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People complain a lot about how unlucky they are. This is normally pretty good news as it's way better to have them spending their time doing this rather than trying to work out what really happened. It's good for the game. Having said that, sometimes people do become victims of things that are way beyond their control.
A few years ago Kevin O'Connell was doing OK in the main event at the World Series of Poker and then disaster struck. He can't remember whether he had A-A or K-K when "Maltese" Joe Grech who had A-K stuck him all-in, but he does know he lost the pot and as he was standing up to leave the table Joe said to him, "Don't worry, it's only a game."
Anybody who's played with Joe would know that there was no malice in this. Anyone except Kevin that is, who couldn't understand how anybody could call the main event "only a game". He spent an unhappy couple of days telling anybody who'd listen and a few who wouldn't what had happened and when somebody asked him who'd given him the supposed rub-down, he got a bit confused and said it was John Gale.
At least he got the initials right. For about a year after that, Kev and a few of his mates stalked John Gale on the internet and went out of their way to knock him out of every tournament they could find him in. When they succeeded or indeed if someone else got there first, they'd type "Don't worry John, it's only a game" into the chat box.
Poor John, who's a grand lad, must have been wondering what the fuck was going on. After a year of this, Kev was again at a table with Joe Grech. Joe knocked some guy out and said to him, "It's only a game". It finally dawned on Kevin that they'd been hanging an innocent man. The English know a lot about that kind of thing.
Courtesy of www.cardplayer.com.
Comments (1)
lol. Classic.