The poker pros, Cate Hall and Mike Dentale sent some beefy tweets each others way in the previous days.
A tweet about a hand played at the World Poker Tour, started a heated debate that resulted in a Heads Up for Rolls match!
How did the Cate Hall and Mike Dentale conflict start?
The starting spark in this heated argument was struck by a tricky tournament spot. Interesting enough, the hand wasn’t even played between Cate Hall and Mike Dentale.
It was day 3 of the World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event when Cate Hall and Barry Hutter played a huge pot. After some pre-flop aggression, Barry Hutter shoved with his pair of Jacks and Cate Hall called with her AT. The hand left Cate Hall short and it didn’t take long before she busted.
The hand was not exactly a standard spot. You can read the action at the .
But even before the WTP crew posted the update to the forementioned page, Cate Hall twitted about the hand.
Spoiler alert for those watching updates: Just went with a read I was pretty confident of & was wrong. It will look horrible. Now short.
— Cate Hall (@catehall) December 8, 2016
The tweet started a calm conversation, between Cate Hall and Brian Reinert, about the hand.
Beef between Cate Hall and Mike Dentale
Things got a bit more fierce when Mike Dentale added his opinion.
@catehall @BrianReinert1 this answer proves to me you’re clueless
— Mike Dentale (@Mikunbelievable) December 8, 2016
After some swear words ware exchanged, Cate Hall suggested they could let the card talk instead of them and challenged Mike Dentale to a HU match.
The argument continued in a hostile tone. They when back and forth about the location, buy-in and format of the match.
A Heads Up for Rolls match
Beefy tweets came to an end when the mediator of the argument, Matt Glantz, took matters in his own hands and handled the logistics for the Heads Up match.
As far as we have been told, the exact dates are not yet set, but there are some interesting facts about the match that ware shared by the involved parties.
Cate Hall and Mike Dentale will battle for their bankrolls and probably their pride in best-of-there $25/$50 $10,000 matches.
The match will take place at SugarHouse Casino in Philadelphia, sometime in March, 2017! It will be filmed by Poker Night in America and probably streamed online.
The poker world was amused
As we all know, the poker community usually doesn’t let something like this go unnoticed.
Many of pokers big names followed and commented on the argument. Joe Ingram captured his investigation in an amusing video you can watch below.
