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I read yesterday in Daniel Negreanu’s blog that his mother passed away. Daniel is one of the world’s best-known poker players, and, other than his chatty table persona, he is best known for his love and devotion to his mother. Daniel has always been friendly to me and, though we aren’t close, I know his mother had been ill for most of the year. It’s not in the nature of poker players acknowledge things over which they have little control. The passing of a loved one, however, reminds us how little control we have over what’s most important. I join everyone in the poker community in feeling sorrow for his loss.
The passing of Daniel’s mom reminded me of a poignant moment at the Main Event Final Table that I meant to share that day before I was overtaken by other events. Jeffrey Pollack, the now-former Commissioner of the World Series of Poker, in his second-to-last day on the stage, started by drawing our attention to the death of poker legend Hans “Tuna” Lund two days earlier. This is what I wrote in my notebook at the time:
WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack started the proceedings today by announcing that Hans “Tuna” Lund died just two days ago. Tuna was one of the great competitors of the first heyday of the World Series. He won a bracelet, had a lot of big finishes, and should have won the Main Event in 1990. If not for a lucky break by Mansour Matloubi, Tuna would have taken the championship. He had another final table appearance in the Main Event and, though I never met him, he was one of the mainstays of my understanding of Big Time tournament poker, learned from grainy VHS recordings of the final table from the Eighties and early Nineties. I wrote about Hans and his battle against cancer during the World Series, and was saddened to hear the outcome.
You didn’t lose to cancer Tuna. You just ran out of time.
We all observed a moment of silence.
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MrsCasanova Says:
November 25th, 2009 at 3:49 pmOh Im sorry to hear that. My condolances to the family.
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