Poker professional Shaun Deeb, who every year chases the WSOP Player of the Year title with an honest grind, won his first WSOPC ring a few weeks ago, but a few days after that, he filled the internet with a weightloosing bet with billionaire Bill Perkins.
Another bizarre situation that will be discussed today also happened during the WSOPC festival. Back in 2007, Shaun took part in a high stakes cash game at the Turning Stone casino, where he won a large amount of money from an unknown player. Since the person in question did not have enough cash, he owed Shaun $25,000, for which he wrote him a check. Deeb later discovered that the check was dishonored, and from that point on he unsuccessfully demanded repayment of the debt.
Now, 16 years after the incident, Shaun's friend DJ MacKinnon managed to broker $10,500 from him, which he handed over to Deeb during a live WSOPC game. Since these two friends like to make fun of each other and joke around, MacKinnon decided to put the money in a box of protein bars and put it on Shaun's table during the game.
"You've got some protein here," MacKinnon said with a laugh, to which Shaun responded "I don't fucking want that!". MacKinnon left with a smile, and Deeb, who is not exactly an ambassador for a healthy lifestyle, offered the bars to the masseuse who was taking care of him. She declined the offer, and Deeb put the box on the ground and continued playing. After he busted, he jumped into the $400 side event, where he busted two rounds and decided to text MacKinnon and see if they could go to dinner together. Well, that's where it all started:
“Did you like how I gave you money?” MacKinnon asked with a laugh.
"What money?"
"The ones I prepared for you, after all. I did put them in the box with the protein bars.”
"You're fucking kidding, aren't you?"
"Well, I don't," MacKinnon added, his smile freezing. "Where is it?"
"I left it under the table, they probably threw it away!"
After a few moments, they both realized that neither side was kidding and quickly ran into the tournament hall. There, the premonitions were fulfilled - the box was no longer there. "You're a total moron for what you did". But MacKinnon countered: "Why on earth would I give you protein bars?" The argument between the two was ended only by the casino employees, who informed Deeb that the maintenance man had found the box near the trash and willingly returned it. "You were lucky, just a few minutes to the garbage truck came, then then it would be gone.” After all this, a happy Deeb rewarded the decent employee with a $500 bonus, but he also shared with the poker world a story that ended well after all.
Source: PokerNews, Twitter
