Tue 15 Sep 2009
In poker lingo, they’re known as “bad beats.” And an upstate New York woman has taken a couple recently, in real life as well as at the table.
On Saturday, Nicole Rowe, 40, of West Windsor, N.Y., placed second in a poker tournament at the Borgata in Atlantic City.
Second place is usually nothing to sneeze at, but what really miffed Rowe was that she lost to a man in what was supposed to be a women-only event.
Rowe, who has been diagnosed with breast cancer, had hoped that the top prize in the Ladies No-Limit Texas Hold ‘Em tournament would pay for her living expenses while she recuperated from the mastectomy she expects to have at the end of the month.
She was among more than 260 women who each put up $300 to play in the tournament, but when the dust cleared, Abraham Korotki, 65, of Ventnor City, N.J., took home the trophy and $20,982 first prize.
“When you’re a woman and you play poker, 99 percent of the time you’re at a table with nine men,” Rowe, who won $11,889, said yesterday during a phone interview, adding that playing against a field of women is “something I look forward to.
“Why did he have to ruin it for us? Why would he do this?”
Source: Philadelphia Daily News
Nicole, Nicole, Nicole, Nicole. Wah! Wha! I lost to a man. It’s not fair. I have cancer.
Stop! Enough already!
Listen Nicole and listen good. If you want to beat cancer then you need to develop a killer instinct and a kick ass, no holds barred, ball smashing attitude. You should have wiped the table with senior citizen Abraham Korotki and then kicked him in the sack for joining the Females only poker tournament, but you didn’t. Now it’s whine time.
I think it is safe to say Abraham Korotki didn’t intend to destroy your life, but he beat you, so deal with it. Stop fucking whining, grit your teeth, kick the cancer in the ass, then come back next year and challenge Abraham Korotki to a friendly game of poker, or perhaps Russian roulette. You’ll be stronger in the end and the rest of us won’t have to listen to your annoying whine.
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