Cant believe you are all giving Paul Magriel such a hard time..he is a genuinely nice guy and a friend (and yes he is more than a little quirky).

For the record he has coached Isabelle Mercier at poker prior to her WPT Ladies event win and he was responsible for giving me my introduction to poker via a nine hour lesson on limit hold em at The Sunset Casino in very early July 2001 at the table of a 3/6/9 game which he followed up with a gift of Sklansky's Holdem book for beginners.

For those who dont know or doubt him I can categorically state that if he ever publishes a book on no limit poker it will be up there with the very best of them (and I do not say that lightly) and I feel certain peole like Gus Hansen, David Benyamine and Steve Zolotow would agree with my assertion. Furthermore he is definitely someone with whom I would discuss alternate plays of poker hands.

And finally a bit of background info: He was the youngest ever professor of mathematics in The USA and a US junior Chess champion and has won many major backgammon tournamnts not to mention written the original bible on Backgammon.

He is definitely in the genius bracket academically but also has a problem transferring that to his poker game and the poker table.

he is absolutely revolting

None of that has absolutely anything to do with him being gross looking, smelly, and a has to pay for weird looking hooker sex.

if you are (slightly)famous and married dont go to a whore house where they film a tv show.

No-one is questioning that he's smart or a nice guy, just that he's a smelly ugly f***.

I hate X22's "Quack Quack" antics.

wouldn't have been my first choice Z. whatever floats your boat.

Well-played sir.

maybe the hooker was for his wife

LOL

sup paul

lol

paul itt for sure.

it took a two second google search to find out that Koumari Boy is Harry Demetriou.

Anyone know where Magriel's backgammon books are available?

It took 2 seconds on google search to find out SV is Kevin from WPB

http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/seraphimvulture

They have it here:

http://www.gammonvillage.com/backgam...mmon_books.cfm

There's also a backgammon forum under General Gambling on 2p2 btw.

This thread is disappointing. There are more pics of Magriel and Stevie Z than there are of moonlight bunnies.

Thanks! Been meaning to advance my Backgammon library beyond Robertie!

bump!

I feel bad for these whores when they have to service a troll like Magriel.

Imagine having Paul and viffer on the same table?

Holy crap I think I just saw him in the trailer for "Drag Me to Hell"

Same here....

I think he looks a little like FrankenBerry from the cereal box!

Ahhh but here he is just as I tried to forget him....

In all his glory....

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