Johnny Chan

After I moved all in vs. Durr, I asked Patrick Antonius for insurance in the hand. Poor Patrick, he was simply sitting there, minding his own business, playing in his own match, and I asked him to insure my hand for $20,000 to whatever (roughly $85,000) minus 5% commission. Patrick agreed, and the bad beat that I took from Durr cost Patrick $80,000! After Durr beat me on Friday, I went to my suite. Then Patrick called me to check on when he could pay me. I told him that we should play Chinese poker at the Bellagio, and that he could pay me there. He said, “Not for less than $2,000 a point criss-cross.” I said, “Let me call Doyle and see if he wants a piece.” Doyle said no, but Johnny Chan said yes to taking 50% of me. Of course, I felt like I was a favorite in the match, but poor Chan, just sitting there minding his own business, ended up losing $145,000. I also lost $145,000, despite making four kings the first hand and starting ahead $24,000. I lost $290,000!! Too bad for Johnny and I, who later said, “I should have known not to take a piece of Phil after he lost with A-A, all in before the flop!” Phil Ivey had joined us by then, and Chan said, “I’m out of this match.” I decided to gamble with Ivey and played him for $3,000 a point, all of my own money. At first things went poorly as I owed Ivey $250,000. But luckily I caught a nice rush after I told Ivey, “It is bad enough that you beat me with A-A vs. Ah-Kh in L. A. at the final table for a 5.2 million pot, and then won the $1.6 million I was going to win, but now you’re going to take the $230,000 that I won for sixth place as well.” Ivey said, “Life is good.” I said, “No kidding.” Then I caught my rush, and I wound up winning a small amount, after I won $54,000 on the last hand with my royalties. For the night I ended up losing $117,000, all of the $80,000 for Antonius and $37,000 to boot! Ouch.

Johnny Chan on Doyle’s List of Abusive Poker Players.

My all-time #1 is Stu Ungar. He was so explosive and could erupt at any second. He always took his frustrations out on the dealers, never the players. He called them names I have never heard and the gender didn’t matter. I remember once in Lake Tahoe where he spit on a card, told the dealer, “I’m out, take my cards.” To the dealer’s credit, he told Stuey, “Pal, I ain’t touching that card.” At the Golden Nugget I saw him curse a woman dealer until she called the floor person over, took her badge off and said, “I quit.” Then she turned to Stu and said, “You S.O.B. come outside and I’m going to kick your ass.” Needless to say, Stu declined.

He was such a fun guy away from gambling with such a great sense of humor, I always wondered why he would go on those tantrums.

*****

The only living player to make my list is Sammy Farha. He is unbelievable at times. He talks softly but is very abusive with his language. Puggy Pearson is also on my list. I remember at the old Dunes card room, he got into a fight with a lady dealer name Kim. When a male dealer jumped in to hold Pug back, Kim took off her high heel shoe and was beating Puggy on the head. We laughed about that for years. “Shoeshine” Nick Simpson was another player who berated dealers constantly. He once urinated under the table on an unsuspecting dealer. My last player was “****** Nate” Lanette. I’m not being racist, that is what everyone called him. He once bit a dealer’s ear off at the Stardust. He came back the next day and gave the poor guy $5,000. That was a lot of money in those days. This list is too controversial to continue so I’m not going any further. I am going to mention Johnny Chan who used to be bad with dealers but has reformed over the past few years.

Way to go John!

Johnny Chan is such a good guy.

Johnny Chan story from 2+2.

So i was working for Pokercity.nl a site from the Netherlands during ME of WSOP. We were doing interviews with a lot of players. But they were becoming a bit standard. So we are smoking near poker kitchen when Johnny Chan walks out the door and lights a cigar. He walks past us en looks a bit weird (drunk?).

A door flies open and a blond girl walks out, sees Chan and is complete starstruck. OMG WTF blabla etc etc. I walk up to chan and asks if he wants to do an interview, he is a bit negative but when I say a fan will do it he agrees.

So i walk up to the girl and asks if she wants to interview Chan. OMG OMG OMG so I introduce her to Chan and she is about to puke from starstruckness. I write down the questions for her since she is incapable to ask him anything.

Her brother eventually came in real deep in ME: Nicholas Silwinski. Chan asks us to come to VIP. He gives us 100 all in energy drink patches, which i immidiatly deposit in trash after, he asks the name of the girls brother, and tells his men to print out a contract for the brother for all in energy. She is still in awe and after i tell her to really look in to the contract before bro gets screwed in some bad deal.

Interview link

Johnny Chan

Found this on the 2+2 forums.

Source: I have this from a Dutch pro (cashed in this year’s WSOP for 100+k).

Background: Rocky runs a 20-40NL game near Amsterdam where the rake is capped at 250 Euro and most players buy in for 5-10K.

Rocky and the players from the aforementioned cash game went to the EPT in Barcelona. One of them cashed in 14th place.

Rocky and Johnny Chan played 2 SnGs for 100K. Rocky won both. A 300/600NL game was then stated with Rocky Johnny Chan, and a Scandinavian pro (in a private suite) who’s Identity I do not no. Apparently Rocky 2-outered a pot for 250K Euro+ which put him almost 500k ahead as of yesterday.

Rocky is a poor player, but a lucky guy apparently this week.