Shaun Deeb Takes WCOOP Title on Son’s 2nd Birthday

Tom - Monday, September 10, 2018, Written by- Monday, September 10, 2018, Online poker

Shaun Deeb was the star of the WCOOP on Saturday as he landed a celebratory victory worth $38,088 on the birthday of his two-year old son Chance – mirroring the result when he played WCOOP the day Chance was born!

By: Andrew Burnett

So two years ago today I missed the birth of this guy for #wcoop and won a tourney that day this year i decided to do it again happy bday chance pic.twitter.com/NNEfFVP2xJ — wcoop wafflecrusher (@shaundeeb) September 8, 2018

It wasn’t the biggest scoop of day 7 in the PokerStars online series – that honour going to Austria’s Gianluca ‘Tankanza’ Speranza with a $140,634 victory in the 8-max Turbo High Roller – but for Deeb the PLO8 High win was his 5th WCOOP title, now inching ahead of his 4 live WSOP bracelets…

Which waffle-crusher is wearing #WCOOP gold again?

Catch up on @shaundeeb's latest triumph, plus a 11,000-entry rebuy frenzy, in our latest daily round-up from the World Championship of Online Poker.https://t.co/pANZencgId — PokerStarsBlog (@PokerStarsBlog) September 9, 2018

Not everyone was so impressed by Deeb’s poker grind on his son’s big day, however, some posters expressing dismay at Deeb’s choice…

Trying to humblebrag that he won two tournaments but ends up admitting not only missing the birth for poker but also spending his birthday playing poker. 🙈😂 #dadoftheyear — Daniel Lewis (@dannyslewis) September 8, 2018

Not sure if missing my son’s birth is worth any amount of money to me. Cutting his umbilical cord, hearing his first cry to the world, and feeling his little strong hands clasp on to my fingers seconds after he was born, that’ll change a man. Changed me. — TREpoker (@TREJOpoker) September 8, 2018

Father of the year award goes to...... — Peter Brasile (@Pbrasile1992) September 9, 2018

…Deeb, touchy at the best of times (as this writer can attest to, after being Twitter blocked by the pro after writing this piece on Deeb’s squabble with Will Kassouf) ….

...has yet to reply to most of the denigrators, preferring instead to complain about another issue…

Another wcoop and the limit tourneys still ruined by stallers on payjumps other tables playing 3-4x number of hands @PokerStars fix this already it’s clear abuse — wcoop wafflecrusher (@shaundeeb) September 9, 2018

He did, however, explain the situation in the run-up to this year’s WCOOP in an interview for the PokerStars blog, stating of the 2016 situation: "There was discussion during that WCOOP about what I should do, because my little sister was getting married and my wife was set to give birth. There was a debate: do I go or do I stay?”

Deeb explained that it would have been “silly for me to miss it!” – meaning the profitable WCOOP series - and said both his wife and sister agreed. “My sister was OK with it because my wife was OK with it, and my wife was OK with it because my sister was OK with it. So if those two ever got together and realised the other wasn't OK with it, I wouldn't have gone!"