lately as the FT is on his mind. Kelly told me this has been life changing and although the marketing deals have not been in abundance as he thought they would be, he is very happy to be wearing the Full Tilt patch.

Kelly will also be wearing the patch I had made for my Charity. The FallenHeroesLA.org patch made its debut last week at the Festa Al Lago WPT event. J.C. Tran, Quin Do and Nam Le all wore the patch while playing.

The WPT has even approved my patch to be worn at the Final Table of any WPT event which is huge and I would like to thank them for their support of the Memorial Poker Classic.

I am also honored Kelly decided to support us and wear the patch for the WSOP FT. It just speaks in volumes about the character of Kelly and I saw it in him the first time we met and over the past few months Kelly is still Kelly and has not let the notoriety get to his head as it does so many other players.

Kelly, THANKYOU ......................................................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I also had the Chance to talk with Nam Le yesterday. He is not going to Foxwoods because he will be sweating his good friend David "Chino" Rheem at the final table Saturday. Nam told me there might be a slight possibility that David will wear the FALLENHEROESLA.org patch also so he asked me to mail some to the Bellagio.

Nam said Pokerstars has been very picky about their players wearing other patches, so we will just have to wait and see. I also thanked Nam for the 1000th time and being the gentleman he is, he thanked me for what I was doing. Class!

I know Dennis Phillips will be wearing some sort of patch on his shoulder after he auctioned off the space on E-Bay and donated the winning bid of $19,500.00 to the MS Foundation which I thought was very admirable.

I have not heard too much about any other charity work by the other players, but they may be concentrating on the FT and will possibly be helping someone or something when this is all over.

Kelly, again Thank you and I am having a Barbq at my home on Tuesday night so we can watch the FT. I know it will be all over by Tuesday, but there are at least 20 Deputies who are coming over and as of right now are hoping you can make history at the Main Event!!

As for my Poker playing, I have been playing on line and actually won enough money to enter a few events at the upcoming Heavenly Holdem series at Commerce, which starts this Friday, Nov 7th. Enjoy the ME.

Take Care.............Be Safe..............