WSOP 2007: Dewey TomkoPriorities in Life: Golf or Poker |
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Card Player spoke with poker star Dewey Tomko at the World Series of Poker.
Card Player: How has the Series been for you this year?
Dewey Tomko: Great, everything is going good. I've taken a lot of time off. I play like one day and take three off. I'm getting old but if I get late into the night. I just can't play the next day. It's like giving my money away. I just get a little too tired.
CP: Are you playing golf the next day or actually relaxing?
DT: Oh, I'm playing golf every day. I go play golf and if I get done in time to play a tournament, I do. If not I play more golf.
CP: So, you will being playing the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha and the main event?
DT: Yep, the 10K and the deuce-to-seven and the Big One, probably. The only reason I am playing today (triple-draw lowball) is because I just walked down here and they were starting this and it's over tomorrow, so I can still play the 10K Omaha.
Everything is going good, poker is popular; I don't know if that's good or bad. I don't know if it's good that we have 8,000 people for the Big One or not. I just haven't figured that out yet. It's good that it's popular but it's impossible to win it. I used to come here every year thinking I could win it or have as much of a chance as everybody else but now winning doesn't even enter my mind. I played the H.O.R.S.E. and I think I got a chance to win that like everyone else and realistically you do have a chance with 150 players and they give you 100,000 chips. But they give you 10,000 and tell me to get a hold of 80 million, I don't know how to do that. Somebody does it every year but I don't know how they do it. That's the most amazing thing to sit down and think, well, somebody hits the lottery every year.
Just how many hands they gotta go through, not only not getting a hand beat but where one guy doesn't call or another guy raises and keeps another guy from calling out of the blinds. Everything gotta go exactly right; one thing goes wrong and you're out. Whoever wins, I believe it's fate, the Good Lord upstairs already knows who is going to win.
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