VVPQotW: WPT Grand Prix de Paris
A few notes on tonight's episode:

1) Watching all those Europeans stew over Tony G's boorish behavior was just as much fun as it was last year.

2) Watching all of Tony G's suckouts somehow made me feel better about the low limits. The high-level pros have to deal with variance and obnoxious know-it-alls too!

3) There was a commercial for Austrialian tourism during the last break. Pretty funny given that Tony G was representing the country so well.

4) The WPT's promos for next week's episode have crossed the line from "not funny" to "just plain offensive." A couple weeks ago they had voice-overs giving us the "thoughts" of Doyle Brunson and whatever young kid made that week's final table. They had the young kid thinking something like "when you were young the cards were made of stone." Making fun of elderly folk with a lame joke--that's, um, lame. This week, though, they had David Pham's "thoughts" done in a stereotypical evil-Chinese-wizard's-sidekick voice straight out of Kung Fu theatre dubbing. Then they have Carlos Mortensen "reply" in similarly stereotypical voice. Please, WPT, please stop these offensive attempts at humor. I'm fairly thick-skinned PC-wise, but there just aren't even a little funny.

OK, onto the Vince Van patten Quote of the Week:

"Well, I guarantee you one thing. Tony G really doesn't have a whole lot of friends."

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posted by James at 11:22 PM