He's the player railbirds ask if he's in the tournament
He's the player Uber drivers ask if I've ever interviewed
He's one of a handful of players my own mother knows exist!
He's now a seven-time WSOP bracelet winner. Congratulations
@RealKidPoker
Gender pronouns ARE important. Get in the habit of asking people what their pronouns are - even outside of queer spaces. Even if you don’t get it perfectly right all the time, the important thing is to try.
As a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, I know how important pronouns can be in affirming gender identities. People deserve to be referred to in a way that feels most accurate to them.
A lovely story about representation and women in poker 🏳️🌈
Shundan Xiao was introduced to poker by her wife, and now her wife sits on the rail as Xiao goes deep in the 2024
@WSOP
Main Event.
Read more about her story on
@PokerNews
:
World Series of Poker cheating?
Did that guy grab the ear piece and help dispose of it?
🔊
(the previous guy deleted the video I embedded, but I found another copy to download)
Playing Orleans HORSE. Guy to my direct right thought he reg’d a NLHE tournament. Didn’t realise until O8 because the first game was Hold’em. As a result we’ve had to teach him all the games.
He’s made three houses, quads and a wheel and is now table chip leader 🤯
In 1993, John Bonetti bagged 24x starting stack on Day 1 of the Main Event. That would be the equivalent of someone bagging 1.4 million today.
For reference, the biggest Day 1 starting stack last year was 408k (cc:
@GTO_Diaper
)
Delighted to kick off Pride Month🏳️🌈on
@PokerNews
by interviewing
@flush11sback
, who is a huge proponent of LGBTQ+ causes as well as being a highly talented poker player.
Please RT and share and look out for more articles over the course of the month!
Today marks my return to
@PokerNews
after my secondment with
@PokerStars
An incredible eight months with some great experiences, but looking forward to picking up where I left off
My thanks to everyone at Stars, including the entire PR Team, who made my experience so enjoyable
Two guys that contributed to where I am now. Delighted to have been on the show (Episode 173) and congratulations on 300 episodes of Poker in the Ears ❤️
@J_Hartigan
@Stapes
@PokerStars
Priorities for GGPoker IF (big if) they complete the purchase of the WSOP:
- Get the WSOP back on ESPN
- Create a better international live WSOP product
- Further US online poker legalisation efforts
- Don't fuck it up
Please read
@DavidSalituro
’s Ivey recap for
@PokerNews
. Every poker reporter wants to report on history. Not much is more historic than
@philivey
moving into all-time second, and David did an excellent job
I remember when Phil Ivey won his 10th bracelet in 2014.
I could’ve never imagined back then that, a decade later, I would be on hand to witness No. 11 and get to interview him after.
Hearing Alexandre talk about
@VanessaSelbst
and
@Protentialmn
really reinforced the role that LGBTQ+ people play in our industry, and how they can inspire others to be their true authentic selves. Happy Pride 🏳️🌈
To celebrate Pride Month we sat down with bracelet winner
@elcancherito22
to discuss his start in poker and his thoughts on how welcoming the poker community is to LGBTQ+ players
Read more 👇
Can't think of a better guy to crush this role than
@ChadAHolloway
If you'd been in the meetings with him as I have, you'd know exactly how excited he is for the future of
@PokerNews
and for ensuring our readers continue to get the best content around!
♦️♣️♥️♠️ As of today I am no longer Executive Editor US for
@PokerNews
. Instead, I’m proud to transition into a new role as PR & Media Manager!
That includes serving as a player liaison, so if you’ve any feedback/issues/questions regarding PN, I’ll be here to help in a timely
Can he do it? Daniel Hachem makes the $1,500 NLHE/PLO Bomb Pot final table, under a picture of his father’s 2005 Main Event win.
Could he become only the third father-son bracelet winner in
@WSOP
history?
Updates on
@PokerNews
from 6 pm:
Loved researching and writing this article for
@PokerNews
. Would be keen to get the thoughts of recent inductees and those who will become Hall-eligible in the coming years
I've been blown away by the response to this tweet, so thank you to the entire poker community
I'm still open to DMs and am happy to keep any contributors anonymous.
Please keep sharing!
Heading to the airport and off to Las Vegas. Will be on presenting duties 🎤 for
@PokerNews
at the
@WPT
World Championship.
Throwback to the WPT European Championship in Berlin almost SIX years ago 🤯
As Pride Month draws to a close, I want to wish all LGBTQ+ people within poker a Happy Pride. Thank you so how well
the
@PokerNews
Pride Month articles were received 🏳️🌈 (1/4) 🧵
This interview was one of the best of my career. Astedt, understandably, rebuffed me mid-Main but after making the final table he relaxed and showed his genuine self to me and indeed the poker world
Considering how difficult it is for some players to get into the Poker Hall of Fame, I’d just like to mark your calendars for July 2031.
Niklas “Lena900” Astedt
@PokerNews
@WSOP
Always strange interviewing one of the men who got me into poker in the first place, but you get the sense that
@J_Hartigan
is passionate about getting even MORE people into poker, and The Big Game on Tour is a huge part of that
An hour until action gets underway at the
@WPT
World Championship final table and who’s the first to show up? (Look far right)
@luckychewy
Something something early bird?
@PokerNews
A return to fronting coverage for
@PokerNews
yesterday, with the
@WPT
World Championship kicking off. You just know this event is going to be MASSIVE! Thanks to everyone who took the time to speak with me 🧡
Not many people have had such an impact on my poker writing as that summer in 2016 when Jess emphatically beat “makes the call” out of me and
@YoriEpskamp
’s vocabulary
Six years later it’s in my notes to pass onto this year’s
@PokerNews
WSOP rookie reporters
While I no longer encounter many "makes the call" in my line of work, eradicating all the instances of "the deal will see" is my new game of editor passive voice Whack a Mole.
The entire
@PokerNews
editorial team steps it up a notch when it comes to the
@WSOP
Main Event. This is proof of that.
My thanks to the inspirational
@CodyDaniels88
for taking the time to speak with the talented
@CGrantSport
Fuck this got me. I’m always proud to live my life publicly out, while surrounded by friends, family and colleagues who know, love and respect me for who I am. Rest in peace Thomas 🕊️
Alongside my career in poker, I’m still fortunate to be able to add strings to my professional bow
Saracens vs Exeter Chiefs in the
@premrugby
for PA today, my first piece of rugby reporting 🏉 🏳️🌈
You never know who’s going to come sit at your table in the
@PokerNews
Daily Deepstack at the
@WSOP
…
None other than 2015 November Niner
@pierre_neuville
!
🗣️ "Trust is everything."
Check out what
@PokerStars
Head of Game Integrity Francis Lincoln has to say about stopping cheaters, analyzing data and keeping the site safe:
I drive past Stonehenge when I visit my parents. If I looked out the car window and saw (albeit at a distance) Phil Hellmuth wearing the Phil Hellmuth UNIFORM no less, I’d swear I was going mad
Hello
@EH_Stonehenge
! Thinking I spent 6 months of my life in the UK, but never made it here before. Nice vacay w FAM! ✈️ to Scotland —> 🚂 to London 🚌 to Stonehenge. Next stops ✈️ to Mykonos OR ✈️ to Vegas —> ✈️ to Hamptons —> ✈️ home
#POSITIVITY
#PHNiceLife
136.5k in the bag on to D3 of the WSOP Main back to 2500 BB w roughly 1/3rd of the field left
Heard there was a member of the poker media asking (pressuring?) ppl to give them 1% freerolls of their main? 2nd hand info but can anyone shed some light? Hope not as bad as it sounds
I really don't care. I can take the heat. I will share my opinion even if it upsets people because they cannot handle reality.
I know very well what is going on here. Someone sees a controversial topic and takes the opportunity to farm engagement with zero logic, twisting things
My partner’s been teasing me for not seeing many epic/legendary/must see before you die movies, so been making an effort this year.
Just finished The Green Mile and…man. What a film.
Now pencilled in all the films that beat it to an Oscar 😝
.
@DavidSalituro
is truly one of the hardest-working people in the poker industry. Today is his birthday and he celebrated by interviewing
@RealKidPoker
after he won his seventh
@WSOP
bracelet. Happy birthday, David!
Back reporting on live poker in Australia for the first time since January 2020. Been looking forward to this for a long time!
$3,300 Australian Poker Open Main Event updates on
@PokerNews
:
Poker stories I want a definitive answer to:
- Dwan and the triads
- Bryn and the 🐸
- Robbi and the J4o
- Mike Postle and the livestreams
- Antonio’s piece of himself (in the first One Drop)
- Was Mabuchi vs Phillips captured live? (iykyk)
Did I miss anything?