I never said I was going to give 100% of any money I won away, even though that was a distinct possibility. It depended a lot on how much I won. I had various plans in place depending on how much I won, but talking about it now will likely get more replies of "Well that's easy to say now that you lost". Well I said I had a lot of great charity plans on the show, multiple times, before the first hand was dealt, that should be enough. More so replying to the above poster's comments. That's all in the past now, and some good things will come down the road. There's always demand for that sort of thing.

gl in the future Jared, you're awesome

hey man, great work on the new video its a great idea

also, i really don't get why people are saying you didn't understand the format or in some cases that you don't even know how to play poker?

150 hands is a tiny window into someones ability as a poker player, im sure some of the guys bashing are the same guys posting around the forum saying through the last 7k hands they are getting ruined by variance (pot/kettle?).

add the fact your on tv against pros, most people who say this wouldn't affect their game are lying

well done man and i wish you every success in the future

Thanks a lot guys. I'm glad you liked the video. It raised about 1k so far, I was hoping it would raise a lot more, but the folks at Make-A-Wish are happy about it.

It would be cool if 2+2 gets behind some more people, to stake people to play in events, or to have some sort of life changing experience. If that happens, I look forward to being a part of it.

i think you're addicted to the limelight which is why you keep bumping your own thread and you have nothing to say besides talking about charities that you had no intention on giving to you whether you won or lost. just my 2 cents not trying to hate, but honestly how i feel after having to read these threads over and over. just a shame there were only 8 episodes left in this final season of the big game and you're week was unbearable to watch.

what you need to understand is that people didnt help you because of a pressing need to help someone. you came up at the right time and people were around to listen. you're suggestion that we should for look for someone new to help out shows you don't get it, which might explain your social awkwardness on the big game. most of the people that helped you aren't looking for a charity case every other week, you hit the forums at the right place and the right time, you made it to the big game, won nothing, but your life still seems alright. all the poker players in this forum aren't here to give to charity and focus on it all day, so when you post about it constantly it's clearly shows you dont get it.


this, just be yourself and stop focusing so much on getting attention on the forums

because these same people

1)have said other players played well and lost
2)have said other people have played like **** and won

There is no limelight. For some reason it makes people angry that I met a bunch of famous poker players. That was cool, but the experience was about a lot more than that. Angry because i reply to people to say thank u is your problem not mine. if u don't like me, u don't have to make 25 posts about me. I don't like attention much, but u seem to.

Do you still have an offer from Negreanu for Coaching/Some type of staking? Even if it was for like 1/2 live?

I think that was if I didn't make it on the show.

A week ago you asked me about what's planned for the future. After doing a lot of volunteering and charity work, I'm taking some time to focus on myself. I have a serious medical condition (Psoriatic Arthritis), getting the required medication and the means to pursue the treatment I need, is top priority. I prefer not to discuss this much because it's somewhat private, plus getting trolled for having a disease is not something I will be tolerating anymore.


Any inquiries about "what's next", I prefer to direct here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyHJ31QMEtk

Thanks bro.

What you do for a living now?

How is the guy supposed to LAG it up when he's never handled chips before?

So many haters. Didn't your mothers teach you that if you have nothing nice to say to just shut the **** up?

Jared, you should be proud of yourself, I know lots of us here are. Keep doing what you do and keep your head up, you're an inspiration to many and haters are just gonna hate.

You're a good person Jared, but your poker game needs alot of work.

You know you did something positive when a bunch of 12 year old internet warriors decide to bash who you are and what you tried to do. There will ALWAYS be haters and the more successful you are the more you will meet. Keep doing what you set out to do and know there are a bunch of people rooting for you.

You're absolutely right that he played the format terrible and everything u said is the truth. Someone said it best that if he was down 20k with 1 hand to go he might of just folded. Apparently he did get coaching from boosted j and another online baller but I assume it was him just watching them play online and nodding and not listening when they would try to teach him poker. From the show its obvious he can't hold a conversation with anyone or comprehend any type of strategy. I'm sure he had plenty of other people to give him tips before the show but we have to realize that he was never a poker player and just a fish who got lucky and manipulated people to give him money. The charity thing is just a cover up since hes now been exposed to all of 2p2 and national tv. He wouldn't talk about details of charity on tv and seemed like he didn't know anything about it in interviews and now that he lost he would of donated all winnings to charity (even though he had no shot of winnings) and still lived off weekly transfers from 2p2. I will give jared credit when he has a job and stops posting on this forum for people to give him money and starts supporting himself like the rest of us do.

Any evidence for this? BTW, yes, Jared played bad.

I can understand people's frustration in Jared's continuous 'charity talk' and 'mother teresa' like comments. It's annoying and maybe he comes poorly in that respect.

However this thread is about Jared, and it is littered with questions regarding his experience etc. There is clearly interest among the community and he is merely answering questions. That's what happens in a JH thread, people ask questions and he talks about himself.

Goodluck in the future Jared

Sorry you took my post so personally because I didn't really mean it to be an all out attack on your character. I moreso wanted to point out that I thought you attention whored a bit too much on the forums but overall seemed like an ok guy and that I'm mad at myself for not pm'ing you before hand to explain how you should play to you.

I've beat myself up more than enough already about losing on the show. I was really hard on myself about every single mistake that I made. Losing sleep, cursing myself, feeling bad about money I could have won, things I could have done differently, for months. When you get a once in a lifetime opportunity, put everything you have into it, and lose, it hurts. I was playing for my family, for charity, for medication which I can't afford right now, etc etc.

I have psoriatic arthritis, my joints are in pain from the time I wake up till the time I go to sleep. People who trash talk me, sometimes say I'm "trying to be saintly" or that I'm "arrogant". I make a very conscious effort, everyday, to be positive. It's a lot of work, and takes a lot of my energy, but I don't have an alternative.

After the show I volunteered with several charities and gave a lot of the money I had away. Had I known I would get hundreds of comments, insulting my character, maybe I wouldn't have gotten my hopes up, so much, about people matching my donations. I will keep going though, learning what I can from this.

Saying I'm bad at poker for how I played 120 hands, under immense pressure, in an unusual format, is absurd.

Sometimes I let comments like these make me wish that I was never on the show. But at the end of the day it was a great experience and I won't let anyone take that away from me. I'm proud of myself for opening my life up completely to a bunch of strangers. And I'm proud of myself for giving 110%.

I used to be homeless, I tried to use my opportunity on a TV show to not only help myself but to also win money for a kid's charity. If you hate on that, you've got problems. My 15 minutes of fame is done, and I'm proud of what I tried to do with it.

Jared. Anyone who talks badly about you for the way that you played on TV does not deserve a response from you. Their comments are made out of envy, or just because they are full of hatred, and they are looking to take out their problems on anyone who appears to be a possible target.

You're better than they (the people who make spiteful or derogatory comments) are. And as long as you don't let them bring you down to their level, you win.

Thanks.

Yeah, I don't mind people critiquing my play on the show, just disagree with the parts where personal insults are thrown in, or people take it to the extreme, "You are terrible at poker and should never play again" etc. I don't feel like I'm better than anyone. But at least I've been completely open about my life, even the things that were hard to share.

I Hater Haters. Jared Huggins should take over Scott Huff. Thoughts?

When you had QQ did you just disregard Nick's table image because you only had 20 hands left to play with?

Yes. Figured I was slightly behind Nick's range, especially since he was UTG, but only 20 hands remained. I had been very active the last ten hands, it was the table topic that I was gambling it up. If Nick thinks, I might be desperate to get it in, that helps my cause.

Yeah I would just disregard all the negative **** in here. It would seem you played a little too nitty for the format, but you still got it in good in the end so whatever. Plus there seems to be such a fine line between 'genius' and 'horrible' for loose cannons, basically if the cannon hits his hands and everybody else misses -> the cannon makes money -> he's a genius. Or for example someone who bluffed a lot, like Cannon (can't remember his first name, Mike?), every single time he bluffed everybody else missed completely (meaning he's a genius). The difference between the cannons so far has been the element of luck, and people don't seem to realize this. The only LC that stood out for me this season was Max, but even he managed to stay on top of things thanks to insane amounts of luck and good timing. Then again he made the worst call I've seen in my entire life with TPTK vs Hellmuth, in that exact spot he'll be right ~2% of the time, so lol.