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Today in the 3-Bet we find Howard Lederer snapped playing in Bobby’s Room again, Ashton Griffin bringing the Twitter goods and billionaires that owe their start in business entirely to poker.
1) Lederer Snapped Playing Big Game Again
We posted about Howard Lederer’s contentious return to poker earlier this week (with a hug, no less), and, despite phoned-in death threats and plenty of Internet outrage, he doesn’t seemed deterred.
Lederer was back playing the Big Game in Bobby’s Room at the Bellagio again yesterday and a high-quality pic of him at the table was posted by Mike "@realcrazymike" Thorpe to prove it.
According to several sources security has been stationed just by the door to Bobby’s Room at all times but no incidents have been reported.
The threats don't seem to have phased Lederer or any of his tablemates, which have included Doyle Brunson, Nick Schulman, Eli Elezra, Huck Seed and David Oppenheim.
Life goes on even after you blow up a billion-dollar cash cow and screw over a small city of poker players, apparently.
Check the forum fury over it here along with several entertaining photoshops of said photo - if, of course you find that kind of thing funny.
2) Ashton Griffin: Pound-for-Pound, Poker's Best Tweeter?
Some love the gentle comedy stylings of Erik Seidel or the half-cocked bragadoccio of Matt "adzizzy" Marafioti. Some are more into gimmick accounts like @2p2TrollCat or @FakeGusHansen.
For our money, though, the most well rounded and entertaining Twitter account in poker belongs to Ashton Griffin.
Tweeting @arfarfhowl, Griffin is caustic, sharp, funny and/or mean, in perfect balance - with just enough poker mixed in to make it count. Eg:
My status as a man: past the neon color outfits; but not ready for velvet jackets yet.
— Ashton Griffin (@arfarfhowl) October 10, 2012@pokerstars needs to better reward those who start tables, play anyone, and don't use programs to auto-sit to the left of fish when they sit
— Ashton Griffin (@arfarfhowl) October 6, 2012I'd feel like such a monster scumbag if I got on one of those booster chairs that you see at the airport so another man could shine my shoes
— Ashton Griffin (@arfarfhowl) October 11, 2012Elky rocks the intelligent and fit, Marilyn Manson image pretty well.
— Ashton Griffin (@arfarfhowl) October 1, 2012Hey man I just bluffed you. Cards aiming towards your face to prove it. #everydickface ever.
— Ashton Griffin (@arfarfhowl) September 30, 2012Follow him; you'll like it.
3) Play Poker, Win, Start Business, Get Rich, Become President
Writer Aaron Brown put a book out a few years ago called The Poker Face of Wall Street.
In it he describes poker as a critical tool for "learning how to evaluate and embrace financial risk" and credits gambling in general for, well, inspiring much of the American economy.
We always knew it; we were just too lazy to do all that research.
An excerpt that resurfaced again today on Business Insider reminds us just how many great businesses were built on poker winnings:
"Several billionaires got their first stakes in poker games. Kirk Kerkorian funded his first business, the charter airline Los Angeles Air Service, with poker winnings.
"H.L. Hunt bet everything he had in a poker game and won his first oil well. Bill Gates, John Kluge, Texas oil mogul Clint Murchison, and corporate raider Carl Icahn all played poker for large stakes before they got rich.
"It’s not just billionaires: Richard Nixon paid for his first congressional campaign with poker winnings and parlayed that into the presidency, where he continued to make risky bets but with less success.
"History is filled with people who began their routes to success with gambling winnings."
Read our review of the book here; buy it here.
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