Top Poker Tweets Of The Week: Selbst Blasts Newsweek, Bellande's Weight Loss Bet

Here are a selection of some of the top poker tweets coming from the pros over the past week:
Daniel Negreanu
“IMO the most valuable poker skill is self awareness. The ability to understand how your opponents perceive both your strengths and weakness.”
Vanessa Selbst
“Wow just reading through this ridiculous Newsweek article on poker… so many logical fallacies and just random cursory statements that poker=gambling=addiction with no evidentiary support. I have to wonder what Newsweek’s financial incentives in this piece are.”
Gavin Griffin
“Had a tough time reading that clearly agenda-driven Newsweek article on online gaming. Not linking it on purpose.”
Matt Waxman
“A few elite MTT players print money in poker. The majority of us are just gambling, while less experienced players are better off in the pit.”
Olivier Busquet
“just misclicked called the river with Q hi and won the pot…#allskill.”
Doyle Brunson
“If I could do my live over, I definetly would do my best to become a pro golfer. What a life!#dreamon”
Jean-Robert Bellande
“I have 70k in weight loss bets riding on me getting down to 145lbs by nov 1 (started at 187lbs)..http://t.co/kx27zPXkQv.. Oops! Correction. The bet was to get from 287lbs to 245lbs. Ha ha (I wrote 145lbs in last tweet) #brokeoncrack”
Tim West
“Makes me fucking sick when ppl kill themselves. Such a selfish move sigh. Rip mr Williams.. Fuck I’m really twisted up about this robin williams news.. One of my favorite robin williams roles was Father’s Day with billy crystal. Such a great flick. Gonna watch that later n have a solid cry.”
Amanda Musumeci
“Philly: More ppl per capita that talk to themselves & pick up half smoked butts off the ground than anywhere else in the world.”
Phil Hellmuth
“I used to wonder why I sweated so much while on the phone. My Fitbit tells me I paced 10,000 steps while on a long call w @WestcoastBill!”
Jimmy Fricke
“That’s a first. My email got autocorrected from gobboboy to gob nobody. Fuck you autocorrect, who are you to judge me?”
Terrence Chan
“Would there be a market for short-haul, discount, standing room only flights? Would government allow it? I’d be a customer, in any case.”
Matt Salsberg
“If any of my neighbors follow me on here can you bring over toilet paper. Im in front hall bathroom. Front door unlocked. #WillReimburse.”