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After the conclusion of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship in Las Vegas, players quickly moved the action to San Jose for the always popular World Poker Tour (WPT) stop at the Bay 101. Prior to the start of the event, Daniel Negreanu decided he wanted to cross-book his action with online phenomenon Tom “Durrrr” Dwan. “Made a bet with Durr,” Negreanu fired across the Twitterverse. “He set a line I picked sides. He made me a 6/5 fav on crossbook. I bet on him so I have 12 pct of him he has 10 of me.” Unfortunately, neither Negreanu nor Dwan – who were two of the 50 bounties at the Bay 101 event – was able to make the money in the tournament.
Other players were having similar difficulties with the unique tournament, which is the only bounty event on the WPT circuit. For knocking out one of the bounty players, the victor claims a $5,000 prize and a shirt to commemorate the event. “Poker2Nite” host Joe Sebok was among those with the $5,000 on his head and didn’t run well from the start of the tournament. “So frustrated. Lose every hand that I play. Really don’t get this run I’m in for a while. Losing every way imaginable,” Sebok tweeted before being eliminated by Bobby Suer. “This is not going well,” Sebok’s father, Barry Greenstein, commented over Twitter. “Joey has already been knocked out, and I’m down to 15k, 75BB at 100-200 blinds.” Greenstein, also a bounty in the tournament, met the same fate as his son.
“Steamed my way back 2 Vegas right after got knocked out of Bay101,” 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event champion John Juanda reported on Wednesday. “I’m sick & tired of poker! Good news is there wont be any pkr till April.” Howard Lederer had much the same feeling as Juanda when he Tweeted, “I don’t like to do much before noon. And going bust @bay101live is not one of those things. Had a flip for about 70k. Oh well.”
Not too concerned about her performance at the Bay 101 tournament was recent National Heads-Up Poker Championship victor Annie Duke. Duke made a joke prior to the start of the Bay 101, Tweeting, “I won the Heads Up Poker Championship on NBC but Donald Trump gave the trophy to Joan Rivers,” a reference to her stunning defeat on NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice” last year. Duke continued to ride the high of her Heads-Up championship when she jokingly chirped, “They introduced me at Bay 101 and @Erik_Seidel booed me. Sore loser.” Although she wouldn’t be around for the money portion of the tournament, Duke took it in stride when she Tweeted on Thursday morning, “Happy to be back to Bikram (yoga) cause I like to celebrate a big win by sweating my ass off.”
Doyle Brunson commanded the Twitterscape with news that a movie about his life is being considered by Hollywood. “A studio called about making a movie about my life,” the legendary poker veteran tweeted on Monday. “Said they would get my favorite actor to play me. Problem, Denzel Washington is my fav,” finished Brunson, which opened the floodgates to other poker players to chirp in. “If anyone could pull that off, it’s Denzel!,” Tweeted Alex Outhred, while Brunson 10 member Amit “amak316” Makhija agreed with Outhred when he Tweeted, “Denzel playing dolly = instant Oscar.”
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