Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Brush with greatness

Last night I randomly logged in to Full Tilt to terrorize the $1/2 games. I was absolutely crushing it for like 6 or 8 big bets, so I started snooping around and noticed there was some kind of "chat with the pros" section and there happened to be a live chat going on. Erica Schoenberg was the featured pro. I had never heard of her, so I decided to join the chat. I fired off a few questions, hoping some of them would be selected for her to answer.
2007-08-14 03:52:36.47 who are you?

2007-08-14 03:54:47.10 do you find that your anonymity inspires fear?
especially when you play against people i've heard of
Meanwhile some of her answers to other questions included Seinfeld quotes, references to the NBA, and her speaking french. Some questions seemed to imply that she was attractive. What was going on here?

2007-08-14 03:56:56.20 As a female who likes Seinfeld, do you find that I should know who you are? If so, why don't I?

2007-08-14 03:59:37.03 do you think that full tilt should sheild you from the tough questions? if not, please tell me who you are.

2007-08-14 04:02:08.53 lebron? francais? seinfeld? some full tilt tech geek just made you up right?

2007-08-14 04:04:10.16 all my questions concern your likely nonexistence. how do you handle the pressure of this kind of scrutiny?


Around this point it became obvious that this girl was dating some famous high-roller named David and happened to win a tournament. Apparently that makes her some kind of celebrity. My questions kind of deteriorated from here (or improved, depending on your perspective).
2007-08-14 04:11:37.30 did you and i ever play $15/30 together at the
taj? if so, did we flirt a lot and then never fully realize our
desires?

2007-08-14 04:14:27.18 i have AJo in the small blind. do you know
phil ivey?

2007-08-14 04:17:47.04 6 dude one time my buddy knocked gavin smith
to the ground cause he was so drunk. true story. now, hypothetically if
i shared a poilte lunch with you, who would have had a bigger brush with
greatness?

2007-08-14 04:25:28.31 if you could have dinner with any 5 people,
living or dead, would your zombie magic make you famous enough for me to
have heard of you?
At this point I decided to google this girl, I found pictures of her. She's kind of pretty.
2007-08-14 04:31:51.50 all those questions about who you are were
just jokes! who is this david, and why does your prettiness make my
tummy feel weird?
I later found out that her primary claim to fame is that she is engaged to David Benyamine and was part of some kind of strip poker DVD where she took her top off. (I'd link to pictures but this is a family blog. I'm sure you can find them though.) Only one of my questions made it through before she signed off.
[adspar]: who are you?
EricaSchoenberg: who are you?

7 comments:

Brice Lord said...

I call bullshit on your "family blog" excuse. E.g., the title of your previous post.

chuck zoi said...

fuck you

Rickey said...

Rickey approves of this blog and will be returning here in the future.

Brice Lord said...

uuuuhhh....ok. Let me reiterate what I originally said. Wait, I guess I don't need to.

chuck zoi said...

this is a family fucking blog motherfucker. i won't have you defiling it with your filthy pictures of shameful breasts.

Brice Lord said...

Bring out the fucking boobs bitch!

Anonymous said...

some tit would be nice ...