Pokerplayers go bald in fight against cancer!

<img align="right" src=http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/e9909.durrrshaved.jpg style="margin:5px; border: 0px solid black;">Some players are always looking to get attention, but this time, it's for a very good cause. During the World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic, which started this week, some pokerplayers brought the attention to the fight against cancer.

So why now, what's this about? A female pokerplayer, Thuy Doan, is currently fighting cancer, and due to extensive chemotherapy, she lost all her hair. Out of solidarity and to show their support, a few pokerplayers headed over to Phil Ivey's house at Bellagio to get their heads shaved by Ivey's personal barber.

A clean cut was provided for some of the biggest pokerplayers in the business: Doyle Brunson, Barry Greenstein, Eli Elezra, Joe Sebok,Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier, Peter “Apathy” Jetten, Sorel "Imper1um" Mizzi and some more. A total of 19 pokerplayers decided to step up to the plate and show their sympathy to Thuy Doan. It was all recorded on tape by Fox Sports Net's Poker2Nite who will cover this special event in a few weeks.

Let's hope this makes Doan feel better, and we're sure it does. While fighting cancer is of course no laughable matter, the process and results of the cutting resulted in some funny situations, one of them described by Peter "Apathy" Jetten on the 2p2 forum:

Sass saying to Elky right before he gets his head shaved "What if your powers are in your hair" ...That's the only time I've seen genuine fear in that mans eyes

Here are some more photo's:

pretty cool

go poker

lol they look so goofy.. still cool tho

this is the kind of stuff that warms my soul

gl to Thuy, run best one time plz!

Totally unrelated but I went bald yesterday too.

random comment: Thuy Doan kinda sounds like Tom Dwan

Hopefully one of them win and do something charitable with the money too ;]

Heros

haha awsome all those baldies

So there's still a positive thing about poker

phil ivey had a propbet with patrik antonius for 500k that he could get doyle brunson to shave all his hair off.

now their laughing their asses off at the old man with no hair.

perfect

elky so baller

On December 17 2009 14:34 Maynard! wrote: Totally unrelated but I went bald yesterday too.

I thought you knew to stay away from those elementary school girls


that's cool of those guys to do =)

nice read

Very cool. Dwan is the only one that looks normal with a shaved head though lol.

did they raise any money with this? or was it purely for awareness?

I'm sure they donated the hair to a group called Locks of Love which uses the hair to make wigs for cancer patients.

lol, ace of the river on the counter

people going bald

greenstein +1
elky - 1
elezra - ???

coincidence or....GOOD JOB, GUYS!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8414124.stm

They all look sicker then Thuy lol
But the best thing you can give to someone fighting cancer is emotional support.
true heros

On December 18 2009 05:56 anarki wrote: They all look sicker then Thuy lol But the best thing you can give to someone fighting cancer is emotional support. true heros

I'm pretty sure I would prefer a cure if I had cancer but ok.

On December 18 2009 09:56 taco wrote: Show nested quote + On December 18 2009 05:56 anarki wrote: They all look sicker then Thuy lol But the best thing you can give to someone fighting cancer is emotional support. true heros I'm pretty sure I would prefer a cure if I had cancer but ok.

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On December 18 2009 09:56 taco wrote: Show nested quote + On December 18 2009 05:56 anarki wrote: They all look sicker then Thuy lol But the best thing you can give to someone fighting cancer is emotional support. true heros I'm pretty sure I would prefer a cure if I had cancer but ok.

cancer curing degens, cool

Sass saying to Elky right before he gets his head shaved "What if your powers are in your hair" ...That's the only time I've seen genuine fear in that mans eyes

It was true for Billy Corgan why not poker players?

This is really cool.

lol, I think they all look pretty normal besides elky