Reason No. 4,651,763 Why Twitter Is Destroying Humanity

Written by Ashley Burns / 07.06.12

That battered face above belongs to 26-year old professional poker player Sam Trickett, who claims on his Twitter account to be the most winning poker player in the history of Great Britain and Ireland. While that certainly seems to be a pretty bold statement, it helps that just three days ago he pocketed $10,112,001 for finishing second in the Big One for One Drop at the World Series of Poker. I assume that it must be pretty awesome to win $10 million by playing cards.

However, I also assume it is not awesome to get beat up by six men at one time. That’s the story that Trickett Tweeted just hours after he’d gone out to make his “organs hurt” in celebration.

According to Poker News Daily, this was apparently a random attack, as the men may have been disrespecting Trickett’s girlfriend, Natasha Sandhu. What kind of disrespecting might they have been doing? Well, I think they might have been hitting on her, because she’s kind of slightly attractive…

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PHIL HELLMUTH IS SUBTLE

Written by Matt / 07.08.08

Poker star Phil Hellmuth arrived at the main event of the World Series of Poker riding in a camouflage Jeep, dressed as General George Patton, and surrounded by a team of buxom floozies wearing a mockery of the uniform worn by our servicemen and women.  No one is sure exactly why he did this, but a panel of top personality experts suggested, "because he's an asshole."

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