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Congratulations, Rafe Furst

By stcynic on July 4, 2006.

Rafe Furst of the legendary Tiltboys won his first bracelet at the World Series of Poker in the $1500 buy-in Pot Limit Hold Em event. He joins Phil Gordon (formerly the host of Celebrity Poker Showdown) and Perry Friedman as Tiltboys with bracelets. Making it even more impressive is the field he beat. The final 20 players included John Juanda, Dewey Tomko, Randy Jensen, Can Kim Hua and several other top players. And he came to the final table with only about half the stack of the chip leader.

The Tiltboys, for those who don't know, are a group of poker players who met at Stanford and have become legends in the poker world for their hilarious antics, including crashing a woman's only tournament in drag. A great bunch of guys. They have been immortalized in the book Tales from the Tiltboys, written by the one and only Tiltchick, Kim Scheinberg. A blog post I wrote about them, where I referred to them as "Animal House with high SAT scores" ended up being used in the marketing campaign for the book, for which Kim was kind enough to send me an copy autographed by all the guys. The book is hilarious. Congrats, Rafe!

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Ed, I have a request. Please don't reveal the winners of any of the televised WSOP events, and especially not winner (or other details) from the Main Event. I'm sure that I'm not alone in not wanting to know the results of these events before we have a chance to see them on TV.

The list of events (with the televised ones in bold) is available at:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/poker/news/story?id=2203310

I would prefer not to have to give up reading your blog for the next three months :-)

Tacitus-

Well I certainly don't want you to stop reading for the next three months, but how about this: If I do reveal any winners before they air, I'll do it "below the fold" and put a warning on the front page that there are spoilers so you can know not to read it? As last year, I don't plan to reveal all of them as they happen, but there may be a few that are noteworthy either because I have some connection to them or because something happened that's worth commenting on, and I really don't want to wait until October to say anything about it.

That would be fine. Thanks!