Barny Boatman
@barnyboatman
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The second best poker player in our house. PokerStars Team Pro. I don't use the Faceybook. @barnyboatman.bsky.social
Bang out of position.
Joined May 2009
The only time anyone ever says "I like a joke as much as the next person" is when there's a joke they don't like as much as the next person.
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If it takes a train three days to get to Euston, a letter two weeks to get delivered and a nurse six weeks work to pay a month’s bills, how long can Rishi keep his job? .#Maths
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@sclancy79 @NFL @Nike It’s the continued killing of unarmed black adults and children without justice or redress that is offensive. The anthem and the flag are not the issue.
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Gonna reply to all the messages tomorrow. Thanks for all the love. It means everything. 😊.
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The great thing about being the oldest ever EPT winner is that every time I play I’ll have a shot at breaking the record.
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@jonnygould @DPJHodges As a Jewish person who has supported taking the knee against racial injustice ever since Colin Kaepernick first made his eloquent peaceful protest, I can tell you that it doesn’t carry any ‘anti-Semitic baggage’ and I resent being used in the argument.
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If the old and vulnerable are going to isolate for months the supermarkets must prioritise them for deliveries. My mum is 93 and has relied on deliveries for years. Now she can’t get them. @BorisJohnson @jeremycorbyn @Ocado .Please retweet if you agree.
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If #LukeLittler had turned up on a small boat, not a single Daily Mail reader would have accepted that he was a child.
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Kassouf is rattling off his standard attention seeking drivel at the next table. “Back home they call me the iron, because I iron people out.”.I’ve got news for you mate. That’s not what we call you.
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@padspoker That’s ok buddy. While ‘Barny Boatman’ has been doubling up with 5,3 Patrick Leonard’ has been ordering cocktails for everyone at the pool and charging it to his room. 🥤 Cheers. 😁.
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@realDonaldTrump However low you set the bar, you always manage to slither under it. Using those victims to attack the Russia probe is as despicable as it gets.
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@ewc1981 @LepraGranata @Bgamer90 @BuffaloManic @BillyCorben Because if he were a 12 year old black kid with a TOY gun or a black guy with a faulty tail light there's a high chance the cops'd kill him.
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I don't care if your article contains the secret to guaranteed wealth, or eternal youth. If I have to 'Start Gallery' it ain't worth it.
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Someone offered me a job today. A job! Like I’m gonna fall for another of those get-rich-slow schemes.
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The real cheating scandal is all these kids using machines to ‘solve’ poker, then smuggling in the answers inside their heads.
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@silly_emily3 @sclancy79 @NFL @Nike 😂 No no. I’m sure I’m only a couple of tweets away from turning Trump around.
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However low the bar may have been set, last night I played my worst poker in twenty years and I’d like to apologise to my backer for wasting the buy-in. I’d like to, but unfortunately I’m not backed and it was my own fucking money.
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Woke up hungover and covered in little patches. Then I remembered a great night of poker and comedy at the 300th PokerInTheEars at the Hippodrome. Thank you @Stapes @J_Hartigan @PokerStars and everyone who came to play. I know I’m gonna love being an Ambassador.
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The WSOP have painted themselves further into a partisan corner by banning @JustinBonomo from wearing a Palestinian scarf, and anyone celebrating the decision can shut up about ‘Cancel Culture’ forever.
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Most of these poker cheating issues could be solved if we devised some way of playing the game in a ‘live’ environment where the players were actually present and visible, using physical objects in three dimensional space to represent the hands, bet sizes etc. It’s the future.
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I'm taking a break from tournament poker in order to spend more time with my money.
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Guy on my left calls my utg raise with A6 and flops AA6. He then complains that with his luck, if I’d had a bigger ace I’d have probably have turned my house. How miserable must you be to invent imaginary beats to moan about?.
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To be fair to Mike Postle, people make decisions with their crotch all the time.
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I made it across from Canada last night. I’ve never been so happy to hand over ten grand that I won’t ever see again. The only sure thing about this Main Event is it’s gonna be… different.
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I’m now one of two Brits to have fifty WSOP cashes. The difference is it took me eighteen years, and Stephen Chidwick did it in about a week.
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The bigger the tournament buy-in, the less I care who wins. If you’re pulling up 250k re-entries, you’ve already *got* life changing money.
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@shaundeeb @PhilGalfond Everyone is against cancel culture til there’s someone they want to cancel. Fair play to @PhilGalfond for taking a clear, well reasoned and honourable position.
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My nephew made me the best Christmas present I, or anyone, ever had.
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I hear the blog say’s that Will Kassouf knocked me out last night. No, he donked off a huge chunk in the coup to the bloke with kings. I dunno how Will gets his chips, but I’m guessing he picks up most of them on the break.
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When you start out playing poker you make a lot of terrible plays that you just can’t justify or explain. Over time though you will improve, and you’ll come up with ever more tortuous and verbose reasons for having murdered your chips.
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@TXDarinLopez @EdKrassen No Trump apologist can respond to any accusation against him without deploying the phrase ‘what about.’ Be it rape, fraud, extortion, treason, obstruction you can always find someone else who you claim did something similar. *What about* you just accept that your guy’s a crook?.
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Ten years ago I had a great poker deal and thought I’d be freerolling the rest of my life. Yesterday I had a blowout in the fast lane and span the car. But I managed to drive to the hard shoulder, and now I *know* I’ll be freerolling the rest of my life.
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@OwenJones84 We love him in Islington North I’d never vote against him. His treatment by Starmer was despicable. I’ve voted Labour all my life and never will again.
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@MooseAllain My phone autocorrected 'I respect your decision, have a good life' to 'don't leave me, I'm begging you.'.Awkward.
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At hand for for hand in @WSOP Milly Maker. Player has a big river decision for all his chips. Nobody has called clock. Floor walks by and puts him on 20 seconds. Say’s “We’ve told to hurry things up” Refuses to reconsider or call TD. Absolute disgrace. Comment please @JackEffel.
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Guy just said he didn’t believe I had a set of sixes as he was blocking them with the six in his hand. I said I doubted that as I was blocking his six with the two in mine.
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I think with 10 bigs or less, you should be allowed to leave a shove-fold chart in your seat and go to the bar.
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@Joeingram1 Dunno if this counts, but someone did this with one of my tweets and I was chuffed. 😁
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Well, I may not be chip leader, but no one has more time bank cards left than me. What is there to think about for thirty second? .#EPTParis.
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Excuse me if I’m more moved today by the loss of a hugely talented actor at the height of her creative powers than a retired royal twice her age on whom no expense or effort was spared to keep him going well into his hundredth year. #HelenMcCrory
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Old butterfingers drops the ball again. Waddaya gotta do to get some bling around here? .#WSOPE
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@ryanwilliams97 I didn't know women menstruated from their bladders, but I guess if you can talk out of your arse. .
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Made a cup of tea, forgot to drink it. Went to put it in the microwave and found the last cup of tea that I’d forgotten to take out about an hour ago. Anyone want a piece of me in a Triton high roller?.
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There’s no way you haven’t got ten minutes in your day that would be better spent listening to @garyyounge putting US violence into context.
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@Jaimi_Shrive I want to enjoy England’s win, but the men making these cruel abusive and perverted comments make me sick, angry and ashamed. Football is a unifying human experience and everyone should be able to recognise and empathise with this child’s emotional response to her team’s loss.
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A good friend who’s lived and worked in London since she was 18 (30 years) has just paid two grand to be told, without explanation, that she has to leave. You can say what you want about frictionless trade and straight bananas, but don’t be telling me this is not pure bullshit.
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When listing the main poker styles people always miss out Passive Aggressive. You won’t get rich, but if you don’t like being pushed around and wanna suck out as much as possible then calling every bet while glaring and muttering “fuck you too” is very much the way to go.
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Imagine if the reigning WSOP champion wanted to stop them dealing rivers when he was ahead on the turn.
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@VictoriaCoren “Ungrateful” used about any non-white person deemed to have benefited in some way from the western nation they live (often born) in, and have the temerity to criticise, whether by taking the knee or not liking six unnecessary years in jail, is the new “uppity”. Standard racism.
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All those people tweeting “I never had central heating back in the day and I was fine.” You never had broadband either, and we’d all be fine if you still didn’t.
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@PennyRed Yep. Trump might have done him a huge favour by calling him ‘Sleepy Joe’. Anyone asleep is better than Trump awake.
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There is no rational universe in which, seven weeks hence, it will be OK to fly in from around the globe to queue for bathrooms, buffets and payouts, mill about in corridors and squeeze round tables to pass around chips and cards in a giant bug incubating freezer in the desert.
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In poker you’re no one til somebody’s made one of your tweets into a meme. And then, let’s face it, you’re still no one. Thanks to Chris Da-Silver for showing me this.
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If they keep banning winning players from online sites, eventually it will just be me and @JohnnyDuthie playing heads up. Then just him.
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Great news. I just typed ‘ducking’ on my phone and the spell checker changed it to ‘fucking’. I’ve finally worn the bastard down.
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When Rania Nasreddine came to our table on day one of EPT Monte Carlo the first thing she did was ask everyone where we came from. Then one by one she sent us all back there. A great run from a brave and tough player. Congratulations @raniatalk
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I’m telling you now that if I don’t win the WSOP main this year it will mean it was rigged. Not even Mother Teresa could beat me in a fair game.
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I only play poker when I need more money. Or when I don't need the money I've got.
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Oh yeah, “on line poker is way more skilled than live.” Just like cooking is harder when you have recipe books, and scales, and all like cookers and ingredients and that.
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The best speech play is selective, situational, imaginative, original and often reactive. Jabbering non-stop is not speech, it's noise.
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Old Texan at Southpoint: "How'd you Londoners feel about your Muslim mayor?"."Great."."Really?"."Yes. How'd you like your moron president?".
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John Duthie, the first poker player to win a million quid, in the first ever lived televised event, is riding high in the @WSOP day three chip counts. I was gonna make this a caption competition, but he’s wearing the caption already.
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The stupid fairly recent affectation, where players flick in a single chip and can’t be arsed to say ‘call’ should never have been allowed to stand. It is an accident/angle waiting to happen and should be expunged from the game. Shove in a stack or say the word you lazy posers.
Tough ruling. You make the call. Cliff notes. Bet of 50K. Raise to 100K but caller only puts out 95K. Original raiser shoves. Caller fixes bet to 100K. Raiser assumes call of all in and tables hand.
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I’m seriously considering filling my car with bananas and handing them out free at The Horseshoe, just for the pleasure of watching the @WSOP cafe’s five dollar specimens rot on the counter.
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The hypocrisy is not in the copying of Obama's words, it's in pretending to share her values. #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes.
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They’ve done it with guns, with climate change and with universal health care. And now they’re doing it with covid-19. Things the whole world agrees on are somehow divisive left/right issues in America. We can see you, you raving nut jobs.
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CEO of Twitter.
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@DuncBall @JeremyVineOn5 @theJeremyVine @OwenJones84 @thedebbiemcgee Done the sums, and I can confirm that 75% of UK applications is substantially less than 35% of French applications. Whichever school you studied maths in, I wouldn’t bother going back. But if you do, I’d make some enquiries about punctuation as well.
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I just got an email from Amazon: ‘Have you left your Christmas shopping til the last minute?’ .No. Not fucking yet I haven’t.
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A tea bag and some hot water at the WSOP cafe: Eight bucks. “Would you like a receipt sir?”.“That’s OK thanks, no one’s gonna believe it anyway.”.
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All you soppy “All lives matter” merchants who don’t think it’s necessary to affirm specifically that Black Lives Matter, look me in the eye and say you believe Rittenhouse would have even lived to stand trial, let alone been acquitted on all charges, if he was black.
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Bloke in seat three just kicked off at me for nothing. Leaned into my face and growled “You need to learn to be nice to people.”.“Well I’m not gonna learn it from you.” I pointed out. He looks like he’s working on a come back. I’ll keep you posted.
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How should the @WSOP solve the critical dearth of experienced dealers for next years series?.
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“Nigel Farage is a racist cunt” is an anagram of “Is Nigel Farage a racist cunt?” .That can’t just be a coincidence.
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When I was eight the teacher asked us to raise our hands if we thought a fridge made a room warmer, colder, or made no difference. I was the only one who voted ‘warmer’. I’m not saying I was the smartest kid in class, but I knew a fucking trick question when I saw one.
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Just spotted @spraggy and wished him “good luck today”. Then I realised he was he was on the up escalator to the car park as I was heading down to the action. Sorry mate, no rub down intended.
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Having a friendly chat about the World Cup with a couple of Trumpsters, but they don’t seem impressed by my suggestion for improving future US chances. What America really needs to do is let in more Mexicans.
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It’s 100/100 at level one of #EPTBarcelona. 100 is the smallest chip and the kidz are in meltdown trying to work out how to 2.5x it. For one hour only, old school raises are back. 😃.
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I’ve been saying it for years, but next time I get a big result I’m gonna buy some new T-shirts.
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Thor Hansen was that rarest of things, an International Treasure. Let’s let his family and friends know how much we all feel the loss of this lovely man.
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@Baddiel Careful you don’t unconsciously join hands with those who would now hold that non-citizens are less human than citizens. The distinction is not forgotten, neither is the unique horror of the Holocaust. The analogy about dehumanising language is nevertheless apt and important.
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This summer I’ll be in Vegas for longer than Liz Truss was Prime Minister, and can only hope I do less financial damage. 🤞🏻.
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If someone's an arsehole at the table, I don't care that he's 'nice in real life.' Poker IS real life.
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In these dark dangerous and potentially divisive times, we can at least all unite in the certain knowledge and conviction that Tim Martin of Weatherspoons is without question Britain’s biggest cunt.
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Online bracelets are actual bracelets like pornhub is actual sex.
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21 year old just sat down, and seat one snap asked if his mom knew he was here. So I asked if his probation officer knew *he* was here, and the way the old fella spun round in his chair I think I might have been onto something.
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