Just adding to his legend, the Miz won it in just less than 60 minutes. Poker equivalent of pointing to left field.

Not exactly. While the Grinder is and has been a top player for 25 years, he absolutely sun-ran the last 3 days.

On Day 8 he was down to two big blinds and rivered a flush to stay alive:

“Crazy” would hardly describe Mizrachi’s night. He doubled up John Wasnock on one of the first hands of the day and fell to less than 2,000,000, putting a serious dent in his chances at making another run. But he then doubled with ace-king against Daniel Iachan’s ace-ten, and came from behind with a flush on the river to double off Braxton Dunaway. He was all in against Dunaway again with king-jack against two fives as the board gave him another flush on the river. He was finally all in for 17,800,000 with two queens against Tony Gregg’s nines.

But he “won” the tournament on day 9 when he sucked out with a 3 outer on the river when way behind all the way: https://twitter.com/i/status/1945268686539121105

Which takes nothing away from his win… but the “called shot” is a poor analogy.

There are actually a ton of great players. It’s a hard way to make an easy living.

Just adding to his legend, the Miz won it in just less than 60 minutes. Poker equivalent of pointing to left field.

How far did Nate Silver go?

In basketball terms, it’s a 2nd round exit at best (but probably loses to OKC’s The Who or Denver’s Queen in the first round)

Skal Labissiere runs away with this year’s “Tell me man, how’s this year’s crop of freshman chicks lookin’?” award, easily topping guys like MarJon Beauchamp (*).

In 2020, on December 9th, the Knicks signed Skal Labisserie to an exhibit-10 contract. Later, on December 11th he was waived by the Knicks. OAKAAK.

He also won the Poker Players Championship earlier this year, for the fourth time, 8 game mix, considered the ultimate test of poker. 50K buy in and basically all the best pros.

Just unbelievable stuff.

Twenty-nine years old, rookie year 2016-17 … still playing summer league. (**) Laps the field multiple times over. That’s Dimaggio’s 56-game hitting streak territory.

(*) And in previous years, Kevin Knox.

(**) Damn, dude — maybe mix in some self-respect every now and then?

A Burke/Hardaway/Hezonja/Knox/Kanter starting lineup seems very likely and could be the worst defensive lineup in the history of the league which will be great for the tank.

Thank you, Leon and Thibs. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.