PokerRoad is a blog focusing on news about poker. The owner of the blog Thuy Doan is also a professional poker player and she recently announced to her blog that she has cancer. One fresh entry to her blog shows the undying support of her poker colleagues to her situation by shaving their head bald.

Her family came from Vietnam where she’s born. They evacuated from there when she was a child right after the war was finished. Thuy wanted to change the life her family had when they were in Vietnam, so she worked hard in order for her to finish college. As she was studying she was also playing poker professionally in the sideline.

The news of her sickness was first seen on her blog wherein she have made an entry entitled, “Yup, I’m Gonna Go Bald.” At first, this news was a shock to all her friends online and poker buddies. Here is an excerpt from the blog entry:

“2009 was a year for me to become many things: college graduate, full-time poker player, California resident….Never did I expect to become a cancer fighter.”

She continued, “The biopsy results came back … I have an aggressive soft tissue sarcoma in my upper calf. Thenext step is to get a chest scan to see ifthe cancer has spread. After that is chemo to shrink the tumour, then surgery. If chemo doesn’t work then amputation is a disturbing possibility. Since my health insurance policy is based in Virginia, I will be going back there soon for treatment.”

This Vietnam born poker player is well known in the community of poker and much loved and respected. She has been obtaining a great amount of support from her friends and co-players in poker and from poker forums. Some of them even extended support by shaving their hair and these include Tom Dwan, Barry Greenstein, Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier and Doyle Brunson. All in all at least 19 poker friends have been on the barber’s seat to give their own way boosting morale to Thuy.

The commitment and compassion that she has managed to induce can best be understood by reading an extract from her blog, which highlights her own brave outlook to her condition:

“This is a tough spot but don’t feel bad for me. My life is still great. I have amazing people in it, a profession that I’m passionate about, and the potential for an incredible future. It’s a life worth fighting for and this cancer is just a hurdle. I won’t let it destroy me. I will beat it. Just watch.

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