The Official Site of Jordan Farmar

Tue, Jul 7th 2009, 13:42

Jordan makes it to day 3 of World Series of Poker

Jordan Farmar Participated in this year’s World Series of Poker at the Rio in Las Vegas, and represented himself quite well. Jordan was one of the chip leaders in day one and lasted till day 3 of the tournament. He beat out over 4,000 players and personally took out 18. You can read a recap of his tournament here.

He was also featured in the Pokerstars.net blog, where part of his first day was chronicled.

“A long discussion about cameras is also underway on the table featuring Jordan Farmar, the Los Angeles Lakers’ point guard who has moved from court to poker table with some aplomb. “They should get you on the feature table,” said a table-mate. “The camera loves you.”

As a blogger on Playboy.com, an occasional guest star on network television shows and a newly-minted NBA champion, it seems unlikely that Farmar would disagree. And the table-mate was right: during a single round at Farmar’s table, also featuring Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, the ESPN roving crew was poised ready to focus on Farmar.

The basketball star raised to 900 from under-the-gun-plus-one and the small blind called. “I’ll give you a spin,” said the player as he tossed in the call.

“Put the cameras on!” Farmar shouted.

“Ohh, now you want the cameras on. That must be a big hand.”

The flop came 6♥K♣6♠ and after both players checked and saw a turn of Q♠, Farmar repeated his demand. “Turn it on!” he called to the circling crew.

“Apparently I’m on demand now,” said the cameraman. “I’ll be here when you’re all in, don’t you worry about that.”
“See, that’s the kind of guy you are,” Farmar said. “I knew it.”

He threw in a bet of about 2,500 and his opponent folded. Farmar is edging up to around 80,000 in chips and could well find himself the centre of attention for a good few days yet.”

Stay tuned for more on Jordan’s progress in the event and to see if he can stake claim to the over $8.6 million grand prize.