Toya McLeod

STFU about your back door flush draws.

@ashtheattorney is it possible that @eatinglasvegas cooked this spectacular steak? If so, color me super fkn impressed. @EatTalkRepeat

@RichOToole 1000% you should filming and pushing your socials. I had to start, and it’s actually kinda fun. Also kinda pain in the ass.

Being on tour is so fun. You just stop and eat at all the cool places in Texas. I need to start filming all of this. 🎥🌮🦞🔥

@WSOP Stolen from when they fucked up the hockey team name.

So we already have the Aces and Kings, what would be the best name for the potential Vegas NBA Franchise?

@MazeOrBowie @audavidb The working title is “Blowing Bo Nix”.

I think @audavidb is the only poker player left who hasn’t written a book. Looking forward to an announcement soon!

@ChadAHolloway I have a simple, one word theory that I haven’t heard any of you geniuses mention yet: Adelson

What's the real situation regarding the raid at The Lodge? It may not be about the legality of poker in Texas, nor involve alcohol. It may also explain why no other clubs have been impacted. I have a theory -- it involves FinCEN & the Bank Secrecy Act -- that I'll highlight in the 🧵 below. I also talk about it in tomorrow's episode of the PokerNews Podcast. Before I do, I want to clarify that it's just speculation, and that Doug has announced he'll be relasing a video soon, so I'm sure we'll learn more details then. Here's a possible explanation as to what's going on👇

@AllenKessler Nugget is alive and well!

Poker rooms still in Vegas this summer. Wow it seems like so many have closed. Wynn Venetian Horseshoe Caesars Orleans Aria Bellagio Golden Nugget? Gvr Did I miss any?

@vegasstarfish @AlaskaAir Jen, you seem to have the worst aviation travel luck of anyone I’ve ever seen! Are you seriously running this unlucky or just not commenting on the good trips? (Not being a smart ass, serous question). I fly every week. I feel your pain!

We made it off the plane after 4.5 hours on the tarmac. Gate agents say to contact customer service for @AlaskaAir and best of luck.

Take a look at this #PLO #BombPot I lost @MGMGrandPoker last night. I’ve been running super pure for about 90 days, topped off by a $7500 win two weeks ago. Lost a monster with Aces Full last week and now this peach. Fuck a Duck. #poker #vegas

@tomhappel @ashleevance Mine always sat up front when they were children. Now that they’re teenagers, it’s strictly steerage! I didn’t know what a business class seat looked like until I was 30.

@ashleevance I’ve done it, don’t feel good about it but I had a bad back and couldn’t sit for 16 hours… that’s my excuse

Should children ever fly business class (let's say for overseas flights) even if you're wealthy enough to afford it?

@Lakersfan7511 @dirtcheapbanks Amarillo, TX.

@dirtcheapbanks Where the fuck are those banks? I haven't seen one of those in 25 years

Unpopular opinion: the most important financial institution in America isn't Goldman Sachs. It's the $400M community bank in a small town that funds every farm, diner, and hardware store keeping the local economy alive.

@PokerNews Deeb, Kassem

❓Who should go in the Hall Of Fame this year? Seiver? Deeb? Matusow? Someone else? Tell us what you think👇

@pokerorg I’m Tapioca. Can’t Swallow.

4 words poker players use to describe losing. Go!

@pokerorg I emptied the clip.

@pokerorg Ace King No Good.

@tomhappel @MorningBrew These are paid subscriptions! And, yes they are still needed. I can’t be co-mingled with the once a year flyers in Gen Pop.

@MorningBrew They’re no longer needed anyhow. We’ve all seen facial id at airports now. It’s here, we don’t need a

As of 6am ET, TSA PreCheck and Global Entry are suspended amid the DHS funding lapse... • DHS Secy. Kristi Noem: "Shutdowns have serious real world consequences, not just for the men and women of DHS and their families who go without a paycheck, but it endangers our national security" • Rep. Bennie Thompson (ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security Cmte.): "TSA PreCheck and Global Entry REDUCE airport lines and ease the burden on DHS staff who are working without pay"

@JoshuaArieh Yes! Adult Mac & Cheese!

Who remembers Fix Restaurant @ Bellagio? One of my fav all time Vegas restaurants. It could still be a top 10 Vegas spot current day. Who wants to bring it back?

@TheBradOwen No time at home with family. Big financial swings. Rundown/Burnout. Neglected Phys/Mental Health. I’ll take “Running a Small Business” for $1000, Alex. It’s what we small biz owners do. We show up and handle shit, unless you’re a big puss, which sounds like the case here.

I just need to vent a little bit otherwise I feel like I'm going to completely lose what I like about myself... I'm up about a million lifetime in poker, but it's not that much over the course of 20+ years. I'm down $400k from the high point before the 2024 WSOP started. I've only had one complete losing year (last year), but I'm down $100k this year already and I feel like I'm losing my identity and a failure if I don't turn things around soon, especially if I'm not as open about it as I can be about the tough times. I've done pretty much everything in poker except win a major title so I've torched money in mixed games trying to get better and learn/play with the best in small field large buy-in events. This is where the overwhelming majority of the $400k downswing has come from, and it's really not that many buy-ins when I'm playing high stakes events, but I need to talk about it somewhere since there are no vlogs of these sessions. I can always just quit and go back to cash where wins are consistent and easier, but it's enjoyable for me to push myself and I don't want to give up just yet even though it would certainly be better for my mental well-being. I put an insane amount of pressure on myself to try to be the best dad, significant other, poker player, content creator, ambassador, etc. that I can be. It's tough to ever escape or take a break because I fear that if I turn off the machine, even for a short time, I might not be able to turn it on again. There aren't a ton of people who can relate to what I have going on - maybe just 2 or 3 partially and 1 of them WPT made what I consider to be a massive mistake by parting ways with, which leads to me feeling very isolated and just generally not having nearly as much fun as I used to in the poker world. I don't know how much time I have left in this space before I get too burnt out. Time with my family is what makes me the most happy and I don't get to be with them or be there for them quite as much as I would like. My health is deteriorating as well and I just can't keep up at the pace I've been at the last several years even though there are plenty of reasons to keep churning out videos as frequently as I can. I'm incredibly fortunate to be in the situation I'm in. I love being on the WPT team - I don't agree with all of the decisions, but typically they do a lot of cool things for poker and I'm in the position to be able to lose $10ks and not have it affect my life at all. I'm living the dream and my 15 year old self wouldn't believe that I actually made it in the poker industry - I'm on the same f***ing team as Ivey!! Most days I'm super grateful and appreciative. Some days I just want to burn everything I've built down because I feel like a fraud and don't feel like I deserve any of it. None of what I do is that hard or that important and if I started making vlogs in the current climate, I'd likely get lost in the shuffle and wouldn't be nearly as successful. I don't like where some things are headed. I hate YouTube shorts. I hate AI voiceovers. I hate that a lot of people are promoting the game in a way that I don't think is healthy for younger people to see because the approach is that they're content creators first trying to do the most exciting thing and not the most responsible thing. I'm contributing to that now, and it's easy for me to justify blasting off in certain spots to hopefully make an interesting video and achieve certain goals I had when I was a first fell in love with poker in the early 2000s (like winning a bracelet or WPT), but I guess this tweet is my attempt to try to make things slightly better. It actually hurts me to see top level players like Jeremy Ausmus, Seth Davies, and even Chidwick to some extent, make poker content on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram. Nearly all of the poker content, especially from these guys is objectively good for poker, but vlogs used to be something that most top guys shit all over and now we're seeing them with stands and cameras at the table because the major poker companies don't give the best players ambassador roles anymore. I 100% benefit from it - I'm like win the lottery and get struck by lightning on the same day lucky. I just miss how things were back in the heyday and I'd like to see more opportunities for the guys I look up to in the industry - the guys who have actually accomplished a lot on the felt. Also, I hate that Kalshi sponsors the Lodge livestream and I think some gum company does as well that just has nothing to do with poker. It feels weird and even there we've strayed from what made that place special, but I'm optimistic we're going to right the ship. I wish I was there more to help make that happen. One of the few things I'm proud of myself for recently is turning down the opportunity to promote the side gambling games that Gold offers, which would've made me a lot more money. If I didn't do that I would've felt like I've sold out completely. I have no issues promoting poker because I'm an example of someone who's been successful at it, whereas if people are betting/gambling in things they have no shot at winning in the long-run - I just can't be a part of it and don't want to promote it. Let's see what else... Andrew Neeme should be in the poker hall of fame for revolutionizing poker in two massive ways - meet up games and vlogging, which has inspired more poker players than almost everything in the last few decades. WSOP needs to move its Bahamas event to January and stop giving out so many online bracelets. I don't know how you guys don't dislike shameless promotions more. I know that I should get a therapist and I will likely regret tweeting this 🔥🔥🔥

@MattBlagg Well played.

Had a hand vs a guy at Wynn 5/10. He obviously is very new to poker. I’m SB and call flop and turn with red 99 on Th 7d 3h turn Jd river 5h. Dude bets small on river and I jam blocking straight and flush. He tanks for a full minute and calls with AJhh. The absolute nuts. 🤣🤣🤣

@SamBrownUSA A-List for years, maybe. This year, definitely not.

Being A-List Preferred for years didn’t matter yesterday. For those wondering, Group 6 means you get to gate check your “carry on” all the way to your destination. Not in “LUV” with the new budget airline business model at Southwest.

@sevencard2003 @lightning36 Grew up there, and I’ve played a lot more hours with you than I have that joke of a card room.

@lightning36 also your friend @IntlAuctioneer says he lives and plays there all the time.

Nothing like a little fun in Amarillo. 😁