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I was talking to Bonusgeek about gambling via PM today, and i thought this was his thread as we were talking about the same time, i seem to get you two confused frequently
Then realizing this was not my buddy, but instead someone else, i tried to back out graciously by agreeing, although someone claiming that the owner of a top sportsbook loved having his home raided by 200 cops was the stupidest thing i have ever heard, i decided to ignore it
But that just wasn’t good enough, you had to take a shot
Now i will return the favour by exposing your “Cardplayer Lawyer” for the dumbass that she really is
Here is a story about her you might enjoy
Earlier this year I was reading Card Player online when I noticed that many cover stories were being written by someone I had never heard of named Allyn Jaffrey. Apparently she is or was an attorney, and also plays poker. I thought that she was a mediocre writer at best and could never figure out how she went from someone I had never even heard of to writing most of the cover stories for the magazine, especially when they had many writers who were much better in their stable.
This month’s issue however cleared it all up for me. She was banging the owner.
The newest magazine has her name written as Allyn Jaffrey Shulman. Good old America for you. Who needs writing skills or personality when you can just sleep with the owner of a leading poker magazine? This explains a lot.
See, I never could stand reading her writing. She comes off as that type of bubbly, pretentious, annoying personality that you always want to drop kick at a party. I could even tolerate that if she threw some hardballs at her interview subjects as well, or at least asked them questions to which anyone would want to know the answer. Instead she seems to just look at previous interviews on PokerPages with the subject and ask them the same questions. Don’t believe me? Go to PokerPages and read their article on Doyle Brunson, then read hers in CardPlayer. I think they have at least 90% of the same material.
She makes it even more of a shame that Andy Glazer died. He was one of the few people who got to write some cover stories during the last year, and he actually asked interesting questions. Andy’s writing was enjoyable, Allyn Jaffrey’s is about as fun to read as the average prenuptial agreement. Andy portrayed an image of himself (and an honest one too from what I hear) of a guy you would like to meet, Allyn seems more like the chick at the party on Seinfeld who keeps talking about her fiancée. “My fiancée would love this caviar. My fiancée just bought a new Mercedes. My fiancée owns a magazine so I gave him a few blowjobs and now I write the cover stories.”
So my question is what do I have to do to get a job at Card Player? I am not gay so there goes sleeping with the owner. I think Linda Johnson and Jan Fisher carry a lot of weight around there (no pun intended) but even if I were single and very drunk I couldn’t bring myself to perform sexual favors on either of them for a column. Even if it was the cover. And apparently having even a slight modicum of talent doesn’t count for anything. Neither does being able to beat a $5/$10 hold’em game, because at least 50% of their writers likely couldn’t. Guess I will just have to blog on and hope some day my girlfriend starts a magazine about something which I know nothing about. Then its cover time.
http://www.thepokerchronicles.com/archives/000331.html
And there are many more
I’m so sure Johnny Cochrane, Shapiro and those guys used to call her up for legal advice all the time
Some people are just total flakes and completely out to lunch
Cardplayer you just lost major respect