Twitter drama from the WSOP yet again... this time involving Veronica Brill, who is best known as being the whistleblower in the Postle situation.
Veronica was mostly unknown in poker when she called out Mike Postle in September 2019, for allegedly cheating on the Stones Gambling Hall livestream. Postle eventually claimed in subsequent court filings that Veronica falsely accused him in order to increase her visibility and popularity in poker. While Veronica is indeed far more popular now than when she accused Postle 3 years ago, she was also 100% right in that situation. In fact, as a poker player only known to Sacramento locals, she was risking her own reputation by calling out a local player who was better known than she was.
Mike Postle sued a bunch of people over those allegations, including me. Only myself and Veronica aggressively fought it with anti-SLAPP motions. Postle eventually dropped the case, and we both won judgments against him for the anti-SLAPP (still not paid). She also came on PFA Radio a few times.
Veronica posted an interesting tweet today, and it's not at all related to Postle. It's getting mixed reactions in the poker world, so I thought I'd bring it here:
https://twitter.com/Angry_Polak/status/1542671671626043393
https://twitter.com/Angry_Polak/status/1542679741257244672
At first glance, it would appear that Veronica is yet another female being mistreated at the poker tables. It's true that there are some men who are disrespectful to women at the table, and it's easy to just assume that Veronica happened to end up seated at the table with one of those guys, who then got into some kind of altercation with her.
However, while she got a lot of supportive messages, including white knights offering to come over there and kick the guy's ass, some people are responding to the tweet with skepticism. Some are wondering why she also got a warning if she was the complete victim here. Others criticized her pointing out the exact table and seat number, stating that she was presumably hoping that male followers would show up and confront the guy. (Danielle Anderson even joked that she feels sorry for the next guy to occupy that seat after this guy busts -- which is a good point!) Others were wondering why she was angry at the other men at the table for not defending her, if they weren't involved in the situation themselves.
Even more interesting is the fact that this guy and another person at the table have apparently shown up in the thread, and disputed her version of events.
"DVD King" seems to be the guy in question, unless it's just a troll pretending he was involved. My gut feeling is that DVD King really is the guy.
https://twitter.com/DVDKingcomau/status/1542706909270384640
https://twitter.com/DVDKingcomau/status/1542707227492257792
https://twitter.com/DVDKingcomau/status/1542707543008739328
And another guy named Faisal, who seems to be a legit poker player with some known players following him on Twitter, claims to also have been at the table, and is disputing her version of events:
https://twitter.com/foxpokerfox/status/1542779306044100608
It is common in live poker settings for people to sometimes pick up their hand and show what they're folding to nearby tablemates. It seems that the more "social" players tend to do things like this. They like showing their folded hands as conversation topics. Veronica is definitely one of the more social players at the table, so I could picture her doing this. In her defense, while I don't love this practice (it gives away info to people still waiting to act), I typically don't say anything when I see it happening. It's one of those things which is technically against the rules, but isn't an egregious offense, and usually is ignored.
I will say that if this DVD King got pissed about seeing this, and an argument occurred over it, then this isn't some kind of sexist or misogynistic attack at the table. If that's really what happened, and if he didn't make a gender-related remark (such as "cunt" or "bitch"), then this was really just a case of two players arguing, and shouldn't be framed as a woman being mistreated.
I realize this is a he-said/she-said situation, but the fact that both of them got warned (and she won't explain why) seems to indicate that this wasn't just a one-sided matter.
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Originally Posted by dwai
