Before becoming a global, one man ass-kicking machine in the Bourne movies, Matt Damon starred as a young legal student with a superhuman gift for poker and a sideline in irritating smirks. The film was Rounders and it has a key scene. Damon takes his teeth for a chin-wag with his legal mentor, played by Martin Landau, who solemnly issues the line:
‘We can’t run from who we are. Our destiny chooses us.’
From that point on, the audience knows Matt has a solid future as a card player and that his lapels will remain free of dust.
In an occurrence that must cause us to gasp, ‘Hollywood execs –is there anything they don’t know??’ on Saturday night Mike Mc Donald, an 18 yr old Canadian, became the youngest ever winner of an EPT event by embracing the €933,600 1st prize for the German Open in Dortmund.
‘Timex’ had studied for a year at the University of Waterloo, a top maths college, when his chess teacher told him poker was a good way of making a living. Selling his story to Hollywood might be another.
His is not a tale of battling against the odds. It is a story of character, of resolve and of class. He had started the day as chip leader and was constantly in contention. When the tournament reached the heads-up stage he had 2,900,000 chips to German Andreas Gulunay’s 1,200,000.
The final hand was a text-book example of how to induce the bluff. Andreas had checked to Timex on a K-7-J flop. The Canadian bet 120k. The German sensed weakness and raised 300k. It was called and the turn was another king. From that point, Andreas’ betting could baffle Nancy Drew.
He decided to lash another 300k at the youngster but there was nowhere to hide from McDonald’s presence: he called and the river added a deuce to the fun. Suffering from a massive loss of logic, Gulunay pushed and, when Mike calmly called, the German knew he had bequeathed his stack to poker youngest star. T-7 tends not to scare away AK.
Andreas Gulunay can console himself with 528,500, whilst Mike Mc Donald can toast his success and await his call from the Californian dream-weavers.
Final Standings at the EPT German Open, Dortmund
1st -- Mike McDonald – Canada -- €933,600
‘We can’t run from who we are. Our destiny chooses us.’
From that point on, the audience knows Matt has a solid future as a card player and that his lapels will remain free of dust.
In an occurrence that must cause us to gasp, ‘Hollywood execs –is there anything they don’t know??’ on Saturday night Mike Mc Donald, an 18 yr old Canadian, became the youngest ever winner of an EPT event by embracing the €933,600 1st prize for the German Open in Dortmund.
‘Timex’ had studied for a year at the University of Waterloo, a top maths college, when his chess teacher told him poker was a good way of making a living. Selling his story to Hollywood might be another.
His is not a tale of battling against the odds. It is a story of character, of resolve and of class. He had started the day as chip leader and was constantly in contention. When the tournament reached the heads-up stage he had 2,900,000 chips to German Andreas Gulunay’s 1,200,000.
The final hand was a text-book example of how to induce the bluff. Andreas had checked to Timex on a K-7-J flop. The Canadian bet 120k. The German sensed weakness and raised 300k. It was called and the turn was another king. From that point, Andreas’ betting could baffle Nancy Drew.
He decided to lash another 300k at the youngster but there was nowhere to hide from McDonald’s presence: he called and the river added a deuce to the fun. Suffering from a massive loss of logic, Gulunay pushed and, when Mike calmly called, the German knew he had bequeathed his stack to poker youngest star. T-7 tends not to scare away AK.
Andreas Gulunay can console himself with 528,500, whilst Mike Mc Donald can toast his success and await his call from the Californian dream-weavers.
Final Standings at the EPT German Open, Dortmund
1st -- Mike McDonald – Canada -- €933,600
2nd -- Andreas Gulunay – Germany -- €528,500
3rd -- Torsten Haase – Germany -- €307,0004th --
Diego Perez – Spain -- €234,200
5th -- Claudio Rinaldi – Switzerland -- €193,000
6th -- Johannes Strassmann – Germany -- €152,000
7th -- Thibaut Durand – France -- €120,200
8th -- Christian Harder – United States – €85,500
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