Poker: A Fat Guy For Generation X-Box

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While America’s overweight elderly can look up to Doyle Brunson and the baby boomer beer bellies to Howard Lederer, who can our fried-cheese youth look up to in the galaxy of poker stars?

Kids, meet 24 year-old heavyweight Thomas “Thunder” Keller.

Keller is the type of roly-poly rebel the X-Games (watching - not participating) generation can get excited about. He’s rocking the frosty tips in his hair which proves he’s cool. His nickname is wicked awesome. He name drops Affleck and Spider-Man in his interviews. He credits Rounders as an influence, and the Internet for shaping his game. He is, as the kids say today, “Huge.” “Blowing up.” “Living large.”

And he is a really, really fat guy. Surprisingly, we glanced through his archives at Card Player and there was not one single article trumpeting the joys of batter dipped chocolate bars. Consider us shocked.

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