06 Jul 12

Daily Rewind: Tweets For Stakes, Hastings vs Brits Part 2 and Negreanu Runs Good

Today on the Daily Rewind, you can win shares in the main event for a simple retweet, Brian Hastings is back feuding with the British rails, and a Russian player is poised to break a WSOP record.

The Daily Rewind is your one-stop-shop for a sharp review of the day in poker. Join us here for a mix of the latest news and a more irreverent insight into the poker world. Today we discovered the following topics for you:

Brian Hastings vs Brit Rail part 2

Earlier in the series, bracelet winner Brian Hastings did not endear himself to British poker fans after he criticised their trademark rowdy rails. Well it looks like the feud has started up again, but this time it was started by the Brits, who were railing Chris Brammer in the $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Six Max.

After being made the subject of a British style football chant, Hastings took to Twitter to air his grievances, and soon had the Isildur1 hand history allegations thrown back in his face.

Don't expect this feud to end anytime soon....

@brianchastings I'm not sure you're in a position within the poker community to judge who is classy. Don't you agree @realisildur1?

— John Eames (@johneamespoker) July 6, 2012

Conduct of Brits in the hallway is just insane. I couldn't care less what they think but yelling that word? Terrible for poker's image

— Brian Hastings (@brianchastings) July 6, 2012

C**t has no business being said in a public place, especially around women. Pretty embarrassing to have to associate with people like that.

— Brian Hastings (@brianchastings) July 6, 2012

+1 RT @ShaneSchleger: Could not disagree more with @tuckonsports --poker SHOULD be like tennis/golf wrt spectators.

— Brian Hastings (@brianchastings) July 6, 2012

Pretty sick and tired of people spewing false info about me. Never shared a single HH, this has been explained. Slander/libel is not cool.

— Brian Hastings (@brianchastings) July 6, 2012

Pretty sure this is good for poker. RT @brianchastings: On way back ~50 British ppl yelled "Brian Hastings is a c**t". #good4poker?

— Jesse May (@ScurrilousMay) July 6, 2012

Puchkov poised to make history

He may not be commanding the attention that Phil Ivey is getting this series for a string of big results, but Russian player Konstantin Puchkov is on the brink of breaking a major WSOP record.

The 2010 bracelet winner has already equaled the all time cashes in one series record with 10 cashes so far, sharing the record with Nikolay Evdakov from 2008. Tomorrow he could break the record in the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball.

14 places get paid, and Konstantin is currently sitting at the top of the chip counts with 54 left, in this penultimate event of the WSOP.

Konstantin Puchkov is one cash away from history

Retweets for main event shares

Now this is one good way to ensure some more twitter followers. Jason Koon and Manig swordfish007 Loeser are giving anyone with a twitter account a chance to win a share in their main event. Both are raffling away a percentage of themselves in exchange for being followed and retweeted on twitter.

follow me & retweet this for a chance to win 1% of my wsop main event. will pick random winner in 48h (07/07 11.59pm).

— Manig Loeser (@swordfish007) July 6, 2012

Want a piece of me in the WSOP Main Event!? Follow me/ retweet this message for a shot @ a .5% freeroll! The winner will picked pre-day 1!

— Jason Koon (@JasonKoon) July 6, 2012

Negreanu handed $125k

He might not be enjoying his best WSOP, but Daniel Negreanu cannot claim to be running bad this series, not when complete strangers hand him six figure sums for no reason.

Only in poker....

Daily Signoff

He might have used Jedi mind tricks to get someone to hand him $125k for no reason, and here Kidpoker is again, soul reading another player in the main event: