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12-10-2011 , 01:17 PM
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Amen. Ray certainly speaks for me. I won four of five days at the cash games at the World Series and have not played since. I'd rather read and research gambling history to write about it than play. I've got some more books coming from Amazon. Old folks have a lot of advantages. Me and Ray know we will never go broke.
Are you writing under the name Puggy Neutron? That guy has a ton of poker books coming out for Kindle.

Regarding your last sentence, I am sure a lot of other "old folks" thought the same thing.
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12-10-2011 , 03:02 PM
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Just thought of a movie line that sums up how well off I want to be when I die. As Carl Reiner says in Ocean's Twelve, "I want the last check I write to bounce."
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12-10-2011 , 05:55 PM
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great read OP, I really enjoy your stories about the old days
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12-10-2011 , 10:14 PM
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ANSWER IS SIMPLE .......I'M THE ANSWER

I'M NOT OLD BUT I'M BROKE

FIGURE IT OUT
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12-12-2011 , 04:57 AM
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Old Gamblers?
How about the Young-Guns after Black
Friday?
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12-12-2011 , 11:52 AM
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Johnny -

As always your posts are meaningless, depressing and reflective of a life of a man who wasted his god given soul to a game that has not only passed him by but pretty obviously was never really grasped.

You continue to be a shining beacon of the importance of keeping poker as a hobby and nothing more
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12-12-2011 , 12:19 PM
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If you are stupid, you compound it by not being able to read very well. I love having guys like you stewing in your dumb juices and jealous, jealous, jealous. Ha Ha SiThomass.
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12-12-2011 , 12:24 PM
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I have a Ph.D., and spent twenty years in college teaching. Before that I worked ten years as an Account Exec in TV, and managed the Joe Ely Band for five of that. That's thirty years without being out of work a day. Poker and poker writing are a sideline. Poker put me though college. My parents did not contribute and I did not work. SIThomas....I do consider you one of the dumbest and most biased posters in the history of TwoPlusTwo. You are just jealous because you never have any ideas of your own, and could never be a writer read in countries all over the world!
Thanks.
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12-12-2011 , 12:44 PM
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good players die broke, average players live broke

house always win
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12-12-2011 , 03:19 PM
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man those texans love their guns
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02-10-2012 , 02:49 PM
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Johnny -

As always your posts are meaningless, depressing and reflective of a life of a man who wasted his god given soul to a game that has not only passed him by but pretty obviously was never really grasped.

You continue to be a shining beacon of the importance of keeping poker as a hobby and nothing more

It may be depressing, but much of poker and poker life outside of your TV is depressing. Many, many top players are not nearly as well off (financially or emotionally) as you might think.
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02-11-2012 , 07:45 AM
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Good OP.
Its a thin line between
being 'well-off' and broke. Mainly because of
the edge we once had, has suddenly disappeared.
As one person pointed out already.
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02-11-2012 , 11:03 AM
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what do u think of Billy Walters? Is he going to die broke? Probably not.
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02-11-2012 , 11:07 AM
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I just know if I die, I will no longer care about finances.
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02-11-2012 , 04:06 PM
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. Jimmy the Greek ended up broke in the end because the edge he had in the 30's was no longer there ie picking on soft local lines.
nay. he died broke cuz he told the truth.
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02-11-2012 , 04:47 PM
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If a young guy berated an old man in public, we would all think worse of him for that. Yet many of us do the same online. If you don't value what JH has to offer the commuunity, please, respectfully hold your peace and go elsewhere.
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02-11-2012 , 07:00 PM
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Johnny -

As always your posts are meaningless, depressing and reflective of a life of a man who wasted his god given soul to a game that has not only passed him by but pretty obviously was never really grasped.

You continue to be a shining beacon of the importance of keeping poker as a hobby and nothing more
Pretty sad that you would take your time to come in here and post a thread with such negativity - if he wants to write some stuff for people to read, wtf does it matter to you?

*sigh*
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02-11-2012 , 08:45 PM
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ChaosReins...the mod's darling...tries to ruin any thread I start. He denies the rest of you the chance to read an open discussion.

He lies. I have never shot at anyone. He made this up. If you believe anything he says, I feel sorry for you.
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