The 2020 World Series of Poker Online series of tournaments has, so far, given us an epic reaction from a player who won his first-ever online event.
Now, it’s given us a winner who wasn’t in his house when he won himself a bracelet and a cool $159,563. Nope, he was sitting in his car at a Whole Foods parking lot, playing until he got the victory.
Ryan Depaulo — who says in his Twitter profile that he’s makes vlogs about poker and gambling — was in Event No. 12, the Big 500, which is a $500 buy-in no-limit Hold ‘Em tourney.
Card Player reports he’s a New York native, and players must be physically in Nevada or New Jersey to play in the online events, so maybe that’s why he played from a Whole Foods parking lot in the Garden State:
My first semblance of a run this WSOP. Wondering how long until cops ask me wtf I am doing in a New Jersey parking lot screaming
— Ryan Depaulo: Degenerate Gambler (@depaulo_ryan) July 13, 2020
Still running in jersey lot. No cops yet. Something of something left like 1.1 million doesn’t matter till we win but almost an official deep run
— Ryan Depaulo: Degenerate Gambler (@depaulo_ryan) July 13, 2020
What WSOP Final Tables look like in 2020 pic.twitter.com/my9kQ4GbK8
— Ryan Depaulo: Degenerate Gambler (@depaulo_ryan) July 13, 2020
Live shot of Whole Foods in NJ pic.twitter.com/HIclS1Mg4S
— Chase Bianchi (@Chase_Bianchi) July 13, 2020
His extremely NSFW reaction included him screaming in the parking lot, with someone heading into said Whole Foods giving him a look. But this is what the WSOP looks like this year — screaming in parking lots!
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