Doyle Brunson has become a rather dominant figure on Twitter over the last few months and amassed a substantial following. Brunson recently tweeted some poll questions for followers to answer. Three of them were: which player would you like to hang out with? Which poker player would you like to kill? Which poker player would you like to have sex with?

And the winners were:

•    The poker player followers would most like to hang out with: Phil Laak
•    The poker player followers would most like to kill: Phil Hellmuth
•    The poker player followers would most like to have sex with: Shannon Elizabeth, Vanessa Rousso and Jennifer Tilly. The female vote was filtered and that list consisted of Gus Hanson, Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey.

There’s a new kid on the poker block and this time the kid really is a kid- she’s a 7 year old girl who seems to have become so adept at poker that she already knows over a dozen variants and even featured in Card Player Magazine.

Alexa Fisher's passion for poker began when she was only three years old when she saw it being played on TV. Her dad had also been using playing cards and chips to teach her how to count so she had become adept at the rules and basic strategy of Texas Hold’Em by the time she was five.

Alexa took a trip to this year’s WSOP where she made acquaintances with Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey and Johnny Chan. Poker legend Barbara Enright even took Alexa to Serendipity 3 where she treated the budding poker star to her very first Double Frozen Hot Chocolate. Many of the top pros saw her as a lucky charm and she even gave out some autographs.

While not attending elementary school, she learns as much as she can about Badugi and double-flop Hold’Em. Alexa has learnt the rules to the poker played at the WSOP and outlasted half the field at a charity tournament for Home for Pets.

So who would have guessed that Black History Month laureate, Leonard Bud Simmons, was Phil Iveys Grand father!

Simmons was the first black policeman in Roselle, the town’s first black police commissioner and first black school board member. He was the founding president of the Roselle branch of the NAACP and, in 1959, organized the Union County African-American Republicans.

He participated in the March on Washington in 1963, and the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965. He met Martin Luther King at the Washington march, as well as Malcolm X, inviting the latter to speak in Roselle in 1965.

He served in World War II with the 648th Ordnance Company in France, Belgium, England and Germany, receiving five battle stars and two citations for meritorious service. At Veteran Cleaners, the dry-cleaning business he owned on Morris Street, Bud Simmons would talk about the state of Roselle, and the nation. Smith recalled Simmons — an extremely brilliant man.

In 2008, Simmons Ivey and her son, professional poker player Phil Ivey, founded the Budding Ivey Foundation in memory of Bud Simmons. The nonprofit organization provides educational opportunities to at-risk children.

In the last two years, the foundation has given 1,500 books to Roselle schoolchildren. It donated enough money to Roselle Pop Warner to buy 100 football uniforms, funded a High School Heroes program through Junior Achievement of New Jersey and awarded a $1,000 scholarship to a high school student.

Simmons passed away at the age of 87. He is buried in Graceland Memorial Park in Kenilworth.

Phil Ivey, Arguably the world’s most successful professional poker player has had a room at the Aria Resort & Casino named him and unveiled on Saturday. The resort celebrated this event with a $1 Million Dollar Freeroll and invited celebrities, poker pros and guests to compete for this staggering prize pool and celebrate in the opening of the poker room.

Ivey’s reputation as one of the best poker players in the world did not super cede his reputation as a wonderful host. From all accounts that we have heard of the party was that we heard was that it was one of the best parties that Vegas has ever seen. The event started off with Ivey, in a fashionable questionable jacket, cutting the ribbon to the venue, and as a host does, mingle.

The party itself seemed like quite the place to be, and had some of the biggest names in poker in attendance. Doyle Brunson, Tim Phan, David Benyamine, Eli Elezra, Jennifer Harman, were all seen mingling about and all playing high stakes poker like it was the lowest PokerTime stakes tables.

The top prize of the night went to Larry Litton who also got the opportunity to compete in a heads up against Ivey for a cool $250,000. Ultimately there’s a reason Ivey is considered one of the best players in the multiverse and Litton went home early.

I’m fairly sure the rest of the party didn’t.

In a post a few weeks ago, we covered the random but amusing bet that was made between Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan during a game on the popular poker program “High Stakes Poker”. Dwan bet Ivey one million US dollars that he couldn’t be a vegetarian for a year and Ivey obliged saying that he was looking to go vegetarian anyway and this would be an added incentive. Well, it seems the ‘chicken may have come home to roost’ for Dwan, as Ivey recently realised that there was no way he could go for a year without eating chicken.

Poker Magazine Ace reported that Ivey realised he couldn’t go without chicken for a whole year when he was entertaining friends recently. He picked up a piece of chicken and wanted to eat it so badly that he immediately called Dwan and said he wanted to buy the bet out. Dwan was cool with it and they settled the bet for $150,000.

Is it just me or is $1 million dollars a lot of money as well as a huge incentive? I’d go fruitarian for a year if it meant I got $1 million dollars at the end of it. Come on Phil!

            I'll not eat this cat for $1 million

You’d expect poker to be the biggest entertainer on shows like High Stakes Poker, but history has showed that this is not always the case. It certainly wasn’t on the Saturday night episode, where an interesting bet was made between Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan. Dwan bet Ivey that Ivey wouldn’t be able to resist eating meat for an entire year.

After lengthy discussions and negotiations between the 2 players, Ivey agreed to the bet. If he avoided all meat, including fish, for a year he’d get $1 million from Dwan. Later on, Ivey seemed happy with the deal, saying to co-host Kara Scott: “I was thinking about doing it for a while, so this is kind of like an added incentive.”

This particular High Stakes Poker episode was filmed a few days after Ivey finished in 7^th place at the WSOP main event final table and had won millions in side bets, including $1 million from Dwan. Do I detect some revenge in the air?

“I’m used to having million-dollar sweats with you,” Dwan said in response to losing $1 million in the game and the subsequent bet with Ivey.

Ivey even tried to wager the bet up to $2 million which he felt would have given him an even bigger incentive to give up meat for 365 days.

Dwan has since claimed that Ivey is not getting vaguely close to fulfilling his side of the bet- Dwan reportedly mentioned to Sammy George that Ivey was already trying to buy out of the bet.

Perhaps if Ivey borrowed some of Mel Gibson’s cow brain goo for his poker games he’d stay on top without having to eat meat.