Erica Schoenberg disses Krantz in blog.... - Poker News

I’m writing this from the lobby of a cool boutique hotel (16£ wireless and snotty service = cool and trendy) in London because Mr. B is sleeping in the room. This isn’t at all unusual, as he played online into the wee hours of the morning. I vaguely remember glancing at the screen as the sun was coming up and seeing him own the Rail Heaven table on Full Tilt. I was just about to roll over and go back to bed when I happened to catch some chat from another player that piqued my interest.

I don’t usually talk or write of Mr. B’s online poker life, but I live it with him every day and silently suffer or celebrate, depending on how the session went. Lately it has been rather brutal, but that’s nothing new, since after three years with David I am finally used to the swings. (I’m not sure it’s a good thing that winning or losing 500k gets only a shrug or a thumbs-up reaction from me.) In addition to being rather numb to the swings, this is also the case for the observer/player chat. I have long since stopped reading what people have to say about David or myself, but every once in a while I catch something funny, poignant or just plain stupid. (Mostly it’s the latter.) Like this guy last night, Pyramid or whatever silly screen name he uses…

I’ve seen this player a couple of times on the no limit tables, but never playing the other games so I imagine he’s just a typical NL ass-clown. (You know the type - started playing in high school or college, probably after discovering poker through his Magic the Gathering friends.) Ahhhhhh, scratch this blog…

I started writing this yesterday and I had awakened in some kind of mood! Now that it’s a day later as I finish the blog I don’t feel nearly as agro towards the player “Pyrrinaid”. (I still don’t really know the actual screen name.) He had chatted some things to David about how David had hit and run on him and how he (Pyramind) would NEVER do that because he would NEVER quit David. Then he went on about table etiquette and I just thought it was really something, you know, this kid telling Mr. B about proper decorum when playing heads up…It was quite amusing and rather preposterous to insinuate that Mr. B doesn’t have table manners and is such a fish that Pyramid wouldn’t dream of quitting first. I can only hope these types of players (young, arrogant, disrespectful) keep thinking this way because the ending will almost always be the same…They lose their money to Mr. B or some other top pro and give up on poker and go back to school, only to discover the brief fame they might have experienced in online poker means nothing to college students and they are inevitably the same trading card geek they always were, none the wiser…

http://www.pokerroad.com/authorpage....g&type=proBlog

pyramid...haha

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09-27-2008 , 04:49 PM

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calling your husband mr. b is kinda weird but ok.

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09-27-2008 , 04:49 PM

W3rdy303

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hotties are never wrong

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09-27-2008 , 04:53 PM

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I can only hope these types of players (young, arrogant, disrespectful) keep thinking this way because the ending will almost always be the same…They lose their money to Mr. B or some other top pro and give up on poker and go back to school, only to discover the brief fame they might have experienced in online poker means nothing to college students and they are inevitably the same trading card geek they always were, none the wiser…

LOL

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09-27-2008 , 04:57 PM

Koshur

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Cue angry fanboys.

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09-27-2008 , 04:58 PM

PSachs

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as much as i like benyamine, and how he always seems to be rather cheery.

the way erica writes the blog makes it sound like shes on some payroll / its some business relationship.

who the hell refers to their partner, sig other, with a title.

...yea not a really great post but i just find it weird.
so instead of finishing this post i was staring at some ****ing bug that infiltrated my room through the window and i found out what was bothering me about the title.

calling him MR.B makes it sound distant, when shes talking about waking up in bed blah blah blah.

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09-27-2008 , 04:59 PM

Moroto

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Erica speaks the truth. It really is time guys like FWF, Krantz and Raptor learnt a little more humility and a little less arrogance.

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09-27-2008 , 05:00 PM

karskijarski

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yeah these punks will lose their money to some top professionals like Phil Helmuth...it's just a matter of time...

Last edited by karskijarski; 09-27-2008 at 05:06 PM.

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09-27-2008 , 05:03 PM

ShipDaSherb

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Somebody go wake up Emil

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09-27-2008 , 05:05 PM

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she sounds like a ****

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09-27-2008 , 05:05 PM

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ericowned

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09-27-2008 , 05:10 PM

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ZonaAlumn

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she sounds like somebody older than 30

Corrected

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09-27-2008 , 05:13 PM

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wtf at calling Benyamine Mr. B? Does she do that irl?

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09-27-2008 , 05:13 PM

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I think it was pretty reasonable until the last few sentences.

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09-27-2008 , 05:15 PM

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how is it she can read the chat from bed after just waking up? I have to be about 2 feet from the screen to be able to read that stuff

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09-27-2008 , 05:15 PM

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fyi I think it's fine for David B to 'hit n run' someone he's down like a million dollars too. In an ideal world he'd give notice, but as he is clearly the 'fish' in the relationship, he can do what he wants, imo.

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09-27-2008 , 05:16 PM

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erica is a nice girl and all but she comes off really bad in that blog. i don't get it. why did she post this??? she really sounds like a stuck up u know what, i mean, it's not like she's made millions at the higher limits, and she's acting high and mighty cause "mr. b" cleans up.

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09-27-2008 , 05:19 PM

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u sure hes still down a lot to him at this pt?

rail heaven skews things ya kno?

I think we all make too big a deal out of hit n running in general. I hate when it happens to me, and sometimes I go off on someone, but after I cool down I usually don't care.

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09-27-2008 , 05:22 PM

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4.3 ptbb/100 that's quite a winrate at the higher limits

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09-27-2008 , 05:30 PM

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thats an awesome wifey blog right there.

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09-27-2008 , 05:31 PM

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lol @ pyramid and the magic-card-boys..

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09-27-2008 , 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Moroto

Erica speaks the truth. It really is time guys like FWF, Krantz and Raptor learnt a little more humility and a little less arrogance.

If you were a 20 year old self-made millionaire, how down to earth do you think you would be?

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09-27-2008 , 05:36 PM

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4.3 ptbb/100 that's quite a winrate at the higher limits

That looks like a loss rate to me

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09-27-2008 , 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by macgyverlol

If you were a 20 year old self-made millionaire, how down to earth do you think you would be?

It ain't the heat. It's the humility.

-Yogi Berra

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09-27-2008 , 05:41 PM

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the fact that she calls him like 6 different screen names is so funny.

I'm sure she knows exactly what his screenname is.

It's like when you're talking to some hot chick who has a boyfriend... and even though you know exactly who the boyfriend is the conversation still goes like this/

so how are you doing? you still with that guy Jim?
ya, but his name is John.
Oh, Whatever.

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