Todd Whysong

[Noah @xbtnoah]

Professional poker player Phil Ivey won $9.6 million at the Borgata. The casino paid him, then sued to get it back. At London’s Crockfords, he won another £7.7 million. They refused to pay.

In the video below, Ivey says his job is to play the game, find a weakness in the casino and use it to win. He calls the casino his opponent and points out that it spends millions of dollars protecting its games.

He wanted a specific brand of cards, a Cantonese-speaking dealer and the same decks reused. The casinos agreed. His playing partner, Cheung Yin Sun, asked the dealer to rotate certain cards, presenting it as a matter of luck.

The cards had tiny differences along their backs. Once high-value cards faced one way and the others faced the opposite way, those differences helped identify what was coming next.

Ivey never marked the cards. The dealer handled them. But the casino didn’t understand what those requests were doing to the odds.

He called it an advantage. The casinos called it cheating. In 2017, the UK Supreme Court ruled against him: persuading the dealer to arrange the cards crossed the line.

The casino had approved his requests while expecting to win. Ivey knew something about its own cards that it didn’t.

Was he cheating, or should a casino know its own game before accepting someone’s money?

[Todd Whysong @WhysongTodd]

@DanBCooper8 @colin_dunlap Stop swallowing the outrage bait. Pretending millions of people want criminals running wild isn't about public safety—it’s a dishonest smear designed exclusively to fuel political hatred, tear communities apart, and keep people at each other's throats solely for partisan points.

[Todd Whysong @WhysongTodd]

@MarkMaddenX If the Steelers’ entire roster were just fat white guys with beards, they could go 0–17 every year and Yinzer Nation would still love them. We don’t need wins. We need guys who look like they know where to get a Primanti’s at 2 a.m.

[Todd Whysong @WhysongTodd]

@colin_dunlap Why use a celebratory moment for our police to fuel political division? Look at your comment thread—it’s turned into an argument rather than a celebration of law enforcement. I know this is your job but c’mon man.

[G-Block 🅱️aby @motionsznn]

The first car to park on the trailer wins , I’ve never been so invested in a sport like this

[Todd Whysong @WhysongTodd]

I don’t believe cowards should get to hide behind fake names, say things they’d never say face-to-face, then erase the evidence when called out.

If you know him, feel free to let him know that words have consequences.

Also, wish him a Happy Suicide Awareness Month!

[Todd Whysong @WhysongTodd]

Monday, a troll hiding behind @attacktoaster68 made this reply to a comment I’d made about an ATM theft nearby (see pic). He doesn’t know me - just read about my family’s tragedy and ran to his keyboard. Then he deleted his comments and tried to hide. Everyone, meet Paul Jewell…