Jami Lafay is a nutty poker chick in her early 40s who always seems to get involved in Twitter drama. In late December, I discussed another controversy she was involved with, where she told a guy at a poker table out loud that he smelled, demanded a table change, and then bragged about it on Twitter.
Most of poker Twitter didn't appreciate that, and got on her case.
In that particular drama, a lot of the Twitter wokes got on her case because she wasn't sensitive enough to the guy's plight of smelling bad (lol).
In this current drama, Jami is the one taking the woke position, and doing a ton of virtue signaling. This has been her M/O in general. She's all over the place -- sometimes taking the "fuck you, I'll do what I want and don't care if it offends you" position, and sometimes taking the woke "omg how can you be so insensitive" virtue signaling position. The one this week is the latter.
Pokerhontas is some young female Vegas wannabe poker pro who is apparently at least part Native American, and chose the nickname as a play on "Pocohontas". It should be noted that this has been done before, as legendary old-school female player Betty Carey used the name "Pokerhauntez" on Party Poker in the early 2000s.
Anyway, unlike the early 2000s when people would chuckle at a name like Pokerhauntez, of course we have to get some woke virtue signaling about it being offensive, even though "Pokerhontas" is apparently Native American herself.
This led to Jami, who claims to be Comanche (who knows if that's true, or if she's another Elizabeth Warren), to give her a hard time while playing live with her, and Pokerhontas kinda freaked out and said she would change her name and step away from social media.
https://twitter.com/LafayJami/status/1612651706554421248
Jami responded to this video, even though Pokerhontas did not name her:
https://twitter.com/LafayJami/status/1612951941335908353
https://twitter.com/LafayJami/status/1612984805658087426
And apparently Pokerhontas is now "lvcvnt" (yes, apparently Las Vegas Cunt) on Instagram, though it's private:
https://www.instagram.com/lvcvnt/
Then the subsequent simping also took place:
https://twitter.com/LafayJami/status/1612832795617026049
https://twitter.com/LafayJami/status/1612848730641944576
And the girl version of "say that shit to my face":
https://twitter.com/LafayJami/status/1612651713785393152
https://twitter.com/LafayJami/status/1612712276083216384
https://twitter.com/LafayJami/status/1612948799588270080
One of the few sensible replies:
https://twitter.com/TomBarn13511988/status/1612829146388008961
Surprisingly there was little pushback to Jami for blowing up this whole thing needlessly, aside from that one Tom guy.
LOL poker girl social media drama