the amount of puns in this thread is not only outrageous but also completely unnecessary.. where are the photoshops of tom petty's head on someone @ a poker table?
guy is a billionaire that found the best way to spend millions by being blasted into space while wearing a clown nose, but his poker losses burn him up SO BAD that he came up with this charity event to put millions into sponsoring players, hoping that it will generate millions more that he will then defraud back to himself as revenge on the poker community.
He'll win a few big pots with aces on the way to taking it down and they'll no longer be known as rockets. "Damn the torpedoes" will be heard at many a poker table.
TP will always be a bar band in Hogtown called Mudcrutch to me. Besides the college bars they held this great party in the boondocks where they would jam for hours but each year it grew so much it ruined it and had to be stopped. It was my line "take it easy,make it last all night" in American Girl. I was talking about the last of the weed at 3 AM. It lasted about 30 minutes. He adds "baby" to it and makes it into the best verse of one of his first hit songs a few years later. Sure, he probably doesn't remember me saying that, but subconsciously who knows. So I've been taking credit for it for the last 35 years every time it plays on the radio and someone else is with me. To this day nobody believes me, not even my kids.