When you take a card game that used to get people shot and killed in the Old West and combine it with a near-record $74,015,600 at stake, TV cameras tracking the action, and social media allowing everyone to have a say, you’re guaranteed to run into some controversy.
From the trivial to the deadly serious, the first week of the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event got quite a few controversies trending on Twitter. Here are the most notable among them and our takes on what went down, whether someone is at fault, and whether something needs to change.