It’s no surprise Wicked Chops Poker made Bluff Magazine’s ”Poker’s Power 20” this month. Apparently, followers of the popular poker site believe… a day of poker news without WCP is like a day without sunshine. After all, what would loyal readers do without the Friday Night Parting Shot, blurry poker pro photos overpowered by sharp background breasts, clever phrases like “A Woman”, Ginger sightings or simply policing them as ”sexy pigs” or better, sexy pigs who post pictures of sexy girls .
It’s hard to decide what to call them… WCP, The Guys at Wicked Chops and the latest fave ”The Entities.” Not that it really matters, as their readership has skyrocketed in the past four years landing them the WSOP Commissioner, Jeffrey Pollack, as a huge fan.
Metaphorically speaking, they possess an additional quality that puts the man in manly and that’s… balls. Sure, plenty of people have courage to step up and express their thoughts but few can speak brutal honesty combined with style and wit.
Even better is their ability to laugh when people like Dr. Pauly said…
”The poker world desperately needed an influx of homosexual hipsters like the gang at WCP. Without them, the poker world would be a bunch of overweight schleps.” And while I’m sure they chuckle at the above statement, it’s quite possible Erica Schoenberg made them speechless (for about two seconds) with her description “You know you’ve arrived when Wicked Chops talks about you.”
Michele Lewis: What inspired WCP?
THE ENTITIES: Nothing, really. At the time we didn’t see anyone covering poker the way we wanted to read about it, so we just decided to do it ourselves.
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