Shane Warne's Poker Text
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17 January 2008 /
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SHANE Warne is in trouble for texting. Again.
Cricket fans will recall how in 2005, Warne is reported to have sent a text message to Kerrie Collimore reading: "It was amazing? How good was our sex f---ing very hot! My turn to come please tell me how I should think of you!"
Now Warne is in this native Australia, playing as poker pro in his first tournament, the Aussie Millions at Melbourne's Crown Casino. Eyes down. Warne is texting on his mobile.
Spotted, he was duly forced to sit out for five minutes.
"You are not supposed to be text messaging at the table," says Paul McGuire, of Poker News.
"He has to sit out of the tournament for five minutes. Essentially he misses all action. He missed his blind and he missed the opportunity to get a really good hand."
We don't know what he was saying via text, nor whom to. We can only say that the Devil makes work for idle hands. And fingers...
Let your fingers do the walking...
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