My favorite quote from Chino was how Erick Lindgren is such a "great guy and great person who has had some struggles in life"

yes Matt, I would agree that these two getting heads up was "meaningful" LOL

Chino: "you guys can hear or read a lot of things or whatnot"

fast forward to 1:00 where Mike Mizrachi and Mark Newhouse are celebrating like they just won the powerball looking STOKED in the background.

Matt, just out of general curiosity, why didn't you ask Chino how much of that score he owes to his previous backers ?

Your post-win interview was pretty soft (and that's being kind)

I couldn't find any video from E-Dog after the tourney.

I imagine he was a little preoccupied at the cage shelling out bricks of hundos

Classic Chino.

in the winner's interview there were a bunch of his friends literally taking the bricks of money and eye-ing them as though the bricks were their own lol

@2:11

"Love it" when he talks about reading/hearing stuff and that we dont know since we are not in their shoes.Obv thats true to some degree, but it reminded me of a friend who owes me quite a bit of Money, not life changing or anything like that but still an amount I really wouldnt like to write of as lost either.
Anyway, hes mostly dealing and has a really good income, but his leak is that he simply cant keep it since its paid always after work in smaller sums.
My thoughts about the above aside, I dont know how often he pulls the Im in debt and you dont know how it is,since I never had debt in my life and also dont intend to do so.
The more important point tho, one he doesnt wanna accept or agree upon is, that they got themselves into those ****ty spots by their own decisions, nobody forces you to play above your head or sportbets or all that other **** that could potentionally suck you in.Thats what all guys that I know personally who are struggling financially have in common.
But there apparently is enough Money to rent a bigger appartment than I do and buy drinks at partying for sums where I can only shake my head.
Maybe they should go to LVCC and learn Responsibility /halfsarcasm

Huge Congrats Chino!

"Lindgren has had some ups and downs but who hasn't"

Most people do not have the ups and downs that tehse two guys have had.

That's fake money on the table

am i supposed to feel bad about chino when 99.5% of these "mistakes" are self inflicted?

Understatement of the century....

Having these two in the final is like having Bernie Madoff and Charles Ponzi being heads up for the Nobel Prize of Economics....

WPT is counterfeiting?

shout out to Will Molson


wonder if he was on the FT rail

I think I speak for the entire poker community when I say I'm glad Chino has managed to turn his life around

My first impression from the interview is that he wont pay back the smaller unknown pepple he has robbed / scammed in his life based on the attitude he displayed, he didn't seem t show genuine remorse and probably wouldn't have mentioned anything if the 2+2 revelations didn't exist

Did Savage label people calling out Chino as 'haters' at the end there?

Yes he did.

At somewhere around 3:57-4:08 Chino is talking about what E-Dog told him and it goes something like ''Don't worry about what people who don't know you think, only your credit.... (oops), close friends and family do''

Pretty big lols.

Anyway, I get the feeling he's only paying the big guys off 'gonna take care of his homies', I don't think he considers the smaller victims of his scams as 'homies'.

I got kinda choked up, and shed a tear when Chino mentioned his buddy with cancer who he "promised" to win the tourney for

what a beautiful human being

Ahhhh, seems like it was only last week that Chino was playing heads up Chinese Poker at the Bellagio keeping track of his losses with $1 chips cause he had no money. Oh wait, it was last week.

Aww

I wonder if he's gonna use his share of the money for his friend's treatment costs?

mad props to Mark Newhouse for collecting at LEAST 100K at the cage

but Doug's got a mansion, he's well off enough to pay for his own treatment

too funny

most of Chino's YouTube vids have Mike Mizrachi salivating on the rail since like 2009 when he runs deep

I thought Matt Savage did a good interview while bringing up both of their issues. But do you really expect a tournament director to start grilling someone about the money they owe people like it's any of his buisness?

yes

especially Matt Savage

great opportunity for him to shred Erick and Chino both on how they are degenerate scumbags and to grill them on how much money they stole from the poker community

but then again come to think of it, the WPT probably doesn't want to attract that kind of bad press

mad props to Matt Savage for tossing up marshmallows to one one of the biggest lowlifes in the poker world

on a side note...

the next time Greg Raymer makes a TV table, I demand he is questioned on his hooker escapades