WSOP general ramblings

Ok, So I have now dealt to a LOT of famous poker names, and even a famous actor (James Woods). I have my personal feelings on players that we see on tv all the time, and those feelings are pretty much just 'gut feelings' as I don't know these people from Adam. I either think they are dicks, or think they are cool. So far though, my gut is pretty gotdang good at what it thinks! James Woods is a cool fucker! He can't play cards for shit, but he is cool - I think we all knew that, tho. Greg Raymer is one that I had wrong. I thought he'd be a pompous prick...just another fat ass, lucky ass, poker player who would never be seen again doing anything good (as far as playing poker goes), a la, cough, Chris (I suck donkey balls) Moneymaker. More wrong I could not be. He is actually a pretty damn good player. He is placing in a lot of the tourneys! Moreover than that though, he is an overall good Joe! He talks to ANYONE that wants to talk to him, and even if he is faking it, he puts on a good show and seems genuinely interested. As a dealer, we're not really s'posed to be seen or heard, but I happen to run across GR in the hallway early one morning, noone was with him or hounding him, and I decided to sack up and approach him. I have a buddy that plays on UB, and there is a group of people from the missouri tigerboard that have a invite only sunday tourney..blah blah blah. Well, alledgedly, GR's brother (who lives in KC, again alledgedly) plays with that UB/MUtigerboard group. I puckered up my ass and approaced GR for confirmation. Sure enough, it's all true. That is irrelevant to the story, I know. The point is, GR was a good d00d. I only talked to him for about a minute total, and at one point, I basically APOLOGIZED for even bugging him. I said something to the fact of "I am just a putz from KC, and was nervous to even approach you/bother you". He said, "You shouldn't be afraid to approach me, I am very approachable, and I highly doubt you are a putz (then kinda giggled). It was very humbling, yet it was a great answer. Although I was just calling myself a putz as a form of levity, he treated my with as much respect as anyone should. Thumbs up to GR! All around good Joe. Ted Forrest - dick. Cindy Violette - bitch. Chris Caragoulian (or however the fuck it's spelled - ASSHOLE SUPREME. Daniel Negreanu - no opinions yet...dealt to him about 3 times...he's just like you see on TV - form your own opinion. I doubled him up twice in 5 hands (both courtesy of Chou Xiang (sp)) He didn't seem to even know I existed when I dealt to him the next day (Personally, I'd be like "hey...I like this dealer, he doubles me up) Oh well, he's still just DN to me, nothing bad with that. Speakingo f Chou Xiang - dick *but I say that with a grain of salt, as I did bad beat him twice in 4 hands) Fuck 'em. Antonio Esfandiari (sp), I thought he would be kinda a dick, but seems I am wrong on that one. I haven't dealt to him yet, but I saw a hand today in the 50/100 NL game. AE, Phil H, that D'agastino kid, and 6 other no namers were playing. Some asian d00d with more money than brains *now known as - sadwmmtb* raises pf to 1200. AE asks "how much you got", sadwmmtb says "about 9000. AE reraises to 10K. Just hearing that made MY ass pucker. Sadwmmtb dwells up for what seemed like an hour, and finally calls. What a dipshit. AE can have only ONE of TWO hands. Either AA or KK. Sadwmmtb flips over JJ and AE keeps his cards down until the river. In tourney play, both players HAVE to show cards b4 showdown, but not in live action. Anyhow.....5 blanks later, AE and his KK is 10K richer. He threw the dealer a greenbird ($25) chip for a tip. Pretty cool, really. Most of the big name players DON'T tip. They play this for a living. 25 bucks for a 10K pot may SEEM shitty, but in the grand scheme of things, it's not. Cindy Violette tipped me 2 bucks on a 4000 hand once...I about fell out of my chair and asked for someone to bring the paddles to start my heart back up. Lots of other players to talk about, too many to think of. If you have anyone you wanna know about - just ask. I may have a story about 'em