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PAUL WASICKA
(Concerning his second place finish in the Main Event)
“I was really confident in my game going into it, and I had a lot of drive and played really well. It took me a while afterwards to get that drive back, but at the Aussie Millions I had that same drive and motivation and did well. I think that is an underrated quality in tournament players, to have that drive to be completely focused at all times.”
(Concerning transition from online to live play)
“The transition was a lot easier than I thought it would be. I was nervous at first about giving off a lot of tells, because up until a year ago I had played live seriously only a few times. Because I play mostly cash games, the transition was easy; I was used to playing deepstacked poker.”
STEVE DANNEMAN
(Concerning Phil Hellmuth)
“At the beginning of the Tournament of Champions, Matusow had been running his mouth and Hellmuth demanded that Matusow be given a timeout. Matusow apologized but Phil kept complaining to the Tournament Director, a veteran who had been doing it a long time. Eventually I had enough and called him a punk. I see a guy like Phil Hellmuth, probably the guy who is making more money than anyone in poker, and I wonder why the guy making all the money has to be a jerk. Why can’t the nice guys in poker make all the money?”
(Concerning successful players)
“I watch guys like Daniel Negreanu, and he plays a lot of small pots. A good player can play small pots and avoid getting busted, and won’t get all his chips in without the nuts or unless he knows he can push you out. I’ve been trying to do a lot of this lately with a lot of success. You aren’t always going to get good hands, so you have to learn to play all the other hands.”
VINCE VAN PATTEN
(Concerning WPT tournament structure)
“I think the structure is OK. We can’t always add on more days so the absolute talent wins out. A lot of the guys we made big names are complaining about the structure now, which I don’t get. The structure does add more luck, but I think that is good for the game. You want it to be a mixture of great talent but also like having a lottery ticket. All the upsets make it fun to watch.”
(Concerning his new book The Picasso Flop)
“It’s about a character named Jimmy Spain who is fresh out of jail and goes out on the World Poker Tour. And there’s this girl who also wants to be successful on the World Poker Tour. And through their journey, you see the colorful side of the tour. You see all the gambling, all the dark parts. And then there’s a murder, and the book focuses on the murder and the solving of it.”
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