LITTLE ROCK — Talk about going all in on a hand
Ideas often percolate in your brain that work in theory but not so much in reality.
For example, injecting botox into your face to prevent tell signs from showing during poker night with the guys.
Great idea, right? It’s not realistic, though.
Not anymore.
Jack Berdy, a doctor in New York, has launched a service called Pokertox that allows people to maintain a poker face, according to The New York Post.
“Very few people can maintain a real poker face,” Berdy told the paper. “They have some tells, some expression that gives away that they have a good hand.”
Berdy goes over those facial cues with patients and then injects Botox “appropriately.”
“What someone sees across the table is no movement,” Berdy said of the treatment, which costsbetween $600 and $800 and lasts approximately four months.
So how did Berdy come up with this idea?
He loves poker. And Botox.
“They go together,” he said.
Go Canada
We’re almost two months into the NHL lockout - yes, we had to look that up - and a slew of elite players have jumped the Atlantic Ocean to play in European and Russian leagues.
There is one notable exception.
Sidney Crosby, center for the Pittsburgh Penguins, was spotted in an unusual place Tuesday.
He was at a Justin Bieber concert, according deadspin.com
What started as a rumor on Twitter was confirmed by photos, and the website quickly speculated as to why Crosby was at Consol Energy Center.
“Maybe he likes it,” the website wrote. “Maybe he chaperoned a 16-year-old sister? Maybe [owner] Mario Lemieux finally kicked him out of the house and now Crosby just sleeps in the Pens’ dressing room.”
A website called businessinsider.com also weighed in on Crosby, 25, and his presence at the show.
“Does this mean Crosby’s image has grown softer?” the website wrote.
Hey, maybe Crosby, a Canadian from the province of Nova Scotia, just wants to support his fellowcountryman Bieber, who hails from London, Ontario.
Take your pick
A chuckle-inducing obituary that ran in The Kansas City Star has been making its way around the Internet over the past five days.
It reads: “Loren G. Lickteig passed away on Nov. 14, 2012 of complications from [multiple sclerosis] and heartbreaking disappointment caused by the Kansas City Chiefs.”
Look, there is little doubt the Chiefs (1-9), who have lost seven consecutive games, are one blazing inferno of a dumpster fire. Heck, their fans booed quarterback Matt Cassel when he was concussed during a 9-6 loss to the Baltimore Ravens.
But there are a slew of other potential causes of death here in the Kansas City metro area, including the Kansas City Royals, Missouri Tigers basketball, Kansas Jayhawks football, continued references to Kansas State’s Bramlage Coliseum as the Octagon of Doom, and being in close proximity to Johnson County, Kan.
A trip to Olathe is enough to put anyone down.
Quote of the day “Me being a Texas kid,
I know how big the rivalry is and I get my fair shot at it.” Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III on the team’s rivalry with today’s opponent, the Dallas Cowboys
Sports, Pages 28 on 11/22/2012