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Doyle’s Obama joke generates minor Twitter blowback

Doyle Brunson is one of the most popular poker pros in the world, and the majority of his fanbase has been nothing but supportive of his presence on micro-blogging social network Twitter as @TexDolly. But a joke tweeted yesterday led to a couple of fans having testy exchanges with the 10-time WSOP bracelet winner and one fellow poker pro calling Brunson “uninformed.”

The offending tweet was posted mid-afternoon. “The Democrats say “give Obama time,” wrote Brunson. “Us Republicans agree, 25 to life seems appropriate!” Two Twitter users took offense and decided to reply to Brunson with personal insults and accusations.

“Wow, how much more racist can u get sir…smh,” wrote user @TruthIzEz.

“Really?” wrote user @PattyDukesNY. “Be a Republican but don’t be an idiot.”

Brunson’s response to both the offended tweeters was to let them know he was blocking both of them from viewing his feed so they wouldn’t be bothered by him anymore. With the loss of those two followers, Brunson was left with a mere 329,598 people keeping track of his musings 140 characters at a time. He also posted a tweet reading, “Just because I don’t like the way things are going with Obama’s 1st year has nothing to do with the color of his skin. Stop the racist BS!”

Two-time WSOP bracelet winner Jeff Madsen was the only fellow pro to weigh in on Brunson’s tweet, telling the living legend “I respect u doyle but it seems that ur politics aren’t very informed are they. Don’t listen to television.” Yes, folks, the same Jeff Madsen who espouses 9/11 conspiracy theories told Doyle Brunson his politics are uninformed. Brunson didn’t shoot at the easy target, though, telling Madsen instead: “Yep, when I was 23 years old, I thought everybody should get a handout too. Now, I know better, let em get out and work.”

Only one Twitter user who didn’t fire off some sort of insult got a reply from Brunson. That was user @dfmaicher, who wrote, “You just lost my business on DoylesRoom… you should be more worried about that.” Brunson’s response was, “Sorry about that, I hope you reconsider leaving Doylesroom. But if you don’t we still have 2,247,000 players left. Don’t leave!!”

See who else is unintentionally irritating random poker fans on our Poker Tweets page.

Team PartyPoker expands again

After years of not having a stable of sponsored pros, PartyPoker has gone sponsorship-crazy the last few months. Kara Scott became the latest to join the team last week, but after a short time to enjoy her status she’s sliding over to make room for the newest member of the team, Tony G.

The G, born Antanas Guoga, will make his debut as a member of Team Party at the Aussie Millions. In his tournament career he has won nearly $4 million, including 15 WSOP cashes with three final tables, two WPT final tables, and a win at the special WPT Bad Boys of Poker freeroll. He currently ranks second on Australia’s all-time money winner list behind only Joe Hachem, making him the winningest Aussie player never to win the WSOP Main Event.

As part of his deal, G will play on PartyPoker under the screen name ‘TonyG.” He’ll also have buy-ins to major land-based tournaments provided by Party. His own poker room, TonyGPoker.com, will also be absorbed by PartyGaming and all of its players will be transferred to Party-owned Noble Poker.

“I cannot wait to start playing for Team Party on the circuit,” said G, known as much for his trash-talking at the table as his winnings. “I’ve always loved Party and what better way to kick off than at the Aussie Millions. I am also really excited about the Premier League in February – it is the best event in poker in my eyes. After finishing runner-up and third in the last two years the title has to be mine! I just hope my rivals have the heart and commitment to the game to stop me!”

Tourney series under way on both coasts

With the international crowd grinding away in Australia and France for the Aussie Millions and EPT, American poker players have their own tournament series running here at home – on both the East and West Coasts, no less.

East Coast grinders are flocking to the Borgata in Atlantic City for the Borgata Winter Open, which kicked off yesterday with 1,563 players putting up $350 apiece in Event #1, a deep-stack no-limit hold’em affair. Another 22 preliminary tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $350 to $2,150 are on the schedule, and the series will wrap up with the $3,500 Championship Event which sports a $2 million guaranteed prize pool. The last time Borgata put on a $3,500 main event with a big guarantee, they shattered the WPT’s all-time attendance record. You can keep up with this year’s BWO over at the official Borgata Poker Blog.

Out west , meanwhile, there’s the LA Poker Classic, which also got started yesterday with its first event, a $335 no-limit hold’em tournament with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool. The first of four starting days for the tournament drew 1,282 players, which would appear to be a signal that this year’s LA Poker Classic will be the biggest in the series’ history. With a schedule covering nearly every discipline in poker and superstar tournament director Matt Savage running the show, the LAPC is definitely one of the best tournament series going in poker today.

Around the Table

Richard Webb won the Canadian Poker Tour’s championship for the second straight year, earning a sponsorship for tournaments throughout Canada and the rest of the world … Newest Team UB member Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin has donated enough money to his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, to allow it to install lights at its baseball stadium, where Baldwin and the rest of the team won the national Division III championship in 2005 … Struggling television network NBC has commissioned a pilot for a series called Tommy Supreme, featuring a poker-playing lawyer described as “a likable version of actor Hugh Laurie’s irascible doctor character on Fox Television’s House” as its main character … Former WPT hostess Layla Kayleigh has been picked up for a fourth season as co-host on MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew … Video game producer Sega’s online poker room is finally up and running – but not open to Americans.

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