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Sammy Farha spotted at Aria!

Bert — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:54:30 +0000

Thanks to Jean-Robert Bellande for posting this on his very entertaining twitter profile! This is an actual shot of Sammy playing at Aria where so it seems people like JRB and Shaun Deeb have really built a game… The pic is from April 16th, so if you get lucky you might actually find Sammy there…

Notice Kid Poker playing as well? AWESOME!!

click for full size pic!

Please do mention this site if you see him – I’m still very much looking forward to meeting Sammy one day; and I’ll be in Las Vegas for the WSOP this year again!

High Stakes Poker Season 7: Hoping for Sam Farha

Bert — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:25:54 +0000

We’re all eagerly awaiting High Stakes Poker Season 7, and we’re all hoping for the return of Sam Farha on the Golden Nugget felt. We’ve all come to love Sammy’s style, and we’ve all come to hate the standard clashes from the last two seasons. Come on GSN, STAKE SAMMY FARHA IF YOU HAVE TO BUT GET HIM IN THAT GAME!

Here’s a little flashback in photo-form of Sammy in the first 4 seasons of High Stakes Poker!

Gotta love Sammy!

Sam Farha not in High Stakes Poker Season 6

Bert — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:46:46 +0000

We just got word from our connections within GSN that Sammy Farha will NOT, I repeat, NOT be playing in High Stakes Poker Season 6. I feel pretty bad about the news, as obviously Sam is great for the show, but I suppose he has his reasons not to play in this very juicy new season of the best cash game poker available on the internet.

Players we will be seeing include Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Gus Hansen, David Benyamine, Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth Jr., Eli Elezra and Mike Matusow…

Here’s a preview from Cardplayer TV via Walking Back to Houston.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Still can’t wait for the show to air in February, though.

Sammy is the classiest

Bert — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:19:41 +0000

I was watching the 2009 edition of the National Heads-Up Championship by GoDaddy.com on NBC, and I was so impressed by Sam Farha in his match against Peter Eastgate. Not only did he play a relatively conservative game against a much more aggressive than expected Eastgate – admitting afterwards that he got the cards, and being his amicable self when congratulating Eastgate with a great game after he beat him.

This is the Sam Farha we all know, love and miss on this year’s High Stakes Poker. Playing great poker, being an all-round nice guy and a gracious winner.

Sammy has run so bad in this heads-up championship, but maybe this year is his time to shine!

Farha plays what he gets…

Bert — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:10:49 +0000

I love this. Sammy makes a small flush on a board that had him drawing very thing, and when getting a comment on playing the nine six off suit for a $2,500 raise from Eli Elezra, he makes a classic Sammy-reply:

“Buddy the game is on OK. Please don’t give me bad comments about the bad cards I play. That’s what she gave me — she didn’t give me aces.”

Click here to view the embedded video.

Video courtesy GSN’s High Stakes Poker

How can you not love Sammy?

Some of my new Sam Farha T-Shirts

Bert — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:01:42 +0000

I got a new shipment of Sammy T-shirts a couple weeks ago but haven’t gotten around posting them here yet… Here’s the first batch — the others are in the laundry…

(these photos got lost in the server crash — my apologies!)

Sammy Talks Strategy with Cardplayer

Bert — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:57:11 +0000

No words just a great video I found through Gambling Results with Jeff.

Source – Sam Farha Talks Strategy

Sam Farha in Lucky You

Bert — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:03:10 +0000

Sammy’s skit in Lucky You. He’s so the man!

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Sammy Cracks Aces

Bert — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:27:51 +0000

LOL. Curtis raises the $50 blinds to $1000 — Sammy decides to make the call with the trays, flops the set — and cracks Anthony Curtis’ Aces.

“You have to gamble to win, right?”

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Season 5 High Stakes Poker

Bert — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:41:53 +0000

Okay so I read about half a year ago that Season 5 of High Stakes Poker would be starting…. March of April 2008.

Now, today is June 2nd 2008, and guess what? No High Stakes Poker Season 5 yet… It got me thinking (and talking during our home game), and we decided that they’re probably holding back on us to RELEASE A MAYHEM OF A GAME once they do get it out.

They’ve tried to top the game every year, keeping the blinds ridiculously small, but as they’re is no cap it kept people coming. Sounds logical, but the players just counterfeited the baby-blinds by straddling (and double-straddling). Anyway, my guess is they’re going to at least have a Million-Dollar buy-in game, and they’re going to double the blinds, AND the antes.

We’ll see bigger pots, it’ll attract big pot players like Sammy, Daniel Negreanu, Jamie Gold or Eli Elezra, and it’ll be great TV.

GREAT TV.

I can’t wait.