Formula 1 and Texas poker
Corriere dello Sport
August 2, 2008 A NEW FASHION IN THE CIRCUS
Texas Hold'em, what a passion! The table is the "motor home" Force India
Tonight? You play poker
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BUDAPEST - The new fashion runs under a thin veneer, hard by scraping. In the paddock of Formula 1 now, we play poker. Or better Texas Hold'em, the most popular casino version of the United States arrived in Europe late but made noise, obscuring the more traditional form of poker. It is not the chance to call the players, not the pursuit of adrenaline which frankly do not feel the pilots short, between Friday and Saturday in the Grand Prix. On the contrary: the desire to compete but also to be together, to laugh, to tease, to regain a piece of the youth that these professionals speed, weighted for selection have been waived. Found themselves incognito, under cover of darkness: the den is the preferred motor-home is where the Force India Giancarlo Fisichella, master of masters - after the Formula 1 we would see good at the green table, with mirrored sunglasses barricaded behind a mountain of chips - and Vijay Mallya, the emperor of the beer that is as beloved as a Formula 1 team and as a pastime, gambling with cards. Off their computer, shut their briefcases, exhausted their meetings, they come with plush step from every corner of the paddock: Alonso, Kubica with his manager Daniele Morelli, Barrichello but Ecclestone, Briatore. So far, the inevitable. And if for some reason to see each paddock is not comfortable, they converge in a hotel that provides a quiet room, and away from prying eyes.
played little, play anything contrary to those which would be their chances: one hundred euro each, is the rule that the rich are given in Formula 1, because no money poker is not even standing. They gathered Thursday night and again yesterday, recalling the "memorable" single-elimination tournament held two weeks ago at Hockenheim. There also slipped in gambling Ron Dennis, Mansour Ojjeh (which funds much more significant than those of Dennis, which is a partner at McLaren), Michael Schumacher and his manager Willi Weber, the father of Hamilton, Heidfeld, Rosberg and Enrico Zanarini, Fisichella's manager. Tonio Liuzzi. All the Germans just outside, despite the enthusiasm shown by Schumi factor field, skipping like a child at Disneyland. And in the end won the "Physical", which used to be a good Roman and Romanesque raging on the losers with a mocking ". .. and no compliments, because you played really well. " And since the tournament was also the sponsor (the "BWIN", of course), Fisichella earned a trip to Madrid, accompanied, to attend a game in Real's Champions. Second place went to Briatore, Kubica third. Each with a propensity: "Physical" is likely and goes to attack, Kubica is a computer and can build a prodigious memory, Alonso knows to be reliable. Anthony Hamilton is the most serious of all. Worse: it is serious, approach similar to what his son with Formula 1. Always asks to "see", rages, s'incavola.
The dishes rich get the three hundred euro, apart from the anomaly of a thousand euro shot at Hockenheim. But the real wealth is in the smile, good humor, the pleasure of being together believe that Formula 1 is permanently lost. Participants all
fs: Alonso to Ecclestone, Briatore Hamilton by his father. And everyone there in good spirits again
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