I'm at a bit of a loss of words to describe how I feel after winning the
@Irish_PokerOpen
. To win a tournament that is so important to the Irish poker community with it's incredible 40+ years of history is really special. I've still got a lump in my throat two days later.
I busted from the main event earlier today and still haven’t gotten my baggage back from the thieves at
@lufthansa
but at least I got to tell a large audience to never ever travel on their airline when I was on the TV table.
Despite the lies from
@lufthansa
that they would “work through the matter” and contact me directly, my bags are on their way back to me only because a heroic man from Limerick who manages a baggage repatriation company at LHR saw the
@cnn
story and took it upon himself to help us
My default response to 99% of interview requests is “no thanks” as I have no interest in self promotion, but I’m willing to make myself available to any poker media right now as long as you allow me some time to rage at
@lufthansa
. Can’t promise I’ll say yes to all but I’ll try.
Just finished my daily morning phone call with
@lufthansa
“customer support” and am in such a state of rage that I might have to slowroll any German I play with today in order to get back to my baseline heart rate
I busted from the main event earlier today and still haven’t gotten my baggage back from the thieves at
@lufthansa
but at least I got to tell a large audience to never ever travel on their airline when I was on the TV table.
@Cobratate
I rarely take the time out of my day to get mad online but I have to spend a moment to tell you that you are fucking despicable. Pure trash.
Airline Lufthansa lost the bags of Steve O'Dwyer, a professional poker player. He tracked them with an Airtag to London's Heathrow Airport, but the airline has yet to find the bags. So an irate O'Dwyer called them out on live TV.
Tilted beyond belief that
@PokerStars
is forcing users to use the aurora graphics engine now. It is so much worse than the legacy engine IMO. Please reenable the ability to revert to the legacy engine. Searching “
@pokerstars
aurora” shows there are an awful lot of ppl that agree.
A player jammed from small blind for 15bb, I have QJo in the bb and as I’m tanking I notice he has a Gengar from Pokémon phone case. I decided Gengar made it more likely that he was too loose to go all in and called. Won vs 95o and got big laughs for my explanation of the call.
The final event of my trip to Japan is tonight
@casi_sta
at 18:00 in Shinjuku. We’ll be playing some poker and watching the WSOP main event coverage on
@PokerGO
I know everyone is excited to talk about the crazy hand from yesterday but it would be a shame if this touching tribute to Ivan Leow from
@tritonpoker
gets lost in the mix. RIP Ivan, you were one of a kind.
Who the fuck stares at someone’s mouth to get a live tell anyway? Can anyone honestly tell me they’ve gotten an Oreo cookie lock read on someone mouth?
The main triggers so many nostalgic thoughts for me every summer. I'll see a name I haven't seen in years in the chipcounts and then I'll spend hours reading ancient forum posts and decade old p5s/hendon mtt results because I'm a weirdo
I’ve still had ZERO contact from
@lufthansa
since the publication of the story. They are liars that cannot be trusted, don’t ever give them your business. I might consider flying them again only if Carsten Spohr is removed as CEO and my man Brian from Limerick is given the job 🇮🇪
@gordoMG
In 2007 when I was grinding HUNL cash I made my Cake Poker screenname HILLARY_IN_08 to exploit this skew and got the best action of my life. Just a conga line of chuds rage tilting their account balances to me for months on end.
I hope the woman in the 2 seat wins, she deserves it. With 30bb I raised button, bet flop, bet turn, jammed river on Qd9d2c5c7x and she called Kh4h to bust me.
9th day of
@lufthansa
failing to forward my bags from LHR to NAS. Lied to me yesterday, saying they would escalate my case to their HQ and have management call me back with an explanation. Obviously I was never contacted. Never fly Lufthansa.
@Lufthansa_DE
@HeathrowAirport
Getting a bunch of heat tonight over 15 seconds of footage with zero added context from people who don’t understand the concept of “doing a bit” for the cameras
I just got done playing 2.5 weeks of poker at
@WPT
Cambodia and
@PokerDream_Live
Malaysia. A significant % of players at both were masked, just as they were at all the other events I’ve played in Asia the last 2 years. No one takes issue with players masking in Asia.
I was doing some twitter searches for other disgruntled
@lufthansa
passengers and this poor guy has been trying to get them to fully refund him for losing all 13 of his family’s suitcases for 7 months!
6. Update: Hi
@lufthansa
. It’s been SEVEN months. When will you reimburse us for the essential purchases we were forced to make as a family of five when you lost ALL our 13 bags? The mere fraction you offered is not acceptable.
Is there some 19 to 23 letter word in the German language that translates to “incompetent and cowardly doofus in a turtleneck sweater who should resign immediately from his job”? It would accurately describe
@lufthansa
head of communications
@mleutke
Saw multiple tweets today promoting new poker clothing lines and then it hit me: it's the 10 year anniversary of the greatest fashion brand ever launched by a poker player
Hi
@PokerStars
, I do want to be that guy but there appears to be an error in the new badges system
Not only is there not a separate SCOOP badge to separate multi-winners like myself from pitiful 1 win plebs, my EPT badge is missing.
Please fix so i dont look like scum
Thanks
If you've never been to the
@Irish_PokerOpen
you are really missing out. The vibe at the event is unlike any other poker festival and I feel that there is no place in the world that people have more fun playing poker than Dublin in April. Put it on your poker bucket list.
It’s been over a full day since publication by
@juliathelast
at
@cnn
and I have yet to receive a phone call, email or DM from
@lufthansa
. 15 days have passed since I checked my bags in with them and they’re still at Heathrow.
@mleutke
hello martin, I see you are head of comms for the airline that refuses to return my property. you messed with the wrong passenger, and now I am determined to trash
@lufthansa
every chance I get. see this example, broadcast 3 days ago
I busted from the main event earlier today and still haven’t gotten my baggage back from the thieves at
@lufthansa
but at least I got to tell a large audience to never ever travel on their airline when I was on the TV table.
I knew when I found my vintage "zero hoots" rootbone radio t-shirt that had been missing for 8 years that it would be extra lucky to wear for a final table appearance.
@PeterJetten
@snagglechud
@luckygabe
Sorry for being the guy requesting customer service on twitter but
@lufthansa
lost my bags 72 hours ago and have done fuck all to find them. Maybe shaming them will get them to do more than tell me “we’re working on it.”
I’m very happy for
@moundirofficiel
. His story is amazing, he was a total gentleman at the table and a delight to play against even though he busted me from two events this week. I was touched when he called me one of his poker idols and asked me to be a guest on
@RMCPokerShow
.
He contacted me yesterday as I was leaving The Bahamas saying he saw the story and would hunt down the bags when he arrived at Heathrow this morning. He just sent me a photo of the bags in his possession and is now working on getting them on a flight back to me.
@WildigBeest
@lufthansa
They’ve had a full week to do something and I’ve provided them with the precise location of one of the bags at Heathrow since it has an air tag in it. Thanks for the input though, now I can block you.
Finally I'd like to ask that everyone take a look at
@rapidresponseUA
, a Ukraine aid charity started by
@midnitekowby
. Fergal spent the entire Irish Open working to raise funds for medical supplies and the Irish poker community has rallied behind him.
@realcharder30
one year I showed up like 30 minutes before the sign said you had to close the box by and they said I was too late & wouldn't give me the deposit back. threw a tantrum and found a Rio security guard who let me file a theft report against the Rio.
@Joeingram1
Feels like I’m going to have post a pic of my bare nutsack online if I ever want a shot at getting you to finally reply to one of my DMs. This ghosting hurts me Papi. 😞
@DanSmithHolla
another important clarification: I gave Dan one of my lucky owl-pattern scarves last year because he said he wanted to wear it during SHRbowl. I have not seen the scarf since. 😡
The worst airline on the planet -
@lufthansa
. Still haven’t had any contact from them on getting my expenses refunded. A guy in Paris today came over to my table in the main event to tell me he cancelled his LH ticket and flew AirFrance instead after hearing my story.
The EU has strict rules about refunds for flight cancellations and delays, but Lufthansa, a German airline, has racked up complaints about its willingness to make things right. Our columnist takes on one reader’s case.
@chuckbasspoker
what about ComeOutPoker, the site marketed at LGBTQ players? Had to look on an old hard drive to find this image that I knew was saved in an old 2+2 images folder
If you’re like me and your biggest regret about PokerStars Macau shutting down is that you don’t get to eat truffle pork xiao long bao 10+ times a year go try Red Plate at Cosmopolitan. It’s the only type of xlb they serve but they’re really good.