First off, thanks to everyone who submitted a photo. We had a total of 34 photos submitted, many by myself. However, since employees of Bill’s Poker Blog are ineligible to win, I was unable to select myself as the winner. Eliminating myself made it a tough choice to select the one photo that was head and shoulders above the rest. Some of you submitted online poker screenshots, some went the extra mile and actually used a camera. Perhaps the best way to pick a winner is to just throw a dart but it bounced off my monitor leaving me with the burden of having to select one myself.
I narrowed the choice down to two strong contenders. Joe Speaker’s AJ throwing the Hammer and Double A’s Hammer boobs (I can already sense the freaks who are going to find my site after typing “hammer boobs” into Google).
After pacing back and forth saying “cute kid or boobs, cute kid or boobs, cute kid or boobs” I finally arrived at a winner . . . cute kid!
Something about the demonic look in AJ’s eyes sold me. That’s how you throw down the hammer!! You can’t meekly toss your seven duece out there, you gotta pound the table with it and send fear into your opponents.
I sent Joe Speaker an email informing him of his win and his book selection is “The Psychology of Poker.”
Related posts:
- RSS Poker Trivia Quiz Winner Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner! Wow! What a great response....
| Site | Rackback | Sign Up Bonus | US |
| Absolute Poker | 30% | 150% up to $500 |  |
| Ultimate Bet | 30% | 111% up to $1100 | |
| Cake Poker | 33% | 110% up to $600 | |
| PKR Poker | 30% | 100% up to $800 | |
| Paradise Poker | 30% | 200% up to €1,000 | |
| Players Only | 33% | 100% up to $650 | |
| Fortune Poker | 30% | 200% up to €1,000 | |
| Betfair | 30% | $1500 | |
| Aced | 30% | 100% up to $500 | |
| Virgin Poker | 30% | 100% up to £300 | |
| Poker Heaven | 30% | 200% up to €1000 | |
| Poker Nordica | 30% | 100% up to $200 | |
| Carbon Poker | 30% | 150% up to $1000 | |
| Red Star Poker | 33% | 110% up to $600 | |
| True Poker | 27% | 100% up to $200 | |
| Action Poker | 35% | 100% up to $2500 | |
| Cellsino Poker | 40% | 500% up to $500 | |
| Minted Poker | 40% | 100% up to $400 | |
| Power Poker | 33% | 110% up to $600 | |
| Interpoker | 30% | 200% up to €1000 | |
| Doyles Room | 33% | 110% up to $600 | |
| Gutshot Poker | 33% | 110% up to $600 | |
| Full Tilt Poker | 27% | 100% up to $600 | |
| Fat Bet Poker | 40% | 1000% up to €500 | |
| NoiQ Poker | 30% | 100% up to €5000 |
| Site | Rake Race | Rake Chase | Freeroll |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doyle's Room | $35,000 | ||
| Cereus Poker Network* | $7,500 | $10,000 | $10,000** |
| Cake Poker | $60,000 | ||
| Party Poker*** | $50,000 | ||
| Red Star | $23,000 | ||
| Eurobet*** | $21,000 | ||
| Players Only | $16,400 | ||
| Tower Gaming*** | $15,000 | ||
| Full Tilt Poker | $10,000 | ||
| Carbon Poker | $12,000 | ||
| Betfair Poker | $12,000 | ||
| Boss Media Network**** | $5,000 | ||
| Cellsino Poker | $5,000 | ||
| Power Poker | $5,000 | ||
| Poker Nordica | $5,000 | ||
| NoIQ | €1,500 |
* Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet (UB) ** May not be available to all players *** Poker Heaven, Fortune Poker, InterPoker, Paradise Poker
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.
{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }
Lucky you have a soft spot because all us other bloggers would have picked…well…you know, the beautiful tatas. But I did think the choice was a good one…no AJ can blame his Dad when he becomes a degenerate gambler and spends Joe Speaks retirement money on a no-limit game at Party Poker.
AJ would have to beat Joe Speaker to the table :-)
Rigged!
Thanks to all who voted!
Er…wait. It was an honor just to be nominated.
Golden Joey strikes again!
I can’t stop with the exclaimation points!
Remarkable victory by AJ once again!
Well played sir, well played.
AJ rules