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Hall of Famer Richard Seymour eliminated two WSOP Main Event 2023 players in 1 huge hand

The Hall of Fame defensive end is doing so well at the 2023 World Series of Poker Main Event.

Richard Seymour — the former Patriot and Raider defensive end who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2022 — is (as of publishing this) still alive at the 2023 World Series of Poker Main Event.

He’s been at the Main Event before, using his Super Bowl ring to stack on his chips and playing pretty well in years past.

And he’s doing REALLY well in 2023, knocking out not one but TWO players as the money bubble approaches. Those two other players went all in and Seymour called with King-Queen. A Queen came out on the turn, but it was his King of Hearts that appeared to get him a flush.

There was also this televised hand in which he went back and forth with Stephen Chidwick before the flop. Seymour went all in with his Kings and Chidwick’s Queens were taken down:

As of publishing this, Seymour has 650,000 chips and sits in 325th place with 441 players remaining out of the 10,043 who entered. GOOD LUCK!

The 2022 World Series of Poker bracelet is absolutely stunning (and comes with its own solid-gold chip)

And don’t forget about the $10 million cash prize, too

Nothing feels better in a competitive environment than coming out as the best once the dust settles. Usually, those standing last are rewarded. Think — Olympic medals, championship belts in boxing and now even the NBA Summer League championship rings.

And if you think those are nice, wait until you get a glimpse of what Norway’s Espen Jorstad received for his recent World Series of Poker victory in Las Vegas.

No, I’m not just referring to the $10 million in prize money he took home for winning the tournament (although, SHEESH).

I’m talking jewelry, bling, ice — a 55.48-carat gold bracelet with nearly 2,000 diamonds.

A removable gold poker chip that can be used as a card protector? I thought I had seen it all. This is some creative stuff.

My question is this: Is this bracelet something y’all would wear around? Or is it too valuable?

These prizes keep getting better and better.

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The Rams celebrated their trade for Von Miller with an all-time GIF backfire

Someone should go make sure the Rams aren’t toying with a box of Oreos

The Los Angeles Rams agreed to one of the biggest moves of the NFL season on Monday by acquiring eight-time Pro Bowl linebacker Von Miller from the Denver Broncos for two second-day draft picks in 2022, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

The deal instantly gives one of the league’s Super Bowl favorites (+650 at Tipico Sportsbook following the trade) another brand name playmaker on defense to pair with Aaron Donald, Jalen Ramsey and Leonard Floyd. Los Angeles may have built one of the most fearsome units in the league. None of that is in question.

What did raise a few eyebrows, however, is how the team chose to celebrate the pending deal on social media.

 

In a tweet posted shortly after the news broke, the Rams sent out a GIF of John Malkovich as Teddy KGB, a mobster who hosts underground card games in the 1998 film “Rounders” — a nearly perfect poker movie that definitely warrants more discussion at a later date. The scene in which the GIF was clipped from shows an overconfident and pompous Teddy splashing the pot in the face of Matt Damon’s desperate Mike McDermott.

The problem — and a quick spoiler alert for those who haven’t seen the film — is that Teddy loses more than $60,000 to Mike by the end of that scene! The “all-in” call, the pot-splashing, the Oreo-eating…it all backfires as spectacularly for Teddy KGB as the accent Malkovich chose to portray him with.

This was not lost on a number of people who replied to the Rams’ tweet.

 

So congrats to the Los Angeles Rams on landing Miller and strengthening their defense for a postseason run. Hopefully it works out a lot better for them than their GIF suggests it will.

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