Don't you get the feeling that almost all poker players are getting broke? - Page 2 - Poker News

GrilledSteeze · 10-17-2010, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by chardonis

I LOL'd

Dunky boy · 10-17-2010, 08:10 AM

I actually enjoyed the read, I like hearing about the stars suffering. Muhaha

Antster2 · 10-17-2010, 08:11 AM

Dude your grammar sucks.

Also nearly everyone who you mentioned as "broke" probably didn't put in enough volume.

carradioyes · 10-17-2010, 08:26 AM

OP has a Johnny Hughes vibe going.

My fave part was: "...first noticed this watching the new Poker After Dark cash game. After a hand, Eli Elezra made a comment to Dwan with Dwan responding in a manner, which proves he’s broke"

stickychips15 · 10-17-2010, 08:35 AM

When PokerStars are doing $1.4billion a year from the rake, you would expect very few players to make money.

ImSOOOSick · 10-17-2010, 08:40 AM

Who cares if they're broke?

Worry about your own ****. IMO

You typed that whole novel and could of just said....

"Hey, everyones Human."

skillsaw777 · 10-17-2010, 08:41 AM

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At the WSOP, I was excited. I was hoping to sit down and find myself on a table full of pros. I didn't care about making it deep at this point. I just wanted to play live poker with the best. I sat down and to my disgust I found a table full of amateurs, until I focused to my right. On my right, there was this guy, complaining about every hand the dealer dealt him. Literally every hand. Then I looked closer to his shirt and found "Team Pokerstars" on it. The guy looked quite familiar so I asked him who he was and he told me he was Tony Hachem. During the hand, Tony is the most obnoxious person to sit with. It seemed like that guy was down $2m dollars. But quite surprisingly, he was the coolest and nicest guy I've met in Vegas, but quite a douche to the dealers (he never said anything directly to the dealer but he would imply that they are retarded). Again seems like he’s losing a lot of money regardless of his brothers wealth or his tournament winnings.

Tony isn't close to his brother Joe on the obnoxious scale.

Randomness28 · 10-17-2010, 08:46 AM

You need to play live more to have an understanding of what is really going on ..... no offense, but you sound like some kentucky basement gossip queen who went to vegas once and thinks he knows everything about everyone...

PowaHauss · 10-17-2010, 08:46 AM

no wonder, look at the god damn rake. And all that is going to the real winners

CursedbyaGypsy · 10-17-2010, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Randomness28

You need to play live more to have an understanding of what is really going on ..... no offense, but you sound like some kentucky basement gossip queen who went to vegas once and thinks he knows everything about everyone...

This thread isn't about gossiping. I was just taking about money issues that poker players are facing and how I thought I'd see something completely different.

John Deuce · 10-17-2010, 08:57 AM

Is it just me or is this a case of "player looks annoyed to lose money, must be broke." The WSOP is a major grind, guys who have been playing a ton will be pretty cranky. Also I think you're reading too much into a ton of **** here. Also, if the high stakes players are losing money, who are they losing it to? Your post seems to lack that.

CursedbyaGypsy · 10-17-2010, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by John Deuce

Is it just me or is this a case of "player looks annoyed to lose money, must be broke." The WSOP is a major grind, guys who have been playing a ton will be pretty cranky. Also I think you're reading too much into a ton of **** here. Also, if the high stakes players are losing money, who are they losing it to? Your post seems to lack that.

I guess money just keeps on going round and round in high stakes games. Dwan wins $5m from Guy, Isildur wins $5m from Dwan, Hastings wins $5m from Isildur etc etc etc

About looking annoyed. How come they didn't look too annoyed after a big tournament win? How come they're starting to look annoyed now? People like Esfandiari for example?

MisoHoneySoup · 10-17-2010, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by John Deuce

Is it just me or is this a case of "player looks annoyed to lose money, must be broke." The WSOP is a major grind, guys who have been playing a ton will be pretty cranky. Also I think you're reading too much into a ton of **** here. Also, if the high stakes players are losing money, who are they losing it to? Your post seems to lack that.

To be fair, he did, he's suggesting that many of them are actually total degens and end up losing it on casino games/ sports betting etc.

But I do agree with the general consensus.

What really bugs me is the association between not looking/feeling well and = obv. losing money.

Poker used to be my sole source of income but over the past few years i've broadened my horizons in terms of investments.

But still to do this day, any time my gf or family see me and I'm not "in good form" they automatically assume it's due to financial loss incurred through poker. Ironically poker losses don't effect me anywhere near as much as they used to.

And when i'm in a bad mood or feeling down, more often that not, it's not related to poker losses.

OP - Did you ever stop to consider the fact that they simply may have life issues niggling away at them?

Seems like you saw alot of book covers and automatically assumed they're ****.

chzbrglr · 10-17-2010, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by CursedbyaGypsy

English isn't my first language. It's a miracle I wrote all that. But thanks for the tip. What university did you graduate from btw?

Harvard

Zam · 10-17-2010, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by CursedbyaGypsy

Maybe I'm wrong about all of this. But I'm just sharing the impression I got when I went to Vegas. I'd like to be proved wrong because I want to really believe that there is a constant winning player.

http://www.pokertableratings.com/sta...earch/nanonoko

proved wrong...