Ryan Eriquezzo Temper Tantrum Ends In Tournament DQ

Ryan Eriquezzo

Temper Tantrum Ends In Tournament DQ

One time WSOP National Champ booted from Parx Big Stax.

Ryan wasn’t smiling when his aces were cracked in a big spot.

World Series of Poker 2012 National Champ Ryan Eriquezzo apparently lost his temper after losing a massive hand during the PARX Poker Big Stax $1500+$100 buy-in last night and found himself disqualified from the tournament.

From what we gather, Eriquezzo, a professional, got involved in a massive 200bb pot holding AA vs QQ and ended up on the losing end. It’s unclear exactly what happened next but those aces found themselves in trash can moments later.

Just had my stack taken out ofcplay on PARX main event for crumbling my cards after taking a 200/bb beat. Had 85k left. @MattGlantz ?— Ryan Eriquezzo (@RyanEriquezzo) May 18, 2014

Had it back to 200 k and lose aa to qq all in pre for 150k each at 1600. Nbd just a 200 bb pot again w aa here. Standard. Crumbs left— Ryan Eriquezzo (@RyanEriquezzo) May 18, 2014

The PARX poker blog that was covering the tournament, and was following Ryan quite closely, didn’t mention the incident but, of course, it blew up online moments after it happened. It really caught fire though when Ryan called out PARX Poker room ambassador Matt Glantz to address the issue…which he did.

@RyanEriquezzo ok. So u prob shouldn’t disrespect the venue or the people by crumbling the cards.— Matt Glantz (@MattGlantz) May 18, 2014

@RyanEriquezzo u know I love ya kid but u gotta stop blaming other people for consequences your own actions cause. Whether fair or not.— Matt Glantz (@MattGlantz) May 18, 2014

Ryan has been up front in the past about the fact that he has a temper and once he saw Glantz’s comments, the one-time loyal PARX player swore off the card room for life.

Thanks to all the scumbags at @parxpokerroom for an awesome event #willneverplaytisshitholevenueagain— Ryan Eriquezzo (@RyanEriquezzo) May 18, 2014

After some debate, Glantz then took it on himself to try and find out the details of what happened as the blowback from some of the poker community in terms of the “punishment not fitting the crime” seemed to be sitting on Ryan’s side with the disqualification being too harsh.

@RyanEriquezzo I am being told u were DQ’d for crumpling the cards, throwing the cards, & berating the floor & dealer.— Matt Glantz (@MattGlantz) May 18, 2014

@RyanEriquezzo the floor said he would have prob only have given u a 2 orbit penalty if u didn’t threaten to “blow torch the place.” — Matt Glantz (@MattGlantz) May 18, 2014

Yep. “blow torch the place.” Is that worthy of a DQ? Probably. Ryan denies he said that though. He said some harsh words, but claims that didn’t come out of his mouth. So the “he said, he said” continues.

@MattGlantz never ever fucking threatened anyone or anything— Ryan Eriquezzo (@RyanEriquezzo) May 18, 2014

@ClaytonCrotty never threatened anything at all. Was swearing bitchimg etc abt the beat. The floor is now likely trying to cover his ass— Ryan Eriquezzo (@RyanEriquezzo) May 18, 2014

Still dropping F bombs, Ryan is left without recourse and the PARX Big Stack tournament marches on without him.

Here’s some reaction from the professional poker peanut gallery (to be fair – most of these were shipped before the possible “blow torch” comment came to light):

@WiLDmAn_75 @RyanEriquezzo @JonasWexler @MattGlantz Ryan is obv in the wrong. But that is a horrendous ruling.— Christian Harder (@realcharder30) May 18, 2014

@RyanEriquezzo @wildman_75 @jonaswexler @mattglantz DQ’d seems beyond excessive. At most they should give him two orbits and a Xanax.— matt salsberg (@msalsberg) May 18, 2014

@RyanEriquezzo @MattGlantz to be Disqualified is absolutely ridiculous! 3 round penalty and 1 month banned would have been more then enuff— Ronnie Bardah (@RonnieBardah) May 18, 2014

@MattGlantz @realcharder30 @WiLDmAn_75 @RyanEriquezzo Some notable ambassadors to the game such as Grey Raymer are known card crumplers.— Shane Schleger (@ShaneSchleger) May 18, 2014

@RyanEriquezzo @MattGlantz I’m sure there is more to the story, but unless it is a LOT more, the ruling is horrific. How can that ever be— Jesse Sylvia (@MrJesseJames888) May 18, 2014

What do you think? Did Ryan deserve to get the boot?

Want the whole story…check out this Twitter timeline and this one as well.

published 5 years ago • by Jeff • permalink

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