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Dan Bilzerian ’s remaining tenuous claims to be part of the poker world were shattered this week when he defaulted on his match with Alex O’Brien , with ACR and Vanessa Kade stepping in to fill the breach with a $10k heads-up match instead… Hi @obrientweet why not make this birthday one to remember? We will put up the $10,000 HU match and you can choose any ACR Team Pro. Whoever wins will donate their money to charity! Let’s do it! #good4poker https://t.co/Iq8eJ0zTTV — Americas Cardroom (@ACR_POKER) December 8, 2021 O’Brien landed what might ought to have been a dream match-up with controversial GGPoker ambassador Bilzerian, topping a field of 1666 players to win the site’s Dan Bilzerian Birthday freeroll last December.
An easy opponent and the chance to down one of poker’s biggest embarrassments probably wasn’t the main thought in the popular science writer’s mind, though it would have been for many others.
However, despite promises and O’Brien working hard to ensure the match would go ahead, a full year passed on Tuesday and the match still hadn’t taken place.
O’Brien took to Twitter, presumably sporting a rather sad birthday face… Happy Birthday? https://t.co/00hSVqwbVa — Alex O’Brien (@obrientweet) December 7, 2021 It appears that it wasn’t so much GGPoker who didn’t fancy the idea of O’Brien getting the prize she was promised – a heads-up battle with the self-styled King of Instagram, known for his misogynistic and macho playboy lifestyle.
O’Brien knew what she had signed up for, explaining in a bbc.com article that she would be “pitted against a controversial player I had never met, notorious for his bombastic Instagram lifestyle and negative comments about women. I would be thrust into 15 minutes of fame in the poker media, drawn into the wider issue of sexism in the game.”
The site even paid for her spot in the Online WSOP Heads-up bracelet event, but as O’Brien told Irish pro David Lappin for VegasSlotsOnline, “That was of course very generous, but that was a stacked field of the world’s best players. I did my best in it but […]
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