Doyle Brunson, the 76 year old, 10 WSOP poker bracelet holder, has seemingly upset the poker world after one of his tweets.

The 76-year-old, who is notorious for cracking jokes about blondes and terrorists, unintentionally sent Twitter into meltdown when he cracked a lesbian joke the other day. He told his 345,000 followers: “World's shortest books: 'To all the men we have loved before, 'by Ellen de Generes and Rosie O'Donnell.”

Texas Dolly, who has won 10 World Series of Poker Bracelets, was then immersed with side-splitting suggestions for other titles of the world's shortest books.

Quite a few mocked other poker pros, but the discussions quickly deteriorated to encompass celebrities, politicians and other sportsmen.

Brunson instantly retweeted dozens of them to his hundreds of thousands of followers.

“Getting hundreds of different versions of Worlds Shortest Books,” he said. “I'm picking out the ones i think are funny. Sorry, but u don't have to read.”

Poker suggestions included titles such as 'Caucasian Women I've Dated', by Barry Greenstein, 'Beauty tips' by Vanessa Selbst, ’The Integrity of Online Poker' by Russ Hamilton, 'How to Stay Sober' by Gavin Smith and 'My success as a poker pro', by Jaime Gold.

in spite of 300 people deciding to protest at the incessant jokes by 'inflowing' him on Twitter, Texas Dolly

It seems the latest Easter egg from our favourite video site has come up again with a nifty way to waste your day at work away. It turns out you can play your favourite old school Snake game (the kind that used to be on classic Nokia phones) on YouTube videos. All you have to do it pause your video and hold the left and up keys on your keyboard and voila! Snake!

The game is reminiscent of the classic Nokia game where you control a transparent snake around the video player with your arrow keys and gobble dots as the snake continues to grow.

A couple of months ago during the Fifa 2010 World Cup, YouTube put a soccer ball on their videos which played a Vuvuzela sound on all videos. The Google owned site is no stranger to playable games on its websites.  They turned their logo in a playable version on Pac-man supposedly costing society $120 million in productivity.

It’s little stunts like these that make Google one of the most loved companies in the world.

WSOP bracelet winner Annie Duke, otherwise known as the “Duchess of Poker” can now add another name to her collection- a congressional witness- as she is now advocating the right for every American to gamble online in the privacy of their own homes.

Duke expressed this view to the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday, and also argued that there were huge advantages to legalising and regulating an ever growing and lucrative underground online gambling market.

"At its most basic level, the issue before this committee is personal freedom, the right of individual Americans to do what they want in the privacy of their homes without the intrusion of the government," Duke said.

As it presently stands, online poker is illegal in the US but players still go to the online casino sites that are set up offshore and therefore beyond the reach of federal regulators.

Duke is firmly behind the views of Rep. Barney Frank, the chairman of the Financial Services Committee, who is trying to introduce a bill that would legalise and tax the online gambling websites.

Frank advocates the players’ freedom to choose: "Unwise choices [are] part of freedom."

If this bill is passed the taxes on it could bring in almost $42 billion for the federal government for the next 10 years.

There always has to be one at every WSOP and unfortunately it was Tim.

Tim McDonald, an American fisherman bubbled out of the WSOP Main event after four days on high intensity poker in Vegas when his pair of ladies met Erkenovs Aces and Two’s 

It was inevitable though. When 7,319 people knew they were going to enter the event, there was always going to be the 748th player who is the last unpaid place.

As a result, McDonald walked away with nothing. If he had hung on another minute or so, he would have won a minimum of $19,263.

To make things a hell of a lot worse, as McDonalds world crashed around him, the remaining 747 all stood up and hugged each other as they knew they would all be going home $10,000 richer.

A shattered McDonald said afterwards: “I felt like I could sit there and go ahead and grind out a check, but I was trying to play good poker no matter short-stacked or otherwise.”

After two weeks of play we are down to nine players for the November Nine.  After a marathon 18 hour sessions, the event has come to the final table and the clock is set. Finally at around 6am, Brandon Steven was eliminated in seventh place leaving nine players battling for the final $8.94m final prize when the Event reconvenes in November

Jonathan Duhamel ended the night/morning with the chip lead after eliminating the November Nine bubble boy Brandon Steven in 10th place just before 6 a.m. Duhamel holds 65,975,000, much of which he accumulated during the nearly six-hour period of play on the November Nine bubble that put an exclamation point on a 17-hour day of poker.
From the 7,319 starters we are left with just the following nine:

Seat 1: Jason Senti (7,625,000)
Seat 2: Joseph Cheong (23,525,000)
Seat 3: John Dolan (46,250,000)
Seat 4: Jonathan Duhamel (65,975,000)
Seat 5: Michael Mizrachi (14,450,000)
Seat 6: Matthew Jarvis (16,700,000)
Seat 7: John Racener (19,050,000)
Seat 8: Filippo Candio (16,400,000)
Seat 9: Soi Nguyen (9,650,000)

The world has had its spectacle. South Africa hosted a fantastic world cup, bar the vuvuzela’s but now it’s over. Journalists are writing their last words about the beautiful game and everything is about to round down. This seems to happen after almost every single multi-million dollar sporting event... but does it happen to the WSOP?

But on the other side of the spectrum are the fans. Are you feeling something is missing from your life? Is there a void that that needs to be filled? Actually doing work at work? This might be the start of World Cup withdrawal for some..

As many as 40 percent of British soccer fans, their days no longer filled with World Cup matches, are at risk of Post Tournament Depression (PTD), according to a survey done a couple of days ago by a British website.

The reality of having to wait more than a month for the new soccer season and until 2014 for the next World Cup has left many fans feeling flat, bored, and unsure what to do with their days.

Now the question is, does this happen to the poker players? Do we as well suffer from of Post Tournament Depression? To a degree I’m sure; but we are not as showy truth be told. There are no posters of Helmuth adorning buildings in downtown Vegas. No Phil Ivey themed poker shoes and no stadiums built for us (though this is not necessarily true)

But it comes down to this, we have to have 1 year to be get our WSOP fix. But we’ve also got a WSOPE, the EPT, the APPT and event the Aussie Millions. We’ve got our fix, and even if we did get PTD, we’d put on a poker face.