...you mean the mag you write for/edit, I mean I wasn't going to mention it but as you pimp your mag in every other thread (especially love the ones where you start the thread with 'In a popular UK mag the interviewer [you] asks some interesting questions!') I can't contain myself.
First of all, those things are not free, especially freedom. If you doubt this, try giving away all of your money and possessions and see how free you are. You'll be free to be periodically shooed away from a park bench, and free to take your pickings from a dumpster.
But suppose for a moment he really didn't care about money. (Which is nonsense, he obviously speaks of the losses with regret.)
What could be a bigger waste of a life than gambling for something you care nothing about? Could there be a more asinine waste of a life than that?
The hate going on in here for Archie is ridiculous. If you dont agree with his lifestyle and philosophy fine. That doesnt give you the right to call someone an idiot when they are obviously not, in fact it only makes you look like an idiot.
Fact: The guy was a world class pool and heads up poker player. Have any of the posters in this thread ever been world class at anything, let alone two things?
He also happens to be a sick, sick gambler.
Archie is a class act and a true Las Vegas legend the likes of which may never be seen again, anyone who thinks otherwise is just hating on him, and although they may never go broke, they will never ever know what it is to be a true gambler.
its so sick that someone can let this kind of thing happen to themselves. the fact that he didnt kill himself after suffering losses like this is amazing if you ask me. I know if this happened to me id find the nearest cliff and jump head first. I mean losing a couple thousand is alright for poker players but 40MILL?!?!?! you gotta be f*cked up to let yourself lose that kind of money.
Hey, what if Archie is the one who is right and all you haters are wrong? Maybe his way is the right way and everyone else just can't see it? Leave the guy alone, wer need his action!