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Originally Posted by dalopper
It's fair to assume everyone agrees he's an obnoxious, clueless human being as this is transparently obvious to anyone who has heard him on the show.
It's not fair at all.
Obnoxious is your opinion, but he's certainly not clueless as he's made his living gambling for most of his adult life.
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Perhaps it's his crass language and witless repartee that certain people find amusing for some reason, but I can't figure it out.
Ya, because he's the only person in the poker world that swears. Most of the people we interview don't swear on our show, but in person at the poker table it's a much different story. Alan just doesn't filter his language or opinion when he does an interview.
You call that crass, I call it genuine.
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He's obviously bitter in life, perhaps it's because he resembles an extraterrestrial
Wait, so he's bitter and crass but this isn't?
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or that he was never that great at any form of poker, or a combination of the two.
And you know this how? I'm sure he'd be happy to take on you, or most anyone, at 7 stud for example.
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Alan is a poor role model for our sport and if we want to hear from someone who is poor at sport betting and a complete life degen there are better characters in our community to get that from.
Poker isn't a sport and Alan is not anywhere close to being thought of as a role model. As far as your statement that he's bad at sports betting, again you really have no idea if he is or not.
Many of poker's most interesting people have had periods of life degen-ness, that's what makes them interesting. I'd rather listen to any one of them then another 20 year old that binked a tournament.