Eric Morris: Stud of Poker

Eric Morris, publisher of Bluff Magazine, has been asking to be a Stud of Poker since the column started. In fact, Matt Parvis, Editor-in-Chief, suggested they mud wrestle for stud title. Uh yeah, and Phil Ivey will wear a dress and play a WSOP Ladies Event. Anyway, I finally agreed after we negotiated my family’s use of the Bluff Magazine private jet and nine-bedroom villa in the South of France. Poor guy, looks like I made out like a bandit on the negotiations since he was already on my list to interview.

Nonetheless, considering the evolution of Bluff Media in the past three years he obviously has skills. What started in 2006 with a SIRIUS Satellite Radio broadcast enabled Bluff to score the official digital media partner title with the World Series of Poker. Skills or not, Morris modestly explains the developments are not just a result of the experience of the past few years but also Bluff Media’s production and broadcasting talent has continued to grow and improve as well.

After Morris took a trip to the trailer washroom, we sat down in the poker kitchen to discuss his fight with a clown, prison poker, selling Bluff Magazine and Doyle’s Room offering him $8,500,000 to play in the 2008 WSOP Main Event in their name.

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Tao of Poker Creator… Studly

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When I announced media would be a consideration for Studs of Poker my email box began to overflow with nominations. It would be ridiculous to include media in the Stud quest and not award the man we love to call…doctor. Paul McGuire or Pauly (between Jen Newell and Pokerati Dan in photo) is best known for his comical sense of humor in reporting the game of poker. His realistic views allow his writing to show the grand spectrum of the poker community, ranging from the seedy, self-centered, unfavorable individuals on up to the people you would want to take home to mom. And while his cynical hooker stories and urinal sightings may exhibit an unruly man, I would lay 100 to 1 that he has a proud mama at home.* After all, who wouldn’t be impressed by someone who is jet setting all over the world and is known by their first name only like Madonna or Cher.

Just as October baseball was getting underway we spoke about his Wall Street career, writing struggles and a brief life in porn.

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Amnon Filippi

My first memory of New Yorker Amnon Filippiwas of him walking around the Bellagio Fontana Room during The Festa al Lago announcing “One hundred last longer and don’t ask me any stupid questions.”  While I found his loud New York accent a bit intimidating it was clear he had a great sense of humor and was popular amongst the self amused pros as they asked him… stupid questions.

 Amnon Filippi will be the first Stud of Poker as he possesses a long poker resume, six cashes at this year’s WSOP including a fourth place finish in the H.O.R.S.E. event which made him one of the top most viewed players on various poker websites.  Amnon’s to date winnings are over 1.5 million and it should come as no surprise if you start hearing more about this guy. Last week, he told me his position on last longest bets, JC Tran “not” taking a piece of him in the H.O.R.S.E. Event and where he’s heading next. 

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