Poker Players

About James Woods

He’s Bluffing!

Even though James Woods is a newcomer to the world of poker, he knows all about the “bluff.” When he left MIT, he moved to New York to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. When doors Poker - Jacks Or Better were not opening, he “bluffed” his way in.His first important part was in Brendan Behan’s Borstal Boy in 1971. “I waited until the online poker stage manager went to the bathroom and then just walked out on stage. I said, ‘I’m next,’ and auditioned. They wanted only resident British actors with real British accents.
I said I was from Liverpool, and they said, ‘Great: and hired me.” Jimmy continues to work on his bluffing techniques, and proudly recalled a bluff he put on Mike Sexton in Vince Van Pat- ten’s home game. He used his acting skills to dramatically overbet the pot, knowing Mike had the better hand, but believing Mike would be too conservative to call. The first time Mike learned he had been bluffed was in the Card Player cover story featuring Mike Sexton. Jimmy explained that poker players think he’s a online poker doofus, and he exploits that image by pretending to play a simplistic poker games. There was a hand against Men Nguyen in which Men bet $2,500 and Jimmy quickly went all in. Men thought and thought, and mumbled that Jimmy must have hit his hand. This was another successful bluff for Jimmy, which Men will learn when he reads this story!

Hollywood Poker

James Woods has shown himself to be a part of the poker world, not just an actor playing poker. He sits and jokes with us and tries his best to take our money. He wants to be respected for being a great poker player, and he is constantly working on his game. During the PartyPoker cruise earlier this year, he was asked to speak to a room full of delighted poker players in any casino . He joked with the cheering crowd: “Well, you can all stop clamoring and cheering for me now. I know what you’re really thinking. Be nice to the sucker. Well, you’ve already busted me!” “Many intelligent people do not feel comfortable giving their credit card number to someone they don’t know from a third- world online poker country. People will see that James Woods is sponsoring it, and I got to believe that people will trust me. You can go to a movie and spend $100 on bad popcorn to see a guy with his hat on backwards. Or, you can come have fun and try to win my money. I play there often, as do my brother, Michael, Vince Van Patten, and plenty of others, I want to play poker with my fans and hopefully beat out of my celebrity friends!” Jimmy has the uncanny ability to take a complicated concept, boil it down to its least common denominator, and discuss it simplistically, yet accurately. He spoke about the famous French philosopher Merleau-Ponty (1908—61), who believed that our beings pass on a long physical and biological history of preconceived notions. With those subconscious notions, we view and understand the world. We don’t consciously do this, it just happens before our eyes. Because our notions and the world are constantly changing, this causes a state of chaos.

When all is Said and Done

When all is said and done, James Woods is an intense, accomplished, vivacious individual who loves the online poker game of poker as much as everyone reading this article. There is no doubt that with his natural skills and drive to be the best, he will one day win a big tournament. The only question is when. Jimmy said, “I took up hold’em a year ago and said I am going to become the best I can and play every day, read about it every day, and speak to people about it every day.” How many poker players work this hard to be a winner? Probably, only the best.