Poker Black Friday: Responses of the pros | Online Poker Bonus

It was poker inferno this Friday April the 15th, with the FBI charging the owners of Pokerstars, Full Tilt and Absolute Poker with money laundering, fraud and illegal gambling. Poker players all around the world panicked and tried to cash out money from their poker accounts and the servers of forums like TwoPlusTwo crashed because of the heavy numbers of visitors (12,000 visitors at the same time).

Lots of American poker pros were shocked, and shared their worries with the rest of the world via Twitter:

Michael McDonald: ‘Every few months people think the sky is falling in online poker. For the first time ever I’m one of them. WTF’

Jason Senti: ‘Well, on the day I sent the US gov’t a LOT of money to finish up 2010 taxes, they shut down my income stream.’

Norman Chad (ESPN Poker Commentator): ‘A bunch of unabashed, unshaven, unkempt, undateable 22-year-olds who haven’t been outside in 4½ years just showed up at my local poker room.’

Phil ‘OMGClayAiken’ Galfond (who had just bought a slide to connect two floors in his appartment): ‘Does anyone want to buy a slide?’

Doyle Brunson’s tweet caused a lot of stir: ‘Now maybe we will see if these online “superstars” can play real poker. Ante up suckers!’

Two of the young guns responded quite agitated:

Daniel ‘Jungleman2′ Cates: @TexDolly ‘How about instead of a durrrr challenge we do a Doyle challenge.’

Online high stakes phenom Scott ‘urnotindanger2′ Palmer was even more angry: @TexDolly ‘Nice time to comment next time you have a heart attack might hit u up on twit seriously full table online players crush you stfu.’

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