Today is the final table of the WPT Celebrity Invitational at the Commerce Casino
in Los Angeles, California.
Only 6 players are seated at the World Poker Tour final table! Last evening there were 10 players seated at the final table playing down to the 6 that would make it on television and one of those 10 players was my sister, Robyn Moder.
Robyn Moder is the Executive Vice President of WPT Studios for WPT Enterprises, Inc. and and one of the 4 co-founders of the World Poker Tour, although many don’t know much about her because she runs the show behind the scenes. And according to Tom Lykos a woman of her stature, with her income is fugly - fat and ugly. Is this true, although he does state that there are exceptions to the rule?
Every person I encountered watching the tables play down insisted that she was an actress and what show or movie was she on? I sat in the audience so nobody would know that I was her sister and asked if she was a movie star I said “No, but she sure is pretty enough to be one, right?” The normal response was “Absolutely. Are you sure I haven’t seen her on such and such show?” I said “No.” and they said “What does she do?” I didn’t want to reveal that she was in fact in charge of the entire production team currently filming the event so I quickly appeared interested in the hand that was playing and then meandered off to another section only to repeat the same conversation.
I finally made myself down to the front row of the audience section as I “sweated” Robyn. I must say that “sweating” somebody in a poker tournament when they make it down to the final 4 tables is extremely stressful. Not only had Robyn made it down to the final 4 tables but her boyfriend Kurtis did as well and they were sitting at the same table. At one point I looked over and Kurtis almost doubled through another friend of mine, Crystal Osgood-Gray of the LPA Tour and as the tables played down, Kurtis and Robyn ended up at the same table again. Kurtis unfortunately ended up busting out with A K against A Q and the other player hit the Q on the flop, and so ended Kurtis game this evening. He pushed his chair back, walked over to Robyn, bent down and kissed her good bye and he walked off. All of the players were stunned and egar to bust out so they could walk over and kiss the cute “goodbye girl.” (That may have been the funniest moment of the evening or when I shortly told Kurtis that he started the exiting kissing precedence – from that moment on he watched every person bust out)
I was standing next to another “sweater,” Khary Payton’s wife as her husband was sitting to the left of Robyn, Kurtis, George Sylak and Steve Lipscomb. We instantly became the “Payton – Moder” fan club and prayed that they stayed out of each others pots.
Game play started at 3:00pm and before we knew it, it was 7:04pm and we were on a dinner break. So, much to take in. We forgo the buffet and ended up in the Sports Book where we sat with Linda Johnson for quite some time trying to get some last minute poker tips but then again not messing up Robyn’s game.
Back to the table we went where the final 10 players had to fill out bios and player releases.
Game play started and about 15 minutes into the round the final play took place between Robyn Moder and Adam Weinraub :
Adam Weinraub opened for 100k and Robyn Moder moved in for 155k. The action folded back around to Weinraub who called the 55k more.
Moder A 7
Weinraub JJ
The J's held up on a board of Q 10 7 6 2 and Moder is out in 10th place.
And that was the end of Robyn Moder’s poker debut at the WPT Celebrity Invitational 2007!
The good news is that she is confident that the final 6 players signed player release forms, she now understands the need for food and restroom breaks but the sad news is that she won’t be sitting in one of the 6 chairs on her set and trust me it would have looked a lot prettier had she and Vanessa Rousso been sitting in 2 of those 6 chairs.
We shall see what I fetch for tomorrow……
“Pack Leader”
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