🃏 David Lappin 🃏
@dklappin
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♠️ Poker Professional 🎙 @TheChipRace Host/Producer 🌍 @UnibetPoker Ambassador 🎤 Commentator 🖊 Articles for @VegasSlotsOnlin @UpswingPoker & @poker_legalus
🇲🇹 Malta 🇮🇪 Ireland
Joined October 2010
The Chip Race was launched on March 16th 2015, an Irish-facing poker show, which shone a light on the Irish poker scene. Two years later, it re-launched with @UnibetPoker as a world-facing show. In the almost 10 years we’ve been on the air, we have put out 170 episodes and 97
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It’s so lame when people call for cards but when someone calls the entire run-out and get it perfect it’s 🤯 and also 🤔.
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Huge props to @JamieKerstetter for speaking out on how Negreanu has gone out of his way to hurt her career. I know several other people with similar stories. He’s a vindictive and nasty piece of work and I hope Jamie coming forward will encourage others to do the same.
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How the fuck has Boris not resigned yet?. He’s such a…. ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜.⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜.🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜.🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩. #Wordle216.
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Ok… @TexDolly folding those trips the other day was solid but THIS FOLD vs @JasonKoon is 🔥
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Scene from Rounders 2 (2025). Mike McDermott:.Why do you think the same five guys make it to the final table of the World Series of Poker EVERY YEAR?. Joey Knish:.21 re-entries.
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Today is the first day of quite the adventure for @SaronFruit, Hunter and I as we travel to Istanbul, Delhi and eventually Aurangabad to welcome our son Nico Vijay to the family. ❤️
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Dnegs’ explosive elimination from the WPT World Championship with 17 left. Everybody gets a pay-jump!
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Opening bags at the start of play, old dude to my right eyeballs me. “I will call you”, he mutters. My brow furrows. “I PROMISE I WILL CALL YOU!”. “Alright!”, I say, “Calm down!”. “Ok, I love you”, he says, throwing me a confused look as he removes his Bluetooth earpiece.
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Everybody knows who she is.
@VanessaKade @burrrrrberry Quiet hoe, nobody knows who you are.
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“It’s a test, it’s a medical test”. For 13 years, it’s been my job to sniff out bluffs. Some people are hard to read but others give it away. Ask any pro poker player, even the ones who support him. He’s a tell-box in this clip. No way he took the test.
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It’s hard to put to words the sheer excitement in the room as the bubble of the #WSOPMainevent is bursting. Sometimes only a photo will do. In the money and bagged up a short stack for Day 4. TY @daraokearney for the rail.
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A poker player’s day in 2022:. Wake up. Hit the gym. Study solver output. Meditate. Write in gratitude journal. Check crypto prices. Cry. Speak to mental game coach. Fire-up MTTs. Review session. Sleep. A poker player’s day in 2023:. Wake up. Drink coffee. Twitter Spaces.
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Wearing a mask in Las Vegas or any poker room for that matter, pandemic or no pandemic, is a pretty wise choice. I really don’t like them on me (they make me feel a bit nauseous) so I only carry one in case of obvious sickly person at the table but it baffles the mind why anyone.
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Was this WHITE MAGIC from @junglemandan? . Wild hand, similar to when @phil_hellmuth got him to fold trips on King Of The Hill a few years ago, getting infinite odds.
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This past week the poker public writ large are finding out what the community have known for a long time. @JamieKerstetter has re-invigorated the WSOP coverage with her analysis + banter. I most certainly do not hit the mute button when she is in the booth. I turn up the volume.
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Dnegs framing the ruling he doesn’t like as woke is fucking hilarious. The temerity of the man who had Stars make his sexual harassment lawsuits go away screaming about personal responsibility. This is the same guy who never took responsibility for blackfacing or for goading.
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The chat at my table is all about motivation at the WSOP. Some players were talking about the money. Torelli waxes lyrical about how it’s ‘just about knowing you played well’. I wait for a beat: . “When I think deeply about it, I’m really just here to crush other people’s.
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294K at the end of a Day 4 filled with opens, flats, shoves and re-shoves. More short stack ninja required for tomorrow. I’d like to thank everyone for all the support… I’d like to… but to be honest, it’s been all me.
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I just wrote a blog about a preacher from Renaissance Florence and @RealKidPoker, giving my take on Daniel’s recent spate of tweets about winning players and, in his view, how they should behave. 🖊 RTs appreciated!
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I just dropped a brand new article, hot on the heels of @VanessaKade’s spectacular $1.5M win at the end of her rollercoaster few months on and off the felt. 🖊
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Tried to win her third circuit ring from a massage chair but @JamieKerstetter sadly got too relaxed, fell asleep and blinded out in 5th for $21K.
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A year ago today, I hadn’t taken a run of over 1 mile since before Covid. @daraokearney told me that I was the most out of shape he’d seen me. Today is the Seville Marathon. I still haven’t done any running, and definitely won’t be taking part. I’m not even in Seville.
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What a hand just now!. I open 20K UTG2 with A♣️J♣️ off stack of 267K. Button flats, BB calls. Flop A♠️9♣️4♠️.Check, I bet 32K into 75K, Button flats, BB folds. Turn 5♣️.I check, he bets 56K, I jam 215K…he tanks long into the break. Eventually he calls with 8♦️9♥️. River 8.
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“As a teenager, he struggled with anxiety, shyness, weight issues and a lack of purpose. Today, he is a centred, confident gym-bunny and a master of his craft.”. My latest article is about man-of-the-moment, the new WSOP MAIN EVENT champion @UhlenPoker!. 🖊
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When you fly thousands of miles to play a poker tournament only to get dogged in level 1.
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Just got disqualified from the $3K event for introducing bogus chips.
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Level 23 update: 🚿 . I shoved A4o BvB into A8o for 19bbs. Lots of chops going to the river but no dice. Thanks everyone for the rail.
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Just wow! 😮
@DougPolkVids @Joeingram1 just heard from a friend that Will Kassouf just picked up his cash chips mid way through getting stacked at Irish Open cash games and left. Playing PLO for like €400. guy has scammer running through his veins.
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Americans are rightly pissed off with their paltry $600 stimulus. Wait til they find out it’s a play-through bonus.
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Live footage of the @BrynKenney afterparty. There’s no whiskey left but it’s still going strong a week after his Triton score:.
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A guy at the table, mid-lecture to the player beside him about how poker is a visual game and it’s up to the player to pay attention, just put out a raise unaware that another player had shoved in front of him. You couldn’t make it up.
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90% of poker players making their lunch the day after WCOOP.
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When you bluff with bottom pair but get called by ace-high.
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Bust from the #WSOPMainevent. I’m pretty sure it’s because you all didn’t think enough thoughts nor say enough prayers. I’m not sure I can ever forgive you for that. Hopped straight into the 888 nonsense coz I fucking love the game.
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A guy slowrolled me in the Isle of Man so I slowrolled him back. What can I say. I’m a petty, vengeful man. It wasn’t as legendary as this one (which I commentated on at the Irish Open) but it was pretty funny and elaborate. 😂 . 🖊
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Mid-level update…. Cut-Off opens, I go with Ace-Jack for 19bbs. He has ACES. At least we got a sweat on the flop…. K♥️T♠️8♣️. Turn no good… 6♣️. River…………
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We go now to the WSOP 250K Highroller where Martin Kabrhel is chipleading, thanks to some incredible reads…
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I couldn’t resist. Fair play to the guard. Fucking state of them.
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I’ve always liked @ChrisCuomo. After watching this, I now like him even more. Some ‘Slippin’ Jimmy’ asshole calls him ‘Fredo’ and then surreptitiously videos his reaction on his phone, all the while goading him, hoping he will lash out. #ChrisCuomo .
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Mike Matusow is not a journalist and he might have been genuinely guided by a desire to give Mike Postle a platform to present his side but the way he conducted that interview was pathetic and a slap in the face to the hard work put in by dozens in the poker community.
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Astonishingly classy response by @PokerHippie after being threatened with physical and sexual assault by an unhinged lunatic.
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Don’t underestimate for a sec how really fucking hard it is to do 30 sideline interviews/bust-out interviews/funny bits per day with poker players deep in the biggest poker tournament and not only not make it cringe but actually find a wavelength with everyone. Kudos @jeffplatt.
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Well I must say that this is disappointing from @phil_hellmuth. Welcomed him to @thechiprace podcast three times. Had several pleasant and fun interactions with him at the tables. Always enjoyed our chats. Wrote many articles praising his strengths when others were critical.
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Am I the best poker player? No. But am I doing everything I can every single day to be the best poker player I can be? Also no.
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“Haxton doesn’t wear a balaclava. He wears N95 Respirators and similar quality medical masks. Hellmuth questioning his motivation is asinine and poker writers that ‘both sides’ this story should be ashamed of themselves. My latest article. 🖊️
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS!!! 🚨 . My latest article is about how @JamieKerstetter will be joining @lonmceachern and @NormanChad in the WSOP commentary booth as @CBSSports put the band back together! . ⛔️ WARNING: Hilarious quotes from the trio included. 🖊
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Whatever your politics, however you interpret world events, this is clearcut grounds for a lawsuit, a big one.
Down to 16 players in the $25k Super Main. @WSOP informed me that I will be disqualified from the tournament if I don’t take my Keffiyeh off. Pretty fucked that they’ll run charity tournaments for the IDF but won’t let me wear a scarf because it was made in Palestine 🤬🤬🤬.
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“What’s with all these videos and selfies and pictures of stacks at the WSOP. You’ve won nothing so do me a favour. And don’t get me started on these clowns crying and hugging each other when they min-cash. You’re at war. You shouldn’t even be looking at each other.”
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Very disappointing to see @pokernews blow someone mucking their hand out of proportion. Hartigan’s analysis on comms was spot on - just embarrassed to have heroed off light. Absolutely no need to exploit a young woman for clicks like this. It really is a garbage site these days.
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3way all-in. Enthusiastic railbird recording his friend’s KK v AK v AJ on his phone. Flop T54.“Oh baby, that’s a REALLY good flop”. Turn 4.“Oooh, SEXY turn”. He leans in from the rail to get close up of:. River A. The player with KK punches the phone out of his friend’s hand.
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Yesterday, in the Main Event satellite, we were 5 from the money and I pondered for 20-30 seconds UTG with A4 and 7 big blinds. I folded. The TD pulled my cards from the muck to look at them. He claimed he was policing stalling. Is this ok to do?. @JackEffel.
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Finished 4th in the ONE AMERICA, ONE CUP for €10,150. Time to sleep. 😴
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GL to @VanessaKade who plays for $1.5M tonight! My new article is about her joining @CMONEYMAKER and @apestyles at ACR. 🖊
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Aces cracked, chip obliterated. Guy loses with ACES vs A2, smashed his stack down and breaks a 5K chip.
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That moment when for the first time you go for that PIO-approved overbet bluff-shove river line.
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These payouts are so messed up, Mark Newhouse just told me that he isn’t gonna bother coming 9th this year.
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Taking a break from poker, my latest blog is about miscarriage, IVF and our struggle to have a child. TY @SaronFruit ❤️ . 🖊
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Congrats to @barnyboatman on becoming a Stars ambassador. The game needs up and coming twitch streamers and vloggers but it also badly needs role models like him. 📸 @MannyDaxwell
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Boomers on their way to play the WSOP $5K Seniors using the May rent money that they just collected for the house that they bought in 1977 for 2 punnets of strawberries.
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My name is Ali and I’m here to tell you that I’m a cheater but please take my word as a cheater than I didn’t always cheat in the ways that you think, apart from those other 6 times when I did… and also there are lots of other cheaters… so… we good?. Coz I think I paid my
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Bagging up 270k at the end of a largely variance-free day 2. A huge TY to #wsop for allowing this very civilised Day 2 registration and once again TY to @themouthmatusow for promoting it.
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