So his actions in the video, in which he lied to the floor person, speaker louder than his words in his blog.

What is important is what you do, not what you say that you will do.

I got it.

A good amount of this is true. I support your decision.

The video is absolutely ridiculous-his intent was clear (but he was dumb as hell to try and speak all cool and two put the chips in the way he did) I won't argue about the validity of call or his lie there. Say it's a lie say he was shooting an angle and rather then altering the way it was said in the slightest way while not completely altering initial way he just outright lied about it all. Wtf does that mean? Someone can't lie once and change? Someone can't at one point in life have a view and then change it? We can't grow and change as we age? We can't speak to integrity or honesty at all if we've ever lied? Or only if we've been caught lieing on tape?

It was a well thought out and written blog-likes him or not and whether he's ever told a lie or not his point is still pretty valid.

It's insane to me the crap people pick and choose to have an issue with..from this stupidity to the idiots calling him out online because 'how many 350 lb high school football players are there'...people seem to go out of there way every chance they get to ignore the message and find **** to target.

I still can't believe Ole Schemion didn't play, he would have crushed the entire field, including Coleman.

.........or maybe he wouldn't have

Great posts^^.

I have no issue with not wanting to give interviews to the poker media but given Dan's online reputation, his "statement" is one of the most hypocritical things I've ever read. Maybe he didn't want to give an interview because he didn't want to be asked about being one of the most predatory (to put it kindly) HU players in online poker history.

Link to this, or did I just have to be there?

So the final takeaway is that poker is a super dark game and Colman is the leading arcane practitioner of poker's black magic?

OK, then. Cheers!

everyone who's commending him for "doing the right thing" and "writing such a great post": do you realize that the problems described in colman's post had the potential to reach a much wider audience and consequently widen the scope of discussion if he had done a post-win interview?

if he truly cared about the issues as much as his post makes it seem, he should have used the moment where everyone would cling onto his every word to expose them to the whole world.

regardless of whether or not one agrees with his actual views, making that post on 2p2 makes him dishonest.

LeBron fulfilled his dream of being the best basketball player in the world and winning a championship, I don't see how a ginormous marketing contract with a multinational running sweatshops and obligatory interviews with a media monopoly have to be part of that. If I were him, I'd pay the fine for not talking to ESPN every game, he can afford it.

Daniel Colman- EAD!

classy guy right here.

Who cares what one person thinks...I'm just glad he voiced his opinions on 2+2 and not in an interview. It's easy for him to say everything he did after he's made his millions, poker could end tomorrow and he would have nothing to worry about

It's amazing how free-market capitalism, the greatest generator of a rise in standard of living (for every class), is so often denounced/condemned by the dishonest left and their horde of useful idiots (look for a Howard Zinn book or a Che Guevara shirt).

America is now going through an extended period of wealth redistribution for the sake of buying votes/political power while discouraging self reliance, instead promoting dependence on govt handouts regardless of whether one has the power tobe self sufficient. The takers are taking over and one of their big weapons is anti-capitalism.

Be a maker, not a taker.

Poker's best kept secret - The house always wins. Although this may be less obvious with poker, it's not less true.

People still banging on about this?

It was last week ffs! The Main event is starting!

Is Coaleman playing the Main?

Colman giving interviews (beyond the one that he actually did give) doesn't promote poker, it promotes a sanitized, soundbite-ready portrayal of poker that's intended to make ESPN money. It hides the worst aspects of poker, as he said, as well as the boring parts like the hard graft needed to be successful. These format of these interviews and writeups means that any nuance is lost and facts are distorted or discarded for headlines - how many laymen are going to read 'Colman wins $1,000,000 buy-in event' or '23-year-old wins $15M' without having a clue about staking? Outfits that should know better often ask misleading or silly questions - Kara Scott asking Einhorn if he was going to go pro comes to mind. Even if Colman wanted to craft a better public image for poker, that's not on the table here. The best he can do is talk about the charity, and that's what he did.

AFAICT, most of these complaints are coming from players angry that Colman isn't helping to lure more fish they can prey on - thus confirming everything he says - and poker 'journalists' who somehow can't make the most expensive event in the calendar with a >$4.5M charity contribution interesting and blame him for it.

It's amazing how people mistake the USA with a free-market, capitalist economy. In a free market interest rates are decided by supply and demand, not centrally controlled by the FED. In a free market, no mult-trillion dollar FED POMO, no central bank manipulation of currencies and commodities exists. In a free market economy, when you are insolvent you declare bankruptcy, rather then receiving multi-billion dollar bailouts from the government. The economy of the USA in no way resembles free market capitalism, and has not for many decades.

Hey mr. class let me tell you something.

I am 29 years old cancer survior from a ****ty country.
I was born poor. I had ****ty childhood and no moeny for education.
I found poker and crushed the small stackes cash game on FT.
I started to go to universite I even bought a small aparment in a ****ty neighbourhood. Then I was diagnosed with cancer ! If not for poker I coulnd not pay the corupted doctors and hospital to give me treatment. I lost everything I had but my flat. But I survived!
My ****ty country is not even giving me pesnion and I am 60% invalid by EU laws. I can't work long hours or physical labor. Some days I don't have money for food. Nobody is helping me. I play poker and yeah it is stressful and is not good for me but if not for poker I won't be able TO BUY FOOD.
You people act like life is so hard in the USA. Daniel Colman opinion is full **** if u ask me!
Let me see you guys sent me money? I am suffering... Ofc no one will send me even $5 with which I can eat 1 DAY! MY life totally sux from day one!
If not for poker I would be dead and gone now! Come on let me see you guys help somebody like me or even the more needing kids in Africa?
Is this how u redeem yourself ? BY drinking coffee in starbucks buying into dumb ideology? Or by making idiotic statemetns like Colman? Last time I eated was before 24 hours... If not for poker I should be seeling drugs, robing people or selling my body as a man hooker. You think you cool cheering for this nonses? You are not cool you just don't know how hard life could be. Even a $200 can help me live for a month like a semi-normal person. With $500 i could even buy some needed medicine. With $2000 I would be most happy person in the world and I will probably donate $500 to a oprhan home. You think you cool? You think you got heart?
Help somebody like me once in your life... what souless people man. what souless world...

LOL @ WTF.... #NoOneCares

lol hahaha

Keep fighting and nh beating the cancer.

Wait you mean HU poker is a predator sport...Whats next your going to tell me that all the good players avoid each other in an attempt to never put in a bad dollar? You mean they invest in programs that help them track and abuse fish?

Yea anyone with a clue knows that investing in HU poker is a joke (unless you got lots of hours to work hard and tons of money to loose in order to get better)

I'm not defending any players actions or statements, but lets be honest, we all know poker is predatory. I have heard the Doyle's and Barry G's talk extensively about how they don't make money off other pro's in the long run, but rather make the money off the rich fish and bad players that are the true life blood of poker.

I think its funny personally, but if the 10 best HU players were the only one's playing they would all quit. There smart enough to know that they are probably a draw at best vs each other and the rake would take all their monies in the end. my sum opinion is that if that were the case they'd all take their winning and smile knowing HU was a dead game.

Does anyone else think this is true ?

very good post