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Originally Posted by aoFrantic
Well, he won a scoop this year for over 200k and had another scoop score of nearly 100k this year.
The trophy was worth 10k to kassouf. I don't think there are many people that would back him today that wouldn't last week, or people who would sponsor him today that wouldn't last week but that's your opinion.
Will Kassouf is a lot smarter than most pro or good reg players give him credit for, as a lot of you cannot see beyond academic theory.
He has brought a more human and interesting side to poker this year so sponsors should be climbing over each other to sponsor him.
Furthermore he conducts himself well in an ambassadorial off the table sense which is want sponsors want.
Players who don't get this are only focusing on what he does on the felt, and which they can neither handle nor get a mental grip of.
Will Kassouf's success and impact this year is as much as anything else an eye opener to just how boring, sterile and robot like the vast majority of pro poker players are.
I get it that boring, sterile and robotic makes money but it is neither exciting to watch for a spectator nor is it particularly appealing for a sponsor.
By the way, he was already a sponsored pro by the London/Gibraltar Superstack Series before his big score in Vegas, so they saw something in him from all three angles, a good player, a person who conducts himself well off the table, and a person who creates interest and excitement.
Hie deserves all the good things coming to him because he did things his own way despite hordes of sheep openly or behind his back ridiculing him with their condescending air of superiority.
Sponsoring him has to be one of the biggest no-brainers in the history of mankind.
Backing him, one might look at slightly differently because you'd need to know exactly how he plays to completely evaluate how +EV he is in any given tournament, but you know one thing for sure, that he will give it his heart and soul, that much is obvious.