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| The original mailer |
2013
2012
This year we dodged a frostbitten bullet. The date was picked long before a -35 cold snap moved in for the week. Lucky for us, the day of the Cold Deck Classic, the temperature warmed and -18 felt like beach weather. This year we moved the tournament to the daytime which made moonlight a non-issue.
Players = T-Mart, Gepeddo Harvey, F Nutz, Big Stack Bobby, Ali-G, Kailey, Dycker, 7 Nation Army, Dandy Bloch and Princess Leahey
Temperature = -18 Celsius
Winner - Dycker
More from 2013...
The bling
Reverse Gentleman's Club. Getting dressed backstage.
The brave - The challenged
Princess Leahey and his turtleneck
The eye candy and the cover of next year's CDC brochure
The Icelandic pavilion at Folklorama
Team Canada at the World poker table hockey championship
The mandatory group shot
2011's winner is all that and a bag of chips
7 Nation Army delivers his package in Dyck's male box
2012
There was no Cold Deck Classic run in 2012. Unfortunately I was forced to eliminate it from the WSOD when I came down with pneumonia.
2011
Players agreed that this was the best one yet. We stepped it up a notch by snowblowing the middle of my back yard and hung lights around so it felt like a WPT final table. This year we were outside for 8 hours and the temperature reminded you it was winter, unlike 2010.
Players = Shepit, T-Mart, Kramp, Gepeddo Harvey, F Nutz, Big Stack Bobby, Ali-G, Kailey, Dycker, 7 Nation Army
Temperature = -22 Celsius
Winner - T-Mart
More from 2011...
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| Imagine if you were the pizza guy and you turn the corner to go to the back door and you see this... |
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| Harvey - Steaming since 2004 |
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| Most girls like to wear their guy's sweater, but Kailey prefers to wrap his hockey sock around her face. Kinda weird, but whatever... |
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| "A Hazy Shade of Winter" |
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| "People playing poker" (I will making this photo into a print for Dog owners to buy for their canines.) |
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| The pizza guy this year didn't have the stones to sit and play, which still makes Solly the coolest pizza guy ever! |
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| Kramp's face completely froze after hour 3 so that reads on him were next to impossible. Of course you don't need a read on him to know that calling is the right play. |
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| Sloppy Slow Pots |
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| This is my daughter's Christmas face. |
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| I don't have the foggiest clue where I am in this hand. |
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| The final table AKA Those left standing |
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| Podium finish. |
2010
Finally a nice warm year to play. It was quite the tournament with the favorite hand losing all night.
Players = Gepeddo Harvey, Big Stack Bobby, Bruno, Shepit, Nat X, F Nutz, Lemon, Dandy Bloch
Temperature = -5 Celsius
Winner - Lemon
More from 2010...
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| It looks like summer! |
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| Me and Gepeddo. |
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| Lemon wearing his wife's gloves. |
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| One effing sexy man. |
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| I can never remember which is Larry, which is Curly and which is Moe... |
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| I think this heat sensitive photo proves Gepeddo had basted his chest in chili paste to keep warm. Kinda gross but not illegal. |
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| Down to 4 - Lemon, Big Stack, X and Bruno |
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| Bruno showing that Lemon plays poker like it's Go Fish. |
2009
Our second year for the Cold Deck Classic we switched to 3 feeder tournaments and 1 final table. The feeder tournaments were run as "double your money" tournaments, meaning we played until half the field was gone and the remaining players took what chips they had and carried them over to the final table. The feeder tournaments take about an hour while the final table takes 2 to 3 hours of straight poker...outside!
Players = Dandy Bloch, Big Stack Bobby, F Nutz, Nat X, Gepeddo Harvey, Joffa Opiola
Temperature = -33 Celsius
Winner - Nat X
More from 2009...
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| Its sick how red Bobby's hands are! I think his hands also froze in those claw like positions from clasping his chips so tightly. |
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| Me and Mikey. I should've paid more attention to the game and less on looking so stylish. |
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| If you look at Dandy's nostril, you will see the remnants of his cold-induced nose bleed. So sick! |
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| 2 things I like about this one. 1 - X is in his blank stare zone so you know his game is on. 2 - Dandy shows his love of Harry Potter by dressing the part. |
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| We meant to send this photo to pokerroad but I think they would've shook their heads and hit "delete". |
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| Mandatory group shot, except this year, no one wanted to waste valuable time on things like facing the camera. |
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| When I look at each of the faces here, I feel a literal chill in my spine. They (Joffa / Mikey / Big Stack / X) all look so frigid. |
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| The benefit of donking out in what might have been last place, was that I could hit the bleachers and watch the action from the heated seats. |
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| PIZZA! (except this dude didn't join our game like good old Solly!) |
2008
Here are the first Cold Deck Classic winners, which also was the very first World Series of Dip event. The first Cold Deck Classic was run as 4 separate 1 hour games - each featuring different styles of poker. The 4 winners received bracelets for their win. We really should have taken the winner's photos before we went for our post game break - all the ice and frost are thawed by the time our fingers worked well enough to take a picture.
Original players = Big Stack Bobby, Nat X, F Nutz, Joffa Opiola, Geppedo Harvey, Lemon, Matchstick, The Crantini Kid
Temperature = -35 Celsius
Pot Limit Hold Em
Winner - F Nutz
Pot Limit Omaha
Winner - Lemon
Fixed Limit Hold Em
Winner - The Crantini Kid
No Limit Hold Em
Winner - Joffa
More from 2008...
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| Joffa, X, Big Stack Bobby, Gepeddo Harvey, Lemon, Matchstick, The Crantini Kid and Me - The original Cold deckers. |
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| I seriously have permanent damage to my hands - despite those massive mittens. |
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| Hey I remember that shovel, anyone seen it? |
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| Harvey seemed the most prepared - Lemon was the first and worst complainer |
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| Big Stack showed up in a sweater and preached that it was a classic mistake to overdress. |
