Simon racks up chips, donates win at CP tourney
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a airdrome that included pros such as Barry Greenstein and Jamie Gold, as well as celebrities such as Montel Williams and Shannon Elizabeth. Immediately afterward Simon donated the implicit purse to the One Step Closer Foundation.
That concentrate, along with the dividends of a undisturbed auction, amounted to all but $45,000 for the foundation, which is bound to elevation funds and intentiveness to ease, as much as fractional, the lives of those who bear with from psychological palsy.
"It was an awesome event," said the One Step Closer Foundation manufacturer and CEO Zalewski, who himself suffers from CP. "I departed can't deduce that this day came back a year in the frame. I am very chapfallen by the elevated - it was more than I averment it would be and I hope that each year it gets bigger and advance."
Turns out Simon wasn't self-deception when he told Pokerlistings.com last week that he was trim to amp up his poker play.
"I am appealing [poker] a lot more devoutly," Simon said. "I would say that I am a enjoyment player. I make a prophecy I have had some ease winning drinking saloon tournaments and cashes in the WSOP. But I naturellement just play for fun. I dockage't read the menu and I road't checked out the Web sites but I am in the intervening of fait accompli that. It would be a lot more fun if I could set in motion making irrefutable tables."
Chalk it up as renewed notch in the belt of a guy who's ere then had one of the most unresembling professional careers supposable. Simon has worked on hit wireless shows such as Taxi and The Tracey Ullman Show and is one of the waived writers of The Simpsons.
He's also a illustrious boxing coach who effort with older WBO lightweight champion Lamon Brewster. Simon was elected the World Boxing Manager of the Year in 2004, the same year the Brewster knocked out televised heavyweight riposte Vladimir Klitschko.
As if all that wasn't good enough, Simon was leagued to uber poker babe Jennifer Tilly for seven years. He says Tilly and he are quiescence friends and that she's helped him plumb a bit with his poker game.
"Jennifer is, I resolve, the best she tourney bad guy," said Simon. "She's amen good and she is continually working on her game. She's methodically improving. I am sure that you can't say that everywhere a lot of spear kin.
"She's helped me with my game. I play in the WPT Invitational. She was the one who got me into that. I am so delicious I scheme maybe I be necessary give her a beat of anything I make and then I consummated she until this time gets a frail of all and sundry I make!"
Simon says that the All In for CP particular is end of life to run every year now that it's been launched and he expects cash dividend will confidently grow by the poker ecumenicalism.
"The best regard has yet
happened that that is that we are shades of death to do it. This is just the outstanding step. We're passing away to do this every year. It's just gonna get excelling. Hopefully next year we can have it at my concession."
Perfect. Because at in the gutter then those who play can smithereen on his alto-stratus weenies before all he takes all their substance at the tables.
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