Allen Kessler has doubled down on his dissing of online tournament crusher Jens “Graftekkel” Arends even after the Dutch pro smashed the live circuit this week by winning more than $1,300,000!
He was due after years of struggling for respectability… pic.twitter.com/VGpYGsxLRT
— Allen Kessler (@AllenKessler) March 6, 2023
Kessler famously berated Gratekkel on Twitter last year after being KO’d by him in the WSOP Europe 6-max in Rozvadov:
“And out of the 6 max. Loser Euro guy in bb called off more than half his stack pre flop to my sb shove with Q8 off. I said “good call” and got up before board even came out. Really tilting way to bust.”
Kessler is doing this after Graftekkel lands a $921,178 live score at Triton Poker Vietnam!
The “loser guy” was playing the Triton Poker Vietnam Super High Roller Series this week and landed a $406,000 score in the $15k and then added a career-best $921,178 in the $30k just a few days later.
The events, both with about 170 entries, included the likes of LLinusLLove, Nick Petrangelo, Adrian Mateos, Erik Seidel, Michael Addamo, Sam Greenwood, and Stephen Chidwick – basically a who’s who of the world’s elite poker pros.
From online crusher to becoming Triton SHRS CHAMPION, what a JOURNEY for @Graftekkel! 🫡#tritonpoker #poker pic.twitter.com/KXwRE7vceL
— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) March 5, 2023
Alex Theologis joked: “Everyone knows Triton results don’t count, just like online,” poking fun at Kessler’s unwillingness to accept online results as being a fair indication of a player’s ability.
Kessler replied with the typically back-handed compliment: “If it’s a live event it counts. He was due for a score after several years of nothingness…”
Benny Glaser was first to respond to Kessler’s embarrassing tweet, posting: “Lol. Fucking hell, Allen. Just know when to stop.”
Arends, who took last year’s abuse from Kessler very well, continued to find the situation amusing, tweeting: “Sorry Allen, but I don’t trust Hendon Mob.”
Sarcasm, in fact most forms of humour, seem to bypass Kessler like a new road around a ghost town, and he responded with the typical claim of someone who doesn’t even play online:
It’s better than the massive cheating and rta going on online
— Allen Kessler (@AllenKessler) March 6, 2023
That mirrored his lines from last year, when he claimed: “No proof of who is actually playing or what tools they are using are my two main concerns. … Lol so the guy is an online crusher. No proof it’s even him that plays or doesn’t have assistance.”
Again, as with last year’s comments, Kessler was ploughing a lone furrow, almost every comment urging him to stop digging a deeper and even more embarrassing hole.
Arends Vietnam victory, worth more than $920k, already dwarfs Kessler’s best score of $276,485 and it would be interesting to see how long it would take the Groningen pro to top Kessler’s lifetime winnings of $4,159,728.
With Arends already on $1,874,621 and thinking of playing more live events, the clever money would be on a couple of years tops. Others felt they could top Kessler’s numbers too.
lolllllll
Someone give me Allen’s slot machine bankroll for poker tournaments. Guaranteed I’ll get more than $4.1 M in cashes in 22 years 😂🙄 go to bed Allen.
— spicy (@ElleSriracha) March 6, 2023
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