He Can Also Spell 'Short-Stacked'

For those of you who watch the ESPN WSOP shows as fanatically as I, you may recall a chap called Jim Pittman who, according to Phil Hellmuth, "can't even spell poker". Well, I checked with Jim earlier (who, incidentally, is a thoroughly nice fellow), and can confirm that his spelling is top notch, even belting out spellings for other words of the poker glossary including 'all in', 'raise' and 'short-stacked'.

Unfortunately for Jim, it was the latter of those that befell him in his most recent encounter, Kevin O'Donnell raising Pittman's 6,400 bet all in on the turn of a {9-Hearts}

board and forcing his opponent to fold. Whilst this left Jim with 4,000, Kevin leapt up to a sky-high 20,000.

On a sidenote, Jim is now a highly successful business man after inventing a cushioning system for pick-up trucks so people can camp in their vehicle overnight (bizarre, I know), so who needs to spell poker when you can spell 'god damn filthy rich?'

Tags: Jim Pitman Kevin O'Donnell

2008 World Series of Poker

2008 World Series of Poker

He Can Also Spell 'Short-Stacked'