Russ Hamilton's Banner Re-hung at WSOP - Page 4 - Poker News

mightytiny · 06-04-2012, 06:06 PM

Morality in poker is a rare thing. Does Phil H receive heat and have threats about his banner? He was part of the UB....How picky does one get...

I agree with the WSOP POV that the banners honor/celebrate/acknowledge one moment in time....the wsop main event title that year.

vinivici9586 · 06-04-2012, 06:07 PM

people who are saying that it's too ambiguous to take down 1 banner vs another vs another are being lawyerish kill-joys (has to be a better word for that...).

i think its safe to say that the WSOP or Harrahs, whoever is in charge, can do whatever they want--leave Russ/Chris up, take them both down, or something in between.

personally, I would take Russ down and leave Chris up (think the jury's still out on him), and the argument that we don't want people to know what happened is pretty self-interested (but maybe practical).

Josem · 06-04-2012, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by garycarter23

I was in on the meetings to talk about the banner issue...what happened is that we discussed the fact that 50 percent of poker players are scammers and bad people so that meant we would have just been blacking out another guy each year. who is going to scam everyone for 300 million? which professional is going to not honor their debts for 200K? who is going to pull the online funds for straight up cash ploy?, etc etc. so we decided that we will put up each banner whether they are a scumball or not.

Of all the improvements that WSOP 2012 could offer over WSOP 2011, adding Russ Hamilton's banner should be pretty low on the list.

Also, the logic that because thievery is wide spread we should remove one of the few possible remaining sanctions against a leading thief is pretty terrible. That should be an argument to remove more banners of cheats, not less.

KansasCT · 06-04-2012, 06:31 PM

relevant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...3k7uU9p4#t=12s

MNOWAX · 06-04-2012, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by AllBlackDan

Russ Hamilton is the Chris Benoit of poker

That....Is...EPIC.

Phil9 · 06-04-2012, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by mightytiny

Morality in poker is a rare thing. Does Phil H receive heat and have threats about his banner? He was part of the UB....How picky does one get...

I agree with the WSOP POV that the banners honor/celebrate/acknowledge one moment in time....the wsop main event title that year.

I've never seen any connections between Phil Hellmuth and the UB scams. It's not like he was Ferguson/Lederer who was getting tens of millions pumped into his bank account...

AllBlackDan · 06-04-2012, 06:51 PM

It will be interesting to see when someone desecrates it if they will remake and rehang it

Birdseye · 06-04-2012, 07:12 PM

I agree with the whole history etc. thing for Ferguson but Russ cheated at the table, albeit online. Perhaps his WSOP win was also less than reputable. Maybe he just luckboxed, but do we really know? I mean he could have known everyone's cards.

Josem · 06-04-2012, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Birdseye

...Perhaps his WSOP win was also less than reputable. Maybe he just luckboxed, but do we really know? I mean he could have known everyone's cards.

Your post is abysmal, you should stop posting because this level of idiocy adds nothing to this thread.

ttwarrior1 · 06-04-2012, 07:31 PM

they need one for ferguson, lederer and yes, even phil ivey

Jack&MarkGetBusy! · 06-04-2012, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by integratyper777

I bet if everybody and their moms tweeted it to the WSOP, they'd end up removing it... OR they will quote something totally ignorant and attack their customers via twitter and thousands of followers.

LOL this. Bravo WSOP for not budging to bullying and simulataneously trolling your customers.

LEMONZEST · 06-04-2012, 07:43 PM

history rules bitches ##

yodude1 · 06-04-2012, 07:49 PM

it is good for the overall gambool having their banners up, plain and simple

DaycareInferno · 06-04-2012, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by ajt8

Am I the only one who thinks this logic is ridiculous? You know how televised baseball games don't show fans running across the field? Kinda the same principle imo.. Black out the scumbags and there will be less scumbags, no?

exactly. everyone knows that most of these guys' prime motivation for scamming is to retroactively get onto a banner, so you take that away, and bam, problem solved.

DepressedEmoKid · 06-05-2012, 05:31 AM

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Originally Posted by rizeagainst

that is ****ing absurd. poker is becoming such a joke. why aren't you guys defacing that thing on breaks. the wsop is trolling its customers.

That'll show him! After that you can write a really mean tweet about him too!