And that's exactly why we need to rename all Olympics into "WORLD Winter/Summer Olympics." People have DIED in Rio many times, and people think its ok to use Rio to a describe some event just because it happens to take place there? Insensitive, bigoted, cultural appropriated at its ugliest, let's not put our heads in the sand here.

How I picture Joey reading the drivel from CommerceTy:

https://youtu.be/YzoMSgBzjsI?t=22s

CommerceTy normally when someone adamantly blames someone for something like stealing or being racist the only reason they think this is because they think about stealing or r racist. Sry commerce i know its hard to find this out over a public forum.

Thanks for the reply but let me state something that I forgot to mention in earlier posts. I just want to point out the origin of the term "Manila Shuffle" and how he continues to use it in a derogatory tone that not all viewers may be noticing.

Joey, created this idiotic term that he uses throughout many of his podcasts because of the pod he had with Jungleman a few months back in which they discussed his trip to the uber, nosebleed stakes that are played at Solaire Casino in Manila.

From what I remember in the podcast, Jungleman lost 7 figures in the game although he did not book all of his action. The game included mostly VIP's (Asian businessmen) and some pros alike. Joey, then questions that their is some possible shadyness or inner workings that Jungle is not aware of. Because why? How could one of the best online NL players lose such a huge sum to.... businessmen.

Well lets just say Jungle doesn't have a great history of handling past dealings with another person in that game and may be seen as someone that could be taken for a ride. Catch my drift? It doesn't help that one of the players in that game has yet to settle up on a challenge that is years away from ever getting finished. You NVG guys should know what Im referring to by now.

So lets create a term that incorporates possible illegal dealings with a city/country that he's never been to for ****ing ****s and giggles sake on his pod. Does that sound respectable to you? If you have been noticing his pods, he has plans of getting funding to expand his future endeavours involving the poker community. I don't want this type of person possibly representing an industry I will be in for a long time or interviewing some of the best poker players around the world with this kind of disgusting belief that its ok to put down people of the countries mentioned.

As for his most recent inexplicable term "Thailand Sniffles". How the hell is no one from Thailand not going to feel offended when you associate a country with blow. I'm not going to pretend that "sniffles" was being used as a joke or a gag especially when it was an obvious serious question to Kassouf.

Also, Im not going to get off topic here about penis size because there is probably another thread that may be more beneficial to add your comments there. This is an adult discussion and if anyone wants to discuss this further, just keep in mind this an "ADULT DISCUSSION". Leave your insults at the door.

CommerceTy confirmed multiaccounting as Trigglypuff? This is some high class SJW bulls**t

+1

You have to give commercety some credit here.
He's putting a lot of effort into appearing bat**** crazy

Look man, we are asian, not everyone will be gifted with superior genetic traits. Its nothing to be ashamed of. We just gotta make do with what we got and we dont become haters. No one likes a hater, CommerceTy, you know that. No matter how small.


On behalf of asians, I officially forgive Joey for his Manila shuffle comments and any other comments he has related to thailand or any other asian country.

The gang mentality on display over the last few pages demonstrates why possible catalysts of a new poker boom (emerging foreign markets, minorities, women, etc) are so hesitant to try the game we all love. I agree with Ty, for even deeper reasons than what appears on the surface as mere bigotry; "manila shuffle" personally triggers me as derogatory to the hardworking men and women of our US postal system. To objectify all that they do into some nonchalant, unimportant busy-work is just tasteless. Newsflash Joey: a 10/20 graph doesn't chart class.

I can see how some super politically correct/ sensitive person might be bothered by the manilla shuffle joke because they might think it implies asians are more prone to cheating. Personally I always thought Joey's intention was purely humour and entertainment.

However, I can't understand how anyone could be offended by Joey's Thailand sniffles joke if they fully understand how it arose. The only reason he said Thailand sniffles is because Jason Mo said he had the sniffles there. If JMo said he had the sniffles in France Joey would have said France Sniffles.

Okay good points. Glad we came to a resolution. No hard feelings.

The asian community openly supports Joey and will continue to do so. Despite this outburst by one of our disloyal members, CommerceTy.

I found Kassouf kind of childish tbh

^^^ my ultra PC way of saying I think he is a d ic k.

Good God!

Said by a person with a name, "God Is a Level". The irony runs deep.

Wtf is going on in this thread. Commercety just wow. Your way of thinking is just so hypocritical if you think of the racism levels in actual Asia. And you're upset about Joeys 100% benign shuffle and sniffles comments.

And then the mention of "cultural appropriation"...... I better ask to turn the radio off if hip hop comes on while I'm shopping at Walmart (I'm white so I shop there but that's racist because it ignores my unique ethnic heritage (using the word white) but who cares cause whites have been in the cultural majority so they deserve no sympathy) so that I don't accidentally appropriate the culture. You must never adopt or integrate others cultural customs and make the dividing lines as defined as possible.

And I'm not implying whites deserve sympathy, if anything people need to not be so sensitive (easy for me to say right?)


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As a former child I find this term derogatory and offensive.

did no1 notice Joeys comment to JMO about how all Asian women are prostitutes/escorts Joey your the nuts man but you said something along the lines of if you ever see me with an Asian women you know I'm paying for her because all Asian women are prostitutes/escorts (i can't remember which word you used exactly) and maybe it was just all the Asian girls in Vancouver that gave you this way of thinking lolol

keep the pod sponsorship free, I like the freedom of speech Joey

Way to stoke the fire bro!

this is too funny

he said it and I lol'd Joey F the haters & F Jaime fatboi Staples

xoxo

I definitely would wanna see this. The guy went on like a 5 million upswing/downswing! Mostly FTP PLO

I feel like JohnnyBax almost has to come on to give his side of the story with the Kassouf interaction.

William's explanation was pretty convoluted and quick-talking, mostly the type of stuff a shady person who was pushing boundaries would say. He kept saying he didn't violate any rule, but did he consider the rule they were citing, which was, paraphrased "Any player whose conduct breaches etiquette, which would include acting on your hand in a timely fashion, is subject to penalty at the director's discretion"

The director could give him a penalty at any time based on his conduct, but seemed to hold a lot of restraint.

Bax and Gordon Vayo are very highly respected, I can't seem them being this frustrated over something unless he was truly bringing the enjoyment level of the game down. William kept saying "I'm here to have fun." Well, what about the fun of the other 8 players at the table? It isn't fun for them to have you play super slow and take a long time, repeatedly, to act on your hand, when everyone else is playing in a reasonable manner. They're entitled to have fun and play a poker game as well.

Still, it'd be good to hear details from Bax or Vayo about why they were being so hard on him. Because, as a huge whale, you'd think they'd be nice to him. I have personal experience with Vayo playing live cash games, and he is very kind and considerate towards the whales, so he obviously understands that. He is the type of kid who will only get to that point when someone is just incredibly annoying, over-the-top. We got a little view of that from the TV coverage, but not nearly enough.

If you get Vayo on can you ask him about the "berated a woman to tears" line he pulled out recently.

Just hearing his view about everything in general would be interesting.