Euro Poker Tweets Of The WeekBritish Takeover Leads To Alcohol Ban AT WSOP |
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As expected most of the tweets this week were made up of dashed WSOP hopes and shoulda, woulda, coulda’s as only a small group of players celebrated their shiny, new bracelets while those left behind looked to future events. After sieving through the bad beats, a couple of interesting themes came to the fore. The first involves the success of the Brits so far in this Series. With lots of money and wishes on the line, the young English pros have been doing well early on and showing each other their support via Twitter.
A player mentioned frequently this week, Jonathan Spinks has been trying very hard to get his name in the top spot on the results sheet. Spinks came fourth in event no. 5, a $1,500 seven-card stud tournament, for $35,476, and only eight events later he was at it again, finishing fourth in a $1,500 no-limit hold’em shootout for $108,358. Congratulations and commiserations are certainly in store for him on Twitter, regardless this young gun is an obvious threat to the fields settling in daily at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino.
The second theme which became evident evolved from circumstances surrounding recent final tables. Following much vocal support from the British contingent as Jake Cody and Matt Perrins took down their first bracelets, there was a ban placed on alcoholic consumption in the final-table area. Players and poker fans’ outrage at this could be clearly seen on Twitter, and one such player was Padraig Parkinson. Yesterday he tweeted, “harrahs fun police have banned consumption of alcohol in final table area. how dumb can they get? english lads really got to them!”
Aside from that here are a few additional highlights from the international Twitter scene. Eskimo Clark wrote, “sold a pint of blood today. got enough for buy in to WSOP horse. im seeking backing for the $50K.” Kenna James recently said, “To Tom Dwan, I say “u notice that the less players, the more premium hands are dealt?” Replies, “Im never dealt prem. Hands”
Another mention of Durrrr came from Karl Mahrenholz on Jun. 9 when he wrote, “Just when the 2 online kids pretending to be durrrr were beginning to annoy me, durrrr sits down”
This week, I’ll end on a light note with a recent tweet from Barny Boatman, “Packing for Vegas. Can only find euro adaptors,aussie cash,thermal long-johns and a bracelet acceptance speech. Hmm, might use the thermals.”
Check back next week to find out what has been getting the players thumbs tweeting as the poker world fixates on Vegas and the WSOP.
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