I don't like the idea of not being able to reply to specific comments, so I guess I will reply to BB here.
bubble boy said...
what a bunch of worms, every one of you are average players at best.One question for you Mr. D (that's you Gene) i have read on numerous blogs that you have written that you THINK someone in the CREW will hit it big. First of all who is this great group of players you call the crew? I don't like the word "crew" here. Sounds too cheesy like Dutch and those guys in the 04' WSOP. Their more like a bunch of friends who talk poker strategy/intel/swap %'s ...etc. I will name them as they pop in my head...no rhyme or reason to how I type them in. Wild Bill/Big
Ray/Tex/JoeB/Alex/Davey/Ruttely/Lets Poker Martin/Parfait/ChrisJ/PaulS/Slow Play Dave/Merle/MikeMcD/K.W./Jacob/Lester...to name a few. You read about Rut, and I have been there personally when Tex and Davey both missed a big 5 digit payday...Davey by one card
And second how do YOU plan on hitting it big, when you posted in your last blog that you didn't even play the last MEGA satellite to get into the main event.You can not hit it big if you don't get in the big dance? If you think cashing in the $500 chip or selling hit is hitting it big then you are wasting your time.
Good Point...hence the soul serching I have been doing lately. What you stated was as obvious to me as night and day.
Couple of points:
I didn't mean anything bad about Dutch Boyd and the crew of the 04' WSOP. Wild Bill and I have actually met Dutch and he really is not that bad of a guy. Actually, I drank beer for a couple of hours with Dutch and Joe Bartholdi in that sports bar in the Grand in Tunica. Great guys...just "Everyday Joe's" trying to grind it out. Joe went on to win the WPT Championship 5 months later.
ScottyT...If this is the ScottyT I think it is...welcome to my blog. I had no idea you were reading this. On a side note to my previous post about selling my last $500.00 chip...I tried to sell it to Scotty ;-)
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hello Gene D. good to see you posting and glad that some people are getting into this blog thing. I think we can all use this blog to help each and everyone of us learn sometime about the game of poker and improve our game somehow. Af far as bubble boy asking who the so called crew is, I have played against some of the names he listed and they are some quality players, and i will give you a quick summary of how i feel about these players.
1. ruttley- solid player as you have read made a run in the main event a few days earlier
2. joe B.- in my own opinion one of the best players in the area, also one of the tighest players, more of a cash player than tourny player
3. davey- only played with him once or twice but has a good knack for the game
4.chris J.- everybody said he was pretty good, played with him a few times and he never had a winning night, and always seemed to be playing on tilt and just pissed away money trying to chase lost money
5. merle- funny guy, but plays a lot of garbage, never know if he is playing rags or has a monster, have not seen him playing latley
6. slow play dave- strange guy but a nice guy, tries to hard to play mind games and thinks to long, seen him have a few good nights
7. Tex- real solid player, seems to win everytime i have seen him play, plays his hands strong and bets to the end, has bluffed me a few times with me folding the better hand
As far as some of these other guys, Big Ray, Alex, Wild Bill, i do not think i have played these guys or maybe just don't remeber them, but if Gene as grouped them with these other guys they are probably solid.
There are three other guys I want to mention, if Gene doesn't mine me mentioning
1. Mario Mike- This guys plays pretty solid poker, played with him numerous times and he has done well, solid player IMO
2. Clayton. Anothor guy that i find is a very strong player and has won some good money on some cash tables
3. James Arcenaux- This guy in my on opinion, is probably one of the dumbest players i have played with. I have seen him win a few times, but more often than not he has pissed away money night after night playing garbage and bluffing with aboslutely nothing. Like to play against him because more often than not someone his going home with his money
So there bubble boy now you have my opinion on the guys Gene has mentioned and a few others, Maybe you not have heard of them but that might be because you don't live around here. But gene is right when he says that there are some good players around here
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Legends in their own lunchtime.
Charles Nelson Reilly died Sunday. This is worth mentioning because CNR, as he was affectionately known by his poker buddies in L.A., was a very sharp poker player. I'm serious. Of course he was probably the best to ever play "Hollywood Squares" but less widely known was his play at the tables.
I'm fairly certain nobody in the "Crew" could outplay CNR.
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Seriously, tell me why these players, including the blogger, should be considered anything other than high school heroes indulging a fad? Because one of them bubbled out in a circuit event?
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I mourn CNR. Who are you johnny come latelys?
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I don't know if anyone in this crew could outplay Teddy KGB's accent, much less a living, breathing human being who has played poker for more than seven minutes. I love the bad beat stories on nickel and dime pots. Grind away, grinders. Get some chisels and a turning stone and etch your initials into that twelve dollar pot.
I'll be here all week. In the meantime, enjoy a quote from one of your contemporaries.
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hello jackace in brooklyn, nice to have you aboard, just giving you the heads up that the person this blog is for goes by the name Gene D. and he rarely ever responds to any post so basically you are wasting your time.
Are you the same Jackace In Brooklyn that was a big tymer on FULL TILT poker, but you lost your chat so you changed your screen name to MEE YOW
Sorry to hear about Charles Nelson Reilly. My heart goes out to his friends and family. No doubt he was the best Hollywood Squares player ever. I would rank him just above Nipsey Russel and Charo respectively. I was not too famaliar with his poker career though.
Welcome aboard jackace and dooleyera. Destiny has brought you here to pick the brain of GeneD and his pals. It is a great opportunity as many of these players mentioned (and a blogger or two)are poker legends in the making. Not to mention great movie,novel,and pop culture quotes.
i recommend going back to the beginning and checking out some old posts as you will only broaden your poker knowledge.
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Jackace clearly your name suggests you indulge the same "high school" fantasy. Why even read this blog, if not? And since you clearly know Gene and his buddies "limitations", why don't you indulge us with a list of your accomplishments.
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Gentlemen,
was out and about perusing the web and came across this enlightened blog. Seems like there is some quality on here and I look forward to reading in more detail what you are up to, Gene D.
Jackace, are you the same JackAce on Titan Poker?
jackace in brooklyn, is it possible you might have played some games with CNR? L.A. was not home, he was from the Bronx. But his favorite hand was Queens.
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A tribute to doolyeras hero.
Early life
Reilly was born in the Bronx, New York and was the son of Charles Joseph Reilly, an Irish Catholic commercial artist, and Signe Elvera Nelson, a Swedish Lutheran.[2][3][4] At age 13 he escaped the Hartford Circus Fire[5] and never sat in an audience again in his life.[6]
Career
Reilly made his first movie appearance in 1957, playing an uncredited role in the Elia Kazan film A Face in the Crowd. However, most of his work during this period was on the stage, as he appeared in many off-Broadway shows. His big Broadway break came in 1960 with a minor part in the hit Bye Bye Birdie. Reilly would go on to win a Tony Award for his performance in 1962's How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying[7] , and he was nominated for another Tony two years later, for his work as Cornelius Hackl in the Broadway production of Hello, Dolly!.[8]
While he kept active in Broadway shows, Reilly would soon become better known for his TV work. In 1965, he made regular appearances on The Steve Lawrence Show, which aired for a single season. From 1968 to 1970, he appeared as uptight "Claymore Gregg" on the television series The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, which also starred Hope Lange and Edward Mulhare, in which he was reunited with Hello, Dolly! Broadway co-star, Eileen Brennan on one episode.
In 1971, he appeared as the evil magician "Hoodoo" in Lidsville, a psychedelically flavored live-action children's program produced by Sid and Marty Krofft that aired on Saturday mornings on ABC. The show was about a boy who falls into a magician's hat and enters a magical world of hat people. It is through these roles, as well as his playing the titular role in Uncle Croc's Block, that Reilly's voice and mannerisms were embedded in a generation of young fans.
1977 Match Game cast, with Reilly second from leftDuring the 1970s Reilly also appeared as a regular on The Dean Martin Show, and had multiple guest appearances on television series including McMillan and Wife, Here's Lucy, Laugh In, The Love Boat and Love, American Style and was also a frequent guest on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. During this time Reilly was perhaps best known as a fixture of game shows, primarily due to his appearances as a regular panelist on the television game show Match Game. Reilly was the longest running guest, and often engaged in petty arguments with fellow regular Brett Somers. Reilly typically offered sardonic commentary and peppered his answers with gay-themed double entendres that pushed the boundaries of 1970s television standards.
From 1975-1976 Reilly starred in another live-action children's program called Uncle Croc's Block with Jonathan Harris. Reilly was often a guest celebrity in the 1984 game show Body Language, including one week with Lucille Ball and another week with Audrey Landers.
From 1980, Reilly was primarily active teaching acting and directing for television and theater. He directed episodes of the Evening Shade television series in 1990 and earned a 1997 Tony Award nomination as Best Director of a Play for working with longtime pal Julie Harris, opposite whom he had acted in Skyscraper, and whom he had directed in The Belle of Amherst and a revival of The Gin Game.
Reilly was a longtime teacher of acting at HB Studio, the acting studio created by Herbert Berghof and his wife, Uta Hagen. His acting students included Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler.
In the 1990s Reilly made guest appearances on The Drew Carey Show, The Larry Sanders Show, and most notably, as eccentric writer Jose Chung in the television series The X-Files ("Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"") and Millennium ("Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense"). Reilly was nominated for Emmy Awards in 1998 and 1999 for his performances in The Drew Carey Show and Millennium, respectively. From the late 1990s, Reilly directed theater and opera, touring the country performing a critically acclaimed one man stage show chronicling his life called Save It For the Stage: The Life of Reilly and occasionally performing as the voice of "The Dirty Bubble" on the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. In 2006, his stage show was made into a feature film called The Life of Reilly.[9]
Personal life
Reilly did not publicly come out as gay until his one man show Save It for the Stage. However, much like fellow game show regular Paul Lynde, Reilly played up a campy onscreen persona. In many episodes of Match Game, he would lampoon himself by briefly affecting a deep voice and self-consciously describing how "butch" he was. He mentioned in a 2002 interview with Entertainment Tonight that he felt no need to come out of the closet and that he never purposefully hid his homosexuality from anyone.
Patrick Hughes III, a set decorator and dresser, was Reilly's partner; the two met backstage while Reilly was appearing on the game show Battlestars. They lived in Beverly Hills.[10].
On May 25, 2007, Reilly died at his home from complications from pneumonia after a year long illness.[11]
Filmography
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
The Tiger Makes Out (1967)
Cannonball Run II (1984)
Body Slam (1987)
All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
Rock-A-Doodle (1991)
A Troll in Central Park (1994)
An All Dogs Christmas Carol (1998)
The Life of Reilly (2006)
Television roles
The Steve Lawrence Show (1965)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - Claymore Gregg (1968-1970)
Arnie (1971-1972)
Lidsville (1971-1973) - Hoodoo
Match Game (1973-1982, 1990-1991)
The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour (1983-1984)
Uncle Croc's Block (1975-1976) - Uncle Croc
The Flintstone Comedy Show (1980-1982) - Frank Frankenstone
Sweethearts (1988-1989) - Host
Space Cats (1992-1993) - D.O.R.C. (Disembodied Omnipotent Ruler of Cats)
All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series (1996-1998) - Killer
SpongeBob SquarePants (1999-2007) - Dirty Bubble
In popular culture
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Reilly is referenced in the song "I Like Hubcaps", featured on The Brak Album by Brak.
Reilly is mentioned in the song "Serrated Edge" by the Dead Milkmen (in which the lyrics assert that the band are using him as the "Christ" figure of their church).
A sample of Reilly playing Hoodoo on Lidsville is used by Marilyn Manson in the song Dope Hat.
On the TV series Son of the Beach, when Notch Johnson must go undercover in a gay bar, and has no idea how to act gay, he puts on a pair of glasses and begins to impersonate Charles Nelson Reilly.
Reilly was parodied by Alec Baldwin in a sketch on Saturday Night Live in which Reilly is interviewed by James Lipton (played by Will Ferrell) on Inside the Actors Studio. (Lipton closes the exchange with the typically hyperbolic declaration, "Charles Nelson Reilly, I am not alone in thinking that you make Gandhi look like a child pornographer.")
Reilly is referred to in a Mystery Science Theater 3000 segment featuring the short Once Upon a Honey Moon.
WTF? CNR was a rump ranger? They could keep his poker career a secret but had to drop that bombshell? Sorry dooleyera , I know it bummed me out a little when I found out about Freddie Mercury and Rob Halford the singer for Judas Priest. I should have figured the connection with all that leather he wore. Oh well CNR a great man nonetheless, not like he is Michael Jackson, OJ, or Rosie O'Donnel.
thank you for posting that stacks. you had me at "a tribute". you're ok in my book. I understand CNR was buried with his pair of queens and those big ass "Hollywood Squares" glasses that frankly should be encased in the hollywood walk of fame not 6 feet under but CNR wasnt ever given his proper due. the man is a legend. I dont care how many times he took the D.
Did CNR play in that movie with Nicklas Cage, something like Vegas Honeymoon. Is he the guy with the big glasses that is playing five card draw poker with Cage, Tarkanien, The Chinesse Elvis, and two other guys? I might be thinking of someone else. Somebody please let me know
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