The Poker World Finds Twitter

Twitter recently announced a tool that lets you go back in time and find your very first tweet. So I decided to play around with it a bit and dig up the first tweets from the poker world. As I was thinking of how to present these first tweets, it made sense to list them …

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Fanelli ‘Found to be Sane’

Just a quick update on Ron “The Mad Yank” Fanelli. After five months of psychiatric review in Surat Thani Fanelli is back in Phuket prison deemed to be sane. Fanelli requested the psychiatric examination after saying he was unsure of why he did what he did. You can read more about that here: Phuket Wan …

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Poker Pros in the News

Phil Laak ATV accident

I’ll take a break from my Vietnam postings to post a little something poker related. First off, thanks to Sebastian on Poker Affiliate Listings for this one. It’s Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies on the Finnish version of Fear Factor. Not for those with squeamish stomachs. Next up we have Phil Laak who was seriously mangled in …

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Negreanu’s Sick Reads

A montage of some sick, sick reads Negreanu makes on his opponents. My favorite is when Negreanu puts a kid on pocket aces on the flop and he freaks the guy out so much that he ends up checking the turn and river.