With each new week, a fresh batch of Tweets from players lets us know what is going on in their lives and their poker games. Poker News Daily is here to let you know what the most interesting subjects are and where the players’ minds are at.
The return of the online phenomenon known as Isildur1 has been drawing the attention of poker fans around the world. Over the past week, the unknown Swede has stepped back into the limelight at Full Tilt Poker and there has been no lack of challengers for him to face. One of those players is noted online and live player Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo.
On Tuesday, Bonomo found Isildur1 on the virtual felt at Full Tilt and had a tough time overall. “Played Isildur1 yesterday,” Bonomo began his Tweet on Tuesday after losing over $500,000 to the Swedish sensation. “Was my biggest poker loss ever. I’m still up money overall for February. I will play him again.” Sure enough, Bonomo began his comeback against Isildur1 late on Wednesday night and the outcome was a bit different. “Crushed Isildur today. Can’t wait to play him again,” “ZeeJustin” reported. He was cheered on by top flight cash game player Brad “Yukon” Booth, who commented, “Good on ya brotha !!”
The PartyPoker Premier League, which was in play over the weekend and will wrap up this evening at the M Casino and Resort in Las Vegas, has provided the Twitterverse with plenty of updates on the action. Perhaps the best demonstration of the swings of the Premier League matchups were Tweeted by Daniel Negreanu, as he kept his fans in tune with his play during the special invitational tournament. On Sunday, soon after losing out to eventual Heat #1 winner Phil Laak, Negreanu Tweeted, “Out 8th in Heat 1. Cooler hand: Flop 10 6 5 two clubs. I had 56 Laak had 66.” “Kid Poker” was able to turn it around later in the event, Tweeting, “YES! I won my heat today and knocked out PH who came 2nd. Playoff tomm vs JC Tran. I finish as the 5 seed after awful start.”
Perhaps the best Tweet about the PartyPoker Premier League has been from its hostess, new “High Stakes Poker” in-action interviewer and poker player Kara Scott. Scott has been at the tables for all of the preliminary heats – which are being taped for broadcast – and pointed out some of the oddities at an invitational event with such prestige. Scott’s Tweets didn’t take note of any of the play at the tables but accurately relayed the atmosphere of the Premier League scene. As the final preliminary event was in progress, Scott pointed out to her Tweeps, “It’s 100k buy in event and (Roland) De Wolfe is wearing a Darth Vader costume and there’s a stuffed monkey in Luke Schwartz’s seat. Ummmm ok.”
The L.A. Poker Classic is currently grinding its way along to its WPT Main Event, but this weekend’s PokerStars North American Poker Tour stop at the Venetian has tournament director Matt Savage in a fighting mood on his Twitter feed. Savage, who has put together a 51-tournament schedule for the Los Angeles event, knows that he may lose some players to Las Vegas when the NAPT starts on Saturday. “Is hard to tell right now how much PS NAPT will screw over the LAPokerClassic as of now,” Savage Tweeted on Wednesday night. “I assume I will know more in the coming days.” After a quick poll of players around the Commerce Casino, where the L.A. Poker Classic is being played, Savage seemed much calmer when his Twitter buzzed, “Players WILL make short trip back to Commerce Casino as soon they bust NAPT and should make for an interesting Ironman event on Sunday.”
The winner for Tweet of the Week is 2008 World Series of Poker November Nine member Dennis Phillips. With the 2010 Winter Olympics in full swing in Vancouver and ESPN’s Gary Wise debating the merits of poker being in the Olympics, Phillips had the last word as to the logic of the issue. “Olympic Poker?,” Dennis Tweeted. “I told Gary Wise: “Any game where Phil Hellmuth could be an Olympian shouldn’t be an Olympic sport.”
Wherever they may be and whatever they may be doing, poker’s top names always let their fans know what is going on through the Twitterverse. Poker News Daily continues to monitor the top names in the game for their varied and sometimes hilarious thoughts. Poker News Daily contributes to the world of Twitter also, so be sure to add @pokernewsdaily for the latest information on the world of poker and the Twitter scene.
