Don’t tase Brandon Cantu, bro. And Dwan probably wishes someone would tase isildur1. Kick back and catch up with the poker world in today’s PTPN Hit and Run.
A day after taking $800,000 home in the live version of the “durrrr Challenge,” Tom Dwan gave it back online to his nemisis, isildur1. It took just over 500 hands for the unknown Swedish player to take $800K of Dwan’s money on Full Tilt’s tables. And here are a few comments from some poker personalities on the man taking the high-stakes world by storm.
If you want to see pro Brandon Cantu getting tased, check out the video below. Phill Hellmuth documented the tasing, at the TASER Foundation charity tourney in Phoenix. Someone in the field paid $4,000 to tase him, for charity of course. Twitter video courtesy of and narrated by Hellmuth. The actual tasing is near the end. And thanks to Pokerati, since we don’t follow Hellmuth’s Twitter feed religiously.
We’ve always said the sport of curling is like chess on ice. So curlers would make good poker players, right? Well, one Canadian Olympic hopeful makes a living playing cards — story here. Apparently he’s a longshot to reach the Olympics in Vancouver this February, but we really hope he makes it to see if it’s possible to bluff in curling.
We always thought it was bad to put “plays poker” on your resume, but a recent report says not so fast. An article at Bloomberg.com hypothesizes that poker players make the best Wall Street traders. And their source isn’t just some talking head — it’s a professor of behavioral finance at Harvard University’s Department of Economics. We’re guessing he knows what he’s talking about.
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