Patrick Leonard showed the world the ultimate tournament grinder (this happened before the RomeoPro thread came along ):
– The grinder of ALL grinders. Tuborg123455 is approaching almost 1 MILLION tournaments played.
To put this into context, if you played 20 tournaments, in 4 sessions a week for 10 years, you’d “only” have 45760 games.
Shaun Deeb was unimpressed. "Does it really count when it’s prob spins and such, how many did I play in my era?"
He plays tournaments. And you played 11,704 (SNGs included) So he's almost 100x your volume somehow! He plays other sites as well!
"That can’t be correct I played way more than that I played 40 tables for way too long. I def had that many in multiple years when I went for the leaderboards."
"What things seem like vs what things really are is often very different," someone wisely pointed out.
Plenty of players had spotted him at the tables, which isn't surprising given the volume.
If tournaments are your thing (but you aren't shooting for a million entries), make the best of your time with our MTT promotions.
Jesse Lonis jokingly tweeted that he had a chip from the Lodge club up for sale:
– Is anyone willing to pay $4 for it?
Phil Nagy said, "Save it for me."
"No but, how much would you pay me for these?" one reader asked. "Asking $200 for the $5k. Asking $25 for the broken $1k."
Commenters wrote that in the first days of Lodge's operation, their chips often broke, but they were easily replaced at the checkout.
Jesse's humor wasn't appreciated by everyone, and a few condemned him for dancing on the bones.
The Lodge remains closed, and there has been no news on the case in recent days.
At the height of the scandal , Doug Polk announced that he and his wife had a daughter.
– Welcome to the world, Georgia Ann Polk!
Proud to officially be on Team Girl Dad
Even Tom Dwan, who previously took a jab at Doug for The Lodge situation, showed up to support.
One reader named Tom approached Owen Messer for advice:
Hey Owen Messere, big fan! Appreciate you may not see this nor care to share ... but I'll ask anyway:
I'm trying to clean up my hand reading through practice at the moment, and it struck me when you said people should "be able to see ranges in the back of their eyelids.
What does this look like for you / do you have any advice on a structure to adopt and train out? Some go quite abstract and talk in broad buckets that increasingly lose key nuancebas actions progress...I assume you may just see a hand grid with a flavour of suit filters on top?
— "It's more literal than it sounds lol. Look at a spot, close your eyes, what does he have? What do I have? How does that mean I should play? Check solver. Cry that you got it wrong and missed something obvious. Repeat enough times until you stop missing what's obvious."
Perhaps it wasn't the answer Tom was looking for, because he never responded.
Ben Lamb posted a photo of his favorite poker room:
I spent 6-7 days a week in this poker room for most of a decade. Bellagio and Bobby’s room are unmatched.
Len Ashby wrote: "You also gave me the freest 2k I’ve ever made in there betting that one of the abstract paintings upstairs wasn’t Chris Moneymaker.
Think I laid 4 to 1, and I was on 3 hours sleep, and you, Paul Taylor and Lee Markholt all bet against me. If Lee didn’t bet, I would’ve tried to bet 20k lol. I remember we walked to the tournament area to ask Doug Dalton if he could get us the painter's info. I looked at you and said, 'You know you’re drawing dead right?' and you said, 'Yeah probably but I just think you're wrong one out of 4 in this spot a lot.' 😀
We then got the painter on the phone, and he said 'That painting is 99.9 percent Chris Moneymaker' 😀"
Yeah I’ve made worst bets… but not by much….
Len provided details in a separate video.
Here ya go, story time 😀 https://t.co/jgXs0AKgJt pic.twitter.com/qKNe7ZXqtR
— Len Ashby (@ZENofLEN) February 26, 2026
"I always thought it was Dan Harrington," Art Parmann wrote.
"Exactly, that's who they mentioned instead of Chris," Ashby recalled. "The name Pescatori also came up for some reason. I was willing to bet 20 to 1 against him."
CoinPoker announced the World Heads-Up Cash Game Championship. Champions will be crowned in both Hold'em and Omaha.
The tournament will begin on April 6 and will be held in three stages: group stage, semi-finals, and final.
The game will be played at $50/$100 rake-free tables with a mandatory buy-in of up to 100bb. Players can raise the stakes and Omaha players can switch to PLO5 and PLO6 if they wish.
During the group stage, participants will play a series of matches against each other. A victory in a match will earn 50 points, with additional points awarded based on win rate. No one can earn more than 200 points in a single match.
The semi-finals and final will each feature 2,000 hands.
Luxury Rolex watches await the two champions, along with large cash prizes that have yet to be revealed.
Daniel Negreanu was offered a free breakfast:
I respect the hustle:
Leaving for golf at 8 am this morning. A car pulls up, guy gets out and approaches me with meals for me and Amanda says he would love to work with me at this WSOP if I like the food.
Bizarre, but also damn…that’s getting after it.
Jeremy Ausmus spoke out against online bracelets:
Online WSOP bracelets: should they exist?
I've always thought a different bracelet system made a lot of sense. Why are we giving the same bracelet to someone who wins a $400, 300-person field that only 5 states can participate in, as we do to someone who takes down a $100k live high roller?
I think online should go to silver bracelets or something. I don't think this will ever happen because it might hurt their bottom line, but I think most players would prefer it.
"What do you think about the golden clicker?" Joshua Arie asked.
"Like you said, if they make online a different tier of bracelet then people stop playing and paying the extra rake that comes with them.," Tony Dunst doubts the idea.
"Silver would be just fine for online anything but gold really. It’s diluted the brand for sure," Scott Bunn suggested.
Victoria Livshits noted that recently, girls from Asia have been performing very successfully at poker series.
We are witnessing the start of the rise of Asian women in poker.
The leader of this rating, Thi Hoa Nguyen, also shows excellent results at the Triton series in Jeju.
Scott Seiver posted a farewell message to David Sklansky, not leaving out the theorists dark side:
RIP to David Sklansky. Thankful for his part in creating the internet forum that had me meet all of my nearest and dearest friends and really helped shape my life; disgusted by the absolute monster that he was and hope some people can finally find peace now.
Along with being arrested (but not charged) with domestic battery, Sklansky appears to have admitted to an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old runaway. There are also allegations that he bullied another woman to the point of taking her own life, though this will never be confirmed.
Others in the poker community chose to focus on his book and strategic works.
