Bad Boy Bellande Ships Survivor Pot to Opponents

Recently pro poker player Jean-Robert Bellande was heard making some noise at the World Poker Tour's North American Championship, and onlookers couldn't help but wonder- did this guy win Survivor China?  Nope. But the poker Bad Boy is still on the jury, and could swing the vote and decide who does win the million dollars.

There was a surreal moment when the reports were coming in of Jean-Robert Bellande at the WPT North American Championship; wasn't he supposed to be in China? After all, we just saw him on TV that Thursday, strutting around camp and generally irritating his fellow tribe mates on Survivor China. But that's the funny thing about the show- what you are seeing on the screen is an easy three months old, it's just that normally you don't notice the disconnect. When you have a high profile poker pro like Bellande on the show, though, it was only a matter of time before he seemed to exist in two places at once.

Well Bellande didn't win that WPT event, but there was still hope that he would come out the winner on the king of Reality TV shows. He didn't, though. His tribe mates took as much of the self-proclaimed Bad Boy as they could before enough was enough and they voted him out.

During one of his last speeches on the show, JR was illustrating his situation with a poker analogy. He said, of the fact that he was with a bunch of folks that had already decided not to like him, that it was as if he was "dealt the seven duce off suit in a game of Texas hold'em." Judging by the reactions of his tribe mates, his clever poker-isms weren't doing much to save his fat from the fire.

Survivor China isn't done with him yet, however. JR hung on long enough to make it to the Jury, the group of Survivors voted out who all get one last vote—once the game gets to "heads up"—to see who gets the million. Knowing JRB, he is going to milk this opportunity for what it's worth. I, for one, can't wait to see what he's going to do…which is exactly why the producers picked him for the show.

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