That's Moon in the CENTER with the light shirt (and my belly)
One reason. Darvin Moon.
Here is the GUY I have to push for.. For his cool name (Cool names always win pokers BIG ONE) For the fact that he's a regular dude.. worker bee kinda player. He's OLD SCHOOL.
It's Moon vs. Cada in the 2009 WSOP! Wooot! Let's get it on!
Not to take away from Joe Cada, he's one great player to get this deep in a field of poker players so huge and so talented. (He's also very lucky! He won races with small and medium pocket pairs.. as well as AK) My point is.. Mr. Cada is young. He has the rest of his life to go for the poker gold. (I'll write a blog on Mr Cada as well.. as soon as it comes to me)
For now though, enough of Mr. Cada.. Let this 40 something poker playing (poor writing) rounder since 1991.. soak all this in and enjoy all this years poker action. This blog is for my new pal Mr. Moon.
Now - To get this blog straight and to keep things honest - Mr Moon has had his share of "what the hell" poker moves during the final table "November nine hands" that were played out at the Rio Hotel and Casino. Strange moves like NOT CALLING a huge pot.. when a player could call with one of the cards BLANK, lol.. (Due to the pot size,position and amount to call)
Then there was an odd move calling an after flop all in with A4 (having nothing on the flop, bad draws and scare cards galore) He should have considered SET? TWO PAIR.. Nope - HE CALLED WITH NADA! It's hard to understand this huge miss step from Mr Moon.. We can GUESS he THOUGHT he was holding AA (It happens) or that the player, again, plain missed all together (but an ALL IN in this GAME?)... It's a major stretch. I joked that it might have been one of the BEST"Advertising moves of bad poker play EVER!" - Sure.. He lost a few chips.. But NOW look at the players scratching their heads.. (ALL OVER THE WORLD) In the end.. Most of us will agree.. The move sure did suck.
Even still.. The man named Moon was patient all summer- and made it to the November nine.. plus, hell - "People everywhere and pros "like him." (I think I read he never once had 1 ALL IN move to get to the November Nine)
I could go on and on about poker and Mr. Moon - I'm sure we all have a lot to learn about this WSOP MAIN EVENT "heads-up" poker playing Moon man.
Here are just a few of the reasons why I like this guy..that stuck out (to me)
* He's a WORKER. (A mans man) He is not a college drop out chasing the poker dream or a son of people with mega means..
*Moon is a logger.. C'mon. A logger to a WSOP bracelet winner?? JAMES DEAN COOL! Anyone who reads my blog for a few years knows I cut trees for exercise - hobby.. and for heating my compound.. not to mention to get OUTSIDE in the deep woods... Teach my 6 year old about working hard. (**Away from everyday life.. the wild) **Try it sometime it's awesome!
*Phil Hellmuth reported on Bluff Magazine radio that Moon (Up to the heads up action at least) had refused offers of up to 500,000.00 to wear on-line poker sites gear. caps, patches - etc.. He said something to the effect of... "He did not want to promote things he knew little about and he did not want to be owing anyone anything.. He just wanted to play poker." Man has some Integrity.
*He was helping Fire fighters raise money via poker tournaments when he won his seat.. (He had choice of CASH or 10K buy in) With his brothers pushing - He took the 10K buy in. Yeppers - More cool.
*He's buying his father a Pink Cadillac.. (This story alone sucks me in to this man's poker life/story)
Do I need to go one here?
Don't worry - "I will" and in very short order... You can BET on it!
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Heads up POKER "ACTION" - Tonight! Darvin Moon vs. Joe Cada - Me and my pals will e live on TWITTER - listening to the AUDIO from Vegas. Come joins us!
I think that Moon appears to be the next Jerry Yang. He doesnt seem to play particularly skillfully and has benefited from very timely hands. I know ESPN shows only certain hands, so there is the potential that they framed things in this way and he is a pretty decent player.
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