# Jose Canseco's Finger Falls Off While He's Playing Poker **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 15, 2014, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670 "2014-11-15T02:49:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Boogly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Boogly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boogly)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/21 "2014-11-15T16:33:14Z")
Starting with a bad cut, Canseco started with a gap hand, suffered a bad flop and bleed down to the river thus leaving the table short handed. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/22 "2014-11-15T19:17:22Z")
Canseco is apparently a really bad poker player, actually, and loses consistently. I saw him on a celebrity poker tournament on TV once and he was just losing constantly. Not sure why; he was doing something wrong, but… I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/23 "2014-11-17T17:21:33Z")
"This morning, I picked up my shirt, the button fell off. I picked up my briefcase, the handle fell off. I picked up my cards, my finger fell off. I’m afraid to go to the bathroom." -Rodney Cansecofield ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/24 "2014-11-17T17:22:34Z")
“Hey, Doc- you only told me if I injected this stuff, my HAIR would fall off” ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/25 "2014-11-17T17:50:02Z")
That tweet shows that Jose’s out of touch. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/26 "2014-11-17T18:04:26Z")
“Jose… of the niiine fingers…” ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/27 "2014-11-18T00:05:24Z")
Canseco just tweeted that he is putting the finger for sale on ebay. ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/28 "2014-11-24T22:53:58Z")
Apparently he has now revealed that this whole thing was a joke/hoax. I guess not everything he says should be taken completely seriously. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/29 "2014-11-25T00:02:40Z")
> [@Thing\_Fish](#): > > Apparently he has now revealed that this whole thing was a joke/hoax. I guess not everything he says should be taken completely seriously. Just some sleight of hand, then? ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/30 "2014-11-29T15:22:12Z")
At least he kept his losses in the single digits. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670.md?page=1)