Michele Lewis: Mother, Wife, Poker Player and Writer

Happy New Year Poker World

After a year that included website technical difficulties and a hurricane, I'm limited on my top posts.  Not that I post as often as other people in the poker world but I can safely say I post far more than Jeffrey Pollack.  Or at least enough to earn a seat in the back of the bus and become branded an offensive a sexy cat by this poker site. 

Nonetheless, here's some top posts from 2008.

The heaviest hitter poker photo was Tiffany Michelle (see photo). 

Some Good Moment Posts:

·         Jeffrey Pollack Loves WCP

·         JC Tran Wins A Bracelet

·         Jeff Madsen & Dutch Boyd Sing A Duet

Top Hits Posts:

·         Phil Laak Disguise

·         Forrest Griffin and Shannon Elizabeth at the WSOP

 

It's A Wonderful Life + The WPT

  Huh?  The Five Diamond is over?  Apparently Chino Rheem won.  Who knew? OK, obviously I knew because I was rooting for Amnon Felippi. But it's been so long since my last post (horrible blogging sentence) that I felt a strong need for closure of the WPT Five Diamond Classic sorta coverage. 

Also, I can't guarantee a new post soon as I'm in Colorado.  And it's just so awful! Poor me hanging out in Beaver Creek all day with absolutely nothing to do.  No worries, no problems, no stress.  Life is so wonderful that it makes me worry that a recession or banking crisis could happen, like any second, causing economic stress, bankruptcy, foreclosures and federal bailouts.

Six Still Alive at the Five

The WPT Five Diamond Classic ends Day Five at 5:45-ish with six players.  Chino Rheem, Amnon Felippi, Hoyt Corkins, Steve Sung, Justin Young and Evan McNiff are the six who will duke it out on Day Six. Plus the average guy who sometimes looks like Vinny Vinh.

The big question is... has Amnon Felippi already won a last longest longer bet?  And if so... was he the guy walking around the Fontana Lounge collecting the funds from the last longer contestants? 

Check out half the table below with Amanda Leatherman.  And of course, best WPT Live Update view with the Bellagio Fountains in the background and a phone call from JC Tran.

Don't forget to get your chip counts here.

WPT Day 4 Underway

It's Day 4 at the WPT Five Diamond and let's hope BJ Nemeth is able to get some good WPT poker photos of these players (excluding Mr. Average). 

Big names in the game are... Chino Rheem, Nick Schulman, Amnon Felippi - A Stud of Poker, David Benyamine, Robert Mizrachi and Clonie Gowen.

Speaking of Felippi, check out his good times interview with Amanda Leatherman below.

WPT Day Three at the Five Diamond Classic

A few notable players surviving Day 3 of the WPT Five Diamond Classic.  Not only are these guys notable (or wiiiiilllll be) but they also have the best photos on the live chip count page.

• Jack Wu
• Daniel O'Brian
• Benjamin Straate
• Jared Rubin
• Steven Landfish
• Average
• Hunter Frey
• Timothy Vance
• Daniel Schreiber
• Elia Ahmadian

No worries fellas, its hard work keeping up with all the players unless they're showing a lot of skin or acting like a 2 year-old.  So, I'm sure you will have a pretty poker pic up soon. Get the live chip counts here, the live blog here and good times with Amanda Leatherman here.

photo courtesy the worldpokertour.com