Ali Nejad
@Ali_Nejad
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Trotter of Globe | Maker of Television | Commentator of Poker. Lover of fast cars, slow meals, good people, and animals.
Up In The Air
Joined March 2009
1/3 One day, a few years back, I waltzed into the @BellagioPoker room and stumbled upon this crew doing what they love to do: playing poker. For some reason, despite seeing them all fairly regularly, I asked if just this once we could pause the game and take a picture, and I'm.
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Me and @NickSchulman have had some truly funny moments through the years. But his #NightShift X @tritonpoker @nacho_barbero impression will endlessly dead me. 😅
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#TheNightShift joined the 4 bracelet club last night. @NickSchulman did most -- alright ALL -- of the work. This pic makes me wanna start a record label beef. 🥇🥇🥇🥇 Photo credit: Rachel Kay Miller.
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Found the greatest video clip of the year. ✈+🍺+🤬=🥊💺👨🏿✈️🏆.
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As a man who flaps his gums for a living, you can imagine how hard it was for me to keep my mouth shut while I waited for my man to set the record straight. All is well friends, all is well. 😊.
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Ever so seldom. we stay thirsty my friends. NightShift X @tritonpoker eargasm comes your way at 10pm Pacific time, as we round the bend with $50k NL coverage from Jeju 🇰🇷. Saddle. 🎙🔥🃏🔱
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I take no credit for it, but somehow I stumbled into a career that allows me to get by just being me and doing what I love, which is entertaining people. Thanks to everyone who has helped make this my reality. 🙏🙇🏻♂️🫶🎙📺🃏.
The final award of the night goes to @Ali_Nejad for Best Broadcaster. Congrats, Ali! #GlobalPokerAwards. 📺 - Watch the full show:
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🚨 The @tritonpoker series resumes today from Jeju 🇰🇷 with Event 2, $20k NL. Kicking off with me & @dankness3, then #NightShift worldwide as @NickSchulman & I go to work on your ears. 9pm Pacific. Saddle. 🎙🔥.
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Here's some of what you missed from night 1 of @wsop #NightShift on @pokergo. DON'T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE TWICE. Me n @NickSchulman incinerate mics NOW. 🃏🎙🔥
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I really committed to getting max value out of this costume given it arrived in November. Nothing scares people in a public space like this get up. 🐙
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3/3 . the privilege of a sort of stewardship of poker; as just one of the few voices tasked with delivering their work to fans and audiences. It's been an honor @TexDolly @Patrik_Antonius @philivey John Hennigan & co, and I look forward to many more years of service to come. 🙇🏻♂️.
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All love @IamDonCheadle @MekhiPhifer @CedEntertainer @anthonyanderson @Renner4Real @TheJetOnTNT & @dianafalzone et al http://t.co/74gwEnAZp5.
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Dear @NRA, 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻.
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Clearly, playing the Arab oil baron did wonders for getting action in the @WynnPoker $80-$160 mix on this particular evening. 📸 during hour 16ish of 20 hour session.
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Since my commentary doesn't cut it, maybe I'll score a *nomination* for $80-$160 seat 4 middle eastern Wynn mixed game player of the year. 🤞🏻🙏🏻🙄
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If this dude makes it to day 5 for #NightShift, it will have been a good run for both him -- and me. ☠️.
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Saddened along with the whole of poker to wake up to the news of @TexDolly's passing. One cannot overstate the impact he had on the game, and the void he leaves behind as "The Godfather." Below are my 2 favorite memories across 20+ years together. Rest in peace Doyle. 🙏
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It's real. #NightShift.
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Tonight on @PokerGO at 11pm pacific, @NickSchulman and I kick off the @WSOP #NightShift. Grab a 🍺 or 🚬🌱 and saddle up. RT or we'll kill you. 🃏🤪
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Brutal news to wake up to this morning. I've just tested negative antigen and pcr, and got two doses of Pfizer vax, but obviously I'm still rattled. Fingers crossed I'll be covid free and able to carry the torch, and that Nick gets through alright.
Came down with covid I thought it was just my body reacting to Ali but it is indeed the 19. Thankful for the time in the booth and for the epic sweat that is upon us over the next few days. See you guys soon❤️.
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Was in an elevator at the Ritz residences in LA years ago. Doors opened and Kobe was standing there. We casually exchanged places & by the time I realized I wanted to say something, I turned to see him holding up a peace sign w/ a grin as the doors closed between us. 😔 #RIPKobe.
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My acceptance speech: I'd like to thank Craig Maggi and the entire one man academy for this honor. I've worked hard to reach the bottom, and it feels good to finally get there. 😄 Can't please 'em all lol.
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2/3 . so glad I did. As I reflect on 20+ years in poker, looking at it makes me emotional. Each one of us have traveled such different roads, filled with tragedies and triumphs, bonded by a mutual love of a silly old card game. I'm humbled and blessed to have been granted. .
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I swear I spend almost as much time in the clouds as I do on the ground. Last 2 months:. LAS 🇺🇸 - IAH 🇺🇸 - FRA 🇩🇪 - RIX 🇱🇻.RIX 🇱🇻 - NCE 🇫🇷.NCE 🇫🇷 - CDG 🇫🇷 - PRG 🇨🇿.PRG 🇨🇿 - LHR 🇬🇧 - LAX 🇺🇸 - LAS 🇺🇸.LAS 🇺🇸 - LHR 🇬🇧 - LCA 🇨🇾.LCA 🇨🇾 - CDG 🇫🇷.CDG 🇫🇷 - FRA 🇩🇪 - LAX 🇺🇸 - LAS 🇺🇸. ❤️✈️
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Find someone who looks at you the way @NickSchulman looks at me. and then run away from that person. 😋❤ #NightShift
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Every summer, myself and an army of both seen and unseen heroes burn the candle at both ends to deliver all the coverage we can from Camp Degen -- I mean -- @WSOP. 😉 And this year. we've expanded. LFG. ♠️♥️♦️♣️🃏🥳🏜.
Can you handle it? 41 days of @wsop bracelet event coverage thanks to a new partnership between @cbssports and @pokergo!
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I had zero recollection of this, which speaks to the volume of ridiculous moments @NickSchulman & I share on #TheNightShift. It starts again July 8th! . 🤡🃏🎙📺🎬 #wsop2023.
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Oldest @olegsmith memory from day we met. ~2000. Playing $20 SNG on my GF's living room carpet w/ small crew. I pickup AA & raise. Folded to BB (drunk Gavin) who is now snoring but was awake at start of hand. Me: "It's on you Gavin." G: (eyes closed) "I'm all in." J4o. He won. 💔.
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"Uh oh. " 🎙🔥🔱. NightShift X TritonPoker cometh.
We’re thrilled to announce the return of @NickSchulman to Triton’s commentator booth! 🎉. Nick’s famed combination of dry wit and clever insights from his years of incredible accomplishments as a poker pro will certainly make the Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju 2024 an
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My @pokergo @wsop main event #NightShift prep is underway. Accepting drinking game suggestions for @MariaHo. She takes a sip every time we see/ hear ______. Winning submission gets a shout out. Planning on getting her 🥳🥴. Leggo.
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Ladies & gentlemen, I emerge to give you the comedic front runner of the '22 #WSOPMainevent thus far. A prematurely deployed Bhojani shuffle. 🕺🏽 Day 7 legend. The final #NightShift returns w/ @NickSchulman & I to take you through to the final table at 830p PT on @PokerGO #MountUp
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We in the mixed game community try to make people feel important. 😜
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The heartbreaking irony is that while @olegsmith didn't take great care of himself, he sure af took great care of those around him. 💔 Feel like we all took his spirit for granted in retrospect. 😔.
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If you liked episode 1 of Poker After Dark: Game of Gold. you ain't seen nothin' yet. 😈🤐🐙. If you missed it:. I'm hosting new episodes 3x a week. 👹. #GameofGold #PokerAfterDark @GGPoker
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You're the best co pilot a play by play guy could ask for @NickSchulman. 2018 #SHRBowl. Let's do this. cc @PokerGO @PokerCentral
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How about everyone that thinks this shit is a hoax get in a room and cough on each other while their government works to repeal Obamacare. Sound good?.
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Belated congrats to @phil_hellmuth on his 16th @wsop bracelet. The irrefutable 🐐 who has given us countless memorable moments throughout the years. Thank you for making my job a fun one, Phil. 🙏👊🏼.
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Me trying to get to work on time. 🤦🏻♂️.
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Front man is ready for the @WSOP #NightShift ARE YOU? #SquidGame #WSOPMainevent Watch now on @PokerGO
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Well, 36+ hours on and we're off the bottom. still mightily stuck, but with hour-one-like minty fresh breath. 📉📈 😁 🪥 #SummertimeMadness #WSOP
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Prepare for #NIGHTSHIFT WORLDWIDE EDITION 🌍. @NickSchulman + me = 🎙🃏💷🇬🇧. Thanks @PokerGO & @tritonpoker for working it out! 🙏🏻🥳.
🎙 And capping it all off, please welcome @PokerGO's @Ali_Nejad 🇺🇸 to the #TritonLondon2019 commentary team. The coverage doesn't get much better than this #poker fans! ⭐. ⏯ Watch the action LIVE from July 31- August 8. 🔱 Festival details:
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Just watched Joker. and holy shit you should too. DEEPLY disturbing character study, and Phoenix feels like an absolute lock for best actor. Hildur Guonadóttir's haunting cello score was the pitch perfect supplement. Just wow. #JokerMovie.
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Took a seat in an $80-$160 mix game Thu at 8pm. Quit that mutant carnival this morning at 2am. 30 hour around the horn all-nighter achievement unlocked! 🏅🥳🤪😴🥴🤡🤯. Was awake for 42 hours & slept 8. Now let's talk PLO on @CBSAllAccess @PhilGalfond! @WSOP 25k FT streams at 1pm.
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Praise from a legend of the sketch comedy throne that is SNL is both unexpected and wildly humbling Norm. Thank you so much. Miss rumbling in the cash games together at Commerce buddy. Drop by the booth anytime!
If you don't have @PokerGO, you should get it. I have never heard better poker play-by-play than by @Ali_Nejad and @NickSchulman. They both have deep knowledge in poker but do not talk beyond the hot-poloi. This is a fantastic broadcast duo.
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Player 456 has been. ACTIVATED. LFG. After dinner break is officially. #NightShift #WSOPMainevent #SquidGame
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The BIGGEST poker tournament in HISTORY, the £1M buy in @TritonPoker #TritonMillion event is streaming NOW. First 6 levels: @LexVeldhuis @nanonoko & @JeffGrossPoker in the booth, with @NickSchulman @Liv_Boeree & yours truly at the break desk. £19M to the champ! Watch on @PokerGO.
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Stumbled on these three sweating @ufc in the lobby. Book's gettin hurt. 💪🏼🤑📈💵🥊. @tritonpoker X #NightShift worldwide starts in 1 hour with me and @NickSchulman covering the $25k @GGPoker Millions Live day 2. Mount up! 🎙🔥🃏🔱
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I'm Ali Nejad and I approve this message. 🤣.
"Godfather" week just keeps getting better!.@Ali_Nejad and @NickSchulman will be in the booth to call both nights of #PokerAfterDark $1,500/$3,000 Mixed Game action!.Subscribe now:
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Pure. Class. Respect and admiration Tony. 👊🏻
I just wanted to respond to some of the things that were being said last night after my HU match with Johnny. I appreciate people being understanding and open-minded about a situation where we were both delirious and battling our ❤️’s out!
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Nick first laid this impression on me last night, and for 15 straight minutes I laughed harder than I have in years. Truth. 4 left in the @tritonpoker $30k PLO. 🙋🏻♂️🙇🏻♂️🎙🔥🔱. WATCH NOW.
Nothing more enjoyable than a @NickSchulman @Ali_Nejad broadcast . They are too good!. @tritonpoker live now
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"Oh boy. " 🃏🇬🇧💷🎤😎.
Poker Central and @tritonpoker have partnered to stream the £1,000,000 Triton Million for FREE with @NickSchulman and @Ali_Nejad in the booth. Learn more! ⬇️.
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Does anyone know how bail works in the UK? Asking for a friend. literally. ☘🚬➡️🚔🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️.
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall Never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, we cannot find the best weed in London, we shall fight on!
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Such a fun wedding. Picturesque SoCal setting, The Dan Band, guilt free grub, and these two lovebirds. ❤🤵👰🏼 #ALovesTheD @RealKidPoker @RadioAmanda
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Gang's all here in Cyprus for @tritonpoker! With @rob_yong_ @junglemandan @JasonKoon @JeffGrossPoker @tsarrast and @WSOP main event champ @kooraay90 at the welcome party 🔱
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Just call me the Harbor Master. 🎣🃏 Been real boys! Thanks for a good time @MGMNH_poker. ✌🏻 #Poker #GotEm
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In the back of a car being driven to the airport in Cyprus, en route to London for the weekend. Gazing out my window into the Mediterranean expanse, thinking about how incredibly blessed I've been in this life. Somewhere between tears of joy and loneliness. embracing it. 🙏❤️🩹
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Flashing back to when I experienced the sort of esophageal and rectal stress test that will bring you closer to God than any amount of Sunday school. #SHRB #DounleEnder.
@Ali_Nejad @ICuRaRook @jmaletta1 We found that for you Ali. Not sure this is safe for public consumption.😬😬😬
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@berkey11 @NickSchulman IF WE DON'T GET ON A POST MAIN ONLY FRIENDS, YOU'RE DEAD TO ME BERKEY. 🙃.
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Normally, I couldn't care less about Kentucky or South Carolina politics. But I care even less for the soulless cowards that voted for Graham or McConnell to hold their seats. That wasn't a partisan issue, that was a moral one.
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Through tears I say this: I love you both, Elevator Ladies. Regardless of the ultimate outcome, what you did today was both historic and heroic. Thank you.
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Proof Israel and Iran can get along? Finally picked up my signed copy of "Pulling the Trigger" from @elielezra1. 😋
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Thanks Gabe. Knowing some people out there appreciate what I do is what keeps me going. 🙇🏻♂️. Cc @pokergo payroll department 😜.
I don’t know if he’s eligible for an Emmy, but @Ali_Nejad’s work this year on the @PokerGO coverage of @WSOP is certainly worthy of a statuette of some kind.
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@DanSmithHolla Genuinely sorry if that made you feel slighted Dan. I went with the chess angle as an excuse to refer to you as a "Grand Master of poker" which is a way to say something different than "best/ greatest player on earth" -- which all of you are.
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Back in Vegas after 38 days away from home. LAS 🇺🇸 -LAX 🇺🇸 -NRT 🇯🇵 -HAN 🇻🇳 .HAN 🇻🇳 -DAD 🇻🇳 .DAD 🇻🇳 -MNL 🇵🇭.MNL 🇵🇭 -ENI 🇵🇭.ENI 🇵🇭 -MNL 🇵🇭 -SIN 🇸🇬 .SIN 🇸🇬 -CDG 🇫🇷-IST 🇹🇷 -ECN 🇹🇷 .LCA 🇨🇾 -CDG 🇫🇷.CDG 🇫🇷 -FRA 🇩🇪 -LAX 🇺🇸 -LAS 🇺🇸. Countries visited: 5. Flights: 15. Yachts: 1. 🔄🌏.
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Party in the @PokerGO Poker Masters booth on the #NightShift w/ me, @NickSchulman, @npetrang @ikepoker @smokrokflock @Sdavies22!!
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Huge, personal thank you to @DougPolkPoker @JasonKoon @berkey11 @ikepoker @junglemandan & @tsarrast for a fantastic night of #PokerAfterDark.
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Regardless of party affiliation, if you can't condemn the unconscionable hypocrisy/indecency of the #GOP even TRYING to push through a #SCOTUS nom 6 weeks pre-election, after blocking the '16 Obama/Garland appointment 11 MONTHS out, you got serious soul searching to do. #RIPRGB.
The American people will choose the next president who in turn will nominate the next Supreme Court justice. #LetThePeopleDecide.
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@NickSchulman 1) Did you think not tagging or mentioning me would keep this off my radar? 😑. 2) You conveniently omitted your "Give me a couple of buttons, Ali" setup from your caption. 😐. 3) I delivered precisely the amount of slime requested lol. 🕺🏻😁
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Last week. 1am and rainy. Charleston near strip. Got: patch & balance at a 24hr tire shop in under 20 minutes for $40. 😎. Did not get: robbed or carjacked. 🥳. #Vegas #RunGood #Hallelujah
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