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Jeanie Buss has had an interesting year, to say the least. Last summer, a small group of Lakers fans organized a protest outside of Staples Center to express their dissatisfaction with the team’s management following an underwhelming season, and a difficult search for a new head coach.

Almost a year later, and Buss’s team is the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference, and they’re set to play postseason basketball for the first time since 2013 — the year Jeanie inherited the title of Lakers governor from her late father Jerry Buss. The Lakers’ recent success can be traced back to June 15, 2019, when the team reached an agreement with the New Orleans Pelicans for All-NBA big man Anthony Davis.

The Lakers attempted to trade for Davis at the 2019 NBA trade deadline, but to no avail. When the time came for Jeanie to make another offer for Davis in the summer of 2019, she said she drew inspiration from a lesson her father taught her when she was younger (via “Daddy Issues” with Joe Buck and Oliver Hudson):

“He tried to teach me how to play poker, and I am the worst poker player. I can’t bluff, I’m not a good liar .. My dad was a great poker player, I wish I could play poker, but what he always told me, was ‘what I’m worried about and why I’m teaching you to play poker’ was that his philosophy was that you have to be extremely patient playing poker. You have to wait for the cards, and he said, ‘most people can’t do it, they get anxious and they have to do it fast like they’re trying to create winning out of not having the right cards .. I know you have the patience, but what I don’t know is if you get the cards, and you can make a move, if you will switch gears fast enough, because when you’ve got the cards you’ve got to go all in.’

“And I feel like as hard as it was to trade the young players that we had for Anthony Davis, that was the moment that my dad said, ‘I don’t know if you’re going to be able to pull this off, if you’re going to have the guts to floor it.’ And that was really hard for me, because we had this great young nucleus of talent that we all were loving and protecting and nurturing, but to get something of really great value, you’ve got to give up something of really great value, and that to me was like the moment where it was like ‘yes, let’s do it, put the pedal to the medal.’”

In the trade for Davis, the Lakers gave up two former No. 2 overall picks in Brandon Ingram and Lonzo Ball, a starting-caliber shooting guard in Josh Hart, the No. 4 pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, two future first-round picks, and a pick swap in 2023 — even in hindsight, that’s a lot. However, given where they are now — both as a basketball team and an organization — it’s hard to argue that the trade wasn’t worth it.

Jeanie had her slips along the way, for sure, but in the years since she made the equally difficult decision to relieve her brother, Jim Buss, from his duties as the team’s vice president of basketball operations, she’s pushed the Lakers towards championship contention the same way her father did when he was alive. She might not be great at poker, but it turns out she knows how to run a basketball team pretty well.

For moreLakers talk, subscribe to the Silver Screen and Roll podcast feed on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or Google Podcasts. You can follow this author on Twitter at @RadRivas.

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The Villa Marina today hosted the final of the UKIPT Isle of Man, and it was to prove a feisty, aggressive affair - eight talented players tearing chunks out of each other in their brutal scrap for the title.

24-year old English poker pro Josh Hart was the man to emerge as the final victor, collecting £57,484 and the coveted Isle of Man UKIPT trophy as his reward - a victory that must have tasted especially sweet given the sterling opposition standing in his path.

'It feels pretty good,' the focused young player told us as he posed for photos with his glistening trophy.

Hart and his buddies were delirious with the win

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It was to be no smooth path to glory for Hart however. Coming into the day second in chips, many had tipped previous 2013 UKIPT Marbella champion Ludovic Geilich to surpass his rivals and pick up a second UKIPT title.

His best laid plans fell afoul of variance however - a shocking turn of events seeing the form book turned on its head as Geilich crashed out first to surprise his many fans. His eight place finish came courtesy of a bad beat - Geilich's intimidating style enticing German Marc Radgen to four-bet shove with ace-ten, only to be picked off with pocket jacks.

However, with Radgen's tournament future hanging in the balance, the young German made a serendipitous full house to grievously injure Geilich who perished soon afterward when Hart polished off the rest of his chips. £8,000 and the exit door beckoned for him, but he'll be back to entertain with his all-guns-blazing style sooner rather than later.

Another big performance from Geilich - but no second title

Thomas Ward has more UKIPT cashes on his resume than most players have Hendon Mob flags, making a record 12th cash here on Isle of Man. The shortest stack coming into the day however, Ward never found traction and was given his marching orders by Fintan Gavin - the Irishman finding a dominating ace to send Ward homeward with £11,120 in his pocket for seventh place.

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Czech player Josef Snejberg had come into the day with a commanding chip lead, but he too found variance was not to be his friend today. Holding aces, he was happy to commit all his chips when Hart check-raised him heads-up, only to find he had flopped two pair. No redemption for Snejberg, he can take solace in his impressive run - sixth place and £14,900 the tangible prizes for his accomplished display of poker.

Marc Radgen and fellow final tablist Hart were actually roommates on this trip but there was to be no softplaying between the roomies, Hart constantly applying pressure on the German with three-bets.

Finally a shortstacked Radgen made a move to chip up only to frustratingly run into a bigger ace - Isle of Man local David Hill picking up a big hand at the right time to eliminate the German in 5th place for £19,300.

Radgen - the second best player in his room!

Juegos gratis tragamonedas free slot. Hill was doing an impressive job of laddering up the money spots against the more celebrated players doing battle at the felt, and when he picked off Fintan Gavin's super-aggressive airball bluff holding just top pair, you could see the confidence begin to course through his veins.

Gavin would never recover from this near-fatal confrontation, becoming yet another victim of Hart as he departed to thunderous applause in 4th place for £24,400.

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Three-handed, Hart experienced his first real downswing, losing several important pots and finding himself the shortest stack. Fortune was to smile on him