Tweet appeared about mike roughly 16hrs ago.
Tweet appeared about mike roughly 16hrs ago.
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Yeah here's the Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/dinkinc/status/1300487864329756673
I'll never forget the time he called me up in 2001 asking me what was wrong because I had taken a few weeks off from playing on Party.
Played with him a few times at WSOP, was always well mannered and dignified.
He's almost 73, btw.
Super nice guy, interviewed him once, just all around a good experience.
Unlike Antonio esfandiari and Clonie Gowen...who both sucked.
News came out further. Sexton is indeed on DD watch. He entered hospice care in August due to advanced prostate cancer. Sad indeed. Mike Sexton has always had a great rep as a player, executive and person all around.
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Sad news. Has spread to other organs and is in home hospice. He was a great ambassador to our game.
It's true, I've talked to his brother for 4 hours.
Truly sad, seems like a good dude.
Sexton was always the strangest old time Vegas poker pro to me. Just seemed super nice and unlike any of the stereotypes I associate with life long grinders. Just appeared a boy scout in a world of scumbags. Never heard a truly degen story about him other than a few tough gambling runs. That he was such great friends with Ungar was even more bizarre. Like one was all about cocaine and hookers and such a trainwreck and Sexton like some Presbyterian preacher in comparison. Truly interesting character. Sorry to hear he’s ill.
The second half of his book has some really interesting gambling stories.
The Party Poker origin story is one of the two greatest poker tales
Founder Ruth Parasol’s father gives her a porn business for her teenage birthday. You can quit there if you like. Drop mic and all that.
Mike Sexton settles for $15m when she buys out his share. When Party went public in 2005 it was valued at $9b making Sexton’s share an estimated $500m
4 years from creation by Ruth Parasol and her team that knew zero about poker to $9b @ IPO.
They talk about “no tears” in poker. Sexton never whined and was always philosophical.
He occupies a peace with life that virtually none of us ever will. Mad respect.
Take a post-it and put over Chicago Joey’s face. Fag Joey never understood the meaning of what Sexton was saying. Dumb as a rock. Painful and disrespectful.
Skip first minute.
https://twitter.com/twt/status/1300946204688228352
Was lucky enough to sit at Sexton's table in 2014 at the WPT500. I shared World Cup betting strat with him. A gentleman and a good dude. Doesn't look good but hope he makes it out, he's a big part of the reason poker is where it is.
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"Donk down, that’s what you say to someone after they have lost 28K straight?" - Phil Hellmuth, online
Basically it's impossible for him to beat this.
He has ended treatment and is in hospice.
Sad loss for poker.
Mike Sexton is 72 years old.
Prostate cancer sucks.
Hospice care is essentially end of life care.
I wouldn't expect an idiot assclown like dwai to understand what hospice is.
Mike Sexton did not go into a hospice.
He is home with his wife.
Hospice care for him just means a nurse comes by three times a week.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan
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