File producer Steve Albini has been making noise within the poker world. The previous Massive Black punk rocker gained his second WSOP bracelet Saturday, taking down the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. event for $196,089.
Steve Albini is superior at H.O.R.S.E., arguably poker’s hardest event format. Who knew? (Picture: NME)
Albini outlasted 773 gamers in considered one of poker’s hardest disciplines to say the title. On receiving the coveted bracelet, he promptly dropped it and broke it. Nonetheless, $200k and a damaged gold bracelet are usually not unhealthy for a few days’ work.
“The whole lot in my life is available in items, in components,” Albini, whose bracelet can be in components, advised WSOP.com. “Poker is one a part of my life, so after I’m enjoying poker, I attempt to decide to it. I attempt to take it critically. I strive to verify I dedicate the eye to it that it deserves as an occupation.”
‘Felt Like a Fluke’
Albini’s first bracelet got here in a 7-card stud occasion in 2018. On Saturday, he stated each wins felt like “flukes.” However H.O.R.S.E tournaments aren’t any picnics, and people who win them at this degree command respect within the poker world.
The acronym describes 5 totally different poker variations, Texas maintain’em, Omaha hi-lo cut up eight or higher, razz, 7-card stud, and 7-card stud hi-low cut up eight or higher. This implies a participant should be proficient in not one recreation, however 5. In contrast to in maintain’em tournaments, there are few beginner gamers within the combine.
Since Albini is the considered one of few producers who refuses take royalties from bands he works with, we gained’t begrudge him his windfall.
The 59-year-old says he likes to be paid “like a plumber,” with a one-off price, and calls ongoing royalties claimed by most producers “unethical.” Albini renounced the a number of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} he would have earned for his work on Nirvana’s In Utero.
Albini has additionally produced albums for The Pixies, The Breeders, Web page and Plant, The Stooges, and Jarvis Cocker, amongst many others.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Each time Albini gained a pot on Saturday’s closing desk, he would ring a small bell, a gimmick impressed by his good friend, the poker participant Brandon Shack-Harris, in accordance with PokerNews.
“Brandon Shack-Harris obtained an ornate lodge bell that he would ding on the desk when he was going to verify. I believed it was actually charming and he introduced it right here so the rail might ding after I gained a pot,” Albini defined.
“It obtained irritating to a few of the different gamers, so I introduced it to the desk so anybody who wished to might have fun by ringing the bell.”
