I hereby announce The Hammer Photo Challenge! Between now and October 1st, 2005 all fans of The Hammer are invited to submit their most interesting photos of The Hammer. On October 2nd, I will confer with the voices in my head and we will pick a winner who will receive a 2+2 book of their choice.
Rules:
I, along with the voices in my head (except Rodney, who I think is a little crazy), will pick the winner.
All accepted entries will be posted on this website.
I can choose whether or not to accept an entry based on appropriateness (see below).
Keep it somewhat clean! Nothing illegal or too disgusting.
Maximum file attributes are 100k in file size and 800 x 800.
To submit a photo:
Please leave a comment in this thread with the URL for the image. The URL must be in plain format (i.e. /wp-content/uploads/hammer05/wil_hammer.sized.jpg). Do not attempt to use img tags to display your image in the comment (it won’t work anyway since it gets stripped out). All accepted entries will be uploaded to the competition gallery as soon as possible.
If you do not have your own webspace to upload photos, please consider using a service like flickr.
Inspiration:
Wil Wheaton laying the hammer down on Al Can’t Hang
Live by the hammer, die by the hammer – asphnxma
BadBlood eliminates miniBlood from the nightly Chip Challenge(tm).
My room number at the Plaza during the WPBT
The Hammer Monkey – Chris Halverson
AJ announces his Hammer with Authority! – Joe Speaker
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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 call it “Live by the hammer, die by the hammer”.
http://photos1.blogger.com/img/212/1909/640/hammer_res.jpg
http://badblood.d2g.com/badblood/misc_pics/blood_fued.jpg
BadBlood eliminates miniBlood from the nightly Chip Challenge(tm).
AJ announces his Hammer with Authority!
http://photos1.blogger.com/img/160/2700/640/ajhammer.jpg
I know it’s got no chance of winning, plus the quality sucks because it was taken with my Treo, but…
My new card protector:
http://www.geekandproud.net/photoblog/images/000662.jpg
Nothing special, but it is my hammer deflowering:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1276/1332/1600/thehammer.jpg
A little flesh wound I received in Charlie’s tournament.
http://photos1.blogger.com/img/96/3829/640/hammer111.jpg
Photo on Flickr
Read How to Play the Hammer for a description of how the hand went down.
It’s not going to win, but seeing my wife’s aces get cracked is a screen shot of a classic:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7885/1169/320/hammer%20time.jpg
For what it’s worth, here is the URL to the full-sized version.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7885/1169/1600/hammer%20time.jpg
I witnessed this one during a SNG last night.
http://vitriol.net/~steve/hammer.jpg
Full-size at http://vitriol.net/~steve/hammmer.png
Not an official entry, but I think it’s fun to see the Jackhammer at work, too.
http://vitriol.net/~steve/jackhammer.jpg
They never saw it coming….death by 6’s
http://pokerecon.com/quad6.jpg
Playing in a tourney at PokerStars…..had AJ and was nailed by the hammer:
http://pokerecon.com/AJhammer.jpg
Poker Stars
http://www.4flush.com/thepower.jpg
Pokerdiagram.com has some hammer drawings.
Here is my hammer photo.
http://img170.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cruisetourney7tj.jpg
Peace
Billyb
What to watch out for around Rosh Hashana….
Hammer that one a pot last night…
http://www.mattahfahtu.com/?page_id=12&id=4
Better late than never.
http://franknagaijr.blogspot.com/2005/12/laying-hammer-down-dec-3-2005.html
Let the Hammer swing!http://www.radauer.com/hammer.jpg