Twitter Employee Live-Tweets His World Series of Poker Ascent, One Hand at a Time

Texas Hold Em

Texas Hold Em

Twitter engineer Ian Chan is on a hot streak. No, not at his job (at least, not that I know of). He’s kicking butt and taking names in a poker tournament with big money at stake: As of 10 pm PT, Chan is ranked in the top five players out of the 3,000-plus people that entered the game. How do I know all of this? He’s live-tweeting the whole thing. I’m not watching him alone. Many of his colleagues at Twitter — Director of Platform Ryan Sarver, monetization chief Adam Bain, sports and entertainment head Omid Ashtari — are cheering Chan along in the appropriate manner: Via Twitter, of course. Read the full story at All Things D.

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Shelly Palmer

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