Currently airing on USA network. Tee time and partner shown below. They started today on the 10th tee at the Pebble Beach Course.
<TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=2 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR class=bg3 vAlign=center align=right height=17><TD align=left width="20%">10:10 am</TD><TD align=left width="20%">Bob May</TD><TD align=left width="20%">May/ Valentine</TD><TD align=left width="20%">Fredrik Jacobson</TD><TD align=left width="20%">Jacobson/ Walters</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=2 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR class=bg3 vAlign=center align=right height=17><TD align=left width="20%">10:10 am</TD><TD align=left width="20%">Bob May</TD><TD align=left width="20%">May/ Valentine</TD><TD align=left width="20%">Fredrik Jacobson</TD><TD align=left width="20%">Jacobson/ Walters</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
You can include the name Dewey Tomko on that list that has made
hundreds of thousands of dollars and a couple of golf courses. The owner
of the Horseshoe Casino down here in Costa Rica has a really good game
and has even managed to empty my wallet a few times. Had the pleasure
or non pleasure of playing B.W. a couple of times in Las Vegas during the
early nineties. He is definitely no slouch!
hundreds of thousands of dollars and a couple of golf courses. The owner
of the Horseshoe Casino down here in Costa Rica has a really good game
and has even managed to empty my wallet a few times. Had the pleasure
or non pleasure of playing B.W. a couple of times in Las Vegas during the
early nineties. He is definitely no slouch!
I remember reading somewhere.....I think it was one of the stories in The Man With the $100,000 Breasts and Other Gambling Stories. There was a guy that was so good he could have been a top player on the PGA Tour. But he instead just played multi-millionaires for high stakes and made tons more than he could have on the tour. I don't remember his name, but he had no regrets about never joining the tour.
That is what they said about the guy that took MJ for all that money.
Best story ever though about the gamblers was the one Mike Sexton told me years ago and then I think he wrote about it in his past column. He said Doyle and some others told Stu Ungar that poker was just a warm-up, the real money and action were out on the golf course. Stuey couldn't refuse anything that had betting with it so he went out to the course with the boys. Stuey had never picked up a club in his life, but that didn't stop him from betting it up. He was stuck five figures just on the practice putting green! He tried chasing out on the course, but part of the problem was he figured he was left-handed, but no one had lefty clubs. Stuey's first trip to the golf course cost him something like $200k, but it didn't phase him a bit. He never got to be even a decent golfer, but he still would go out to the course just to gamble with the boys.
Best story ever though about the gamblers was the one Mike Sexton told me years ago and then I think he wrote about it in his past column. He said Doyle and some others told Stu Ungar that poker was just a warm-up, the real money and action were out on the golf course. Stuey couldn't refuse anything that had betting with it so he went out to the course with the boys. Stuey had never picked up a club in his life, but that didn't stop him from betting it up. He was stuck five figures just on the practice putting green! He tried chasing out on the course, but part of the problem was he figured he was left-handed, but no one had lefty clubs. Stuey's first trip to the golf course cost him something like $200k, but it didn't phase him a bit. He never got to be even a decent golfer, but he still would go out to the course just to gamble with the boys.
