But the sayings were pretty common poker terminology. As far as chip and a chair goes, if the writer had known, he might have said chip and a wheelchair.

Im sure it offended the 5 people that read poker magazines.

This. I thought the joke was fairly funny (oh yeah, it was a definite joke, not a coincidence) and could see myself make a similar one, but only if I knew people around me and especially the subject of the joke was OK with it. Printing it publicly, maybe not the best move. Also agree the apology is even worse than the failed joke, just admit and move on.

Are you disabled? If not, i really don't think you can say he shouldn't have been offended.

No, you never said it wasn't a sincere apology, but you did scoff at someone else thinking it sounded like one. So yeah... that's pretty close.

LOL at people who think that was a lame apology.

This seems in poor taste for any writer/journalist. A comedian would be fine here, but this is not a comedian.

Whether or not it was intentional, I don't know. To those expecting a better apology: If the writer missed that the player was handicapped, as they claim, do you really expect them to cover all ground on a tweeted apology (such as using the word sorry)?

I don't really think they owe the player anything though. They made their magazine look worse in the eyes of many. Better fact checking (or better judgement) would've resulted in a better reputation for them here.

don't forget the part about "added insult to injury"

Fkn love you Luke.

This made me laugh pretty hard

Is there a double meaning in that.

You probably also advocate the writers researching the height of each player that is short stacked before referring to their stack as "short". Fact checking? There isn't a national disability database for them to look all of the players up on. Bore off, it was a complete coincidence.

We're running out of real problems in this country right?

amen brother, good posts

kramerica's posts have suddenly got me questioning the merits of full freedom of speech tho

This thread has taught me that there are a lot of double entendres when it comes to (i) physical disabilities; and (ii) and common poker terms/phrases (and also just regular everyday words). I've never thought about it before, but this is probably more than I would have guessed. And I really can't tell at all which people in this thread are purposefully posting the double entendres and which are just coincidences that I'm now noticing because of the content of this thread.

This writer's options were really limited here. Can't say "crippled" because Garrett is at the table. Can't say "short stack" because Charania is sitting right next to him. Surprised this guy was able to meet his word threshold.

hes not ****ing handicapped hes in a gym in his picture, hes disabled.. and i seriouslu doubt the writer did this on purpose, lighten up guy clearly is better than all of us at poker to so WAL him

One thing is certain: a lot of disability has been exposed itt.

Booked.

If you read the All-In Mag. apology article on page four, you will probably have to agree there is no way the author of the article could have known about his condition. The article was written by a free lance journalist with limited poker knowledge. Neither the writer nor editor were present at the event, so they would have no way to know what any player looked like unless they were familiar with the specific final table players from a previous tournament. Another poster mentioned the player in question is the 4037th most popular player. This tells me that a part time poker writer would have no idea who he was. Definitely an unfortunate incident, but I see no malice here.