Not sure how I never saw this thread lol...I have a story of my own from 2006 about this legend
It was my very first time in Vegas, only 21 years old. I was playing a 1,500$ mtt at Bellagio, and this guy Steve is at my table.
http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-tour...t/6789/results
^^^ This is the tournament, 6 months after his big WPT score
He flopped about 6 or 7 sets before the first break, and I'm pretty sure he was chipleader. He would not stop talking about his 160k score from 6 months ago and the table seemed to admire him. Long story short, he mincashed. He probably stopped flopping sets.
Fast-forward 1 week and this guy is in the satellite room at Bellagio, he sees me bust a satty, and as I am leaving the poker room he proceeds to ask me for a 300$ loan to play a SNG satty with. Seeing as he just had a huge score and he told me that his wife was coming to pick him up later that day with cash, I loaned it to him. I got his phone number and actually stuck around for a few minutes, which happened to be long enough to see him be the first one to bust. He lost to a standard AK vs JJ cooler and was on absolute lifetilt which I found strange for a guy who just binked 160k. He then disappeared and refused to answer my texts.
I saw him about 15 more times before he actually paid me back. He was still playing small stakes mtts nearly everyday but never had the 300 to pay me. Finally one day, nearly 4 years after the original "one day loan" I confronted him in the hallway and guilt-tripped him about conning 21 year olds out of satty buy-ins, and he reluctantly pulled the money out of his pocket and paid me.
Not sure if he still plays, haven't seen him in years