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To me, that just seemed funny. Phil Helmuth telling someone else to show some class.
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
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I can’t remember, but I think the tail end of the conversation was something like:
Hellmuth: “Don’t do the wave in my face kid.”
Antonio: “Don’t worry, I do that to everybody.”
Classic.
So HDouble, when you gonna make it to one of our tourneys?