That's more impressive I think since it's easier to double 37 than to double something like 50k due to the competition.

no you didn't

28.000 / 37 = 2?

$37 into $0...well done, sir. Why wasn't the moral to OP something akin to "How my idiot friend BLEW $28K"??? It's stories like this that keep Lucky Jimm playing. We can, at least, thank our lucky stars for that small consolation.

I ran a free 50 on Party into like 5K and actually cashed out and used the money responsibly.

It's why they won't let me mod BBV.

Yeah, that's it.

If this was the original post there'd be about two replies. This one was sure to generate a lot more drama!

i wasnt tryin to generate drama. my friend called me (after he went bust......of course) and told me what happened. honestly, my friend can care less about the 28k back to 0. well, i'm sure he cares a little but he has money and 28k is not the end of the world for him. the story made me sick because he always seems to run hot. ive played live with him a few times and its the same story.......HOT. i told him that run must be a record of some sort so i posted on 2+2 to see the response. looking at some other stories though, i should have known that somebody else has this run beat.

my friend also lost a 70k+ pot to jamie gold at the commerce. my friend open shoved the flop with nut flush into jamie's set. jamie filled up on river. the shove was like 30k into a 6k pot.

that hand made my friend sick. if anyone thinks thats a "story", then go ask jamie gold....... if anyone here knows him.

oh yea, his word is good, he's never been involved in any dispute involving matters of honesty.

yeah, and t.v. and the media are reliable sources of info too, right?

dont believe everything t.v. tells u. if jamie is a dirtbag, then leyser is one too. birds of a feather flock together.

jamie is a nice guy. he never makes claims of being the best. he doesnt have to be a role model or a spokesman for poker. his buisness is none of our concern. and if he happens to be a dirtbag, then it doesnt mean he's a liar about "everything".

why on earth wouldnt u cash out at least $1K for every $10K youre up (or so)....waste of time if u ask me.

This is news, views and gossip. His business is *precisely* our concern here. But perhaps you mistook NVG for alt.jamie-gold.fanboi?

well, that is my view then. his buissness is not my concern. its not like he owes me any money. i dont trust ANYONE when it comes to money. u want to make it yur buisness, then go ahead. i dont respect people who look into other's backyard. his dealings with leyser is unproven he said she said drama. nobody except jamie gold knows what his true intentions were. so any speculation based on media tripe is not very wise. you can live your life like that, i won't.

sure, i'm a fan of jamie gold. so what? he did a great job of winning the wsop. i respect his effort. he is trying to master "the hard game". he is trying to out play everyone. he's not a straight forward nit.......like myself. when jamie gets his game going, he's very tough. he made fools out of a lot of people last year. he did a great job. he doesnt owe the poker world anything. i dont see why anyone who wins the wsop should all of a sudden be a rolemodel or a spokesman for poker. he got in and played his ass off and doesnt owe anyone anything.......other than whatever buisness dealings he made which, like i said before, is no one's buisness except his own.

at least jamie isnt a filthy beggar like joe hachem. joe gets his money in with the best and then starts to beg the dealer not to give him a bad beat. joe cant even be a man and look at the cards. he's got to walk away. what kind of "champ" is that? he's already won enough......got no worries......no need to "sweat" the cards anymore.

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He's described himself as the kobe bryant of poker. Now I don't know if Kobe is the "best" basketball player or not, but surely he's in the top five or so. Or at least he's clearly a world class player.

So at the very least Jamie's called himself world class and one of the top handful of poker players in the world, if not literally the "best."

Now, to be absolutely fair, if I recall the quote correctly, he actually placed those words in somebody else's mouth, I believe he claims Bodog said that about him, but I'm pretty comfortable thinking its actually coming directly from Jamie about himself and if not, he certainly didn't hesitate to repeat it.

--Zetack

well, i never heard jamie say that. if anything, i have heard jamie say, in his own words, "i know i'm not a great player". ive heard him say that more than once.

lol, EVERYONE knows he's not a great player. he's only great when the cards cooperate.......but who isnt when that happens. still, he won last year and i tip my hat off to him. he got it done......regardless if he caught everyone in a cooler situation or drew out.

cant argue with a winner.

I actually have a real friend who wanted to change his name to "snufflapagus," on Party. Except, he thought it was, "Snufflafagus," with an "f". He entered the change, and then found that although it was accepted, that many letters wouldn't fit, so from that point on he was "Snufflafag."

Riverdave?

I believe this is the interview in which he said it. Takes a few minutes to load on my computer so be patient.

Gold compares himself to Kobe Bryant - As added bonus, contradicts his later court filings versus Crispin

You are right that in the face of withering criticism his interviews and pronouncements after a few months became much more humble.

I BELIEVE YOU OP!

thanks, i listened to the whole thing. i cant blame jamie for walkin on water a little bit. he won 12,000,000 and turned everyone he played into his puppet.

i notice the media doesnt really include jamie gold on comercials and what not. i think its [censored]. why dont they just take jamie gold for what we know as a fact......he won the biggest tournament in a dominating and entertaining fashion. its like jamie is some kind of liability now.

wow, jamie won 6 tourneys in a row? thats pretty sick. i heard from some sources a while back that jamie was dominating tournaments previous to the main event.