Jose Canseco says re-attached finger fell off during poker game

It's one thing to have a losing hand during a poker game, but what about anteing up one of your fingers?

Only about a month after doctors reattached Jose Canseco's middle finger, when he shot it off by accident, the former baseball star has revealed that the sewn on digit once fell off — during a game of poker.

The disgraced MLB star lost his finger when his weapon discharged while he was cleaning it in his Las Vegas home last month and he tweeted about it constantly.

Canseco expressed some deep-felt emotion during interviews following the freak incident, but it seems he found his latest incident "kinda funny."  

"OK well I might as well tell you," a tweet from Canseco said. "I was playing in a poker tournament last night and my finger fell off. Someone took a video of it.'"

Ok well I might as well tell you .I was playing in a poker tournament last night and my finger fell off .someone took a video of it.
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) November 14, 2014

Then he described how someone had given his agent a video of the incident and admitted he thought it was entertaining.  

Canseco also gave his followers the gory details and started expressing doubts about whether doctors should have put his finger back in place because he felt like it was falling off. 

"My finger should have been amputated from the beginning. It was very loose with no bone to connect it.it was also smelling really bad,'"he added.

My finger should have been amputated from the beginning. It was very loose with no bone to connect it.it was also smelling really bad.
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) November 14, 2014

Following the October gun incident, he broke down while speaking about the ordeal.

"At first I heard it go off and I actually grabbed the gun and put it on the table," he recalled.

"(I) thought nothing had happened. Then I look at my hand and my finger’s blown off."

Now, according to Canseco, the video is apparently out there:

Dammm I thought the guy was funny meaning kidding just saw the video .OMG
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) November 14, 2014

And the saga continues...

Brooklyn poker-ring used MMA fighters as debt collectors: Report

In a racket as old as gambling itself, a Brooklyn thug hired two burly fighters to help him collect a debt from a deadbeat poker player for a $100 million gambling operation linked to Russian mobsters.

The only difference is these leg-breakers came from the cage and not a ring.

Federal prosecutors say 41-year-old Kiril Rapoport acted as a "collector" and used threats of violence — backed up by mixed martial arts brawlers —  to force light-pocketed losers to pay up, according to the New York Daily News.

He has pleaded guilty to running high-stakes poker games in Manhattan after being one of more than 30 people charged in April over the illegal gambling operation. 

When he was arrested, Rapoport was found with brass knuckles in his chest of drawers and an inoperable gun in his apartment.

"These weapons are the tools of the trade for an 'enforcer' who threatens the use of force to collect debts," prosecutors said in the presenting letter for his sentencing on Thursday.

He is expected to face at least six months behind bars.

Prosecutors claim Rapoport worked with Arthur Azen from Staten Island, who admitted money laundering, conspiracy and extortionate credit collection last month.

'He (Rapoport) was not a dealer or a bartender. His job was to make sure that bettors at Azen's illegal poker games and bettors of Azen's sports book paid their debts,' the letter adds.

Prosecutors say Rapoport and Azen were accompanied by two MMA fighters when they were spotted by FBI agents in October last year meeting a poker player "who appeared to be delinquent in paying his debts."

Concerned they may harm the player, but not wishing to blow their cover, the agents asked the New York City Police Department to intervene on the pretense they had reports of someone smoking marijuana in the area, the letter said.

The player later admitted he owed $35,000 to $40,000.

Rapoport's lawyer Jay Schwitzman claimed in August that his client had been targeted by the feds because of his Russian background.

Schwitzman said what Rapoport did was "hardly different from what you and I do when we play poker."

The FBI and Schwitzman declined to comment yesterday.

23-year-old wins $8.4 million in World Series of Poker ... year after being flat-broke

A 23-year poker player from East Lansing, Michigan, who was almost completely broke a year ago, stormed to victory in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas — taking home $8.4 million in prize money.

Ryan Riess — slightly disheveled and wearing a Detroit Lions Calvin Johnson jersey — burst into tears of joy, embraced his mother and sister and simply screamed out 'yes' after he outlasted Jay Farber.

The victory marks an incredible journey and turnaround for the former part-time poker dealer and senior at Michigan State.

Almost one year ago, Riess was down on his luck and out of cash but on a final whim registered to the main poker circuit and took runner-up in a 2012 WSOP event in Indiana and his meteoric rise has continued since.

With 10 million chips, Farber was forced to shove all-in with Queen-5 suited. Riess called immediately with Ace-King suited to win — raising his hand to the air.

Riess, Farber and seven other finalists beat out a field of 6,352 entrants in the no-limit Texas Hold `em tournament in July. 

On Monday night, Riess eliminated four competitors with a sly, steady playing style, and Farber took out the other three with more straightforward, aggressive plays.

"I've been dreaming about this for a long time," Riess said after the win. "Ever since I was 14 and saw [Chris] Moneymaker win it. I just had a great feeling about it."

Farber took home a tidy $5,174,357 for his second-place finish.

Bet Reiss will be pretty popular with the coeds back at MSU.