If thats a representative picture and it is somewhat borderline but if thats an accurate picture at this point he should probably consider going bald.

$100-200 stud or $200-400 mixed? Past 3-5 years has not done him well, both poker and aging.

Maybe because it is well known that he has been busto for quite some time. He can only afford to play 10/20, 20/40, and sometimes 40/80 on his own dime. If he is playing any higher, it is because someone has his action.

Oh please, get a clue.

Just follow him around for a few hours at the Borgata and then check back with me. Constantly table jumping, missing blinds and posting behind a lot (and I mean several times an hour, not once in a while), hitting and running big pots in the limit games, and even little things like hoarding bottles of water and taking them with him, after not tipping the waitresses for them. He is usually just wondering around by himself as well. He is lonely and has no real friends for a reason.....

I don't know if it was the weight thing, but something changed in this dude. He is just plain out there now.

Really hope I'm never following random players around the Borgata. If I ever get like that, I want my wife to smoother me with a pillow.

I'm gonna assume he's always been like that. On ESPN you don't really see the who these people really are.

Only person I've seen him hanging with at the Borgata is Eli Elezra lol. Both of them were railing a 5/10 NL game for awhile during the Winter Open.

I mean he has a name professor backwards for a reason. Not to mention people say he has like a genius level IQ, usually those people are very ****ing weird or autistic. He probably used to beat the huge limit and stud games before and sometime after the boom, but now I doubt he has a huge edge on new generation.

He has zero edge in pretty much most games with a half way descent line up, regardless of the game.

I certainly don't follow any one around and could care less about these people, I was just responding to someone questioning my observations of him. I have not played with him a ton, but enough times to know something is really off with that guy and he is certainly not the type of person people should be giving 'props' to for what he has accomplished in life and where he is at in the game now. That's all. I have no beef with him, just not someone people should be idolizing. Otherwise, let him be and move on.

What you're describing sounds like a long time poker pro down on his luck trying to survive now, and that has nothing to do with morality. I've never heard about him mistreating others or behaving badly at the table. Cut the guy some slack. The one with questionable morals would be Matusow who stiffed him out of a boatload of money.

What's the issue with this? Why would there be an edge to paying the same amount of blinds but missing 3 hands? This makes no sense as something to complain about.

He looks about right for his age in that picture. Doesn't seem to be anything wrong with him.

Ouch, from NL $300-600 to $5-10 railing... Guess they won't be on high stakes poker if the show ever comes back.

He looks like someone/everyone who has spent their lifetime inside casinos gambling :/


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Here is some education for many people on these forums. Human beings get older. They usually don't look as good when they are old. Poker players, actresses, athletes, everybody. If you haven't seen someone for 10 years there is a good chance they will look older. Doesn't mean they are on drugs or degening it up. TF looks fine to me. I remember reading that in his early vegas years he ate ketshup and mayonnaise packets and drank milk to save money and get minimal nutrition.

He looks fine indeed.You ppl have too much free time on your hands to think about things that do not even exist/matter.

Not an edge but forces you to miss playing hands out of position. Could be a psychological edge to some players that play too many hands out of position.

Players who do this think it gives them an edge. Even though it's almost certainly not true, it's irritating when someone is blatantly attempting to angle you, even if they are too dumb to realize it's a -EV angle. Plus if the person doing is a "professional" setting an example that if followed by fish would hurt the game is again, super irritating.

It's often done in mix games, where I've seen players who don't like a game skip the blinds and post behind just to play fewer hands of it. Again irritating, but not as angly as sitting out entire rounds of games you don't like.

You are absolutely clueless. 100% factually incorrect.

Or, better yet, why not go take his money? He's not hard to find. Or are you playing so far above that its not worth your time, because as we know, everyone in NVG is really a live HS/Nosebleeder.

Internet experts....

i've seen him hanging out with men the master and some 50 ish year old white nit who buys into 5/10 nl with 500 and 2/5 plo with 200 and then goes to play stud if he doubles up

You tell em Ted.

+1 but the stories are funny.

The dude making a comment that he has little friends is pretty clueless. Most people on nvg are millenials in their late teens to mid-twenties. In this age group it is very easy to have a large network of "friends".

However as you get older, especially late 40's/early 50's like ted it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain strong friendships with people because they either move away, focus on family or career. People in that age bracket don't have as much time for friends as younger people do. There's not alot of poker pros in Ted's age bracket, give him a break.

You sound mad. Just because someone is a dog in a game does not give reason to get all worked up. Any descent limit and mixed game player will tell you the same thing about him. In my experiences and hearing from others that I trust in their game, Ted is no longer a favorite in any descent line up. If he was, do you think he would still be playing 20/40 at the Borgata? He would be building a roll and playing in the bigger mixed games here and in Vegas. Any time he is playing 100/200 mix or higher at the Borgata, someone is staking him. Sorry to tell you this.

BTW - I have played with him and have taken his money. I have not played with him enough to say I 'outplayed' him for the money. Could be the way the cards fell those few times playing with him. I do feel in the long run it would be the same result though. And no, I don't play nose bleeds, I play 20/40 to 80/160. Mainly played 40/80 with him. And yes, I am a rec player now, since I have a family with 3 kids and a good job. Sorry to disappoint you.

all the snotnosed internet kids commenting in this...
th man has been earning a living off poker since before some of your parents were born

where are you in 30-40 years?