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    Luke Vrabel, banned from WSOP in 2017, has caught fire on Twitter sending Main Event bustouts to "hit the showers"

    Luke Vrabel, who is a self-admitted outspoken asshole, got banned from all Caesars properties shortly after an altercation with a floorman in 2017 when he made the Colossus final table.

    There was a short thread about it on PFA at the time, in which I did not post. However, we did have Luke on the radio show about a month later (July 12, 2017), after he was banned from Caesars properties.

    Without going through the entire story, it appears Vrabel was mostly in the right, but his already-bad reputation worked against him.

    Matt Affleck, also at the final table, had a loud, obnoxious rail who was heckling Vrabel. Affleck's girlfriend apparently did the most heckling. When Vrabel attempted to get the floorman to stop it, the floorman got nasty with him, and a verbal altercation followed. About a month later, Vrabel got banned from all Caesars properties in relation to the incident and his subsequent handling of it on social media.

    That ban stands today.

    While I feel that Vrabel escalated the situation too much, and got too aggressive with the floorman both during and after the situation, I feel that the floorman didn't do his job by allowing Affleck's rail to heckle Vrabel, and that Vrabel had a reasonable gripe. Thus, I don't think it's fair to fault Vrabel for this whole mess when indeed he was the main one wronged from the start. This is especially true because of the big money they were all playing for -- over a million dollars up top.

    Anyway, Vrabel decided to start a funny series of tweets this WSOP Main Event, "sending players to the showers" when they would post their bustout hands of the Main. The "showers" tweets would range between friendly-but-ribbing to mean, but even the worst ones weren't all that offensive.

    The tweets started to get noticed by a lot of people in poker, and were very well received, with people even requesting Vrabel to "shower" them after busting.

    Here's a good example of one of the milder ones:



    Here's are two meaner, albeit deserved ones:





    You can find all of them here: https://twitter.com/slayAbides/with_replies

    Anyway, some spoilsport decided to report Vrabel for harassment, and he got suspended for a week.

    Outrageous!

    The person who reported him will not take credit for it, as the suspension was very unpopular.

    People were even donating $1-5 to Vrabel on Venmo (at his request) to thank him for his "art".

    Not to be deterred, Vrabel returned to an old account of his, planning to shower many more people on Day 2C: https://twitter.com/slaymericainc/with_replies


    The tweets are entertaining because they poke fun at the both the poker players themselves and sometimes the hands in which they busted out, especially if played poorly. They turn the usually boring bustout tweets into an entertaining heckling routine, where the player is told something snide and then "sent to the showers".

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    lol @ torelli jamming like 80 bbs

     
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