Geez, i thought the standard procedure for these $100k or more buy-ins, was to get several people to take a piece of you ala "The Corporation" back a few years ago when Doyle, Phil Ivey and Co. took on Andy Beal.
Fronting the entire million? That's some big balls. I doubt any of the better poker pros will be able to do it.
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edit: Just FYI, this entry fee is about 20% of his trading profits this year I think...he's had a pretty good year...and who knows, maybe he'll win the stupid thing.
Geez, i thought the standard procedure for these $100k or more buy-ins, was to get several people to take a piece of you ala "The Corporation" back a few years ago when Doyle, Phil Ivey and Co. took on Andy Beal.
Fronting the entire million? That's some big balls. I doubt any of the better poker pros will be able to do it.
I hear ya.... most of these guys, several of whom I know pretty well are still gamblers at heart...opting to play even the stupid games thinking they can always get someone to back them again for the WSOP or cash games. Andy Bloch, Barry Greenstein, Chris Ferguson and a couple of others are the exception... they actually respect the game and the money.
Oh man, this is classic. Don, your trading group looks like an AARP convention. Where do you find this people? Local retirement communities? Would it kill you guys to put some art on the walls?
Ferguson and Howard Lederer are crooks. They had the golden goose and f*cked it up. They should get locked up. They couldn't just be happy making an easy several million a year. They had to treat Full Tilt like their own piggy bank. If they had managed their business like PokerStars, at least they would still have a viable business.
Poker was enjoying unprecedented popularity and gaining legitimacy. But then, Hamilton and UltimateBet, decided to cheat online players by looking at the hole cards. Now even the supposedly "good" guys, Ferguson and Lederer, are robbing people. It plain sucks.
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I hear ya.... most of these guys, several of whom I know pretty well are still gamblers at heart...opting to play even the stupid games thinking they can always get someone to back them again for the WSOP or cash games. Andy Bloch, Barry Greenstein, Chris Ferguson and a couple of others are the exception... they actually respect the game and the money.
