Tyson Apostol, winner of Survivor: Blood vs. Water, was tested in patience, memory and detecting lies to win a $25,000 PokerStars Platinum Pass
Survivoris no stranger to the poker world. Whether it’s tournament players like Jean-Robert Belland (whowon a World Series of Poker braceletthis past summer) and Boston Rob Mariano or cash game players like Garrett Adelstein, Anna Khait and possibly more into the future, there is a very tiny overlap of reality show and poker fandom, especially whenSurvivorplayers are filmed competing in pokeron televisionandTwitch.
One of the regularSurvivorfaces in Reno and other Run it Up poker events is winner Tyson Apostol. Though he is a better reality show contestant than he is a poker player, he does seem fairly more knowledgeable in the finer aspects of tournament play than you’d expect what you would consider a sarcastic goofball of a reality contestant.
The PokerStars Players Championship is taking place in the Bahamas starting today, with the biggest poker website in the world holding a $25,000 buy-in tournament with $8 million extra in the prize pool and $1 million extra for the winner. Throughout the past year, the tournament organizers have been providing Platinum Passes to lucky and hard-working players to fill out close to half of the tournament’s entrants total.
Tyson wanted in, so he worked with 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Chris Moneymakerto compete in a “Testing Tyson” challenge. He undertook three different challenges; Patience, Memory and Reading People.
The first test saw Tyson have people tweet him bad ideas aboutSurvivorand how well he plays and how fake the show is (not really, of course), and he has to have the patience not to tear into them for their stupidity as he’s snarkily oft to do. The Memory portion included him answering facts about his poker andSurvivorlife (including a question I submitted).
The final test was Reading People, where Tyson had to see fans submit videos of two truths and a lie and he had to pick the lie three out of five times. He got the first question correct on a gimme, he then tanked the next two guesses before shoving all-in on back-to-back guesses to pass the final test.
Tyson Apostol will be one of the several hundred people competing for the chance at winning a multi-million-dollar prize over several days of competition, includingBig Brother Canada’sArlie Shaban and Kevin Martin. You can check out all the action on thePokerStars Twitch channel, withaction running from 12 p.m. ET onward each dayfrom now until January 10. Good luck, Tyson!
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