There's been some drama between two semi-name players in the past couple of days.
First, who are these guys? The first thing that might not be too obvious is that these are both dudes. When I first started reading shaniac's posts on 2+2, I thought his screenname stood for Shania C. But it's actually Shane Schleger, a very active 2+2 poster and blogger with a ton of readers.
On the other side, Shannon Shorr is actually the reason this feud caught my eye -- he's a guy I played with for the 2nd half of Day 1 at the WSOP back in 2006. At that point, he was coming off of his first big score of his career: a 4th place finish at the Aussie Millions for about $200k. He has since become a very accomplished tournament pro, periodically being near the top of CardPlayer's Player of the Year standings and was as high as #2 this year.
Now, what happened? Well, NBC's National Heads-Up Championship is coming up. It's an invite-only tournament with a $20k buy-in. The criteria for selection is not clear-cut, and that is exactly the reason for this fiasco... the stink of it is that Shannon feels snubbed for not having been invited.
But here, let me just lead you to the post: Snubbed.
And here is shaniac's: Delusional.
And just for good measure, here is the list of people who WERE invited.
Soo... who is right? The thing is, I think shaniac makes really good points, but I don't think it was right for him to call out Shannon like that. Shannon was just ranting on his own blog, which, yes, is out in the open for people to see and therefore is open game for people to rip on and whatever. But... I mean, he really takes a number of shots at Shannon that I think are quite unnecessary and not only are hurtful, but detract from his point as well.
Discussion/debate/flaming continues here in this 2+2 thread.
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