Re: [ba-poker] Phil Hellmuth in The Wave magazine

[Michael Wiesenberg <queueing(deleted the rest)>]

At Tuesday, 3/16/2004 05:04 PM -0800, David S. Heller wrote:
> Phil Ivey is the Tiger Woods of poker if you think what's special about
> Tiger is his race.  But I took the article to mean what's special about
> Tiger Woods is that he's the best there's ever been at golf, and the author
> was saying that about Phil Hellmuth and poker.

I was just repeating the sobriquet I've seen in print often.  In point of 
fact, I have always found that use objectionable, and I'll bet Phil Ivey 
wants to be known for his poker prowess, not for being an African-American 
poker player.