Poker Headlines: Congressman’s Son Crazy for Online Poker
Date: June 3, 2008Son of Rep. Jim Moran, Congressman of Virginia, is reportedly addicted to Online Poker.
Congressman’s son, 39-year-old Jim Jr., is said to be a Washington, D.C. area regional manager for Dominos Pizza and an Online Poker aficionado.
According to some Poker Reviews site and Poker News site, Moran’s pal, Bruce Ryan, had posted posted a YouTube video of him screaming, “I had the nuts the whole time!”
The nuts he was referring to were reportedly a pair of queens; the term is used in poker to refer to an unbeatable hand.
Reports said that Ryan posted the clip as a publicity stunt to attract attention — and hopefully funding — for his planned documentary on poker.
Ryan, a real estate agent and aspiring filmmaker, reportedly worked on a documentary on adult kickball that did not receive wide exposure.
The three-and-a-half minute YouTube video, unsubtly titled, “Congressman’s Son Goes Crazy Playing,”poker could fare better.
The video features Moran Jr. variously screaming, pointing at his computer screen, whooping and hollering, “I worked you!” while advancing in an poker tournament.
Despite obtaining a top ranking, Moran eventually lost the competition, Ryan told ABC News.
“I worked that guy!” the lawmaker’s offspring shouts after winning a key hand. Then he turns to his computer screen. “I worked you! I worked you! I worked you! You thought I was being a wuss, but I had the nuts the whole time! That’s what time it is! You got a watch?” — he points energetically to his wrist — “Cuz that’s what time it is!”
Congressional office of Moran’s father declined to comment for this story.
“He’s probably, IQ-wise, a genius,” Ryan said of his friend Jim, “at least on paper.”
“I’m really good at math, and I know when people are lying to me,” said Moran, explaining his skills as a poker player.
Moran told ABC News that when he first saw Ryan’s video he thought, “‘That makes me look like an idiot,’” but Ryan assured him when people watched it online, they would think it was “cool.”
The video has reportedly attracted the attention of Roll Call, a D.C. newspaper which covers Congress.
Despite his Ryan’s hope for publicity, however, Moran said he refused to talk to the paper’s reporter, because he said another Roll Call scribe had misquoted him several years ago in comments he made about former Rep. Stan Parris, R-Va., whom his father defeated to win his seat in Congress.
“[Parris] made fun of me on a school trip when I was in third grade, and got the whole class to laugh at me, and I’ve hated him with a passion ever since,” Moran Jr. explained. When Roll Call ran his quote about the man, Moran said, they added an adjective which made his words sound harsher. “I got in trouble.”
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