Hopefully you got your fill of turkey and grandma’s sweet potato casserole and today you’re not standing in line outside a Kohl’s to save nineteen bucks on food processor. After taking yesterday off the A.M. SCRAMBLE is back and we’ve got a machete, a bigger-than-life size painting and some WSOP Circuit hype.

The Robbery, The Machete, The Truth and The Letdown

When people see “robbery” and “machete” in the same sentence naturally they’re curiousity is peaked. That’s exactly what happened on Thursday when a poster on TwoPlusTwo started a thread called “What happened at EPT Barcelona”. It seems the poster had read some status updates on Facebook and was looking for some more details. The first Facebook status that caught his eye was from defending EPT Barcelona champ Carter Phillips who wrote “Id like to make this announcement that I am 95% sure that I am officially done with poker. more details to come. in the process of writing out a lengthy explanation to release to the poker community shortly.” The second was a comment on Phillips status from William Reynolds who wrote “for all of you that want to make bets and ridicule this post, now is not the time – none of this has to do with anything card related – people got robbed tonight and almost injured”.

With that the TwoPlusTwo jokesters came around and started firing off jokes about blades and close calls and well, every terrrible pun they could come up with. Of course there was some that were thirsty for more details and it took nearly 16 hours before any clarification came to light. In that time the rumor mill had run overtime and people even were considering a conspiracy theory that involved PokerStars refusing to comment on the incident. Then and 5:31 AM ET poster “grindplz” posted the following:

“K heres the story from william reynolds.

Carter Phillips, Kevin Stani, Kayvan Payman, and I had puffing some sisha at a live music and hookah lounge right down the way in the marina. I’d been working on a few of my dance moves and we were shootin the **** for a few hours while drinking some beers. At about 6am we’d had enough and Kayvan pays the bill. We all walk outside n Kayvans about 10 meters ahead of me when 3 guys all quickly surround him n use their barcelona pick pocketing skills to slide 4000 euro out of his pockets with out him immediately noticing. He checked his pocket as these guys start to run away down into a subway entrance. We try to pursue but they pull security gates down behind them that can’t be lifted back up. Right near the entrance to that subway there was a restaraunt that had a large window and two workers had closed up shop but were still inside. We banged on the window to get their attention but they couldn’t speak english. Payman became frustrated and punched the window and ran around the corner. I turned back around to attempt to open up the security gates one more time but it won’t budge. As I begin walking forward and out of this little enclosed area I’m in the two workers come around the corner: 1 is holding a frying pan and the other is holding an 18in machete. I’m like wow these guys really want to help us. I approach the man with the machete attempting to talk a mix of simple english and spanish when all of a sudden he comes at me with a Steven Segal kick straight to my chest that connects. He than begins to assume the role of Zorro and starts thrusting the blade directly at my heart with his first attempt making the smallest of contact. While he is doing this I am not trying to fight back and just continue to move back with my hands up in the air reaching for the sky in this little enclosed spot. At the same time the man with the frying pan is trying to crack Payman’s skull. The two guys we were trying to get help from end up causing more harm than the robbers. This entire time my eyes are fixated on this crazy spaniard and his machete. Eventually the 2 realize we are not trying to fight back and go back inside their locked store

That is almost how I was carved like a turkey on thanksgiving. The end.”

So there’s the story. No six-figure robbery, no blood. Just a bad incident in a foreign country. And since Phillips has removed his Facebook status about wanting to give up poker, we’ll assume he’s changed his mind there. You can read the whole thread right here.

WSOP Circuit Has the Philadelphians Excited

Philly.com got wind of the announcement from Caesars Entertainment that the WSOP Circuit is going to hold an event at Harrah’s Chester in 2011. Staff Writer Bill Ordine wrote all about the overwhelming number of Phillies hats and Eagles shirts which were “seemingly everywhere” at the 2010 World Series of Poker this past summer.

Here’s the full story right here.

David “the Maven” Chicotsky Large and, We Presume, In Charge

Like many Americans did this week 2008 BLUFF Online Player of the Year David “the Maven” Chicotsky headed home for Thanksgiving. Upon arriving the media-savvy Chicotsky took his fans on a tour of his parents place in Texas. Nothing really out of the ordinary during the tour except for maybe one item of the poker pro that adorns the wall in his parents house. At the 0:55 second mark of the video below is a painting of Chicotsky that’s a little bit on the big side. Guess it’s true, everything’s bigger in Texas.

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