partypoker suffered the embarrassment of a critical server error in the middle of what should have been one of the most talked about Sunday’s in the online poker room’s modern era, dividing the poker community, and tarnishing the company brand.

As I watched the new partypoker LIVE advert on YouTube, promising the world, I looked at Philipp Gruissem and couldn’t picture a more perfect looking German.

I never did German in school. It was French and Welsh for me. But I do know one German word, and I see it used all over the poker community, today.

Schadenfreude.