Also played with Tiffany Michelle for the first time in my life.
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Also played with Tiffany Michelle for the first time in my life.
How do Robbi and Tiffany look in person?
Is it Robi? were you playing a tourney? Did you invite her on the show? Botox lips.
Robbi looks just like she does in the pics and streams.
Tiffany aged pretty well. She's over 40 now, I think something like 42.
Was it a tourney? Who lasted longest?
was she with bonomo?
i wonder how charles lew feels about her relationship with bonomo. they sure seem to be in a lot of pictures together.
who saw that coming...
Druff midriff baring and no limit playing with the girls
eh so who that guy in the background
:applause
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Wasn't really story worthy, but I played 2-5 with a rock PLO at the aria in December w/ Bonomo.
He short stacked it in the game for $400 or so and I “got him” when i turned top straight vs his middle non boated set. We got in in on the flop so technically he got me and i sucked out but fair to say the cards played themselves.
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Originally Posted by SlowRoll
Wasn't really story worthy, but I played 2-5 with a rock PLO at the aria in December w/ Bonomo.
He short stacked it in the game for $400 or so and I “got him” when i turned top straight vs his middle non boated set. We got in in on the flop so technically he got me and i sucked out but fair to say the cards played themselves.
It was a weird freeroll and party I was invited to at the Commerce LAPC. It was to "celebrate the opening of the LAPC".
100-something people were invited, 98 showed up.
Not sure why I was invited, or it existed before. They served a decent buffet dinner and ran a lol $15k freeroll where they paid 13 spots ranging from $360-$4200. I played my usual cash game after that.
Believe it or not, I believe I got invited because of this 8th tier site, similar to how I was invited to the GGPoker party at the WSOP in 2022. I think they fired out invites to anyone they thought was influential on poker social media and seemed to be in the LA area.
I assume you put in a good word for skatzpoker literally sonatine is desperate for human interaction and we can laminate a badge get this white piece of shit in there will you todge
We literally have an up to date thread on restaurants around commerce so tell these people to act right tine just needs a wheel chair accessible car
He is too young for medicare but we are trying to apply for disability for him
The hottest chick in poker imo is a NL cash grinder I saw on Instagram nariephim (sp?). I shoot the shit w her sometimes and she hasn’t been snobby. Must know suit Superman so maybe from west coast. The pics are verry niice. Just have to know or follow or one of the two to see. Mentioning poker or poker forums she responds to messages I figure. Gotta shoot my shot, maybe she’s just dying to learn how to play badeucy or something 🤷*♂️Quote:
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I thought I might try to give this thread some "Hollywood Harry" type treatment since the thread misses the Commerce fail and LA Poker background story associated with this LAPC Invitational Tourney.
Commerce is billing this year's annual Los Angeles Poker Classic (LAPC), which kicked off on Thursday Jan 12, 2023, as the "30th Anniversary" of this particular poker series. As far as I can remember going back at least 20 years, the World Poker Tour was always affiliated with the LAPC, with its Main Event always being a $10,000 freeze out. Matt Savage was the TD at Commerce and he was also the TD for the WPT. So the LAPC at Commerce and WPT functioned together quite well. As more and more tourneys went to re-entry or rebuy formats, Savage insisted that the LAPC remain a "classic" freeze out tournament where you are one and done.
I remember Phil Ivey won the LAPC (2008) and in following years the LAPC was actually advertised with Ivey's face on freeway billboards around town. The Main Event was always filmed and televised, first on the Travel Channel and then Fox Sports. The way they set up the final table for filming was actually kind of cool and classy.
Anyway, since this Los Angeles, for years during the LAPC (usually but not always early on in the series and often on a Saturday night) the WPT through its foundation would run an "Invitational" Tournament and invite a bunch of celebrities like Lou Diamond Phillips, Jason Alexander etc. There would even be a red carpet entrance. Here is a video of Maria Ho and Tiffany Michele from over a decade ago on the red carpet being interviewed by a young Jeff Platt:
https://youtu.be/CABew38fYt8
At some point about 5-6 years ago, as the WPT expanded more nationally and globally, Savage brought in a junior TD named Justin Hammer to assist him with the tourneys at Commerce. I actually think Hammer is a nice guy but he unfortunately had some issues. In fact, you may remember that Hammer got into a twitter beef with Allen Kessler
https://www.pokerfraudalert.com/foru...er-at-Commerce
More notably as it pertains to Commerce, there were some rather large tourney guarantees that were missed during Hammer's time as Asst TD. Much to his credit, since Savage was the lead TD, he would never allow Commerce to re-neg on the guarantee like other LA Casinos by doing such things as cancelling an event (Hustler) or adding on additional starting flights to help get to the guarantee (HG). Rather, Savage always insisted that Commerce simply make up the shortfall.
As noted in the PFA link above, in the Fall of 2019, Hammer was fired by Commerce. Then COVID hit in 2020. While the 2020 LAPC took place (you may remember someone famously playing with a full gas mask on), by March 2020, we had the full lockdowns in the US.
In 2021, as the lockdowns slowly stopped, there was a scaled down version of the LAPC. However, the WPT was and is no longer associated with it. And Savage was and is no longer the TD at Commerce. WPT and Savage appear to have moved on to Thunder Valley in the Sacramento area of California. There was also a scaled down 2022 version of the LAPC as well with no more glitz and glamour.
Flash forward to the 2023 LAPC, which is being billed as the "30th Anniversary" of the LAPC.
In advance of the series, the folks at Commerce apparently thought they could bring back the LAPC "Invitational" Tourney filled with influencers, content creators, and celebrities. So in November 2022 the Commerce sent out the following:
Apparently Commerce didn't get a lot of influencers, content creators or celebrities. I'm happy for Druff and this forum for his attendance, but I see folks like Robbie Jade Lew as a "celebrity" and think of it as a total Commerce fail. (No shot at all at Druff intended). Some actress I've never heard of before named Kristen Lapari won the event.
By the way, Ryan Feldman, being the competition crusher that he is, scheduled his own influencer/content creator/celebrity on HCL streamed on the same date and time as the Commerce Invitational:
https://youtu.be/yihxLclFkHI
You make the call on the better turnout.
Really interesting, Joe. Thanks for the analysis.
My invite came in on December 21. That was well in advance of the event on January 12, but 3 weeks after Commerce's "attention poker influencers" Twitter post.
So, yes, it does look like they tried to get social media influencers with big followings who also play poker, and when that didn't yield much, they started firing invites to anyone in LA who kinda-sorta had some kind of poker social media following. I was like the plain girl who gets invited to the prom when the pretty ones aren't interested.
I did notice a few regular Commerce limit holdem players there, but none were under 50, and none are active on social media from what I've seen. So those guys just appear to have gotten an invite because they play at Commerce every day, and probably got to know someone who got them an invite.
Speaking of age, just about nobody present was under 40. That's par for the course in live poker these days, but not exactly the demographic you're looking for if you are seeking to have an influencers event. I knew there had to be some kind of utility here to this party if notoriously cheap Commerce was going to lay out $15k for a freeroll plus the cost of food.
Funny how it seems I have somehow barely bridged myself back into the status where I am notable enough to be invited to these parties. This happened all the time back in the 2000s, but it dried up abruptly after Black Friday when these parties vanished, and when they started getting going again in the late 2010s, nobody gave me a second thought. Then all of a sudden I got that GGPoker invite in the summer, and now this. I actually like these things, so I'm happy I'm being invited again, but it's interesting to me how this has started happening again.
Commerce Casino is making so much money from the Asian games, specifically Baccarat, that it seems like they got lazy when it comes to poker cash games and poker tournaments.
Commerce's cash section has gotten pretty bad service-wise, to the point where it is almost self-serve.
There are no longer any food runners. You need to buy (and pay for) the food yourself.
There are barely any floormen around. They now empower props and chip runners to manage the board for games when the floorman isn't nearby.
The main cashier area (near the Asian games and former high limit section), which had 8 stations, now usually has 4 of the stations permanently closed, and sometimes 2-3 of the other side closed as well.
They have done away with the "new player" exemption for the time charge. Before, you would be out of the half-hourly time charge the first time it came around. That means if you sat down 25 minutes ago, you wouldn't pay it until the next half an hour, meaning that you could sometimes go almost an hour before paying any time charge. Not anymore. The second it comes around, you're required to pay. Occasionally they will make an exception to this, but it's hit and miss.
No more time charge collection freerolls for short games. New attitude is, "If it breaks, it breaks!"
The high limit games have been moved into the old main room, where the low stakes games were running for the past 20 years. You feel like you're in a different place.
Unfortunately this is where most of the high stakes limit holdem and Omaha is nowadays, so that's where you're stuck going. I like the atmosphere of the Bike a lot better.