One hell of a heater now...LOL

Olivier with a well thought out response, bravo

Anyone know why op's results dont come up at all on sharkscope?

"This player has chosen to block their statistics" it says.

So let me get this straight, in summary: poker is evil and damages lives but he's making too much money to avoid being a rich hypocrite. Ok, fine, I don't have a problem with that per se.

What I do detest is that he then decides to stand by his 'morals' by failing to promote a tournament that donates millions of dollars to the most disadvantaged people on the planet. This tournament already drew fewer runners than the 2012 edition and its future isn't exactly guaranteed but yet once given such a huge spotlight he cant even spare 5 minutes of his time to answer a few bs stock questions and try to promote an incredible tournament that saves hundreds, if not thousands, of lives. I hope karma exists.

^ He did answer one or two Kara Scott questions, and insisted that they be strictly about the charity.

Sounds like he did want to promote the charity but seems like ESPN wanted him to focus on the money and how it feels to have won.

Ok, I didn't know that but I do think its naive of him to believe this would do much/any good though. This attitude stifles the likelihood of this story having an impact outside the poker community, and into the mainstream media. Gaining maximum exposure for the tournament (and thus one drop) is what, in my opinion, would help increase the likelihood that the multi-millionaires/ billionaires who could get behind a future one drop have their interest piqued.
Simply talking about the charity isn't going to get any more interest in any future one drop events.

The main motivation for people playing, and more importantly for those backing, this tournament is clearly for the money and perhaps for the fame (basically more money). I'm sure the worlds richest have people trying to convince them to donate more to charities on a daily basis, unfortunately what works better is appealing to their greed. After all, greed drives Mr. Colman to go against his own morals on a daily basis; Id have thought he'd have a better understanding of it's power over people.

If they had 5K to play the match then they had 5k to lose obviously. Not sure how many every day lower class people have 10-20K just sitting in their bank accounts ready to fire off at some 5K sit n go's.

gg dan for 3rd place at Aria High Roller for 800k

I thought one of the cornerstones of irresponsible gambling was playing outside of one's means - are you saying everyone who plays online poker can afford to lose the money they are playing with? Also, look at the response from Olivier - this message is all over his explanation of Daniel's state of mind.

I wasn't trying to make a broad generalization, I just think it is a very small % of the public who would have the means to do it/ would do it.

what a beast lol


haters gonna hate

let results speak for themselves

realistically it might seem like you are on top of the world having won millions of dollars from a game that you are incredibly talented at. but how do u feel at the end of the day knowing that you are one of the few that was able to do it, at the hands of thousands of people who have done the opposite and poker has set them back years in their lives.

makes sense, because those multi-millionaires/ billionaires have nothing better to do than watch ESPN all day. that's where they get their motivation.

That is not what I said, nor the point I was making. However, I'm sure the ones that are unaware of the tournament'/one drops' existence are more likely to be watching ESPN than reading articles on 2plus2/pokernews/pokerlisting/highstakesdb etc

My 16 year old self would have been thrilled, but he was also a very sick degenerate gambler

However, nowadays I am not so moved by tournament success, winning just means I probably played good and was fortunate to have run the best. Also I wouldn't have been too down in the dumps had I gone out in 42nd. A lot of people have been saying that I had a super tiny %, but this wasn't the case. The amount I took of myself was probably a bit reckless after talking to some people whose opinions I respect. The winnings also are not going to have an effect on my lifestyle or on my plans for the future. This will give you a partial explanation on my lack of emotion after winning. Later this week I plan to put out a response to Daniel Negreanu's blog which will explain my feelings a bit further.

use poker as a means to an end bro

your my hero.

So glad too see another online grinder(after merson) smash for 15 mil live. Hate when I see jamiegoldish players win things.

FYP @ grammar police....

When is this happening?

+1

First, congrats on the One Drop! I can't imagine what that would feel like.

Second, this is going back a ways to the beginning of the thread(just found this thread, unfortunately) Did your parents know that you were playing in high school and to what extent you were playing? I ask because that seems like a lot of pressure and as a kid that seems like it would be very tough to handle those swings especially if it's something you weren't allowed to really discuss.

Couldn't imagine being in high school and having a huge losing session or even going busto the night before and go to class.

As a parent I would be very concerned about my child's mental/emotional state.

Obv you were well equipped to handle it but would say your the exception and not the norm.

Again congrats on all your success, and keep it up.