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Doyle Brunson is seventy six years old and he says he was up late last night in Vegas. He's in a $10k game on the 24th day of the World Series of Poker and he just sent out a Tweet. "Still in 10k split," he said. "Didn't sleep much but feel OK...." Is that an intimate look inside the minute by minute, high-stakes life of a poker veteran - or is that a head-trip of a bluff intended to make his opponents think he could be slow on his game today?

The World Series of Poker is a 39 year old annual event where thousands of professional and amateur poker players fight through 40 tournaments for tens of millions of dollars in prize money. The event is different this year, because Twitter has come to the world of poker and it's changing the way the whole industry relates to the game.