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Originally Posted by marek_heinz
pretty sad
first 2p2ers I met were ledders, slevinup, hotkarlmc and p3rc4. two of them won 1m+ in the next year, guess which two ended up scamming the community?
****ers
When I got into MTTs and 2p2, Max and Marcel were 2 of the first people I spoke to about poker and then became friends with, therefore what has happened to both of them since that time feels like a pretty salutory lesson about the downsides of playing poker full time for a lot of people.
I had been thinking about how 4 years ago during WSOPE/WCOOP I stayed with both of them in London for a couple of weeks, Marcel was pretty busto at the time and Max was in a decent amount of MU, but they were both young and hungry to succeed, meanwhile I had already decided to go back to university, which was starting maybe 3 weeks later, still not finsihed yet
Anyway, within a few weeks Marcel had started his heater and a few months later Max got 2nd in Berlin and San Remo, it seemed like both of them had the world at their feet and I just cant help but wonder how it all come to this. To be honest the 3 of us staying together seems more like a lifetime ago.
I haven't seen either of them in quite a while, I vividly remember last seeing Marcel looking a huge mess at UKIPT Nottingham, probably in 2012, which was not long before he pretty much dropped off the face of the earth.
I kept in touch with Max alot more to begin with, but not much in the last 2 years as I have transitioned into playing less poker, but I still feel like I should have realised something was up sooner and spoker to him
The likely conclusion is probably that I am just not a great judge of character but I have found the whole thing to be pretty depressing