Euro Poker Tweets of the WeekBig Winners, Big Losers, An Unusual Poker Tour, and A Big Move |
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The last week saw some the usual array of big winners and big losers in poker while an unusual poker tour was announced and some big names were invited.
The day before Dimitar Danchev won the PokerStars Carribean Adventure he tweeted prescient and slightly unnerving instruction to his opponents:
Keep calm and pass me the chips :) #PCA10
— Dimitar Danchev (@dimitar_danchev) January 12, 2013
They duly obliged and he lifted $1.8 million. Nice.
Viktor Blom experienced a reversal in fortune when he lost $1 million to Phil Galfond and decided that was enough… for now:
the good luck has turned to bad. time for break
— Viktor Blom (@ViktorBlom) January 16, 2013
It’s probably just as well for “Isildur1” that Galfond had somewhere else to be:
Very badly want to keep playing after a great week on @fulltiltpoker, but I’m headed back to the US. GL to my friends (til I get back).
— Phil Galfond (@PhilGalfond) January 15, 2013
Former World Series of Poker main event finalists Padraig Parkinson and Scott Gray are planning to tour the poker clubs of Ireland and offered a couple of unrefusable invitations to Daniel Negreanu:
@realkidpoker Am doing 3week tour of pubs and clubs in Ireland.Are you in? we can have your legs hollowed for beer reasons if you like!
— Padraig Parkinson (@padraig888) January 15, 2013
And Phil Hellmuth:
Hl
<a href="https://twitter.com/phil_hellmuth">phil_hellmuth</a> am doing 3 week poker tour of Ireland.Do you want to join us.its 5K per day.thats all you have to pay me</p>&mdash; Padraig Parkinson (padraig888) January 15, 2013
Ukrainian Eugune Katchalov was undertaking a road trip of his own, moving from his adopted home in New York to a new one in Las Vegas:
I guess leasing a new apartment, getting a new car and sending everything from NY to Vegas within one week isn’t as easy as I had hoped
— Eugene Katchalov (@EugeneKatchalov) January 17, 2013
The newest Team PokerStars Pro, Jake Cody, fetched up in Edinburgh, Scotland for the UKIPT and found out what it’s like to be part of the biggest team in the game:
Sat down next to a big billboard of myself staring at me hahaha this is weird!
— Jake Cody (@JakeCody) January 18, 2013
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