LAKE TAHOE, NV--Fish eggs, fish eggs, roly, poly, squishy fish eggs...ok so I changed the words of the song a little...but this has to be the most interesting card protector I have seen yet. I think this beats Humberto Brenes shark head.
Stephen Irion from Sacramento uses a 20-year-old jar of salmon fish eggs labeled "Balls of Fire: Soft but satisfying." The jar belonged to his grandfather who loved to fish. Irion doesn't fish, but said he uses this card protector because he feels it's a way for his grandfather to watch over him while he's playing. Apparently it's working. Steve won a $200 satellite tournament earning his seat in this main event. Currently, he's sitting with about 20,000 chips.
If that isn't sweet enough for you, Harveys is where Irion and his wife Christine got married two years ago. According to Christine, her husband didn't play poker before they got married...or was it he "learned" how to play during their honeymoon in Tahoe? All she knows is there was no pre-nuptial mention of poker and now she has to schedule everything around Thursday night poker. Bait and switch if I ever saw it!
"If we are going out of town," she said. "I have to make sure our flight leaves at 6 a.m. Friday morning NEVER Thursday night."
Trials and tribulations of a poker wife.
