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 The first time I met Frankie,
I was playing against him in a satellite. I had never seen or heard of him before and he definitely did not make a good impression. I thought he
was loud, rude, and obnoxious. He fought with the players and had to make sure to get the last word in. The next day, during the tournament,
I pointed him out to a friend and told him what had happened and my friend said normally he is a pretty nice guy.
I am not sure how it happened, but Frankie and I started talking. I came to find out he is a decent person, even if he does have a tendency to
be loud and he never shuts the hell up when he is sitting at the table with me. Of course, I find this annoying when I am playing with him, but
away from the table there is something about him that I like. (Kind of... :) We enjoy giving each other a hard time especially about who is the
better Omaha player and it will be a cold day in hell before I ever admit that he is a better Omaha HiLo player than I am (even though he has
bracelets for both wrists and I don't). I have played at tables with him and I KNOW that I am better than he is. But if my arm was twisted a
little bit, I would admit that he is better than most Omaha players that I have seen.
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The night before his second bracelet win, I asked him what he was doing sitting on an empty table in the middle of the WSOP. I thought the
tournament was still going on at the time. He told me that he was third in chips and play was going to continue the next day. He asked how I
was doing and I said "I don't have any complaints except that I haven't final tabled an Omaha event at the WSOP." He told me that he
was available for lessons (I totally opened myself up for that comment) and I just laughed. He said, "After I win tomorrow, make sure that
you pencil in our date on your calendar." And I said, "Don't worry the date is already penciled in... for the year 2098."
Frankie told me, "the only game I enjoy playing is Omaha" which might contribute to the success that he has playing the game. He was
ranked number one in the Omaha Hi-Lo by Card Player Magazine in 2003 with nobody else coming close to him. He always wears the World Series of
Poker Omaha Championship bracelet that he won that year with pride and makes sure he points it out to anybody who will listen (and even those
who don't). He also makes it a point to let people know that he was coached by "the best Omaha player in the world,
Mike Matusow".
Besides the 2003 World Series of Poker $1500 Omaha title, Frankie won the
2007 $2000 WSOP Omaha High Low event, and has won titles at the
LA Poker Classic and the World Poker Open... so it is getting harder and harder for me to tell him how much he sucks. As a matter of
fact, at the L.A. Poker Classic in 2009, I made a deal with him. During the dinner break, I said, "If you win this event, I will write
that you are the greatest player ever." Sure enough, he went on to win the event. So how do I honor my word without making his head
explode from his inflated ego? I add some words to the end of the sentence...Frankie is the greatest player ever to have won a $1,000
H.O.R.S.E. event at Commerce Casino until I did it three months later during the
California State Championship (that should get his goat)!
Among his other accomplishments are a second place finish at the Legends of Poker World Poker Tour event in 2006 where he pocketed $776,385.
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